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I rarely mention Geraldo Riviera, because he rarely says or does things worth the keystrokes. However, two items came up today, both from Thomas Sowell, in www.wnd.com via Drudge.

 

Mr. Sowell reports that “Talk show host Geraldo Rivera says that there is no way Israel is winning the battle for world opinion.”

 

Then he asks: “But Israel is trying to win the battle for survival, while surrounded by enemies. Might that not be more important?”

 

In comparison he writes, “Are these protesters aware that vastly more German civilians were killed by American bombers attacking Nazi Germany during World War II than American civilians killed in the United States by Hitler’s forces?

 

Has any other country, in any other war, been expected to keep the enemy’s civilian casualties no higher than its own civilian casualties? The idea that Israel should do so did not originate among the masses but among the educated intelligentsia.”

 

Then, Mr. Sowell provides the perfect conclusion, “In an age when scientists are creating artificial intelligence, too many of our educational institutions seem to be creating artificial stupidity.”

 

Moving on, Rivera gets more attention from Mr. Sowell, as follows: “It is much the same story in our domestic controversies. We have gotten so intimidated by political correctness that our major media outlets dare not call people who immigrate to this country illegally “illegal immigrants.”

 

He continues, “Geraldo Rivera has denounced the Drudge Report for carrying news stories that show some of the negative consequences and dangers from allowing vast numbers of youngsters to enter the country illegally and be spread across the country by the Obama administration.

 

Some of these youngsters are already known to be carrying lice and suffering from disease. Since there have been no thorough medical examinations of most of them, we have no way of knowing whether, or how many, are carrying deadly diseases that will spread to American children when these unexamined young immigrants enter schools across the country.

 

The attack against Matt Drudge has been in the classic tradition of demagogues. It turns questions of fact into questions of motive. Geraldo accuses Drudge of trying to start a “civil war.”

 

Mr. Sowell then makes the critical point, “Back when masses of immigrants from Europe were entering this country, those with dangerous diseases were turned back from Ellis Island. Nobody thought they had a legal or a moral “right” to be in America or that it was mean or racist not to want our children to catch their diseases.”

 

And that’s the crux of the matter. Because, yes, children entering the nation illegally may be what’s taking place, but the problem isn’t the fact that they’re children. What's really at risk is the health, safety and well-being of American citizens who are unable to protect themselves from potential harm because the administration won’t let them.

 

All of which means that U.S. citizens may be seriously, if not terminally, injured due to a zealot’s misguided goals regarding political ideals. 

 

That's it for today folks.

 

Adios