Bob Schieffer Ties 20th Anniversary of Rodney King Riots to Trayvon Martin
CBS's Bob Schieffer ended Sunday's Face the Nation by disgracefully connecting the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles to Trayvon Martin.
After showing videos of the King beating as well as the aftermath of the criminal trial, Schieffer stated - with a black and white picture of the Sanford teenager on the screen - "When the Trayvon Martin case came to public attention this year, King said the screams on those tapes reminded him of his own" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: Finally, it was twenty years ago today that some of the worst riots in American history broke out in Los Angeles. Before they were over, fifty-five people would die, more than twenty-three hundred would be hurt.
MAN: And there's no police presence down here.
BOB SCHIEFFER: And a billion dollars in damage would be recorded. That is our FACE THE NATION Flashback.
It would take the police, U.S. Marines, the Army, and the National Guard to finally restore order. The riots broke out after a jury acquitted a group of Los Angeles police officers who had been caught on video tape beating a speeding driver named Rodney King after a high-speed chase. Some of the officers were later convicted in federal court, and King won a multi-million-dollar civil lawsuit but was in and out of trouble with the law for many years.
DARYL GATES: We were simply overwhelmed.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Even so the case would have a lasting impact on race relations and police procedure.
WOMAN (911 Call): Nine one one, do you need police, fire, or medical?
BOB SCHIEFFER: When the Trayvon Martin case came to public attention this year, King said the screams on those tapes reminded him of his own.
Today's FACE THE NATION Flashback.
This was the picture CBS News panned in on near the end of the segment:
So when does this head-hunting for George Zimmerman stop?
He's already been arrested and now faces a trial for second degree murder. Does it do him or the family of Martin any good to have media members like Schieffer ginning up racial tensions further?
We already have cases of blacks attacking whites out of vengeance for Martin.
Doesn't anyone at CBS News understand that making such a direct connection between King and Martin increases these tensions?
Consider too how this segment was promoted at the CBS News website:
"LA riots echo in Sanford, Fla."
How will Schieffer and the gang feel if that's exactly what happens after a possible acquittal of Zimmerman? What will their excuse be?
Schieffer certainly won't be able to blame it on youthful exuberance or inexperience. He's 75-years-old and has worked for CBS News since 1969.
Did he learn anything in the last 43 years?
- Noel Sheppard's blog
- Login to post comments
Comments
Why don't they just come
Submitted by tcm14 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:23pm.
Why don't they just come right out and say it?
"If Zimmerman is acquitted, THIS is what you should do," followed by footage of the LA riots.
➚ But Schieffer?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:18pm.
Haven't you heard? Reuters is now reporting that Zimmerman is black? He had an "afro-peruvian great-great grandfather"
You Democrats are the ones following the "one drop rule" aren't you?
That's not all those Liberals are up to . . .
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:25pm.
Not able to wipe out the African-American population through Abortion, it would appear that Liberals are now trying to incite "Black-on-Black" violence.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Liberals may not be as smart as conservatives, but they are
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:01pm.
not stupid enough to deliberately seek the extermination of their most reliable voting demographic.
Jer
I guess you aren't aware of
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 10:32am.
I guess you aren't aware of how Planned Parenthood got started.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
"Their" most reliable demographic?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 10:48am.
I guess the use of the possessive pronoun just sounds so appropriate in this instance.
I'm sure it sounds appropriate to you, Cool...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 4:48pm.
inasmuch as you have made abundantly clear your belief that the majority of blacks are not only mere pawns of the Democratic party, but are also either willingly servile, or lack the intellectual capacity to properly comprehend their presumed exploitation by the modern 'plantation masters'.
It is just such malicious condescension in which you persistently engage that ensures Democratic black majorities for the foreseeable future.
Jer
Washington, D.C., the sole Electoral College ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 7:33pm.
precinct that has never gone Republican.
While John McCain lost the nation to Obama by eight points, he lost Washington, D.C. by 86 points.
Malicious condescension, Jer; or just pointing out facts?
