Bill O'Reilly: 'Is the Media Now Inciting Racial Violence?'
In the wake of the press's nonstop hyperventilating regarding the Trayvon Martin issue, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly appropriately asked Friday, "Is the media now inciting racial violence?"
In his opening Talking Points Memo, O'Reilly also pointed a finger at Al Sharpton and Roland Martin saying, "MSNBC and CNN to some extent have a vested interest in seeing Zimmerman punished because they've already found him guilty on the air" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL O'REILLY: Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight.
Is the media now inciting racial violence? That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points" memo. It was pathetic last night watching the prime time cable opinion programs whip up the Trayvon Martin case to dangerous levels. As "Talking Points" has been reporting the media is exploiting the terrible death of 17-year-old Trayvon by convicting the man who shot him, George Zimmerman, of wrong doing on television.
Now let's step back for a moment. What if the Florida special prosecutor decides there is not enough evidence to prosecute Mr. Zimmerman? What if that happens? It could because of Florida's complicated "Stand Your Ground" law which has muddled the case.
MSNBC and CNN to some extent have a vested interest in seeing Zimmerman punished because they've already found him guilty on the air. So they are not going to respect any verdict but guilty. Therefore those entities will tell the American public that racial injustice has been done if there is not a conviction and that could very well lead to violence as we saw in the Rodney King case.
Those riots in 1992 and I was right in the middle of them led to 58 people -- 58 being killed and a billion dollars worth of damage. That absolutely could happen in the Trayvon Martin case. Leading the charge to convict Zimmerman is Al Sharpton.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SHARPTON: This is not about self-defense. This is about a man deciding somebody based on who he was, was a suspect and that he would take matters in his own hands.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: Sharpton as you know has a daily one hour program on MSNBC and as I said has already found Zimmerman guilty on the air.
The same thing with CNN commentator Roland Martin.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARTIN: They gave George Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt because of who he is and they simply saw Trayvon Martin and I guarantee you in their minds they probably saying oh, young black kid, wearing a hoodie George has got to be right.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: All right, so you can seen the racial animus is already being stirred up on national TV. Now that's flat out dangerous. And the media companies responsible should be held accountable if any violence breaks out.
Now it is perfectly legitimate for the parents of Trayvon Martin to say whatever they want to say. If your son was dead you would certainly want justice and aggressively campaign for it. I have no problem with Trayvon's parents and the lawyers representing them demanding fair play.
I also have no problem with Mr. Zimmerman, his friends and family defending him on television. His life hangs on the balances.
But again, pundits who have no blanking idea what happened that night are putting innocent people in danger by commentary based on emotion not facts.
And that's the memo.
Sadly, the media are never going to learn.
They whipped the nation into a frenzy over the Duke lacrosse incident prosecuting that case without all the evidence to later find they were 100 percent wrong.
They did roughly the same in that year's Jena Six matter in Louisiana.
Now, armed with little of the actual facts, America's media have once again prosecuted a trial - in this case before an arrest has even been made.
With this in mind, O'Reilly has made a great point: what if the Florida district attorney doesn't find enough evidence to prosecute Zimmerman.
With folks like Sharpton already calling for civil disobedience, we could see Rodney King-style riots throughout the country.
So much for the post-racial society these same media members promised if Barack Obama were elected president.
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Why the old photos ??
Submitted by creekrat on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:00am.
The media including Fox are using old photos that show the victim as a sweet little boy, and the accused in a mug shot. Someone sent me much more recent shots of both.....amazing difference ! But hey, no bias here !!
Media inciting racial violence?
Submitted by frank_andrini on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:18pm.
Using patently misleading photos and such? Nope...they're merely entertaining since they sell more advertising that way.
Hit the nail on the head
Submitted by circletree on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 4:28pm.
...as it is all about the money for the MSM....emotional stories involving a black "victim" at the hands of a horrible "white" with judicious potstirring by race hustlers equals more viewers and advertising bucks.......it also gives the current NON-administration more political cover for their failures. I do believe that it is partially inflated by the administration and the MSM to incite violence and give Obama the chance to enact posse comitatus prior to the November elections and suspend said elections rather than face the shellacking that is coming (regardless of what lies some polls will say) and the resulting racial riots when Obama is defeated 70-30 if not worse.
