You don’t say.
I’m sure the retractions from Fox News will be forthcoming.
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Who the hell is Mollie Hemingway?
Someone completely different who’s article I read earlier today. I fixed the title.
And in the interest of full disclosure, said title is based upon the words of the mans lawyer, and his employer. That said, it seems very unlikely they’d try to lie about that in an official court filing for a (now high profile) murder case.
Oops.
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From the article:
"Multiple spokespeople for the federal investigations agency could not be immediately reached Wednesday. It remains unclear what – if any – specific documentation Rivera may have had to live and work in Iowa.
Yarrabee Farms, Rivera’s employer, issued a statement Tuesday night saying Rivera was vetted through the government’s E-Verify system. However, a government archive does not indicate the Brooklyn, Iowa, farm as a participating member of the system.
On Wednesday, however, officials from the farm retracted the statement and acknowledged they did not use the E-Verify system."
Perhaps Yarrabee farms is concerned with some potential liability here?
Did anybody read the motion at the end of the article. That’s some gold right there. Written in crayon and everything.
So does WaPo get a pass then?
If true.
I’ll bet you money that WaPo retracts the story before Fox News.
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You think FNC just made that part up, about him being here illegally? I thought I heard the Iowa police make that statement.
Hell’s bells have some sympathy for the family.
People should be good to each other and not kill each other no matter what their status is.
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You don’t retract a news story about a murder of Tibbetts, if the woman was in fact murdered, and all you did was get some of the early facts wrong, concerning the personal history of the murderer.
How about nbc? Do they get a pass?
If true.
Tell me, how much commentary on this story was based around the “fact” that he was illegal?
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To some people, the (il)legality of the murderer’s residency is more important than the life of the girl he killed.
On both sides of the political spectrum.
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Agreed. And I’d include Donald in that. Stop using her to make political hay.
The only thing your link says about his status is, “this calls into question”.
So there’s that.
I’ll never understand how trivial stories like this can make national news in the first place.
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People are killed every day in this country. The only reason you even saw this in the news is because the media wanted to sensationalize it. Girl I went to school with disappeared in April of 2013, was found murdered in May of that year. Didn’t see that on any national news sites.
That’s a mark of today’s media.
They sensationalize what they want. They make the news.
The situation in Chicago (nowhere near as covered as Mollie Tibbetts – even before her body was found and a controversial suspect identified) is an example of the other side of the coin.
We, as consumers of their product, should be driving what they produce. Are we failing miserably at that? Or are we wildly succeeding? Maybe that’s where the question should land.
Touche’ Probably works okay in Tama, Iowa but geez…