MD
➚ Jer
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 8:53pm.
“I’ll have those ni**ers voting Democratic for the next 200 years” - Lyndon Johnson
Should I be surprised to hear a liberal echo the sentiments of LBJ?
Your party created the original bogeyman (the Klan) and your party now sells the insidious lie that it's the Republicans they should be afraid of.
You may be stunningly successful, but I'm still not going to congratulate you.
Cool...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 10:45pm.
Have you heard a liberal echo those particular sentiments of LBJ? If so, please identify him or her.
Jer
That would be ALL of them, Jer, ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 12:49am.
but of course they will deny even thinking such a horrid thing.
MD
Yes Jer, you just did
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 2:35am.
You just echoed the same sentiment as LBJ.
It is just such malicious condescension in which you persistently engage that ensures Democratic black majorities for the foreseeable future. - Jer
Did you think LBJ meant he would force blacks to vote Democrat at gunpoint?
What both he, and you convey is that the accomplishment is realized by convincing African Americans they deserved to be cared for by their new, more benevolent, Democrat Party.
You can try to argue that "War On Poverty" was initially aimed at the poor of all races, but we both know that's not true. It was aimed at blacks.
But now that you Liberals have realized just how successful your experiment has been, you're ready to apply it to all ethnic groups (indeed, draw as many as possible into DEPENDENCE UPON the Democrat Party).
Still not going to congratulate you.
That's fair, Cool...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 2:42am.
And I won't congratulate you for capturing the KIan vote.
Jer
➚ Because I don't seek it
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 2:54am.
A year and a half ago, Bill Clinton said it is OK to recruit a lynch mob to murder blacks, as long as it gets you elected.
Don't try to pass off that albatross too quickly. Bill Clinton says it's still in style.
Those of you who are familiar with Cool
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 3:29am.
and his strange but herculean leaps of logic will likely conclude [correctly] that Clinton said no such thing. For those who are unfamiliar, it would be much like my claiming Republican Trent Lott said it's OK to burn the bodies of black youths and sever their genitalia, as long as you are an elderly US Senator and it's your birthday.
Jer
➚ It's not Herculean at all, Jer
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 4:52pm.
Enveloping yourself in that "greater good" understanding of Clinton's rather matter-of-fact observation, detracts not one iota from the reality he exposed.
And Strom Thurmond? He was a Democrat who should never have been allowed into the Republican Party. And Trent Lott's comments were also uncalled for.
Continue to worship Bill Clinton. Wouldn't have it any other way.
➚ Here's more, Jer
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 3:20am.
Unwelcome among Republicans, (Jason Todd) Ready ran for sheriff in January as a Democrat.
Arizona authorities believe neo-Nazi killed 4 before turning gun on himself
Hmm...J.T. looks and sounds like
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 4:38am.
your kind of "Democrat."
Ready, a former Marine known as "J.T.," founded and led the U.S Border Guard, a vigilante group that conducted heavily armed patrols of the Arizona-Mexico border with the aim of disrupting the flow of illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
Ready served for several years as a Republican precinct committeeman in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb, and Russell Pearce, a Mesa Republican and former Arizona Senate majority leader, endorsed Ready's run for Mesa City Council in 2006, which he lost. The two were linked over their shared opposition to illegal immigration.
Do you think he was an Obama supporter?
Jer
➚ Not at all
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 4:55pm.
Yes, I read the article. I threw you that bone, knowing you would read it.
Unlike other Democrats on this board, you are willing to do follow-up.
On the contrary, Free Stinker...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 4:25pm.
I have spent hours researching Sanger, listening to lengthy audios of interviews, etc., poring over published accounts of her controversial statements, her letters, and other written records pertaining to her philosophy.
But the notion that her flirtation with eugenics somehow translates to a contemporary, conscious strategy of racial genocide on the part of Planned Parenthood is sheer idiocy.
Jer
Apparently, you didn't read
Submitted by dscott on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 5:28pm.
Apparently, you didn't read enough:
http://blackquillandink.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/margaret-sanger-q...
