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Janet Napolitano: Not “Appropriate For The Media To Try To Pick This As A Fight”

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday attended the funeral of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry who was fatally shot while pursuing a gang last week in Arizona. In a phone call where Napolitano offered condolences to the family, the father of the murdered agent, angry that the border is still not secure, told her “you gotta wake your man up in the White House” and she allegedly responded “he’s done more in the last two years than any other president.” However, to the Terry family such sentiment represented “empty words.”

When enterprising local reporter Joel Waldman waited by the back door for Napolitano to exit the funeral, Napolitano could have quickly left without talking to him, but to her credit and potential regret, agreed to be interviewed. Waldman then grilled her about her unsuccessful efforts to secure the border and informed her that the Terry family is still upset that more steps are not being taken. Napolitano quickly grew impatient with the tone of his questioning, saying:

Listen, we are here today, the commissioner is here today, the chief of the Border Patrol is here today and we are here and his comrades are here with the family, who said other things to me by the way, so I really don’t think it appropriate for the media to try to pick this as a fight. This is a moment to remember a fallen agent.

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  • Atticus Draco

    so I really don’t think it appropriate for the media to try to pick this as a fight.

    OMG!
    i just wanna slap her!

  • Atticus Draco


    “he’s done more in the last two years than any other president.”

    WHO BELIEVES THIS CHIT?!

  • Harry Flashman

    No, in her mind what is appropriate is for the media to continue to swallow her ducking, dodging, and obfuscation about the border and the fed’s ineptitude and deliberate indifference to it hook, line, and sinker.

    When the media gives this administration a tougue bath they’re doing their jobs. When they report on something like this they’re picking a fight.

    Incredible. And sad.

  • Nacho

    please quote yourself in your next comment to really bring your “point” home, douche bag.

    I hope the media chooses to make a fight for the thousands of Americans killed in foreign countries.

  • Ricia

    If she had done her job she wouldn’t have been there today, and she’s upset at the media? At least they are doing their job!!!

  • Moderate

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbeyHmWbQjs

    What the government to secure the border in Arizona.

  • Atticus Draco

    Moderate said:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbeyHmWbQjs

    What the government to secure the border in Arizona.

    LOL,, that’s exactly what she is counting

  • Paula

    Yes, its not appropriate for the media to try to pick this as a fight because its a fight the president and I would lose. We all know that we have not and will not secure the border; that violence will escalate; that drug and human smuggling will grow exponentially. But do you really want to pay an American worker a living wage when there are so many illegal Hispanics we can pay so much less to?

  • Atticus Draco

    Ricia said:
    If she had done her job she wouldn’t have been there today, and she’s upset at the media? At least they are doing their job!!!

    TRUE DAT!!!

  • timzank

    Big sis is gonna have to come to the realization someday that she’s a colossal freaking failure, as is her leader. Suppose she was able to coordinate her trip to allow some time to meet with Holders’ staff out there just to make sure they’re doing all they can to SUE the state of Arizona so more of this bullshit can happen?

    She’s got a hell of a nerve even showing up in Arizona anymore.

  • Atticus Draco

    timzank said:
    Big sis is gonna have to come to the realization someday that she’s a colossal freaking failure, as is her leader. Suppose she was able to coordinate her trip to allow some time to meet with Holders’ staff out there just to make sure they’re doing all they can to SUE the state of Arizona so more of this bullshit can happen?

    She’s got a hell of a nerve even showing up in Arizona anymore.

    WELL,, she is from Arizona you know?
    she was the governor

  • ChrisNH

    To the Obama administration, an illegal alien who murders our own people is just fine and dandy because they don’t see an ‘illegal alien’ or a ‘murderer.’ They see a voter.

  • felixw

    Hard to pick which Obama appointment has been the worst. But Big Sis must make the short list of candidates.

