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Sowell: The Media and the Mob
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| August 20, 2014
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 08/20/2014 2:30:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:30:34 PM PDT
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jazusamo
To: abigail2; Amalie; American Quilter; arthurus; awelliott; Bahbah; bamahead; Battle Axe; ...
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:32:11 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
I agree. In all these incidents, people decide they already know what happened, without even knowing what happened.
To: nickcarraway
Scripts are a dime a dozen in news rooms these days, I reckun
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:44:39 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
If it doesn’t match the agenda, it don’t print.
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:45:25 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: nickcarraway
You nailed it, and then there’s people who question why the ones involved didn’t do this or that, like they know exactly what they’d do. Ridiculous.
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:47:02 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
A too-rare voice of reason.
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:47:33 PM PDT
by
Rocko
To: jazusamo
The idea that you can tell who is innocent and who is guilty by the color of their skin is a notion that was tried out for generations, back in the days of the Jim Crow South. I thought we had finally rejected that kind of legalized lynch law. But apparently it has only been put under new management. Profound statement. We are witnessing a modern day version of a lynch mob.
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:55:19 PM PDT
by
Starboard
To: jazusamo
I think that anyone who had sustained an injury from an assailant who appeared to be coming back to finish the job, would be strongly inclined to do whatever they had to do to keep the advancing threat from reaching them. He might beat you to death, or he might get ahold of your service weapon and at that point, you’re in very serious trouble. I would have dropped him before he got within 20 feet of me.
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posted on
08/20/2014 3:00:52 PM PDT
by
Starboard
To: Starboard
“I would have dropped him before he got within 20 feet of me.”
Maybe the cop’s injuries hampered his ability to drop him.
To: nickcarraway
And they call talk shows stating the “facts”. All they prove is that they are retarded.
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posted on
08/20/2014 3:05:45 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
To: jazusamo
This is the Bread And Circus of Rome: government subsidized media entertaining idle government fed and housed subjects.
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posted on
08/20/2014 3:08:19 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: TexasGator
good point, especially with one of his eyes injured badly.
To: jazusamo
Television people who show the home of the policeman involved, and give his name and address knowing that he has already received death threats are truly setting a new low.I suppose that even Dr. Sowell failed to learn that CNN, in the role of advocacy, announced on the air that they had sent out teams to investigate everything about the accused policeman; previous jobs, education, possible previous instances of abuse, by questioning his family, his neighbors, his friends.
Any dirt would do.
No mention was made about investigating the life and times of the "unarmed teenager."
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posted on
08/20/2014 3:18:48 PM PDT
by
publius911
( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
To: NormsRevenge
That suggests a new motto for the NYT (or the MSM in general):
All the news that fits the agenda.
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posted on
08/20/2014 3:31:25 PM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(No tag today.)
To: publius911
“No mention was made about investigating the life and times of the “unarmed teenager.””
No need. Ben Crump will make up a good story for them.
To: jazusamo
The idea that you can tell who is innocent and who is guilty by the color of their skin is a notion that was tried out for generations, back in the days of the Jim Crow South. I thought we had finally rejected that kind of legalized lynch law. But apparently it has only been put under new management. No one's a permanent victim... or oppressor. Groups switch roles depending on power dynamics... much more important than skin color, accent or place of birth. In the Jim Crow South whites were thugs... in Ferguson, it's mixed...Holder's a black thug. Nixon's a white thug...
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posted on
08/20/2014 5:10:55 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
( Looted store owners in Ferguson should to sue the city. They paid for police protection - got none)
To: GOPJ
Well stated, thuggery knows no skin color.
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posted on
08/20/2014 5:15:44 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
Thanks JZ...
"Among the other unthinking phrases repeated endlessly is "he shot an unarmed man." When does anyone know that someone is unarmed? Unless you frisk him, you don't know "
Dr Sowell you are the prince among scholars
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posted on
08/20/2014 5:23:30 PM PDT
by
virgil283
(Life is hard .....its harder if you re stupid.... - John Wayne)
To: jazusamo
I watched some of the young black kids cleaning up the mess left by looters and it was such a perfect reminder that good people come in all colors...
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posted on
08/20/2014 7:06:22 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
( Looted store owners in Ferguson should to sue the city. They paid for police protection - got none)
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