Here's one quote right off the top of the page.
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro
population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if
it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
-- Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255
Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith
Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in
Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth
Control in America . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
And Jer, that took me less than 5 minutes to connect the dots that Sanger is both a racist and was bent on using eugenics to exterminate them. Guess what Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are regarding Sanger's stated agenda?
Now I would caution the reader, that reading further down that link would disgust the normal average person so read at your own risk the vile, hateful things Sanger said.
And that supposition would be incorrect, dscott...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 5:49pm.
The quote you reference has been the subject of numerous comments posted at NewsBusters over the years and has appeared in several threads where I have participated in the discussion. Of course I'm familiar with it.
Maybe you didn't read the part of my comment above rejecting the notion that it is reflective of current Planned Parenthood philosophy.
Jer
I think the hair your are
Submitted by dscott on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 6:32pm.
I think the hair your are attempting to split is mighty thin:
1942: The American Birth Control League changes its name to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
1952: Sanger comes out of retirement because of the alarm over population growth around the world. She helps found the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and serves as its first president.
1959: Sanger retires as the president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
http://www.twoop.com/people/margaret_sanger.html
"Sanger’s birth control league changed its name during the first year of the war to Planned Parenthood Association. As the name implies, its emphasis was on attraction of middle-class support, while the needs of poor women were relegated to second place and the feminist and socialist rhetoric of the past was purged.
Despite the adoption of such conventionality, Sanger personally remained a sexually liberated woman with numerous lovers, though she was married for virtually all of her adult life. This unorthodox behavior doubtless had a negative effect on the acceptance of her ideas, but Sanger insisted that sexual freedom was an important empowerment for women. She argued that sensuality was a key to personal happiness – without which, she thought, women could not be effective at motherhood or at anything else. Sanger thus introduced ideas in the twenties that were not widely accepted until the “sexual revolution” of the sixties."
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/margaret-s...
The domestic version of Planned Parenthood was spawned by a monster just as the international organization was. While Planned Parenthood dropped the feminist rhetoric at first, it should be obvious the that spawn of Margaret Sanger returned to it's immoral roots. They "currently" fully embrace the radical feminism espoused and practiced by her and to say they didn't readopt her radical feminism would be specious at best.
Having fully embraced currently what was formerly rejected in regards to sexuality, you now would have all of us believe that Planned Parenthood DID NOT also come back to embrace it racist roots consistent with the logic of it's birth? Come now Jer, are you claiming it is sheer coincidence that the rate of abortion among Blacks is hugely greater than other racial groups????
Your defense of Planned Parenthood's closet racism is just as bad as your failure to denounce the murderous incompetence of Barack Obama's Fast and Furious taking the lives of over 300 Mexicans. You really need to pick another ideology.
dscott...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 8:25pm.
I've been critical of Sanger (and Fast and Furious for that matter). Nowhere have I defended racism--closeted or overt. I will admit, however, your uninformed drivel is somewhat exasperating, although it does serve to reaffirm of my own ideological proclivities [about which you appear to be relatively clueless].
Here: Educate--rather than embarrass--yourself. And congratulations on aligning yourself with Black Panther racial agitprop.
Jer
LMAO
Submitted by dscott on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 10:54am.
" But don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. The most damning quote by Sanger has been taken out of context. Meanwhile, a number of doctoral dissertations have closely examined the early days of Planned Parenthood and its relationship with the African American community, and found nothing to confirm these allegations."
ROFL. I'm getting tears in my eyes from the hubris by liberals spinning like mad to ASSERT otherwise. Hahaahaa, "found nothing to confirm these allegations." Like the WH found no staffers or other WH personnel involved in the Secret Service scandals... Like Hansen was absolved in Climategate... Hahahahahahaha
Oh man, that is rich. The liberal controlled MSM on a daily basis spews disinformation BUT don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Hahahahahaha
My "uninformed drivel is somewhat exasperating", :-) Thank you for the compliment. It's nice to know my effort is appreciated.