I'm flipping channels late last week.........
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 3:55pm.
..........and I stop at Nancy Grace for about 30 seconds. Long enough to see, as she's talking with someone, she's running a repeating slideshow of Trayvon Martin, and in one of the pictures, he likely wasn't old enough to walk yet.
I want this race-baiting, carpet-bagging charlatan
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:13am.
ARRESTED! Get out of my state, and take the rest of the clowns with you Al.
And MSNBC is going to be as culpable as Sharpton (and the rest) when the tinderbox goes up, which it will. This is all part of the leftist agenda to re-coronate The Won.
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Good morning Blonde
Submitted by cocodrie on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:37am.
Too bad you can't always get what you want. Makes for a nice dream though.
Thanks again for the Goofs Guide.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Utterly alone
Submitted by frank_andrini on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:03pm.
'My God...My God...why hast though forsaken Me?' Jehoshuah's- Joshua for short- death, someone remind me WHERE did the name Jesus come from?, horrific as it was, pales in comparison to His Father YHVH turning His back on His Only Son because at THAT point He became sin and God does not or cannot look upon sin.
I See
Submitted by bmac32 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:17am.
Photos old and new on FOX and several times four pictures at once showing both in a bad light and good. Have only caught pictures twice on any other channel showing Zimmerman in a bad light while showing Martin as a clean cut kid. First time I saw these photos was being told white on black so I was like he's white???
agreed
Submitted by spepper on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:26am.
Agreed-- it is Sharpton, the New Black Panthers etc. who need to be arrested at this point-- I think "incitement" is still on the books, is it not? The fate of Zimmerman should of course be determined by the due process of law-- and NOT the hysterical ramblings of "scary circus clowns" dressed in SWAT uniforms. And Bill O'Reilly should take a hard look at his self-imposed gag order when it comes to criticizing the current occupant of the Oval Office because he is complicit in the incitement with his "looks like ME" jab. That kind of comment from an office holder of that level makes it way more difficult than it should be for local law enforcement to do their job, since he irresponsibly added to the hysterical agitation from Sharpton, New Black Panthers, etc. while he sits comfortably surrounded by the largest contingent of Secret Service troops EVER. Once a community agitator, ALWAYS a community agitator, I suppose.
Obama likes to come down on
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:04am.
talk radio (Rush) to tone down the rhetoric. But he says nothing about his home boys, Jackson and Sharpton.
Sharpton should of been put behind bars years ago!
Submitted by swim-r-sink on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:39am.
I wish someone would do an expose on National TV of Sharptons racist stunts of the past! Like that racist scam he tried to pull off with Tawan Brawly and the Crown Heights Hymie Town riot he instigated resulting in racist murders! And to have him running around in Florida seeking to bring a criminal to justice with a track record like his is the height of hipocracy! And if he lights of this Racial powder keg that he is threatening to do? Why was he not brought to justice years ago! Of course MSNBC is blind to who Sharpton really is right? Lets not forget that MSNBC is an enabler of this race hustler!
MSNBC is a major enabler of
Submitted by celator on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:36am.
MSNBC is a major enabler of Sharpton for sure. They knew what they were getting when they hired him, and they obviously wanted what he could deliver for them--hate filled race baiting in a public forum.
Sharpton is the same old racist rabble rouser he always was. That's all he knows. That's all he'll ever know. From the Tawana Brawley mess in 1987, to the Crown Heights riots march he led (in which he called Jews "diamond merchants") in 1991 which resulted in Jews being beaten in the streets, and one Jewish student stabbed to death. Then we have the Duke LaCross mess he inserted himself into and stirred up. He takes responsibility for none of these actions.
The Comcast/GE media conglomerate knows all of the above, and they nevertheless hired the tax dodging Sharpton to be a host on one of their national media outlets. He was the man they wanted to be the face of MSNBC on his show. Tells you all you have to know about Comcasr and GE. They like Sharpton and his message a lot.
I blame Fox too
Submitted by Marsh on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:48am.
Sharpton use to be on O'Reilly's show all the time. Any media outlet that gives this race baiting clown airtime and creditability shares the blame
I agree. He is toxic and
Submitted by celator on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 4:32pm.
