It’s no secret that for years readers of the nation’s newspapers have been so shortchanged by a generation of irresponsible reporters and their editors that many of them may seriously doubt whether there is any difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien.

But you think that even after more than five years following 9/11 and a roiling national debate over what must be done about illegal immigration and reducing levels of those who arrive here playing by the rules, their newspapers would have admitted their glaring shortcomings in terms of balanced journalism.

Take, for example, this column by Timothy J. McNulty, the Tribune’s public editor, who bemoans the “xenophobic” response to his paper’s decision to include Spanish words in its Super Bowl special section, “Innocent idea pushes immigration hot button,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 9.

“But the newspaper’s role is to bring serious thought, not prejudice and vitriol and hate, to public debate.”

Excuse me while I roll up my trousers legs, clean the bottoms of my shoes, and throw open the windows.

Does a paper’s support of amnesty and churning out sob-sister stories about the “plight” of illegals “forced to live in the shadows” without equal time given to our side constitute “serious thought?” Wouldn’t we all love to see just how many column inches each year are given to this sort of coverage and compare them with the space given to American taxpayers, especially our working poor, who are the real victims of our “broken immigration policy”?

McNulty (e-mail him) associates words like “toxic” with those frustrated beyond belief by Congress’ refusal to listen to what a majority of Americans want done about this crisis. I think that word is better suited to describe his paper’s reporting standards that have blinded its readers to the mounting costs of leaving our borders wide open and the abandonment of internal enforcement of our immigration laws.

That is the conclusion announced by Captain Roger Clifford of the Baytown Police Department.

Baytown residents have filled local blog sites with their fears that their son or someone they knew might be the next victim. A young male was being attacked about every 30 to 60 days from July until the last incident Nov. 30. That attack occurred in front of the Tanglewilde subdivision where Hill lived with his family, police said.

Residents have posted sketches of the attacker every place they could, demanding to know who was terrorizing their area.

All the victims had “cookie cutter” similarities: young white males, in their late teens to early 20s who were still living at home. Investigators think the rapist carefully stalked each of the victims and then attacked them on the driveways to their homes or surprised them inside.

“They were all slender and a little smaller stature than Hill,” [Baytown Police Capt. Roger ] Clifford said. Hill is 6-foot-1 and weighs 170 pounds.

Although the attacker was reported[Vdare.com note:To the police, not necessarily by the press.] to be black with light skin and all the victims were white, Clifford said that race was not an issue.[Email Captain Clifford, and ask how he came to this conclusion.]

“This was just the type that he was physically attracted to,” he said.
Suspect arrested in rapes of men By CINDY HORSWELL Houston Chronicle Feb. 8, 2007

The technical term for a rape in which one man rapes another is “homosexual rape.” That’s the term used in our article SCOTUS: Segregation Worse Than Interracial Homosexual Rape!, but at the moment it’s only used in one story describing this case, and that’s in the Boston Edge, GLBT news section. ( GLBT stands for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transsexual.)The conventional feminist narrative is that rape is not about sex, it’s about power and dominance. This went double for the the fictional rape at Duke University, where it was interracial rape that was about power and dominance. Eldridge Cleaver certainly felt that way.

But if this isn’t about race, it must be about sex. In this case, obviously, gay sex.

But it’s not. A reader protested vigorously at my use of the term “gay” to describe a man who rapes other men. Well, then, this series of rapes must be about absolutely nothing.

Here’s the case of black man committing homosexual rape on smaller white males. This story mentioned blogs here Two Words Missing From This Headline, Update On Homosexual Rape Case, and Black On White Gay Rape�Nicholas Stix Follows Up The Associated Press still doesn’t say that the suspect is black, and victims white but other stories are starting to do better. Note the word “domination.” It suggests a racial motive, or at least it did when it was used repeatedly in the Duke hoax.

Baytown police have detained a man believed to be involved in the May 2006 kidnapping and rape of a young man as investigators try to determine whether the suspect committed four similar crimes, according to a statement released today.

In all the cases, the attacker picked young adult males near their homes, first robbing, then sexually assaulting them, police said.

Baytown police at an 11 a.m. news conference said they would not yet release the suspect’s name or photo because they want to do a photo line-up with victims.

Authorities said they arrested the 19-year-old Tuesday night at his Baytown home without incident. Investigators used DNA evidence to link him to a crime.

“Obviously he robbed each victim and used force, ” said Baytown Police Captain Roger Clifford. “But his major concern was domination and sexual gratification.”

Investigators said the man in custody is of larger stature than all of his victims. He had been identified as a person of interest before Christmas after information was developed by one of the victims.

FBI profilers apparently had difficulty with the case because there are so few cases of men sexually attacking men in their records.

[Baytown police arrest suspect in rapes of men Feb. 7, 2007]