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National Media's Refusal to Cover White Couple's Murder (snopes confirms)
Snopes ^ | May 2007 | Plus Matthew Sheffield

Posted on 12/15/2007 12:46:58 PM PST by restornu

OK, so let's create a level playing field here. I have not even heard of this on CBS, ABC, NBC or any of the cable news services, even FOX NEWS. OR in any of the Newsrags or other publications. Read this and weep.

Bet you $20 you did not hear this on the national news.

The animals pictured below car-jacked, then raped Christopher Newsom, cut off his penis, then set him on fire and fatally shot him several times while they forced his girlfriend, Channon Christian, to watch. An even more cruel fate awaited her!

Channon Christian, was beaten and gang-raped in many ways for four days by all of them, while they took turns urinating on her. Then they cut off her breast and put chemicals in her mouth ... and then murdered her.

Where be the Revs Al and Jesse? Are they providing counsel and help to the families of the victims?

Of course not - the victims were white

Why hasn't this received National coverage by the news media like the Duke "rape" case?

Oh, that's right - the victims were white

Why hasn't the NAACP, ACLU, New York Times etc, called for an investigation?

Must be cause the victims were white

Why hasn't the FBI been called in to investigate this as a hate crime?
Oh, that's right - the victims were white.


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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christophernewsom; knoxvillehorror; knoxvillemurders; mediasrefusal; newsblackout; pressembargo; publicsrightoknow; selfcensorship; snops
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To: BipolarBob
Moops. It's Moops.

And yes, I saw this story on Fox a few months back.

121 posted on 12/15/2007 2:40:00 PM PST by CT (Romney 2008)
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To: i_dont_chat

Thank you.

Merry Christmas!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0G77i5gvAg&feature=related


122 posted on 12/15/2007 2:42:30 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: Riverman94610
Well then you will never understand the reality of it. You can't...not from a book. Sorry. You can have the wildest imagination alive but the reality is you will still be sheltered from the whole truth.

If you went to see the Passion of the Christ...you heard weeping and crying from people who have read the Bible a million times. They really didn't fully understand what our Lord went through until that day.

I don't want to look at these things either but I consider it my responsibility to understand to the best of my ability what is going on in my world and I never take anyones word for anything without analyzing the data for myself.

Same goes for racial relations. Go out into your community as you have done and see for yourself. It's the only way to be fully informed.

123 posted on 12/15/2007 2:43:21 PM PST by Earthdweller (The elite media, buddies of Romney F Kerry and the socialist march to China.)
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To: restornu

Nicholas Stix is a moron.

Here’s a snippet from an article of his at vdare.com:

http://www.vdare.com/stix/071031_knoxville.htm
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Linder’s First Rally

On May 26, Linder’s demonstrators are greeted by three hundred city, county, state and federal law enforcement officers in riot gear, who have spent weeks preparing for them.

“The local and regional MSM claim that less than 30 protesters showed up. Reporters employ the propaganda tactic of asking all protesters where they came from, and describing them as out-of-state “white supremacists,” and the demonstration as a “hate rally.” In vilifying the protesters, while denying that the atrocity was racially motivated, local media imply that the protesters are worse than the rapist-torturer-murderers.”
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I was there. Yes, they were neo-nazis. Yes, they were all from out of state, mostly up north, ironically.

Several of them wore 88 shirts or had red tshirts with a swastika in the middle. Several carried signs that said “White Power” or “Around Blacks Never Relax” with an “artistic rendering” of a black man made to look like an ape. The ring leaders were Alex Linder and Hal Turner, (Who’s getting kind of porky and still needs donations, because Anonymous ruined his life.)

Anyone with a brain and an internet connection can use Google to find pictures of these tools.

Furthermore, anyone who says these tools weren’t neonazis, and believe me, they were proud of that label, is at best ill-informed, and at worst, one of them.


124 posted on 12/15/2007 2:43:26 PM PST by Constantine XIII (Anonymous doesn't forget)
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To: restornu

Dying, socialist Democrat news media BUMP!


125 posted on 12/15/2007 2:44:18 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: EveningStar

There’s a subtle difference between “wanting to learn more” and “rubbing it in the nation’s face.”


126 posted on 12/15/2007 2:44:23 PM PST by Constantine XIII (Anonymous doesn't forget)
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To: discostu

Freakin megaditto


127 posted on 12/15/2007 2:44:59 PM PST by Constantine XIII (Anonymous doesn't forget)
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To: isrul

LOL, wrong. We don’t do mob rule in this country, pal.