I agree. He is toxic and ought to be kept off the air by any self-respecting news outlet.
Sharpton Has A Long List
Submitted by Gothampc on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 7:19pm.
Also don't forget that Al Sharpton stirred the racial flames in the Freddy's Fashion Mart case.
The short version of that story is that a black church in Harlem rented space to a Jewish tenant who in turn split part of his store and rented (with approval) to a black record seller. The church asked the Jewish man to evict the record seller. Sharpton went up there and stirred up racism saying the record seller was being evicted by "a white interloper". This caused a man to run into the store with a gun and flammable liquid and set the store on fire. Eight people, including the shooter, died and many were wounded.
The longer version is worse
Submitted by stunned on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 9:26pm.
Roland James Smith, Jr., 51, a Harlem resident with a criminal record going back 30 years, walked into Freddy's Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned clothing store at 272 West 125th Street, pulled out a gun, ordered all the black customers to leave, spilled paint thinner on several bins of clothing and set them on fire -- a fire that resulted in killing 8 people including Smith.
Smith had been part of a group of picketers, led by Al Sharpton , head of the National Action Network and Morris Powell , leader of the 125th Street Vendor's Association, who had been protesting the eviction of Sikhulu Shange, owner of the Record Shack who was subletting from Fred Harari, the Jewish owner of Freddy's.
The picketing, which had gone on for months, had led Harari to seek relief with the State Supreme Court. In papers filed just one day before the fire, he said, "Recently, the protesters have made motions of striking a match and throwing it on outside clothing displays or in the doorway of the store." An affidavit by Kareem Brunner, a black security guard killed in the blaze, said that he had been called a "cracker lover" and "would get mine as a traitor [to the black race]." Brunner, was the only black that Smith did not order out of the store before setting it afire.
Besides Smith and Brunner, all the other victims of the fire were Hispanic and Guyanese.
Al Sharpton has a long history of targeting whites and hispanics and at least 10 are dead as a result of civil disobedience he orchistrated. Could you imagine any white or hispanic with that much blood on his hands having a cable news show?
tired of liberal lies
Stop the hate, Mr and Mrs 'African-American'
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 8:53am.
I, and my family, fought for civil rights, in our own small way, in the 60's.
I'm feeling kinda foolish for doing so now.
NEVER be ashamed of that, Feed!
Submitted by gopcongress on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:53pm.
NEVER be ashamed at fighting for REAL civil rights. Dr. King's message was vital, and your own sig proves your point. I salute you and your family for doing so!
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I agree never be ashamed of
Submitted by Sude23 on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:56pm.
I agree never be ashamed of that, those werte issues that needed to be brought to a lot of people attention especially the Liberal in the south. Now the Fight is for American Civil rights.
A lot of people are concerned
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:11am.
about the interdependency in the US infrastructure going down, and thus are storing food, water and ammunition.
My concern is more with a shooting war between the races coming. The left is in high dudgeon, their Messiah is failing. They pretty much control media in this country so they can get their message out. So now they are doing their best to sow hatred and discontent among their base - women, blacks, Hispanics, gays and lesbians.
I hope I'm wrong, but I'm convinced it's coming.
With this in mind, O'Reilly has made a great point: what if the Florida district attorney doesn't find enough evidence to prosecute Zimmerman.
The short answer to this question is Miami will burn.
Misterbee
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:16am.
I agree about a possible race war comming. But I think there will be a few surprises. White people arent the dumb lazy crackas we are portrayed to be. People who have worked for what they have will not surrender it without a fight.
One correction, one comment...
Submitted by retrocon on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:00pm.
"Conservative" people aren't the dumb lazy "whatevers" we are portrayed to be.
I do believe that this is about social politics, not race. Race is just being used, as it has been by so many oppressive regimes, to incite emotional responses and violence.
I believe that the end game, as planned by the administration, is about creating a significant amount of racial tension and animosity going into the election, leaving most Americans afraid of going to the polls, and the minorities afraid not to.
If it doesn't appear to be working, the chaos could potentially be used to justify "postponing" the election.