Without me forcing you to examine the inconsistencies of your own ideological proclivities you would be clueless. Engaging in Cognitive Dissonance does take a lot of effort on your part, at least you can't be accused of being intellectually lazy like many of the shallow liberals we have had the pleasure of verbally thumping.
All humor aside, you can count on me to explore the ideological limits of liberalism with ruthless tenacity. There will be no comfort zone accepting liberal talking points as axioms in any discussion with me. Jer, you are not like other liberals who reflexively buy the company line but require effort in being lied to by the myth makers who are of the liberal elite. There are only two types of liberals, those who create the myths and those who believe them. You seek out their myths to mollify your faith and thus you accept such shallow assurances as the link you provided above. You like many honest liberals you are loathe to admit you might be wrong. And if your ideological methodology led you to be wrong on one or two things, what else are you wrong on?
In this sense Jer, you have the potential to be another Horowitz or Krauthammer as your head is filled with carefully constructed arguments and as such you have detailed knowledge of all it's inconsistencies. Come Jer, fill me in on your ideology...let us reason together.
Since my previous post was so long -
Submitted by dscott on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 12:00pm.
"And congratulations on aligning yourself with Black Panther racial agitprop."
Jer and his logical fallacies...
So, I'm a racist because both myself and the Black Panthers observed that Planned Parenthood seems to be targeting Blacks as a group by locating most of their "family planning centers" in predominantly Black populated areas? Oh my.
And that both of us connected the dots in the same manner from diametrically opposed ideological views as to conclude Planned Parenthood is engaging in or attempting eugenic manipulation of the US population by deselecting Blacks via abortion from the US population gene pool. Most people would conclude when two groups from diametrically opposite value systems come to the same position on a given subject that the probability of a correct conclusion is pretty high. Oh my. But then I'm assigning nefarious motives to an organization who is dedicated to the stated euphemistic proposition of preventing the births of "unwanted" children for their best interest.
Why I don't know Jer, if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck, it just might be a duck.
I don't know Jer, I personally find it unseemly that one person's freedom is defined by murdering other people and then dehumanizing them by calling them unformed cell tissue so as not to acknowledge the taking of a life. Margaret Sanger made it explicitly clear that her version of freedom (via sexuality) came at the expense of children because children were identified as the means of women's enslavement via marriage. Planned Parenthood practices what she preaches, there is no denying it. I find it rather monstrous that the culling of the Black population apparently is a happy by product of women's freedom and the strengthening of the gene pool. That the Black Panthers find it monstrous as well exposes the true motives of Planned Parenthood. No Jer, Planned Parenthood was born of evil motives and is acting out it's base line programming. Claiming "that was then and this is now" is a fallacy in the face of the de facto results.
Speaking of Studies by academics I'm sure this will bolster your
Submitted by dscott on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 3:03pm.
self image.
"Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study
Children with low intelligence grow up to be prejudiced
Right-wing views make the less intelligent feel 'safe'
Analysis of more than 15,000 people
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095549/Right-wingers-int...
And you wonder why I laugh at the nonsense you post asserting the innocence of Planned Parenthood by academics absolving them. Credibility is always the issue here especially when so called academics have a track record of self serving myth making.
➚ Jer
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 7:45pm.
You're not at all concerned about the serious racial tilt towards aborted black babies that PP enjoys?
What's the deal? Plausible deniability?
Makes one wonder what the
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 7:57pm.
Ratio of Natural born slaves there would be if:
➚ Guinea Pigs
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 8:03pm.
How many progressive experiments have been performed on the black population?
Tuskeegee? Planned Perenthood? War on Poverty? I'm sure there are others.
Dirty little secrets
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 8:51pm.
But the dimwits are for it, so it must be ok
; |
"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew
Submitted by dscott on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 5:34pm.
"[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a
deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to
the race."
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent
Multiplication of this bad stock."
-- Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review .
Sure Zimmerman is black
Submitted by frank14 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:49pm.
Boob and the rest of the lib media say it doesn't fit the Narrative!
Here's exactly what's going to happen
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:24pm.
