BCT Editorial – 1/4/09

This page was last updated on January 4, 2009.

Third World; Editorial; Beaver County Times; January 4, 2009.

According to the editorial, “the United States is slowly slipping into Third World status” because “Philadelphia police received more than 240 reports of [celebratory] gunfire [“shots in the air”] between 10 p.m. last New Year’s Eve and 6 a.m. on New Year’s Day.” There’s no doubt that behavior is seriously stupid and dangerous, but does this behavior by some knuckleheads in a Democrat enclave make the U.S. a Third World country?

Once again we have a Times editorial referring to the U.S. in “Third World” terms. Has anyone responsible for Times editorials ever traveled to a real Third World country? As I’ve written previously, “Third World” is at or near the top of the list of the Times most overused terms of hyperbole. This is at least the eighth editorial since March 2008 (The previous seven were “Stoop labor,” “Cattle call,” “Lapped,” “Poor health,” “Power failure,” “Falling apart,” and “Top priority.”) that’s compared the U.S. to the Third World.

Does anyone care to guess when the Times will discover the U.S. really isn’t “slowly slipping into Third World status” and will credit some Obama or other leftist program for the change? I’m betting it won’t be any later than the next presidential election campaign.