Really? Yes, if there is racial rioting on the streets on Tuesday, there will be no election in 2012, believe that for a fact!
Where's Don Imus in all of
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:01am.
Where's Don Imus in all of this? Seems like he would be trying to get Al fired like Al got him fired.
Here's a bit of irony. Imus, for what he said, (and I am certainly not condoning that) even without consequences, would have incited LESS violence than where this is headed, thanks to Mr. Sharpton.
Imus
Submitted by Gothampc on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 7:22pm.
There is not hard proof, but the rumor has been floated that Imus said what he said to purposely get fired because he was not happy with that gig.
Only way to stop Sharpton
Submitted by oldfart on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:04am.
Take them to court.
Sue the dickens out of him.
Sue the dickens out of his employer - MSNBC
Sue the dickens out of the owner of MSNBC - NBC Universal
Sue the dickens out of the owner of NBC Universal - Comcast.
If you have Comcast service - drop it.
Hit these people in the pocket book - that is the only thing they will understand.
Comradecast
Submitted by frank_andrini on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 1:26pm.
Comradecast...don't get me started oldfart.
We should be calling these
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 9:37am.
We should be calling these people like they really are ... a lynch mob.
Short answer? DUH. Of course
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:14am.
Short answer? DUH.
Of course they're inciting violence. They LOVE violence. In the twisted mind of the liberal media, 'if it bleeds, it leads'. Without blood, they're unhappy. And they'll do whatever they have to, to make sure there is blood, and plenty of it.
Besides that, this kind of unrest of the Left's bread and butter. They want discord, division, riots, violence and instability. They think if things are chaotic enough, people will beg them to seize absolute power just to get the violence to stop.
And again - what is Obama? He's a community agitator. His whole modus operandi is to stir communities up to anger. In his speeches, he commanded his vassals to 'argue and get in everybody's face'.
So don't think that Obama is displeased by any of this. He's been working for it to happen. Behind closed doors, you can bet he's looking at all this on TV, smirking, nodding his head and saying 'Gotcha!'
Civil disobedience??
Submitted by trahantg on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 8:29am.
Then a few riots,
Then martial law,
Then no election in November.
Questions?
Now? No, they've BEEN inciting....for several years
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:35am.
The media's been inciting it before the 2008 election. Sorry if people missed the obvious during the last 4 years.
-Jon
"Is the Media 'Now' Inciting Racial Violence?"
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:21pm.
"Is the Media 'Now' Inciting Racial Violence?"
I'd argue that, "now," it's simply more obvious - in our face.
If nothing else, their long held silence on fairly (if, at all) reporting the various aspects of these topics, has long loaned comfort to the threat of racial violence.
Same holds true for other radicals - groups - out there.
If a Republican wins in the fall (understanding that a strong recovery and address of our debt crisis is decades, away), this media will merely sit back and observe [falsely] that the R's had it coming. How's that to play out.
(;~/ gary
The sad thing
Submitted by LibsRevil on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:26pm.
The sad thing about all of this is that the white liberals are using this case to further their goals for a takeover of this country. There using blacks who have been subservient to the Democratic Party to do their dirty work for them. If a race war to ensue, they'd be sitting back watching the whole thing and then when the time is right, throw them in the trash heap like everyone else they've used.
Most white liberals and
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 4:52pm.
Most white liberals and blacks live in the major cities...blacks would attack the closest object., which would be the white liberal.
we can sit back and watch...lol..
Since the 1960s the m.o. of
Submitted by mattm on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:38pm.
Since the 1960s the m.o. of the Left has been to keep blacks angry and voting Democ-rat. To keep women angry and voting Democ-rat. To keep [insert group name here] angry and voting Democ-rat.
The politics of anger and hate is alot easier than actually persuading voters that they should support the Democ-rat platform.
These a$$hats are using the Martin incident to register voters at "Hoodie Rallies" all over the country. What a bunch of sick ba$tards!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:02pm.
'Is the Media Now Inciting Racial Violence?'
Jeez---ya think??
Then and Now
Submitted by Joe W. on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:24pm.
Big difference between when the Rodney King riots occurred and now is that white Americans are ready for the racial eruption that Sharpton, Jackson, the NAACP, Obama and his liberal press are instigating. We are armed and ready. It will not be pretty...and it is NOT what white Americans want...but we remain well prepared. So much for the Post-Racial President and the healing of America, eh??