-Zimmerman gets acquitted, or the case gets thrown out because it's impossible to get an impartial jury.
-Blacks, whipped into a rage by the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, and the Black Panthers, riot and kill any white person they come across as if they pulled the trigger.
-One hot-headed (and not particularly smart) young black man tracks down Zimmerman and shoots him, then when he's arrested throws a fit and says "That was justice for Trayvon, you pigs got nothing on me!"
-Hot-head gets convicted, since he doesn't even deny doing it.
-Even more blacks riot, because they're now convinced that the justice system is out to get them.
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. rolls over in his grave.
You forgot the part where
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:44pm.
You forgot the part where Obama declares martial law.
and tries to...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:56pm.
suspend the 2nd amendment and shut down the internet.
The NB upgrade
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:16pm.
may not matter in the end. The only sites up and running will be MSNBC and HuffPo.
Martial Law
Submitted by IrateNate on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:10pm.
The groundwork for this, another EO from BO, was just issued in March of this year.
Missed it, Nate...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:25pm.
What groundwork? Which EO?
Jer
and orders his private army to round up all conservatives
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:16pm.
and incarcerate them in the Nevada concentration camps.
Jer
Pooh-pooh it all you want, Jer. The messiah ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:36pm.
tends not to raise any concerns amongst his followers.
Personally, I don't trust the pos to do anything right.
MD
We may not trust him to do
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:44pm.
We may not trust him to do anything 'right', MD, but he sure as hell has been successful in doing everything 'wrong'!!! And in his drug-addled, communist-marinated, self-absorbed brain - in true proof of a modern 1984 version of 'Obamaspeak', WRONG IS RIGHT!!!
Actually, I walked past a pos down at the beach today after surfing, it is was more acceptable to me than Boy Baraka.
Now we see the true agenda!!
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:33pm.
These SOB's have now set the stage, and they will reap what they sow!! If there is ANY sense of justice left in this country, Schieffer, et al, should be indicted for incitement to riot, and held financially responsible for all of the Billions in dollars of property damage that will ensue!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
It's Bush's fault.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:58pm.
.
BEGRUNT - I think Schieffer's
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:47pm.
BEGRUNT - I think Schieffer's brain is too addled and demented to actually be coming up with this himself..........he's got to be reading whatever he is told to read. Why is this relic still on TV, and why would anybody pay attention to him..........but then again, there are people on TV half his age, or more, who aren't worth paying attention to also!!!
As Sonny and Cher so famously 'sang' (can you call what Sonny did 'singing'??) - 'The Beat Goes On'!!!
The two things they have in comon is
Submitted by ohio granny on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:43pm.
The two things they have in common is they have both been used by the race hustlers Sharpton and Jackson to cause the deaths of whites. How did the affirmative action president get elected if whites are as racist as they are made out to be?? Martin Luther King said to judge people on the content of their character and not their skin color. The Rev. Racists, Jackson and Sharpton don't really care about anything but trying to stay relevent and they can only do that by making whites out to be the racist.
You race hustlers are not helping anything but only make race relations worse. And that will not benefit anyone, black or white. Shame of all of the race hustlers, white and black. If this type of rhetoric continues there will be more killings of all races and that should make everyone afraid.
Questions for Jackson and Sharpton, why do you want this to happen. How will you benefit? How many white deaths before whites pay enough. Shame on both of you.
Republished in the Baltimore Sun
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:52pm.
Here's the entire piece.
In next week's episode of "Still Living On My Own",
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:03pm.
Bob will bring on Frank Lautenberg to commiserate about living through the Great Dust Bowl Calamity of 1935.
I have heard people say who know Zimmerman that it was him...
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:09pm.
...that was screaming on that 911 tape, and not Martin.
And I think Bob Schieffer has a lot of company on the left trying to stir up racial animosity to the point riots break out - and I am including president Thug as being among them.
After all, riots would be the perfect excuse for this fraud of a POTUS to declare martial law because it is so easy to believe that he, unlike any previous president, would do it in a second.
