Yo ho ho… oh no?
Wonkette, a Washington-based website that specializes in political stupidity (boy, talk about having too much low-hanging fruit to select from!) in the snarkiest terms possible, on the latest “border incident” to make the news:
It was bad enough when the Messicans came across the border to steal our economy and manufacturing (migrant farming) jobs. But now they have turned into Horrifying PIRATES who ride around on JET SKIS killing Americans for no reason at all. This is according to Fox News, who had some dead guy’s wife on Fox and Friends this morning. Mexican authorities say this event never happened, but that’s probably because every single Mexican is a pirate currently on the water searching for Americans to kill.
Wonkette, and it’s even snarkier commentators, note that the “grieving widow” has been all over Fox News programs, with this story of an alleged pirate attack (silly me, I thought pirates operated on the high seas, not resevoirs) echoing Mexican officials who are more than a little dubious about the story of a guy being chased by “pirates” and then for no particular reason while wearing a life vest and not even sinking.
Wonkette and the commentators note that recent “widows” (if she is a widow) don’t immediate go on national television programs (where they mention the host is the presumed victim’s favorite TV personality!) and that there has been a pattern in the United States of women who murder their husbands, then claim the minority de jour done the deed, all the while pumping the right-wing media for sympathy.
Fox News has a history of presenting dubious border incident stories, and one is right to be sceptical. I can’t post the Fox clip (or even view it here), since FOX blocks viewers outside the United States and no one has …er… pirated … the clip yet.
Arrrgh!
Update: While the presumed widow goes national, I suggest you go local. The Brownsville Herald and McAllen Monitor (be sure and check out the comments) report the facts… the facts including the doubts being raised by both Texas and Mexican investigators.
mexfiles.net 
You just saved me some legwork. I was going to check into the story as a valid one until I read your entry. Sounds suspicious, especially if it’s a Fox scoop. A regional twist on the “It was a Negro that done it” line. I’m keeping my antennae up.
A non restricted copy
“Mexican authorities say this event never happened, but that’s probably because every single Mexican is a pirate currently on the water searching for Americans to kill.”
Can Sudacas join you? Please say we can!
Here is another of those fake stories about a University student Jonathon William Torres Cazares being killed while traveling to visit family in Mexico.
Lies, lies, lies Americans are not killed in Mexico !!!!
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/articles/tsc-117748-university-utb.html
Yeah, you’re right Frank. Americans aren’t being killed in Mexico unless they have the dumb luck like Cazares to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or unless they come down here to be a player and find at it’s a game for big boys.
This whole story stinks like a pile of week old fish heads.
The politician and other media whores are getting a lot of TV face time out of this, and so close to the elections.
And anyone wonder about the term “Lake Pirates”,/a>