128 posted on 12/15/2007 2:46:08 PM PST by Constantine XIII (Anonymous doesn't forget)
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To: Constantine XIII

Make no mistake. I am not your pal.


129 posted on 12/15/2007 2:50:31 PM PST by isrul
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To: Riverman94610
I’m not worried about stories like that, I’m worried about stories that tear at the fabric of our society. I’m not letting anyone off the hook for that. I want the whole truth. Not the truth according to Nelly socialist nanny...and we are not getting it.All we get is bias against "the Man". It's as bad now as it was in the 50's against Blacks. Two wrongs don't make a right.
130 posted on 12/15/2007 2:50:32 PM PST by Earthdweller (The elite media, buddies of Romney F Kerry and the socialist march to China.)
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To: isrul

I’m hurt deeply, LOL.


131 posted on 12/15/2007 2:51:09 PM PST by Constantine XIII (Anonymous doesn't forget)
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To: cricket

According to the story in the link above, it was Jan. 7


132 posted on 12/15/2007 2:52:08 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: restornu; hodaka; gracesdad
The national news media was initially criticized by some for not giving the crime adequate coverage because the victims were white, and the suspects black, but some commentators have explained that "as bad as this crime is, the apparent absence of any interest group involvement or any other 'angle' might also explain the lack of coverage."

This criticism was also fueled by erroneous reports of dismemberment, mutilations, and the duration of Christian's rapes allegedly committed by the suspects, especially in early reports. Most of the original reports were later denied by the District Attorney, along with misinformation reported from a federal deputy in the arresting state of Kentucky shortly after the suspects were apprehended. This misinformation was capitalized on by white nationalist groups promoting two small demonstrations in Knoxville against the crime and its lack of mainstream media coverage.

Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said that there is no indication the crimes were racially motivated, and that the murders and assault "appears to have been a random violent act." "There is absolutely no proof of a hate crime," said John Gill, special counsel to Knox County District Atty. Randy Nichols. "We know from our investigation that the people charged in this case were friends with white people, socialized with white people, dated white people. So not only is there no evidence of any racial animus, there's evidence to the contrary."

Some commentators have disagreed, notably including white nationalist Hal Turner, claiming that such a crime would include a motive of racial hate. This viewpoint was also repeated, along with erroneous rumors about the crime, in some conservative-leaning media, including blogger Michelle Malkin on Fox News's O'Reilly Factor program. Prior the DA's statement, Newsom's mother sympathized with the "hate crime" position, stating "It may have started out as a carjacking, but what it developed into was blacks hating whites". Christian's father (addressed those who are using his daughter's death to suit their own agenda) appeared ambivalent, stating "[the crime] ain't about you."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

A poster to an NPR thread on the subject states: "We'll have to wait a year for that since the judge has now sealed the information".

133 posted on 12/15/2007 2:52:59 PM PST by secretagent
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To: restornu
Even thought this might look like race crimes isn't only a select few who choose to be hateful towards another just because they don't look like then or even believe like them? Many have witness even here on FR over the months is only coming from a select few.

Should we not look for what brings us togather, and not focus what draws us a part!

Is it not up to each of us who holds this key which the creator has given to all of his children to choose how we treat out fellowman.

The Knoxville Horror: Crime, Race, The Media, And “Anti-Racism”

[See also: Remember Wichita—One Year Later, by James Fulford]

By Nicholas Stix

Shortly after midnight on January 7, the most controversial crime of the year (hopefully) was committed in Knoxville, Tennessee. A young white couple—Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom Jr., 23—were carjacked, kidnapped, gang-raped (both of them), tortured and murdered. Five suspects, all black, are in custody.

I gave more of the appalling details in my May 14 American Renaissance online article. (See also the much longer, revised version that is the cover story of AR's July issue.)

The crime I have dubbed "The Knoxville Horror" has raised grave questions

bullet About the credibility of the media, police, and prosecutors, who continually lie to whites about the dangers facing them, and, in the media's case, simultaneously propagate fictions about "white racism";

bullet About America's perverted dialogue on race, in which citizens are presented with a false alternative between crypto-Marxist "anti-racism" and "white supremacism"; and

bullet About a society in which whites are hunted like prey by black racists.

The Knoxville Horror is no aberration. At the end of this article, I will set it in the true context of black-on-white crime. And I will discuss two further subsequent cases perverted by America’s “anti-racism” dominant ideology.

The Crime

Almost ten months after the murders, Knoxville authorities still refuse to divulge the causes of the young couple’s death—or even to release the autopsy reports.