I mean, how many times since he took office has he displayed dictatorial leanings?
Too many for my comfort.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
when the tapes first came out
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:14pm.
I could swear Trayvon's family said it wasn't Trayvon screaming. I guess it sounds better now to say it was Trayvon. I'm not buying it.
Rad, the Sanford PD played the tape for Trayvon's dad,
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 8:37pm.
he originally said it was not Trayvon screaming on the tape. After conferring with the family attorney, he recanted and said it was.
So, yeah, the LSM and the hucksters are trying to sell a tale that is not grounded in any kind of reality.
Thanks UpNorth
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 8:39pm.
I thought I was losing it when the MSM started saying Treyvon's family said it was him on the tape, yet I was sure they initially said it wasn't Treyvon.
This crap, is truly Orewellian.
Rad, check this video of the first days of reporting,
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 8:59pm.
especially at about the 3:15 mark of the video. Before the LSM decided that it was Trayvon begging for his life./sarc
The one reporter said they interviewed Trayvon's dad, and he said it wasn't Trayvon on the recording.
UpNorth
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 9:12pm.
Wow, the story before the hype.
This is just to be expected.
Submitted by KyWriter on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:19pm.
Schieffer is so damned old he doesn't know if this is 2012, 1992 or 1892. (He probably remembers the last year the best; Andrea Mitchell does.)
King said the screams
Submitted by Shreve on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:07pm.
King said the screams reminded him of his own. He didn't say whose screams they were and Bob was just reporting what King said.
If
Submitted by grammajane on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:22pm.
there is a disgrace in any of this, it is Schiffer and the media. Have said it before and will repeat, schiffer, rather and brokaw get the hel out of the news-rooms. Your radical liberal bias is so old and Americans of today are sick of your agendas. You all preached from your soap-boxes for years and your days are so long gone. No one cares and no one listens to such has-beens blabbing about the news
tough love
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:27pm.
Let them burn down their own neighborhoods again and then just let them live in the rubble.
By playing only a brief--and the most inflammatory--segment
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:53pm.
of the Rodney King video over and over and over while ignoring mitigating details revealed in the taped portion preceding the aired excerpt, the media set in motion the ensuing violent and tragic aftermath of the original acquittal.
One would hope for a more responsible, more balanced approach in the Martin/Zimmerman coverage. Lately, there have been laudable steps in that direction. Unfortunately, the initial rush-to-judgment "white vigilante executes innocent black child" media frenzy may have preordained another King-sized disaster.
Jer
LA Riots - "Some 53 people
Submitted by dscott on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 10:24am.
LA Riots - "Some 53 people were killed in what police have classified as riot-related homicides and accidents. Of those, some 22 homicides remain classified as open and unsolved."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/29/for-22-murder-victims-la-riots-leav...
See link for names of those 22 unsolved murders committed during the course of the "Social Justice" demonstration so desired again by the likes of Bob. Got to break some eggs to make that omelette. It was such a proud moment for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to see Koreans beat up and robbed. It made for such great TV and the MSM just yearns for more...ratings.
Laudable steps my eye when they essentially have a $10,000 bounty on Zimmerman's head...a Pulitzer award for the first MSMer who so dramatically chronicles the Social Justice movement for Trayvon Martin. Bloody demonstrations with lots of hate on people's faces are needed. There was no "rush-to-judgment" by the MSM, is was and still is a calculated narrative that is to be exploited for the benefit of the agenda. You forget that the daily phone message coordination between the WH and the MSM are still occurring. Journolist still exists only under another format.
The fact is Jer, the current occupant of the WH at any time could decide that Trayon Martin was no longer important to his re-election and tell the MSM to stop demonizing a Latino. I don't call tweaking the demonization to step back a notch a laudable excise in political expediency much less ethical conduct by the MSM.
No one should be consoled at the continuing unethical conduct of the MSM. The deafening silence surrounding the 300+ dead Mexicans from arms sales to the cartels by the US government run by Barack Obama tells us there is nothing laudable regarding the MSM actions. Their deaths are just as easily dismissed by omission as the recent hate crime against that white person in the name of Trayvon Martin. But there has been laudable steps...
