Bet you can't guess what detail the mainstream media keeps omitting in the Laken Riley case
A 22-year-old student was murdered on her University of Georgia campus by a 26-year-old illegal immigrant, and the mainstream media is showing its true colors.
The student, Laken Riley, was going for a morning jog when Jose Antonio Ibarra allegedly kidnapped and killed her.
However, in stories published on the tragedy from publications like the Associated Press, the reporters neglect to add in a very important detail: the alleged murderer is an illegal immigrant, and he already had a criminal history here in the United States.
According to ICE, Ibarra was caught crossing illegally into El Paso in September 2022 and was released into the United States via parole.
Nearly a year later, New York police arrested him for acting in a manner to injure a child less than age 17, and, yet again, he was released.
“I’m sure that it was just, you know, an oversight,” Sara Gonzales mocks, “just a little oopsy. Surely, they wrote a follow-up that highlighted the glaring omission that this man should not have even been in this country in the first place.”
“You have to imagine — surely, it’s incompetence rather than a deliberate act of deception,” she adds sarcastically.
The Associated Press did write a follow-up on the story in which it blamed toxic masculinity for her death rather than the allowance of a criminal into the United States.
The author then used the death of Mollie Tibbetts as another example of toxic masculinity but neglected to mention Tibbetts was also brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant.
“Both women were murdered by illegal immigrants, but that doesn’t fit the narrative. That’s not good for optics,” Gonzales says.
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As confetti rained down upon the field after the University of Georgia Bulldogs' 33-18 national championship victory over powerhouse University of Alabama Crimson Tide on Monday night, a reporter asked Stetson Bennett IV — the "underdog" quarterback who worked his way into Georgia's starting lineup after beginning his stint there as a walk-on — if he had any words of wisdom for others facing difficult obstacles.
"What does your story and your stick-around, your fight, your attitude say to all of the underdogs, all of the walk-ons out there?" the reporter asked.
At first Stetson was a little unsure — and then he replied with advice that may seem foreign to the entitled, triggered, safe space-obsessed mindset of many his age.
"Just keep fightin'. Keep your mouth shut. Work hard," Stetson said. "You know, life's tough — you've just gotta fight through it."
Kirby Smart & Stetson Bennett postgame interview: Georgia def. Alabama in CFP National Championshipsyoutu.be
'Countless crossroads'
Bennett — all 5-feet-11, 190 pounds of him — wanted to quarterback for Georgia and lead the squad to a national title since he was a toddler.
ESPN said he brushed away scholarship offers from smaller schools and decided to walk on for his beloved Bulldogs.
Things only got harder from there.
Bennett "reached countless crossroads and endured untold obstacles. At every stage, every time there was a decision to be made, he made the choice that kept the dream alive, even when it looked like the opposite would happen," Fox Sports' Martin Rogers wrote.
The kid from Blackshear — which Rogers said is the "heart of Bulldogs country" — ran the scout team his freshman year and was way low on the depth chart.
Bennett figured a stint playing for Jones County Junior College in Mississippi might help Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart take a more serious look at him, as the school has been a funnel for numerous Georgia players.
When Bennett returned to Georgia a year later, Fox Sports said the team "kept recruiting over him." While he got the starting nod in 2020, he soon lost it to JT Daniels — and Bennett began the 2021 season as a backup.
But when Daniels suffered an injury, Bennett was calling signals again and never looked back — all the way to the national championship game against Alabama, Fox Sports said.
Things weren't a cake walk against the Crimson Tide, either, as Bennett fumbled late in the game — an error that could have been the nail in the Bulldogs' coffin, as Alabama quickly took the lead.
But the quarterback Georgia never seemed to want, who had faced and overcome many obstacles before that moment, simply dug his heels in and persevered.
All he did was toss a long touchdown pass late in the game, giving Georgia a lead it would never relinquish.
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After the game he said he had no choice but to get his mind off his turnover and look toward winning the game. "I had to, otherwise we were gonna lose," Bennett said, adding that his attitude was, "I gotta fix this."
When asked why he kept fighting for spot on the Bulldogs, he said, "I love this place. I love this team. I believe in myself. I think I'm the best quarterback. And I just love everything about this place, and I wanted to win a national championship here."
Here's a video profile of Bennett that ran prior to the championship game:
Stetson Bennett IV's journey to becoming Georgia's QB | College GameDayyoutu.be
Georgia Bulldogs football coach says team, which is more than 90% vaxxed, is experiencing 'highest spike' of COVID, including sports medicine director
University of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart did not get much time to enjoy his Bulldogs' impressive 10-3 win Saturday over the Clemson Tigers.
Instead, he's dealing with a COVID spike among players and personnel — on a team that is more than 90% vaccinated, ESPN reported.
What's that now?
Georgia, fresh off an impressive win over No. 3 Clemson, is set to host the University of Alabama-Birmingham in its first home game of the 2021 season on Saturday, but now multiple Bulldogs are going to be sidelined for a while with COVID, Smart told reporters Monday.
The news of the infections not only has the coach in a quandary about who on his roster will be available to play this weekend, but it also has him concerned since all of the COVID-19 cases are among people who are fully vaccinated on a team where nearly everyone has received the jabs.
"I'll be honest with you, I'm as concerned as I've ever been, because we have three or four guys out with COVID and we have a couple staff members that have been out with COVID here recently," Smart said, according to ESPN.
"We're at our highest spike," he added.
And it's not because players and personnel are unvaxxed, he was sure to point out, which means he's concerned for everybody, not just the unvaccinated who have received the brunt of criticism from health experts.
"People are talking about vaccinations, well these are people that are vaccinated," Smart said, though he did not identify who had tested positive. "We're talking about breakthroughs, and so that concerns you not only for the players on your team that are unvaccinated, that are playing and not playing, because we want everybody to be safe. But it concerns me for the players that are vaccinated that we could lose them."
Smart told reporters last month that more than 90% of his players, coaches, and staffers had been fully vaccinated, ESPN said.
The coach, naturally, is disappointed.
"This is the highest we've been since fall camp right now," he said. "I think there's this relief that you guys feel like everything's back to normal, well it's really just not for us right now."
Lest anyone think the only people connected to the team getting invected are careless players and trainers, Georgia's sports medicine director, Ron Courson, who is also fully vaxxed, was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week and has had a "tough run" of it, according to Smart.
"Ron's doing good, he's had a tough run," Smart said. "Ron's the hardest worker I've ever met in my life, and he's never not been at this building on any day. Never not been here two days in a row, including spring break and off time, and it's killing him, I think, to not be here. His health seems good and, hopefully, he'll be back."
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