  • equaljustice4u

    Obama has proven you don’t need smart people to help you……Napolitano is purhaps the dumbest of all those idiots BO picked…….AND She needs to go; a;long with MR No Knowledge of the arrests in the UK……..they represent incompetence , at best. Janet is only stupid 364 days a year thou…………

    Pathetic representation…….sad…..and one of the saddest it is all about votes…….with the border NOT about human rights or doing the right thing======come in legally or don’t come in!!!! Others before you came here to make a new life…….not to sponge off US.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    “Janet Napolitano: Not “Appropriate For The Media To Try To Pick This As A Fight””

    …the lamestream socialist fake-news media has gotten their ORDERS. They certainly will never, ever again mention this matter to their mindless viewers.

  • http://reddit.com Jon

    You guys are a bunch of babies.

    Illegals are helping our country big time during this depression, if you hire an illegal you have no right to complain about them either, end of story.

    They work much harder than rich people and get paid shit… and still you idiots complain about them. Know why they don’t pay taxes? THey make below minimum wage and instead of actually getting something from their tax money, that same tax money would probably be used to put them in jail and send them back home.

    I understand none of you understand what immigration is like, because your parents and grandparents did it, not you.. and really most of you are spoiled children who never had to live the life of an immigrant… but trust me, it’s not fun.. and living in a shack in Mexico is not an alternative people will pick.

    Barring a holocaust, they aren’t leaving, so stfu, grow up, and put forth some plans to force incoming illegals to choose LEGAL citizenship.

    And wipe away the tears, you’re embarrassing yourselves.

  • Atticus Draco

    felixw said:
    Hard to pick which Obama appointment has been the worst. But Big Sis must make the short list of candidates.

    LMAO,, really
    that’s a hard one
    Napolitano,, Holder,, lol,, that’s a neck and neck race right there

  • cjd ohio 1

    jon, did your parents drop you on your head when you were little?

  • http://reddit.com Jon

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    jon, did your parents drop you on your head when you were little?

    No but I did go to attend a Christian school when I was young, so there is some minor brain damage.

  • http://reddit.com Jon

    See, I’m still recovering.

  • cjd ohio 1

    minor? wrong again sport

  • leftofsocialist

    Dear ChrisNH:

    I trust that you share our sense of lose and outrage at the murder of Brian Terry.
    And now for some perspective:
    Luis Aguilar
    “Rosas is the ninth Border Patrol agent to be killed while on duty since 2006, according to the agency’s Web site”

  • felixw

    More signs of why Janet Napolitano needs to be replaced. Here’s a story about Homeland Security searching a pilot’s house because he dared criticize Big Sis.

    http://www.news10.net/news/article.aspx?storyid=113529&provider=top&catid=188

    We have seen many signs of the Obama administration using the Dept of Homeland Security to settle scores, but this is especially egregious.

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    ChrisNH said:
    To the Obama administration, an illegal alien who murders our own people is just fine and dandy because they don’t see an ‘illegal alien’ or a ‘murderer.’ They see a voter.

    YES the Obamessiah LOVES murderers!!!!!!!!!111 Oh hey BTW what happened to Vince Foster HUH?!?!?!1111

  • Lizmo

    She showed a lot of class – perhaps a good object lesson for this group, eh?

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Jon said:
    You guys are a bunch of babies.

    Illegals are helping our country big time during this depression.

    A lot of them are leaving in my area because of the depression. No Jobs…..

    They work much harder than rich people and get paid shit…

    Rich people I know work very hard. Thats how they got rich… Mexicans that work here get paid anywhere from $12-$20hr doing Construction. Some get paid less, but move on…

    really most of you are spoiled children who never had to live the life of an immigrant… but trust me, it’s not fun.. and living in a shack in Mexico is not an alternative people will pick.

    Most of the young kids here. 18-30 years of age. Won’t do Construction. or work on cars, Labor of any kind. They all want to work in a bank or a call center. Making $7-$9hr still live at home. They are not rich but I guess they think their parents are. Its pathetic….

    put forth some plans to force incoming illegals to choose LEGAL citizenship..

    I have no problems with Mexicans. but they need to go through the same process every other immigrant has had to go through. Its only fair. I know of no legislation being drawn to force legal citizenship…. The Dream Act is dead which would have given amnesty but not forced legal status. ….

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Janet Napolitano stated that the president has done more for the dream act the last two years than any other president! Correct but that’s not what the father of the slain officer meant but hey what do you expect from an administration that’s been over their heads sense day one. What does the boarder Czar say about this?