Well, I honestly didn't think anyone here would find fault
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 8:44pm.
with my broadside fired at the media over their Rodney King and Martin/Zimmerman coverage. But then I didn't realize that dscott was lurking and ready to pounce on a single word.
Jer
You thought wrong in
Submitted by dscott on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 12:07pm.
You thought wrong in minimizing the efforts at distortion and disinformation by the MSM.
Let's see...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 7:50pm.
I find the media complicit in responsibility for the LA riots after the Rodney King verdict and potentially complicit in any similar outcome of the Martin/Zimmerman case.
And the extent of your analysis of my media-slamming comment is to claim I have minimized the distortions and disinformation by the MSM.
Yet another example of why your blind partisanship and knee-jerk emoting makes it difficult to take any of your arguments seriously.
Jer
Manufactured outrage or being
Submitted by dscott on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 8:10pm.
Manufactured outrage or being thin skinned does not move me. Reality can be very harsh, man up Jer.
It wasn't outrage, dscott...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 9:26pm.
but my exasperation with your pathetically shallow and clumsy assessment of my original post wasn't manufactured.
The opinions and observations I expressed in that post were clear, concise, and comprehensible. How about breaking them down and presenting a measured and objective analysis instead of straining to find a bogus point of contention.
Jer
Straining? It was so
Submitted by dscott on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 2:56pm.
Straining? It was so effortless like my fingers were forming the words without thinking. /sarcasm/
Exasperation, its part of my charm, I'm sure many would agree...like Vet and Unsane. Of course expletives are also used in giving me a reference.
If it will make you happy...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 12:54am.
"The opinions and observations I expressed in that post were clear, concise, and comprehensible. How about breaking them down and presenting a measured and objective analysis
instead of straining to find a bogus point of contention."How's that?
dscott...what exactly do your elaboration on the LA riots, references to Fast and Furious, and critique of Obama have to do with my original comment? And have you noticed that not one of your fellow conservatives has joined you in your criticisms of my post? Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that the overwhelming majority of them most likey AGREE with the anti-MSM sentiments which I expressed?
You have made a mountain--not out of a molehill--but out of nothing.
Jer
Here's one, Jer, ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 1:37am.
(a fellow conservative of dscott) --- and while your post upstream did mention the significant overplaying of one segment of ol' Rodney getting whaled on, your statement about "laudable" attempts being made these days to avoid having that scenario repeated is a bit of a stretch.
MD
Good grief, Matthew....
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 2:11am.
I didn't just "mention" overplaying one segment of the King tape. I explicitly declared the media guilty of complicity regarding the ensuing violence in LA! And if there is a similar outcome [acquital/rioting] in the Zimmerman case, then even the recent steps toward providing a more balanced portrayal of Zimmerman--while laudable--have been insufficient to offset the initial irresponsible reporting and would likewise render the media complicit in that outcome.
Sheesh!
If you and dscott are displeased with the content of my posts on this subject, there is no pleasing you.
Jer
If there is anything you
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 3:00pm.
If there is anything you learn from us Jer, saying things to please people is not considered a virtue. Our friendship is not based on you saying the right or agreeable things but respect. I respect you as a person, I tolerate your opinions even though I strongly disagree with them. I respect Joe Lieberman as a liberal, but I strongly disagree with his opinions. I disrespect Barack Obama, Joe Biden, the MSM, Rahm Emanuel, and their ilk because they knowingly misrepresent to deceive. I reject their "ends justify the means" approach to pushing their ideology.
Our disagreement Jer centers on the credibility of the MSM. You trust them to do the right thing, I don't based on their track record. You believe they are honestly attempting to be balanced in their reporting, I don't, I believe them to be deceptive due to their higher allegiance to the liberal agenda. This the core mission of NB to expose that bias.
Holey moley, Jer ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 8:12pm.
I was referring specifically to the "laudable attempts" comment you made reference the media - you know, the liberal media.