This thread is proof positive
Submitted by Car 54 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 4:07pm.
This thread is proof positive of what many of us have known for years; that conservatives have a physically larger “lizard brain” than liberals. Every post expresses some form of anxiety, fear and/or loathing of “the other”.
“Peering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at University College London found that self-described conservative students had a larger amygdala than liberals. The amygdala is an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain that is active during states of fear and anxiety. Liberals had more gray matter at least in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region of the brain that helps people cope with complexity.” (From a Psychology Today article http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201104/conservatives...)
I imagine that Zimmerman is himself a conservative because he stalked and gunned down a black youth based on his false, anxiety-driven fear that a bag of Skittles was in fact a deadly weapon. On this site, we have self-proclaimed conservatives arming up for “inevitable” race riots when in fact all Al Sharpton and others want is that Zimmerman be tried in a court of law for murder for the undeniable homicide of an unarmed black youth.
Car 54*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 4:41pm.
....I imagine.... that was the biggest "tell" that you are a bigoted racist liberal.. If you have been paying attention, all conservatives want is the justice system to be allowed to work. If Zimmerman is guilty of anything, he should be charged. But not because he is "non black" but because he may have committed a crime. What conservatives are angry about is the hypocricy of the race baiters. Young black people are killing each other all over the country, 4000 already this year. That's 4 times the number of whites. Why are those compassionate caring liberals not interested in the problems in the black community to stop the killing? Oh wait, those compassionate caring liberals are the same ones who want abortion clinics available in "poor" neighborhoods and those abortions payed for by tax payers. So we can keep all those children from growing up in poverty,. the children we "care" so much about, says the liberal hypocrite.
BTW: Zimmerman is a registered democrat. But as usual, facts never seem to be injected into a liberal opinion.
ADD: Since you like to "imagine", try this one. What would liberals think if conservatives were the ones pushing for Roe Vs Wade and all these years call for abortion clinics in black neighborhoods? What would liberals think if conservatives were the ones that have caused a 25% decline in the black population since Roe Vs Wade?
Conservatives want the justice system to be allowed to work regardless of color of victim or perpetrator. How is that working compared to the race baiters who want "their" version of justice NOW and IN THE STREETS? That wish makes sense because thats what liberals always believe. They know whats' best, they want is their way, and they want it NOW.
Motherbelt says it best, "conservatives have standards, but liberals are so much better than us because they have DOUBLE standards.
Haven't you heard, cajun...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 3:14am.
"BTW: Zimmerman is a registered democrat. But as usual, facts never seem to be injected into a liberal opinion."
That automatically means he's a racist who promotes the genocidal extermination of the black race. Cool Arrow says so.
But I agree with you wholeheartedly about the race hustlers and race baiters.
Jer
Car54
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:20pm.
I imagine that you, like most liberals, spout off without knowing the facts. See Cajun's post above. I'd say you liberals all generalize about conservatives too.
Anyone think he'll get the joke?
Notice something else Ms Rad*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:34pm.
Car54 linked an article from Psychology Today full of nonsense written by a phd. Well I found as credible, a book written by an MD, Dr Lyle Rossiter. Enjoy
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/09/modern_liberali.php
Do you really want to go down this road, 54?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:48pm.
I am neurologist and psychiatrist in practice for just a few years shy of four decades. My major specialty in neurology is called neurophysiology, which encompasses not only EEGs, electromyographs and evoked potentials but also brain imaging via various recording methdologies like PET, MRI and CT scans. I have looked at more human brains, outside and in, than I care to admit. Probably in the thousands easily by now.
If you knew anything about neuroanatomy, and it appears that you do not as you have to copy a poorly executed article that is a sensationalized pile of trash, you would know that variations in normal brain anatomy are commonplace. The size of any part of the brain, in the absence of abnormal growth like a tumor or the presence of necrotic (dead) tissue, does not indicate in any way, shape or form its relative level of activity except for very specific exceptions. Pituitary tumors are one such example, but again they fall into the tumor category and are really endocrinology problems rather than neurofunctional problems.
