Brilliant … Melbourne’s Herald Sun discovers the homeless world cup. How so? Because “at least 15 foreign soccer players” are apparently seeking asylum.
That for one thing seems only natural. Lets see, you’re a homeless street soccer star from Zimbabwe and you don’t attempt to get asylum at the end of the tournament? You’d need your head read. Residency should have been part of the prize package!
But back to our tale … the newspaper ignores the event as it happens (as discussed previously) and then after the fact, hey presto: observable reality coincides with the agenda.
Why do people buy this manipulated, cynical tripe?
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Yeah xenophobia is almost as good as sex for selling newspapers.
This happens at just about every major international sporting tournament – certainly those held in the US. It ain’t news in that sense.
Anyone who couldn’t have predicted that would have to be blind and possessed of no political smarts at all. What irritates me is, if Gabriel Garcia Márquez had applied for OZ citizenship, he would have been denied entry. Who on earth would have wanted an Oz to have been a Noble Prize-winning writer? Ha! This is where it all becomes so lucid and obvious: assorted footballers are to be welcomed with euphoria! As are all competent sports people.
Double standards? Never! We know where our hearts are. Right smack in the middle of the Herald Sun’s sports section.