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Democrats Say Talk Radio Killed Black Florida Teen
Investor's Business Daily ^ | March 23, 2012

Posted on 03/23/2012 7:19:31 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

On MSNBC last week, Democratic Party strategist Karen Finney blamed talk radio king Rush Limbaugh for the fatal shooting last month of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch captain in a mixed neighborhood in Florida.

Limbaugh, along with Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, "reinforce and validate old stereotypes that associate the poor and welfare as criminal behavior with African Americans and people of color, calling us lazy, undeserving recipients of public assistance," Finney said.

In the Trayvon Martin incident, Finney claimed "those festering stereotypes had lethal consequences."

One might ask how Finney knows that Martin's half-Peruvian killer, George Zimmerman (whose photo suggests he's a person of color himself), listens to Limbaugh or has been affected by the candidates' speeches.

As in ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords' shooting last year, this is a case of a Democratic mouthpiece accusing foes of their big-government schemes of murder. So much for President Obama's call for civility in political discourse.

But Finney is just one manifestation of a new war aiming to silence Limbaugh and like-minded talk radio hosts. After Limbaugh several weeks ago used rude words to describe a Georgetown law school feminist activist who wants taxpayers to finance her contraception, the Los Angeles city council last week entered the realm of government censorship of the airwaves.

By 13-to-2 vote the L.A. City Council called on "management of radio and television stations in Los Angeles to do everything in their power to ensure that their on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs over public airwaves in the City of Los Angeles."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; georgezimmerman; karenfinney; msnbc; rushlimbaugh; trayvonmartin
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1 posted on 03/23/2012 7:19:36 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Of course.

As long as a single Conservative is able to exercise his or her First Amendment rights, every black person in the country is vulnerable to brutal, random, murderous attacks.

2 posted on 03/23/2012 7:21:45 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

NPR and Pacifica Radio need to be shut down in response!!


3 posted on 03/23/2012 7:22:54 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Gee, I wonder if Walter Williams agrees with this assessment. Rush is definitely a racist. That’s why Justice Thomas officiated at his wedding to Marta, etc, etc.


4 posted on 03/23/2012 7:22:59 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: Tailgunner Joe

By 13-to-2 vote the L.A. City Council called on “management of radio and television stations in Los Angeles to do everything in their power to ensure that their on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs over public airwaves in the City of Los Angeles.”

Oh good, no more rap music.


5 posted on 03/23/2012 7:23:04 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They’re never responsible for anything. Always a childish excuse. The biggest babies in the world, hatemongers, divisive, racist. What a sorry bunch of “adults”


6 posted on 03/23/2012 7:23:32 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Some "unifier" in the White House, huh)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Democrats Say Talk Radio Killed Black Florida Teen

Too late, Geraldo already said the hoody did it.


7 posted on 03/23/2012 7:24:17 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Tailgunner Joe

What is sad is that some people will actually fall for her cr@p.


8 posted on 03/23/2012 7:25:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
But those in the AA culture who discourage bright young black men and women from becoming part of the future because they will become Uncle Toms.

And Jeremiah Wright and his pupil Barry Obama who discourage "middleclassedness" (wow, what a word)...

They are not at all to blame.

Kill Whitey and GD America!

Not to blame...eh?

9 posted on 03/23/2012 7:25:39 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "Will someone rid me of that Nettlesome Newt?")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Ya mean Zimmerman was compelled to pull the trigger because he thought the kid looked like a slut?

But of course, it is so obvious now that lib pundits have pointed it out.


10 posted on 03/23/2012 7:27:17 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The left is enjoying this kid’s murder every second. they haven’t been this excited since Gifford’s was shot. To spew their idiocy on the air and blame Republicans is absolutely pathetic. This is all the left know how to do, create a distraction so that no one looks at the big picture of what Obama is doing to this country. Is Zimmerman a Republican? 99.99 percent he is NOT, like it even matters. What happened is not a Democrat or a Republican issue, it was a tragic shooting and that is all, but leftists are scum so not surprise that they would want to use the blood of this kid for their own political gain


11 posted on 03/23/2012 7:29:31 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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reinforce and validate old stereotypes that associate the poor and welfare as criminal behavior with African Americans and people of color

That's what Jesse Jackson did when he admitted he was relieved to see the kids following him were white.

12 posted on 03/23/2012 7:29:57 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yep. And talk radio is responsible for the 40 shot and 10 killed last weekend in Chicago too.


13 posted on 03/23/2012 7:30:03 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (I don't have a blog to pimp, nor would I pimp it if I had one. I swear.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

As idiotic as the propaganda is, we must not let it go unchallenged.


14 posted on 03/23/2012 7:31:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: Steely Tom

and tomorrow it will be Wall St and the big banks, Oh and don’t forget Bush


15 posted on 03/23/2012 7:33:07 PM PDT by molson209
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To: Tailgunner Joe

How did they forget Gov. Sarah Palin, President Bush and Vice President Cheney?


16 posted on 03/23/2012 7:33:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
No, Rush didn't do this, nor anyone else in Conservative Radio. What got this young man killed was too many other black teens robbing, and beating people and getting away with it so many times, that now people would rather shoot first and ask questions later. Their culture of "you can't touch me, I'm a young black man, and you owe me" is what is doing the killing. Just ask anyone in New Orleans, LA. where there is a shooting, stabbing, or robbery every night, and you'll find out.
17 posted on 03/23/2012 7:34:05 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are hoping and praying for a black on white war. And the media it seems is stoking the fire.


18 posted on 03/23/2012 7:38:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hannity, Levin, and Rush stayed away from the eligibility issue to avoid being targeted for boycott and to save their mighty thrones.
How’s that working out for them now?


19 posted on 03/23/2012 7:40:01 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Sometimes the road less traveled.... is less traveled for a reason.)
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To: Shadowstrike
What channel are black yutes listening to that "makes" them rob and murder other BLACK people?

It certainly isn't conservative talk radio.

20 posted on 03/23/2012 7:40:10 PM PDT by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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