  • Nacho

    Like I blame Mcain for Sarah Palin, I blame Napolitano for Jan Brewer. If she would of just finished her term as governor, Brewer would would be at home raking her gravel garden right now.

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  • Just4thefax

    Fact: I know how Bush feels about Napolitano and Ozero’s security measures!
    see it here.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1r1TVXGUK0&feature=related

  • Davo

    Is it a coincidence that this “Czar” admonishes the media for telling the truth at the same time she sent the Obama-gestapo into the home of the airline pilot that posted YouTube videos of th TSA ineffectiveness at airport security?

    The screws are tightening more and more every day, folks. When people act like sheep, government acts like wolves.

    When they finish, will they let me keep living in my house, or make me move to another place they deem more “fair?” Will they let me father 2 children, or just one?

  • doseofsanity

    It’s true the Obama administration has increased the number of deportations and people in removal proceedings in the last two years. Objectively-speaking, this president has done more to enforce the immigration laws than any other president before him. In particular, the Obama administration has focused on going after individuals with criminal records. So, as a result, you have people-both lawful permanent residents and illegal immigrants-that committed crimes back in the 1990′s who are now finally being placed in removal proceedings and deported. There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. It is not possible to deport all of them. It is a rational policy to prioritize the deportations of those with criminal records, and that is what the Obama administration has done.

  • Davo

    doseofsanity said:
    There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. It is not possible to deport all of them.

    Not as long as liberals have a say. But it IS possible to stop PAYING illegal aliens to come here and multiply. But then, Democrat would have to rely on honest elections, and that would destroy their chances of ever holding office again.

    doseofsanity said:
    It is a rational policy to prioritize the deportations of those with criminal records, and that is what the Obama administration has done.

    Un-huh. And how’s that been working out for ya’?

  • Spike1

    Our country cannot support anymore immigration, legal or illegal. It dosen’t make any sense to import labor when unemployment is high and jobs are scarce. Take note of all politicians that support immigration and vote them out of office, sooner or later your employment may depend upon it. Send the National Guard to protect our borders, that is supposed to be their primary mission, not protecting some other countries borders. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower deported all illegal aliens to give jobs to our troops returning from WW2 & Korea. Is our nation so politicaly correct that our politicians care more for illegal aliens than their own people ? Get rid of NAFTA & Free Trade, our country has been going down hill ever since these agreements were initiated. It’s almost impossible to purchase anything today that’s not made in China or some other foreign country.

  • gottosay

    Oh happy day when I hear a woman stand against the weakness of the media…the day an officer of the law was killed for doing the racist business of a nation is in deed a sad day…I am so sorry ….the problem on the border is drug traffic..humans looking for work in other lands is not unusual ..the real problem is holding those that hire undocumented workers….patrol the border against drug and weapon and terrorist hold off on the poor looking for work…push that problem back into the hands of Mexican governement….heard me….hear me
    AGAIN I THANKS Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano FOR PUSHING BACK AT THE BULLYS IN THE MEDIA….IF WHAT WAS SAID THE ONLY NEWS THEN THE FAMILY WOULD BE SUSPECT OF SOMETHING REAL NASTY IF THE MESSAGE WAS A DISRESPECTFUL TONE AT THE POTUS…LIBERALS DO NOT LIKE UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS TAKING THEIR JOBS EITHER…i ASK THOSE HATER OF LIBERALS WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU ACTUALLY MEANT ONE A LIBERAL THAT IS…SEARCH OUT ONE AND HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE YOU WILL FIND YOUR BATTLE IS THEIRS IN THIS CASE OF UNDOCUMENTED ARRIVALS…SEE THE BIG LIGHT GET LARGER …UKNOWLEDGE IS SO MUCH POWERFUL THEN TOTAL IGNORANCE …REALLY YOU HEARD ME…YOU HEAR ME

  • CAconservative

    If Obimbo makes a sudden left turn, it’s going to brake Napolitanos neck! Could this womens head get any further up his ass?!! Incompetence from the top down added to this poor mans death. And this scumbag women had the nerve to show up at his funeral. Too damned bad the family didn’t rat-pack her ass!!

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