Frank wrote Yesterday at 8:10pm:


Frank, you're the one having a sook about CNN supposedly failing to report on all the "killers, rapists, human traffickers" that ICE has taken off the streets.

I asked you two very straightforward questions, both of which you're conspicuously refusing to answer.

First, out of everyone ICE has detained, in your view, what proportion would need to be "killers, rapists, human traffickers" before the issue becomes sufficiently noteworthy to justify national media coverage?

Second, by complaining about the lack of reporting, you're implicitly asserting that ICE's objective was to target "killers, rapists, human traffickers". So again, in your opinion, what proportion of detainees would need to fall into those categories before you could reasonably claim that they were the primary targets and that ICE has been successfully achieving that aim?

I gave illustrative percentages, not as a multiple-choice quiz, but as prompts. They have no intrinsic significance. The only thing that matters here is what you think the answers to those two questions are, and so far you've avoided committing to any answer at all.

We've somehow gone from this being so self-evidently important that you're shedding tears over it not being reported, to pretending the underlying numbers don't matter in the slightest.

All because you were asked to articulate your own position?

What?

So you won't answer the questions then?