Upon which CNN locates the bottom of the barrel, claws through it, and wallows in the mud beneath.

[WilliamPitt]

[MohRokTah]

1. They'll dig themselves a little deeper once they report the results of their twitter poll on the air

[Fred Sanders]

2. My tweet would be "CNNGo"

[KamaAina]

3. How about "STFUCNN"?

[Fred Sanders]

4. I like. "CNNSucks"?

[rocktivity]

5. This indecision's bugging me

If you don't want me, set me free...

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[conservaphobe]

6. The C in CNN stands for CESSPOOL.

Ugh.

[leftstreet]

7. If Goebbels had had access to television

Jesus Christ, how is this not....

nevermind

[Brickbat]

11. Jose Vargas is not 13. He's 33.

Also, I object to your use of the term "fukttards" this context.

[Fred Sanders]

14. My apologies, you are right.

[Brickbat]

19. No apology necessary. Thanks for reconsidering.

[Brickbat]

10. That's the writer of "Documented," the movie, who appeared on CNN the other night.

It's not just some random Hispanic kid. It's part of their tease for the show. Jose Vargas has done a ton of amazing work, writing about being an undocumented immigrant in this country.

[Fred Sanders]

12. That is good context, but do you think the movie maker would approve,of this graphic or poll?

[Brickbat]

13. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he thought it up himself.

[Fred Sanders]

15. I think I rushed to judgment, I trusted the OP author. Lesson learned.

[WilliamPitt]

20. Then there's this.

CNN Confuses Twitter With Poll About Whether Jose Antonio Vargas Should Stay Or Be Deported
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/cnn-confuses-twitter-with-poll-about-jose-antonio-vargas

I don't think I'm wildly off-base to find JOSE STAY or JOSEGO pretty crass...but I suppose that's what you get when you try to do something in 140 characters or less.

[Fred Sanders]

22. I have to side with Vargas on this one, in his own words:

“I am grateful to CNN for airing this film and sparking a national conversation on immigration and family separation,” he wrote to BuzzFeed.
“At a time of political standstill, with reporters calling immigration reform, ‘dead,’ we gotta humanize this issue. Asking ‘JoseGo’ and ‘JoseStay’ is a way of asking my fellow Americans, ‘What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us?’”

I used the word "trust" given its widest meaning, nothing personal.

[rocktivity]

16. Whoever had the idea of publicizing it this way, it should have occurred to SOMEONE

that it could be taken TWO ways...


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[Brickbat]

17. Which is why they did it, I'm sure. I think it's pretty good, myself.

[pnwmom]

18. This was worth reading for the title alone.

Thanks, Will.

[Aerows]

21. WTF!?

[rocktivity]

23. Found this article at CNN

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Vargas starts out the video by describing himself as "the most privileged undocumented in America" because he works as the kind of journalist who can get published in the New York Times:

In outing myself, I risked everything and prepared myself for anything. What I was not prepared for, however, was silence, especially from politicians in Washington, where immigration has become the third rail of American politics, often framed in partisan, polarizing terms, mostly subjected to elections, and tied to the future of political parties.

Consider this state of affairs: Congressional leaders, particularly House Republicans, hesitate to pass substantive reform because they don't trust the Obama administration to enforce immigration laws. The Obama administration, meanwhile, has been busy enforcing the laws by deporting nearly 2 million immigrants in five years -- that's a record, and an unjustifiable part of President Barack Obama's legacy.

And in the backdrop of this finger-pointing, political standstill is an urgent moral crisis among millions of families in America. To us who are directly affected by the political standstill, immigration is urgent and personal... Immigration is about our families.

He certainly wasn't worried about being deported, or he wouldn't have done it -- at least, not without an American "sponor" in his back pocket. As for the political "silence" he speaks of, here's a newsflash (if you'll pardon the expression): the politicians are silent because they're perfectly happy with the status quo. With a vulnerable, expandable, powerless, practically penniless underground workforce, wages can only decrease and organized labor can only get weaker -- good news for the corporatists who finance the politicians. That's why Washington only makes enough noise about "reforming" immigration to get votes, then shuts up about it.

Meanwhile, how dare Obama utilize the illegal immigration laws that are already on the books! As I understand it, he's concentrating on deporting those who have criminal records, so it makes sense that he would do so "silently." And was Vargas happier when Bush II was looking the other way, or would he have preferred President Romney's "self-deportation" policy?

Talk about speaking with a forked tongue! And come to think of it, why would someone as educated and talented and "privileged" as Vargas have a problem a good-paying journalist job in his native Phillipines? Maybe he didn't take such a big gamble after all...


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