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Media criticized in slayings with racial overtone (Newsom/Christian)
MSNBC ^ | May 20, 2007 | AP

Posted on 05/25/2007 7:15:10 AM PDT by processing please hold

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In a powerful demonstration of the way the Internet has opened up the mainstream media to intensive second-guessing, bloggers are charging that news outlets have ignored the rape and murder of a young Knoxville couple because of the racial implications of the story.

The two victims were white; the five defendants are black.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hatecrime; pajamapeoplerule; rape; torture
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It was bloggers who undermined CBS anchorman Dan Rather's 2004 report about President Bush's National Guard service, digging up evidence that the documents may have been forgeries.

We all know what 'bloggers' did that, don't we.

Be sure to click on their live vote in the article.

1 posted on 05/25/2007 7:15:14 AM PDT by processing please hold
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It was bloggers who undermined CBS anchorman Dan Rather's 2004 report about President Bush's National Guard service, digging up evidence that the documents may have been forgeries.

May?

Right. And the sun just "may" rise tomorrow.

That was done and settled. Absent a time machine or divine intervention, there is no way those documents could possibly have been genuine. And they all know that, but they can never admit it.

This article is just another lame-stream, mealy-mouth attempt to blather over what everyone with half a working brain cell knows is the truth.

White on black crime? STOP THE PRESSES!!!

Black on white crime? Move along, nothing to see here...

2 posted on 05/25/2007 7:26:46 AM PDT by Ronin (Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
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“Internet has opened up the mainstream media to intensive second-guessing, “

How dare they! We are the MSM and we are the truth and the light. How dare you question us or our motives.

Why, even our lies are pure!


3 posted on 05/25/2007 7:27:42 AM PDT by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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The Knoxville Horror: The Crime and the Cover-Up

Nicholas Stix, Special to AR News, May 14, 2007

On Saturday, January 6, 2007, Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, of Knoxville, Tennessee, went on a date from which they would never return. On their way to the home of another couple, they were carjacked and kidnapped. Over the next 24 hours they were beaten, gang-raped, tortured, and murdered.

If Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom had been black and their killers white, everyone in America would know their names. Because they were white and their killers are black, their fate has been shrouded in a thick silence that has given rise to a host of gruesome rumors. Their story highlights the strange and twisted nature of race relations in America.

The men who kidnapped and killed Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom have not yet gone to trial, so they are theoretically innocent. This account is based on documents filed in federal and state courts, and on sometimes-vague allegations in news reports......

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http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/05/the_knoxville_h.php


4 posted on 05/25/2007 7:31:10 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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The details of this case are horrifying: rape, torture, and murder in a medieval fashion. All five defendants should get the death penalty immediately upon conviction.


5 posted on 05/25/2007 7:33:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Ronin
May?

I caught that as well. You're right, they'll never admit it. But, this is msnbc afterall.

The 'suspects' dumped the 4 runner about 4 hours after they carjacked them. The media keep trying to tell people that it was simply a carjacking that went wrong. It wasn't. I believe what they did to that poor couple was their plan all along.

If they poured bleach down her throat to get rid of DNA, why didn't they also clean out her vagina and rectum? They found DNA in those areas. Again, I believe the bleach was another form of torture.

6 posted on 05/25/2007 7:34:07 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: Ronin

They can’t show the original typed and hand signed documents because they are computer generated forgeries.

The “experts” pointed that the signatures matched. Easy to do with digital cut and paste. Not so easy to do with a ballpoint pen.


7 posted on 05/25/2007 7:34:56 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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You don’t hold “carjacking” victims prisoner. You don’t rape women AND men if it is suddenly a case of finding a hot babe in the car.

You don’t ditch the vehicle shortly afterwards if your goal was to obtain the vehicle.

This was a coordinated act of racial humiliation. A vile hate crime and perhaps a gang initiation.


8 posted on 05/25/2007 7:37:43 AM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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How dare they! We are the MSM and we are the truth and the light. How dare you question us or our motives.

That's what sticks in their craw. 'WE terrify the lsm. They can't get away with what they once could. We're able to check out their stories and bring others to the light of day and they can't handle that.

9 posted on 05/25/2007 7:38:03 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: KeyLargo

Thank you. I read that article. It’s a good one.


10 posted on 05/25/2007 7:39:25 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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"The critics include mainstream conservatives, such as the National Review, and white supremacists."

I love how they sneak this line in there, insinuating that if you are a critical of their handling (or lack thereof) of this story, you just may be a white supremist.
11 posted on 05/25/2007 7:41:05 AM PDT by USMCWife6869 (Godspeed Sand Sharks.)
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All five defendants should get the death penalty immediately upon conviction.

Oh how I agree with you on that. To do what they did to human beings, they are animals that's for sure.

12 posted on 05/25/2007 7:41:53 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: weegee
The lsm will never admit they were forgeries, Weegee. They can't. They'll continue to say may be forgeries.
13 posted on 05/25/2007 7:44:45 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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I agree with your entire post. The trials-when they happen will be very interesting.

I don't know how we are going to learn about the trial facts when the media won't report on the crime.

14 posted on 05/25/2007 7:47:21 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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white supremacists."

Nearly every article I've found on this subject, 'white supremacist' is somewhere in it. It's their way of making this look like the only ones who care about this story are racists. It seems a lot of outlets wouldn't touch this story with a ten foot pole. They don't want to be seen as racists.

15 posted on 05/25/2007 7:51:17 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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Again, I believe the bleach was another form of torture.

Thanks, I hadn't thought of that, and had also wondered how they might think washing DNA out of the mouth, but not all other parts, would hide evidence.

But the additional story detail of "And made Channon Christian drink a gallon of bleach and so die hideously and horribly", could be suppressed if one changes it to "and washed her mouth out with bleach".

That would be a horrible cause of death, dying from a digestive tract full of caustic bleach.
16 posted on 05/25/2007 7:51:53 AM PDT by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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I'd like to see this country collectively agree that all crime is hate crime, and just leave it at that. Why anyone hates isn't important, especially when it comes to punishment.

Yet some arrogantly believe that if they understand the "why", they will be able to prevent evildoers from perpetrating their acts of violence. I'm mostly content to understand that free will, since Eve handed Adam the apple, is enough to enable violence, and leave it at that. Some might consider this outlook too simplistic.

17 posted on 05/25/2007 7:55:42 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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But the additional story detail of "And made Channon Christian drink a gallon of bleach and so die hideously and horribly", could be suppressed if one changes it to "and washed her mouth out with bleach".

That part of the story bothered me from the very beginning. Her other body cavities were full of dna. It was torture, otherwise her entire body would have been cleaned, not just her mouth. Lord bless that poor woman.

18 posted on 05/25/2007 7:57:04 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: Rummyfan

As evil as the five defendants are the Clarence Darrow-type lawyers who are going to defend them by saying “oppression from whitey made them do it.”

Leopold and Loeb’s rich parents bought their sons’ way out of the death penalty by hiring Darrow. Al Sharpton will probably use his wealth and influence to hire attorneys for these defendants. People like him are the true race hatemongers. I don’t even think these defendants should be charged with hate crimes - just charge them with murder, convict them, and give them the death penalty.


19 posted on 05/25/2007 7:57:16 AM PDT by conserveababe (I was a chick with a gun before chicks with guns were cool.)
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The tone of this article and the baseless references to white supremacists are exactly why people distrust the media. They are simply angry that we no longer pay attention to them.
20 posted on 05/25/2007 8:00:25 AM PDT by Gingersnap
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