Dumb and Dumber

Why would anyone equate the Berlin wall with the planned border fence? The Berlin wall was built to keep in people who wanted to leave. The border fence is to keep out people who are trying to come in illegally. The two barriers hardly seem synonymous.

This is not about the pros and cons of building the border fence, but rather about the media, that once again, grabbed a tag line and brainlessly repeated it over and over. The soon to be ex-president of Mexico made this comparison. Does that somehow make it a meaningful statement that should be reported and reported and reported ad nauseam? It was a dumb thing for him to say. It is even dumber for journalists to repeat it as though it was a profound statement.