Charged with 40-46 state counts each of theft, robbery, rape, kidnapping and both felony murder and premeditated murder are: Lemaricus Devall Davidson , aka "Slim," a convicted carjacker just out of jail, 25; Letalvis Darnell Cobbins aka "Letalvis Darnell Davidson," aka "Rome," 24 , a convicted robber; George Geovonni Thomas, aka "Detroit," 24; and Cobbins' girlfriend, Vanessa Coleman, 18. Thomas is specifically charged with Newsom's murder.

Eric DeWayne Boyd, 34, who has "at least 12" prior convictions for aggravated robbery, and was allegedly Davidson's regular and Cobbins' occasional crime partner during an alleged months-long crime spree, is only charged federally, as an accessory after the fact to carjacking, for allegedly hiding Davidson.

(Except for once catching Davidson driving with a suspended license during the alleged crime spree, the Knoxville Police Department seems to have been missing in action. At the time of the killings, Davidson had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court on that charge.)

In May, Davidson was indicted on six additional state felony counts, including aggravated robbery and attempted robbery, for an incident at a Knoxville Pizza Hut that took place January 8—the day after the murders.

The four state defendants are scheduled to face separate trials beginning between May and August, 2008—a year and a half after the crime.

Boyd's federal trial was to begin on September 18, 2007, but he bought himself a delay by dismissing his attorney that day.

Davidson was arraigned in the Pizza Hut case on October 11. On the same day, in a hearing regarding the four state defendants' main cases, prosecutors brought in two "banker size boxes" of new evidence provided by federal authorities. The state has until January 10, 2008 to examine the new evidence, before turning it over to the defense. At that time, the state must also say whether it will seek the death penalty.

The Media, Round I

In January and February, the Knoxville media reported extensively on the case, but did not discuss the racial angle. The national Mainstream Media (MSM) ignored the case altogether. The Knoxville Police Department and Knox County District Attorney General's office stonewalled.

But the Internet was abuzz with outrage. Articles from the Knoxville media were posted and discussed at conservative message boards here, here, and here, and blogs. With rare exceptions, (see here and here), leftist bloggers ignored it.

134 posted on 12/15/2007 2:54:46 PM PST by restornu (Harry Reid is going to get Daschled! You're on your own, Harry!)
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there is more to this but I don’t like getting into area of more extreme racism I have studied them for years and it is on the very dark side of man
http://www.vdare.com/stix/071031_knoxville.htm


135 posted on 12/15/2007 2:56:59 PM PST by restornu (Harry Reid is going to get Daschled! You're on your own, Harry!)
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To: fishergirl
Oh, that’s right, Frick and Frack are too busy going to places like Jena, La. and defending black kids with criminal records.

Their schedule is full. They were out with Imus and the "Dog" on the "Spineless White Guy Endless Redundant Apology Tour '07".

136 posted on 12/15/2007 2:58:20 PM PST by southern rock
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To: southern rock

Bump


137 posted on 12/15/2007 3:01:10 PM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: Earthdweller

Funny you mention Passion of the Christ.It DID disturb me greatly.I will agree that it made me understand what Jusus went through yet during each scene I kept repeating to myself,”this is a MOVIE”
Abortions and Nazi ovens made into movies would be just a little much for this sensitive soul to absorb into my life right now.
And I am only too familiar with the cold reality of race relations.My black fema;e boss came in crying last night because her 19 year old neice had just got shot and killed in a drive by.
And you can be sure that the killer almost certainly was of the same ethnicity as her.


138 posted on 12/15/2007 3:07:21 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: Plains Drifter

Norfolk, NE And Wichita, KS - Non-Hate Massacres?
By Sam Francis

If it’s a “hate crime” you’re looking for, the New York Times seems to have found a few in West Hollywood, California.

http://www.vdare.com/francis/unequal_hate.htm


139 posted on 12/15/2007 3:10:49 PM PST by restornu (Harry Reid is going to get Daschled! You're on your own, Harry!)
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To: restornu
Terribly, terribly sad. We had a similar case happen right here in our neighborhood on Halloween night, 2006. http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=2789127&page=1.

It would have turned into a murder case if not for the good Samaritan (who happened to be black). The victims a year later are still shattered, physically and emotionally.

"Walking While White" is very dangerous, apparently, and the Mainstream Media, with their Squishy Bigotry of No Expectations, will keep turning a blind eye.

140 posted on 12/15/2007 3:12:17 PM PST by Yaelle
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