Source: EconLog
by David Henderson
“Lately I’ve been watching Fox News Channel more than usual. I’ve noticed Jesse Waters (who replaced Tucker Carlson, who replaced Bill O’Reilly) using a phrase a lot: military-age males. He invariably uses it to refer to immigrants, typically illegal immigrants. Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit also did it recently. When you observe the males they’re talking about, you know just as much about these males as Waters, Reynolds, et al do; in other words, not much. They could just as easily go to UC Berkeley, wander around the campus, and notice that 90% or more of the males there are ‘military-age males.'” (04/16/24)