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Guess whose feelings are hurt?
Would you believe the Sunshine Boys of McAllen?
It seems that during the Trump visit there, the New York Times included photos that are not in the Chamber of Commerce brochure it hands out to tourists and posts on its website.
The images, three of which are included on top, accompanied the New York Times article have upset some due to the way the city, and essentially the Valley as a whole, is portrayed.
While the pictures used are of actual locations in McAllen, some say the images do not represent the city.
NewsCenter 4 reported that McAllen Mayor Jim Darling, who refers to the photos as a disservice, says there are many facets of the Valley not shown in the images.
“Not only McAllen, but the whole Valley is booming and it really does a disservice to put those kind of pictures and depict us as that’s all we are,” states Mayor Darling.
He adds that there are a lot of sites that show just how much McAllen has grown, including the expansion of La Plaza Mall, new shopping centers, restaurants and entertainment.
“Not only McAllen, but the whole Valley is booming and it really does a disservice to put those kind of pictures and depict us as that’s all we are,” states Mayor Darling.
He adds that there are a lot of sites that show just how much McAllen has grown, including the expansion of La Plaza Mall, new shopping centers, restaurants and entertainment.
McAllen and its city officials and bloggers, who regularly dump on Brownsville for its ropa usada stores and struggling downtown, didn't like it when a national publication like the Times held up the mirror to their faces and pointed out that there are two McAllens in the valley; one which is polished up for the national media, and the other which is real life without the glitter.
Smarting over the alleged slight by the nation's best newspaper (not, by the way, by this blog or blogger), the hypersensitive defenders of the jewel of the Hidalgo County diadem strike out like wounded Gollums from their holes, not because it is not true, but because the paper dared to mention there's poor Mexicans living here at all.
If you don't like the story, attack the messenger, is that it?
Oh, yeah, that's the real Big City journalism we like heah, you heah?
If you don't like the story, attack the messenger, is that it?
Oh, yeah, that's the real Big City journalism we like heah, you heah?
It is after all – despite wanting to ignore the raw reality staring them in the face – the epicenter of the humanitarian crisis being experienced along the border. The migrants from Mexico and Central America didn't come here to shop at the mall, mayor. They came seeking refuge from the violence and poverty in their homelands.
But who are we - Brownsville tlacuaches as we are considered there in the City of Palms - to pass up a chance to say "See, I told you so" when national media descended there and took back pictures of the real McAllen the Sunshine Boys don't want the world to see?
Oh, what the hell, why don't you just read the Times piece and decide for yourselves whether it merits the indignant outrage of these Hidalgo County yokels?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/trump-texas-border-visit.html
Oh, what the hell, why don't you just read the Times piece and decide for yourselves whether it merits the indignant outrage of these Hidalgo County yokels?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/trump-texas-border-visit.html
20 comments:
The City of Palms is what keeps the whole fucking Valley from being third World! LOL
Envious again, Montoya? LOL
hahahahaha
but they have gated communities
and country clubs
.... yeah to keep the drug dealers safe!
ches tlacuaches moteros!
city built on drug and alien smuggling proceeds
aka cocaine cowboys
pero los de mcallen are llerba burreros
NYT shudda posted pictures of the plasma center the pulga and the school bus stops near the international bridges. oh yeah also the fajita cookouts when dallas plays and the lone star gets funds!
che valle nunca cambiara.
And still McAllen blows away brownsville in every category.
juan i put the pencil to it and i really dont buy into this $5.7 billion dollar wall price tag, i think at the end of the day it will cost at least 5 time this amount or $28.5 billion my math.
Only a stupid Mexican like you Montoya would believe those pictures are the real McAllen. Take a drive over there, dude!
The Valley is booming....LOL! In foodstamps and everyone living off "familia" like roaches. These picture display the Valley very, very well.
Imagine if they showed browntown. It would look like Bangladesh with an abundance of taco stands.
McAllen has always been the rear end of the valley in every aspect of ignorance and stupidity, starting with their beloved sectarian mayor. The cockroaches that live there multiply just like the white cockroaches from europe believing that some day a savoir will come and tun them into white cockroaches.
Dales un poquito de elote y se creen gringos. With tortillas you can conquer los cocos...
Mcallen is like a big fat ugly white woman dressed in a see thru minimal garment.
I heard that the city of mcallen wants to change the name of their county from Hidalgo to trump
The City of McAllen is not representative of the Greater McAllen-Edinburg MSA. Through political hardball, the City has managed to emerge as the leader in the Valley in just about any category. Head a mile or two to the east or west, and you will be surrounded by the third world (no, I am not talking about Brownsville types of places). Urban Hidalgo County to the north of Mercedes, Donna, San Juan, Mission, etc. can be a dangerous place. As McAllen grows and prospers in the right direction, many of its satellite towns grow in the wrong direction. The direction of home invasions, murders, etc. So no, Cine El Rey...although the City of McAllen may be one of the safest, its MSA is far from being safe!
Brownsville people have always been jealous of McAllen. That’s why you always be walking around La Plaza mall on the rare occasion you can afford to put more than half a tank of gas in your car.
Looks like mcallen has its head up their ass as they don't care or assist surrounding municipalities which should be their responsibility and which is mighty white of them...
If brownsville people fill up half a tank of gas in their jalopies it will be to go to La Isla "pendejo", NOT to stupid mcallen.
WOW go to mcallen to visit a mall? Ha ha ha
I suspect that Duardo is an illegal alien who has lived an entire fake life on a birth certificate of someone who died in infancy.
So what 100% of the white cockroaches from cockroach europe came here illegally estupido
Those pics really represent mcallen what are they complaining about bola de idiotas.
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