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Trayvon and Zimmerman: The Structure and Elements of a Disinformation Campaign
American Thinker ^ | May 3, 2012 | Scott Swett

Posted on 05/03/2012 2:01:19 AM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome

"Trayvon," of course, is Trayvon Martin, the black 17-year-old who was killed two months ago in Florida. "Zimmerman" is George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot him. Referring to Martin by his first name and Zimmerman by his last is just one small tactic in the national media campaign to make Martin's death an enduring symbol of white racism.

The Trayvon campaign is accurately described as "disinformation" because deception is a fundamental part of its planning, strategy, and implementation. Leftist disinformation campaigns are common but not widely understood. This article is intended to make them easier to recognize, and to provide a framework for additional research and investigation. Whether or not George Zimmerman was justified in pulling the trigger is outside the scope of this analysis.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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KEYWORDS: georgezimmerman; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: Travis McGee
We certainly live in interesting times, Travis. "It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." And things are very, very wrong.

I remember well the Reginald Denny incident. I remember my first thought was "WTF did he get out of the truck?" If that had been me, they'd still be picking bones out of my front grille.

As it was, I had a little encounter of my own in Oakland during the Rodney King riots, and if I hadn't been prepared beforehand, I would be dead.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

21 posted on 05/03/2012 4:54:15 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Mr. C

Yes and President Lincoln was putting together a colony somewhere in Latin America, I forget where. I tend to think that’s why he was assassinated.


22 posted on 05/03/2012 4:54:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

Next step: Portray those who argue that the media narrative
was intentionally dishonest as tin foil hat lunatics.

23 posted on 05/03/2012 5:00:43 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Can we afford as much government as welfare-addicted voters demand?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s the first time I heard about the colony in Latin America but I’m not surprised. I know it’s useless to speculate on how different things would be today if all that had worked out.

There have been some interesting developments lately which further displays the duplicity and bias of the media. Like those two reporters in Virginia attacked last week-end and others scattered around the country. If it wasn’t for Fox News and otehr sources I don’t think anyone would have known about them.


24 posted on 05/03/2012 5:03:32 AM PDT by Mr. C (Take Back America!)
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To: Mr. C
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

~Abraham Lincoln

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

25 posted on 05/03/2012 5:08:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome
The media is the enemy. We also saw this so clearly when Palin was selected as VP.

The term "disinformation" is not strong enough and doesn't reflect the evil being done.

26 posted on 05/03/2012 5:21:31 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Joe Brower

Yep, an 18 wheeler should be used as it’s own weapon. That won’t work for little cars, but maybe SUVs, with sufficient clearance. In any event, I’d rather drive over folks than get pulled out and beaten to death. Just don’t stop, no matter what.


27 posted on 05/03/2012 5:31:39 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

Great read.


28 posted on 05/03/2012 5:47:25 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Spike Lee's films are boring and unoriginal.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
The Left has been perpetrating violence. As you so adroitly point out.

So when do we fight BACK? Never?

That doesn't sound like a "winning" scheme....

29 posted on 05/03/2012 5:55:53 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

For later.


30 posted on 05/03/2012 6:18:22 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: driftless2
I'll bet millions of libs read Sowell's columns and deep down know he's right.

Good points but if they're reading him and know he's right I'd say they were already in a state of transition.

31 posted on 05/03/2012 6:32:24 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome
In short...
Neither accept nor believe a lie.
Rather, rise up of your own accord and
look out the window and see for yourself
if it is or isn't actually raining outside
when you have been told that it is.

And if it isn't actually raining outside
you, of necessity, have to ever after
question the veracity of everything
the speaker of such lies says else you
will always go about umbrella in hand.

32 posted on 05/03/2012 6:38:23 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America has been there, done that, see the histor of Liberia.


33 posted on 05/03/2012 6:39:48 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America has been there, done that, see the histor of Liberia.


34 posted on 05/03/2012 6:40:01 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: Travis McGee
Black ops at their finest...
Don't leave out PSYOPS. That's what this article is all about.
People are being psychologically manipulated and they don't even know it.
35 posted on 05/03/2012 6:43:42 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Molon Labbie

They were similarly surprised in Egypt. All for a newsworthy revolution, then the on-the-street reporters were stunned that they, not being one of the revolutionaries, were targeted.


36 posted on 05/03/2012 7:20:17 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Travis McGee

“A 13% minority can’t win a Tutsi/Hutu-level tribal/racial civil war. That much is clear.”

They can when only 13% of the other side opposes them. Nearly 100% of blacks would ban together. Maybe 13% of the remaining population would stand against them. It would be nearly an even match as far as numbers but just who would perform the most violence to win is another matter. All hypothetical, of course; just saying not to discount a 13% minority if they act together against an opposing force where only 13% participate.


37 posted on 05/03/2012 7:31:11 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome
While the Zimmerman/Martin ‘white’ on black killing is covered 24/7 on the MSM with an outpouring of rage and charges of a racial hate crime, where is the concern- where is the rage about the home invasion, torture, beating, rape and murder of the elderly white couple by a gang of feral blacks in Oklahoma just a few weeks ago?

The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.

The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.

Can you just imagine the pain, the humiliation, the horror that dear old lady experienced being gang raped by that pack of feral animals?

(the autopsy states she was raped. Don’t think all of these animals didn’t all participate)

And can you imagine the pain, the horror of that dear old husband having to witness this?

There’s a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.

WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??

90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?

85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??

Why does it take a foreign press to enlighten America as to this henious crime?

WHERE IS THE NATIONAL OUTRAGE?


38 posted on 05/03/2012 8:36:58 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

Great article — thanks for posting.

The very last part about how a trial now might not be in the best interests of the race-hustlers is intriguing.


39 posted on 05/03/2012 8:54:45 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Dead Corpse
So when do we fight BACK? Never?

I did not say we should not fight back.

We destroyed the Martin-Zimmerman lies.

We destroyed the Dan Rather National Guard lies.

We destroyed the John Kerry war hero lies.

So, we are fighting back.

However, violence on our part is not an urgency....yet

40 posted on 05/03/2012 8:57:57 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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