Phuong Ly /Washington Post's five screen ad for anti-American DREAM Act

Freelance writer and former Washington Post staffer Phuong Ly offers "The Outsider" (link), a five screen ad for the anti-American DREAM Act. See the PIIPP category for a discussion of all the other very similar articles that other hacks have offered.

The current article breaks no new ground, combining the purple prose of Samuel G. Freedman (example: "the turreted buildings that hark to another era, the thick oaks shading the quad, and the students who walk with confidence and purpose") with all the other standard elements that can be easily found in the others: he "can't even remember" his original country, he and his brother "became Americans in spirit, if not on paper", a promotional paragraph about the DREAM Act, and so on. Read enough PIIPPs and you wonder who's feeding these "reporters" their lines.

She also refers to the Urban Institute as "nonpartisan". She also says this:

His record is a litany of overachievement: a 1410 out of 1600 on the SAT; high scores on 13 Advanced Placement exams, which earned him close to two years of college credit; and a top-20 class rank at a competitive Miami high school.

I'm going to guess that that isn't as spectacular as she makes it out to be and that in fact we could find tens of thousands of U.S. citizens who've received higher SAT scores and an equal or higher number with a higher class rank. Bearing in mind that every college slot or college discount that goes to an illegal alien is one that was taken away from a U.S. citizen, I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to find hundreds of more qualified U.S. citizens who were forced into a lesser school or who couldn't go to college at all due to limited resources.

Perhaps Phong Ly should consider which country she's a citizen of and would care to find one of those students and write a weepy article about them.

Wed, 02/25/2009 - 13:50 · · Importance: 4