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CNN Misleads Again re Zimmerman (vanity)

Posted on 04/02/2012 7:27:54 AM PDT by TigerClaws

On CNN website headline of stories listed:

"Experts: Screams Likely Not Shooter's"

Click on the link and headline changes:

"Who screams on 911 call in Trayvon Martin case?"

So now they don't know?

Buried within the story itself!...

"Software frequently used to analyze voices in legal cases shows a 48% likelihood that the voice is Zimmerman's."

So just about 50/50.

No mention that the father said it was NOT his son screaming on the tape. No mention they didn't compare a voice sample of Martin to the scream.

Media busted!

Then the story:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/02/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html?c=homepage-t


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1 posted on 04/02/2012 7:28:03 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Apparently CNN is also ignoring the eyewitness who was sure it was Zimmerman on the bottom, and screaming.

Despicable election year race baiting. There needs to be EXTREME pushback on these tactics, including 0’s “if I had a son...” remarks.

Anyone but 0 ‘12!!!


2 posted on 04/02/2012 7:31:02 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Pray for America!!!)
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To: TigerClaws

All of these problems could be avoided if they would just make profiling a capital crime. < / sarcasm >


3 posted on 04/02/2012 7:31:52 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: TigerClaws
"Software frequently used to analyze voices in legal cases shows a 48% likelihood that the voice is Zimmerman's

They can't even analyze for Martin's voice because they don't have any recordings to compare.

4 posted on 04/02/2012 7:45:50 AM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Personally I would love to see a Felony law enacted that if lieing on TV or newspapers its a 10 year sentence minimum. Just like crying fire in a movie house


5 posted on 04/02/2012 7:47:00 AM PDT by straps (Electric Jack)
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To: TigerClaws

Zimmerman was just told by the police “we don’t need you to do that”, and he was gwetting back in his truck. Martin had disappeared from site and suddenly reappears coming up on Zimmerman. Martin is angry at being followed, he hit Zimmerman and knocked him down. Zimmerman is screaming for help while Martin pounds his head on the ground.

I think reasonable intelligent people could figure this out. White guilt race baiters pound the drums to stoke the fires of hatred.

Liberals have fostered and fed this hatred for decades. Now the black community needs to pay the debt for all the entitlements the liberals have given them. Now they will do the dirty work and heavy lifting while the liberals take their money and their votes.


6 posted on 04/02/2012 7:51:45 AM PDT by mardi59 ( Go Newt!!)
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To: mardi59

My theory is Martin, who seemed to be quite fascinated by the “gangsta” culture judging by his adorable tweets, tried to do a “one punch” on Zimmerman which is a gangsta fad to see if you can knock a person out with one punch. It’s a sucker punch and you can see plenty of examples on Youtube. Only Zimmerman didn’t get knocked out, which led Martin to try again and again until he was introduced to the one punch of the 2nd Amendment.


7 posted on 04/02/2012 8:13:46 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between lose and loose.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Agreed.

http://blackfootsoldiers.wordpress.com/category/black-foot-soldiers/

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=trayvon+martin+and+black+foot+soldiers&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CFUQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aesopsretreat.com%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D95622.0&ei=9IZ3T8qZCJSugQfctcWXDw&usg=AFQjCNHfN3bioyb_2ABUMXBT87nVTLe5Zg


8 posted on 04/02/2012 8:20:42 AM PDT by mardi59 ( Go Newt!!)
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To: TigerClaws

ABC News radio is reporting that it is been determined Trayvon is the person heard yelling
for help on the recording.


9 posted on 04/02/2012 8:24:07 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

The fix is in.


10 posted on 04/02/2012 8:24:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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-- The fix is in. --

Yeah, about as well as it was "in" on the breathless reports that the police station video proved Zimmerman had no injuries.

This is ABC Radio again broadcasting a false statement - for one thing, it misrepresents what the expert said; and then at bottom, the expert doesn't have enough evidence to base a conclusion on.

This is more whipping the crowd into a frenzy. I hope the producers get leprosy.

11 posted on 04/02/2012 8:30:49 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: TigerClaws

Liberal news organizations are liars... they’re made up of liberal elites. How could it be otherwise? Look at NBC...


12 posted on 04/02/2012 8:43:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: TigerClaws
Local news claimed it was not Zimmerman based on the software results. They gave no numbers, no details on how it was determined. They did, however, named the Orlando Sentinel as their source for the story.

I'm shocked the Orlando Sentinel would be driving the divisive storyline. /s

13 posted on 04/02/2012 9:14:30 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Newt says, "A nominee that depresses turnout won't beat Barack Obama.")
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To: TigerClaws

with all the conflicting stories the MSM is creating reasonable doubt.


14 posted on 04/02/2012 9:26:37 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: TigerClaws

In all actuality, this “scientist” is probably right that it was a 48% chance that it was Zimmerman.

I mean, 48% Zimmerman, 48% Martin and 4% other - considering it was coming from a distant, background source. Heck, it could have been the freaking TV, for all we know.

But, there is at least ONE eye-witness stating that Zimmerman was screaming for help; it doesn’t take a “noise” specialist to understand and interpret THAT!


15 posted on 04/02/2012 9:34:48 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: TigerClaws

CNN has a poll last week that 59% of those polls still blame the GOP and George W. Bush for the economy.

Who did they poll, retired Detroit city workers or Berkeley law professors?


16 posted on 04/02/2012 9:43:54 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers.....)
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To: PreciousLiberty

The 13 year old eye witness (there were at least two to the actually beating of Zimmerman) was outed by the press. His mother then changed her story saying they weren’t sure.


17 posted on 04/02/2012 10:08:26 AM PDT by TigerClaws (He)
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To: Cboldt
They're absolutely irresponsible "reporting" this.

It's an extrajudicial "expert" opinion at best, and adds nothing but trouble to the situation.

18 posted on 04/02/2012 10:26:56 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Newt says, "A nominee that depresses turnout won't beat Barack Obama.")
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-- They're absolutely irresponsible "reporting" this. --

I agree. And especially how they couch the finding as somehow being conclusive.

-- It's an extrajudicial "expert" opinion at best .. --

At best. But, it would not be allowed as expert testimony in court, because it fails to meet the threshold for admittance, FRE 703. The expert's statement is not supported by sufficient evidence, by the expert's own standards and admissions.

-- ... adds nothing but trouble to the situation. --

It is the media's intention to add trouble, to cloud the issue, and to obscure the facts. It's no accident, it is deliberate.

19 posted on 04/02/2012 10:48:36 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: TigerClaws
-- The 13 year old eye witness (there were at least two to the actually beating of Zimmerman) was outed by the press. His mother then changed her story saying they weren't sure. --

There is tremendous "peer" pressure to lie or dummy up. And for those who aren't peers, there is a very real implied threat of retribution, up to and including death.

20 posted on 04/02/2012 10:50:55 AM PDT by Cboldt
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