O'Reilly Factor Wed. April 20, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRoYQ2G678Q
Better than when and what??? That question would have been a natural, but O'Reilly didn't ask it.
Napolitano's statement "border security is better than ever" is nothing new.
Janet Napolitano: Border security better than ever
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 3/25/11 6:41 AM EDT Updated: 3/25/11 4:16 PM EDT
While the U.S.-Mexico border region has developed a reputation for danger, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stressed Thursday that protection of the border “is better now than it ever has been” and violence has not spilled into the United States.
Speaking in El Paso at the Bridge of the Americas, which connects Texas to Ciudad Juarez, Napolitano said that border is safe and that her department is working to further secure it. The department is planning to deploy 250 new border agents, and the agency’s proposed 2012 budget includes a request for funding an additional 300, The Associated Press reported.
“There is a perception that the border is worse now than it ever has been,” Napolitano said. “That is wrong. The border is better now than it ever has been.”
It’s also “wrong,” Napolitano said, that the drug-related violence in northern Mexico is spilling over into U.S. border cities. Violent crime rates in cities in the Southwest have stayed flat or fallen, she said. At the same time, she acknowledged, “there is much to do with colleagues in Mexico in respect to the drug cartels.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51925.html#ixzz1K9rTQO1s
O'Reilly has had quite a while to delve into its truthfulness and gather property owners, alive, but living in fear and armed for self-protection, to face-off on camera with Napolitano.
Napolitano might have claimed "unfair" but hey citizens of the United States are dying at or near their own property at the hands of criminals in drug cartels and human trafficking networks with no curtailment in sight.
While O'Reilly highlighted one such rancher armed for self-protection, the spot was taped, with no ability for the rancher, and others, to smack Napolitano with the clear truth.
O'REILLY: -- are you winning down there? Are you guys -- are you going to tell that rancher, look, we're winning this war against the Mexican intrusion of narcotics and human trafficking? We're winning it so you just hold on a little bit down there? Keep your shotgun handy but things are going to get better? Is that what you are going to tell him?
NAPOLITANO: Well, what I would say is not only are we putting more into that border but that more is on its way and we are very committed to a safe and secure border for a lot of reasons.
O'REILLY: All right. Now, ...
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O'Reilly followed that with a question about violence moving further south into the United States.
Napolitano went on at length, basically saying nothing.
O'REILLY: All right. Now, the cartels obviously have got to be a concern to you because of all the tremendous violence that they -- that they cause and now we're getting reports that some cartels are moving into the south and southwest United States to set up shop. Are you hearing that?
NAPOLITANO: Well, let me -- you know, the cartels have always had distribution networks in the United States. I mean, that's where they make their money. They distribute drugs, you know, through virtually every state in the -- in the country.
What we are focused on in with Mexico right now is seeing if we can root out the cartels themselves and -- and really dismantle them. And that is what is causing a lot of the violence that's going on in Mexico right now.
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Which of the two are brain dead?
Both.
Addressing Napolitano's 'border security is better than ever before' theme, O'Reilly's parting comment to Napolitano was this:
"I'm hoping that you are right."
O'REILLY: All right. Good. You're painting a very optimistic picture, madam secretary. And I'm just hoping that you're right --
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O'Reilly is hoping Napolitano is right?
Wouldn't she continue to claim she is right?
And doesn't O'Reilly presume in the remark that Napolitano has not convinced him she is right and the 'border security is better than ever before?'
The man could see for himself in his own investigative team's video, which preceded Napolitano's appearance, Janet Napolitano was not right.
She lied, and O'Reilly let her off the hook with his offering of hope on a platter.
SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR 8:12 PM EST
April 20, 2011 Wednesday
O'REILLY: So you say you're winning --
NAPOLITANO: So our goal is to have a safe and secure --
O'REILLY: -- are you winning down there? Are you guys -- are you going to tell that rancher, look, we're winning this war against the Mexican intrusion of narcotics and human trafficking? We're winning it so you just hold on a little bit down there? Keep your shotgun handy but things are going to get better? Is that what you are going to tell him?
NAPOLITANO: Well, what I would say is not only are we putting more into that border but that more is on its way and we are very committed to a safe and secure border for a lot of reasons.
(CROSSTALK)
O'REILLY: All right. Now, the cartels obviously have got to be a concern to you because of all the tremendous violence that they -- that they cause and now we're getting reports that some cartels are moving into the south and southwest United States to set up shop. Are you hearing that?
NAPOLITANO: Well, let me -- you know, the cartels have always had distribution networks in the United States. I mean, that's where they make their money. They distribute drugs, you know, through virtually every state in the -- in the country.
What we are focused on in with Mexico right now is seeing if we can root out the cartels themselves and -- and really dismantle them. And that is what is causing a lot of the violence that's going on in Mexico right now.
(CROSSTALK)
O'REILLY: Do you -- do you -- would you advice President Calderon down there to allow U.S. agents, drug agents and the Homeland Security agents, ICE agents to go into Mexico armed and help his guys? Because that's always the problem, he doesn't allow American agents armed down there.
NAPOLITANO: Well, I think we're getting into areas where we work on a case by case basis with President Calderon. And we are actually doing a lot together with the federal government of Mexico with ICE agents, with DEA agents and at times and in coordination with and at the request of Mexico even with some military assets.
O'REILLY: All right. Good. You're painting a very optimistic picture, madam secretary. And I'm just hoping that you're right --
(CROSSTALK)
NAPOLITANO: Right.
O'REILLY: -- on both the border intrusion and the more cartels.
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