The study that you described was a very simple study without any form of control, a bias towards how conservatives were described (there is no clinical definition of "conservative" to fall back on--so it is a subjective label), and the study itself was NOT statistically powered to do anything but describe an observation which is NOT generalizable to the public at large because of the insufficient number of subjects and lack of demographic variation.
Using that kind of crap to attempt to draw any distinction between conservatives and liberals is an exercise in desperation. There is absolutely no credible evidence, and would add any CLINICALLY RELEVANT evidence, that brain structures are different between conservatives and liberals because the complexity of brain anatomy, physiology and the esoterics of defining those labels are entirely arbitrary.
So much for your "evidence". Try to push the psychobabble on this website and you will have to prove it with a level of evidence above the supermarket tabloid of Psychology Today.
Love it drsam*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 6:46pm.
Liberals come to NB with their preconceived notions that conservatives are ignorant toothless rednecks. Even though their noses are way up in the air, they still get bashed.
Drsam is sooo cute!
Car
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 6:56pm.
Car 54.......................where are you????
Ditto on loving it
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 8:47am.
I love it when someone gets b!tch-slapped DocSam-style. Always entertaining and even educational to read.
Bravo again, Doc!
-Jon
Dr Sam,
Submitted by dyardley on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 7:17pm.
Makes MY day. I will log off a happy person.
drsamherman
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:08am.
It must be annoying for you with so many laymen positing that they "know" something {based on surface knowledge/erroneous conclusions posted as fact} in your field(s) of expertise!
IMHO, smart people listen to their "lizard brain" so I don't even take Car 54 as insulting.
The hilarious thing though? Those same people {that are convinced C's operate on fear} are running around saying they "know" Zimmerman racially profiled Treyvon.
Which is it libs? Or are only *some* stereotypes allowed?
It reminds me of the Zebra vs. Horse. From my understanding, people/police rarely racially profile {hence a Zebra} yet the left assumes the profiling done by Zimmerman is racial? Why not assume the likely {Horse} aspects are true? That there was high crime in the area, perpetuated by young (black) men. Are we to ignore it to preserve feelings???
I get that the black community is *very* upset and are trying to use this case to get people to pay attention, but IMHO, they shot themselves in the foot by ignoring the prevalence of black on black murder to try to make this a racial issue.
The left always screams that voter fraud is a Zebra, since so few cases of it are ever proven - will they now concede voter fraud IS possible since all the commentators from the right are conceding the that this possibly *was* racial???
I won't hold my breath.
Ronald Reagan
Fi, Fi, Fo, Fum.....I smell the blood of a
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 11:19am.
.....Dead Kennedy.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 12:25pm.
You are funny.
Ignorant, but funny.....
Here's the sides personified:
Submitted by amyshulk on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:10pm.
Here's the sides personified: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/piers-morgan-and-toure-finish-their-twitter-f...
Ronald Reagan
Thanks Amy
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:54pm.
That was something. Two pompous idiots trying to pretend they were journalists as they defended bashing or not bashing someone enough because they have a point of view.
Radical1979
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 3:51am.
My takeaway? That the left *is* all the things it accuses the right of being. That Touré guy is the biased/racist one.
Piers, starting from the same {but unvoiced} opinion, at least *tries* to be open minded.
Maybe now Piers will have some sympathy for guests who think differently from him instead of attack them... j/c.
Ronald Reagan
Sure, the liberal media
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 3:06am.
Sure, the liberal media should be held accountable. But more importantly, federal government officials should be held liable for their comments. Since many of them were violations of Mr. Zimmerman's 6th amendment rights.
Hell Yes They Are!!!
Submitted by Jimi Streets on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 2:53am.
The MSM is PURPOSELY, WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT, LYING AND DOCTORING EVIDENCE they broadcast in order to INCITE VIOLENCE.
They have to know that they very well could be fanning the already burning embers of rage (misplaced) among Black people. Why though?
Is it a continuation of the same "white guilt syndrome" that elected Obama and permeates everything they write and report on? Do they think they just may create a scenario where they can get a Pulitzer reporting on the latest riots?
Whatever the motives it only reenforces what most of us already know: Today's media is just anti-American...