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Bending the Trayvon Martin Tragedy To Fit
Townhall.com ^ | July 31, 2013 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 07/31/2013 6:11:37 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/31/2013 6:11:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Most journalists are very average intellects. But they identify most often with and see themselves as equal to their former college professors, and therefore report from an arrogantly leftist slant.


2 posted on 07/31/2013 6:16:22 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist
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National Public Radio recently profiled Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother. In response to the tragedy and the trial, Fulton has become a civil rights activist, NPR reported.

Look in the dictionary under "useful idiot" to see her picture.

3 posted on 07/31/2013 6:20:23 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: Kaslin

All leftist minds work the same way. When this story was published, leftists immediately saw how this could be molded into something that it wasn’t.

Evil White people preying on innocent Black children. White Guilt. Reparations. Feed the race industry. Boost 0bama’s popularity. Great opportunity.

Didn’t matter that the facts didn’t fit the agenda. The media control minds and decided that they would change the facts.


4 posted on 07/31/2013 6:27:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Rachel Jantel said on the stand that Creepy-ass-Cracker was not a racial slur. She was telling the truth. But only half way. remember, she’s new school. People who heard cracker are Richard Pryor old school. According to the Urban Dictionary, “ass-cracker” is someone who engages in Anal Sex and she said “Trayvon’s not that way”. This was Gay Bashing aka “Whoop-azz”.


5 posted on 07/31/2013 6:29:31 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Kaslin
Fulton has become a 'civil rights activist'

So what does that mean?

6 posted on 07/31/2013 6:29:39 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Kaslin

Your headline “bend to fit” reminded me of an unpublished, closely held, tongue-in-cheek unwritten Work Order sometimes resorted to by Manufacturing Engineers when confronted with a scheduling crunch.....and which might have been right at home in the DILBERT comic strip:

POUND TO SIZE, FILE TO FIT AND PAINT TO HIDE.


7 posted on 07/31/2013 6:30:43 AM PDT by Tucker39
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Yeah, where was all her concern for her son when she gave away two years after his birth? From what I understand, she made a decent living-government work, of course.

And what’s with this hedging language “appeared to”? The media didn’t “appear” to twist and spin the facts, they outright did do it.

I wish the mother of the 18mo who was shot in the face and killed, had been able to stand her ground while armed, or the mother of children who worked in a bakery to support them.

More rights for criminals, disarm the law-abiding-between that and confiscatory wealth redistribution, why bother anymore?


8 posted on 07/31/2013 6:31:52 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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What strikes me as unconscionable, however, is the way the supposedly objective media have not only sensationalized a tragedy but at times appear to deliberately bend the facts to fit a desired story line.

It what the libtard media ALWAYS does.

9 posted on 07/31/2013 6:32:05 AM PDT by CPOSharky ((The government way) If it ain't broke, fix it till it is.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Fulton has become a 'civil rights activist' So what does that mean?

She's now on the payroll, because she helps with fundraising.

10 posted on 07/31/2013 6:32:23 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: massgopguy

So, St Skittles engaged in some profiling.


11 posted on 07/31/2013 6:32:53 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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Good morning Kaslin.

First, nothing new about this story. We know how the liberal media is.

Second..."sudden embrace of the term "white Hispanic" to describe Zimmerman in order to more easily paint him as a racist."

That's not new either. The black community is always trying to make everything racial. I think their agenda is to keep this up until everyone who isn't black with cower away from accusing them of anything...(i.e., run stops signs, pull out in front of people...break into stores when they riot...cops can't say anything cause then they are profiling).

Third, T. Martin is not the only young black boy killed un-necessarily. Why "worry this bone"?

Finally, the black community and the liberal media seems to have forgotten that T. Martin said, "creepy a$$ cracker." But hey that's not racist, is it?

The Hating Whitey continues.

12 posted on 07/31/2013 6:33:35 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Face it - an aging body is not pretty...no matter how many times you tack it up.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Jesse and Al with bigger hair and more makeup...


13 posted on 07/31/2013 6:34:38 AM PDT by homegroan (Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option....)
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To: Kaslin

Goldberg is an idiot. Did he just crawl out from under a rock? This guy has spent too many hours in the DC martini lunch set. Get real jerk! This country is under COMMUNIST OCCUPATION and you’re writing columns months late about a garbage pickup in Florida manipulated by the HOMO erectus in the White Hut!


14 posted on 07/31/2013 6:38:34 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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“They didn’t get the verdict — or the story line — they wanted. But they need to get something positive out of this.”

The very essence of advocacy journalism.


15 posted on 07/31/2013 6:41:24 AM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: mrsmel
More rights for criminals, disarm the law-abiding-between that and confiscatory wealth redistribution, why bother anymore?

Yup, as plain as the nose on our faces.

16 posted on 07/31/2013 6:44:55 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Face it - an aging body is not pretty...no matter how many times you tack it up.)
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To: massgopguy

Yours is the first cogent explanation of “creepy ass cracker” that I’ve seen. I had no idea that the meaning depends upon where the hyphen goes. Thus, a “creepy-ass cracker” is a white guy who looks a little off. But, a “creepy ass-cracker” is a homosexual, perhaps a predatory one.


17 posted on 07/31/2013 6:46:21 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: beachn4fun

All it does for me is make me more determined to keep my distance in every way possible, because being white, if a black person takes issue with me, I am automatically wrong and full of hatred for disagreeing.


18 posted on 07/31/2013 6:49:51 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Funny how quickly that term found it’s way into the dictionary. (have to remember the hyphen in the future).


19 posted on 07/31/2013 6:53:25 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Face it - an aging body is not pretty...no matter how many times you tack it up.)
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I feel ya!


20 posted on 07/31/2013 6:54:06 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Face it - an aging body is not pretty...no matter how many times you tack it up.)
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