That statement, irrespective even, of NB's mission goal, was indeed a stretch.
Also, your statement to dscott:
"Yet another example of why your blind partisanship and knee-jerk emoting makes it difficult to take any of your arguments seriously."
The irony of that comment, coming from you, a lefty Democrat on this most conservative of sites, is the absolute howler of my time here at NBs.
You funny guy.
MD
Matthew...please answer just this one question:
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 10:40pm.
Do you believe, taken as a whole, my original post was a positive or a negative assessment of the media?
Thanks.
Jer
BTW...dscott, I would welcome your answer to that question as well.
Jer ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 1:43am.
1) 'By playing only a brief--and the most inflammatory--segment
(Submitted by Jer on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:53pm.)
of the Rodney King video over and over and over while ignoring mitigating details revealed in the taped portion preceding the aired excerpt, the media set in motion the ensuing violent and tragic aftermath of the original acquittal.
2) One would hope for a more responsible, more balanced approach in the Martin/Zimmerman coverage.
3) Lately, there have been laudable steps in that direction.
4) Unfortunately, the initial rush-to-judgment "white vigilante executes innocent black child" media frenzy may have preordained another King-sized disaster.
Jer
**********************************************************
Your first sentence laid substantive culpability on the media. Rightfully so.
The hope you were looking for in your second sentence regarding the incident in Sanford never came to pass - I have neither seen nor heard of any 'laudable' steps (#3) taken by the current media in order to avoid the disastrous aftermath attendant the original acquittal of the LAPD officers involved in the Rodney King incident..
Regarding #3; as I said, I have seen nor heard nothing of any attempts by the media to ameliorate in any way the lynch mob mentality aimed at George Zimmerman by both the media and the usual cast of race baiters.
It is not my intention to be flippant, but because the question you ask, reference your original post ( which in toto has a built in dichotomy), I answer thusly:
The first part of your post was positive in assessing the culpability of the media because of the negativity, through selective editing, that they presented initially in relation to the entire set of facts leading up to King getting thumped on.
The part of your post which indicated that today's media is operating in some type of avoidance mode, by taking 'laudable steps', I find unsupportable.
Your statement in #4, however, may very well turn out to be a sadly accurate prognostication.
MD
Thanks, Matthew, for the comprehensive reply.
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 2:24am.
Maybe the following will help to clarify the points I intended to make in my original post:
By playing only a brief--and the most inflammatory--segment of the Rodney King video over and over and over while ignoring mitigating details revealed in the taped portion preceding the aired excerpt, the media set in motion the ensuing violent and tragic aftermath of the original acquittal.
My indictment of the media's Rodney King coverage is clear and uneqivocal. Furthermore, my linking the irresponsible coverage to the ensuing violence underscores the severity of my accusation.
One would hope for a more responsible, more balanced approach in the Martin/Zimmerman coverage.
More evidence of my belief the King coverage was irreponsible and unbalanced and presages my despair over the Martin/Zimmerman reporting. [If I had said "one would have hoped the Martin/Zimmerman coverage would be more responsible and balanced", would you be more receptive to my argument?]
Lately, there have been laudable steps in that direction.
I submit there have been some steps in that direction lately. [bkeyser's link to a recent Reuters article is an excellent example of it.] Taking such steps is a good thing. However, that does not mean the steps have been sufficient or that an appropriately balanced portrait of the parties and the incident has now been achieved, In fact, at least by implication, I am suggesting that any such steps are too little too late, BECAUSE...
Unfortunately,
An obvious prelude to fleshing out my attack on the media.
the initial rush-to-judgment "white vigilante executes innocent black child" media frenzy
That rhetoric is not timid; it signifies quite clearly my disgust with the conduct of the media. Do you not agree? Yet dscott even takes me to task for the 'rush to judgment' line. I'm still baffled by that one.
may have preordained another King-sized disaster.
Just as in the King case, I am alleging the media's complicity in the consequences should an acquittal produce a similar reaction.
I thought, naively in retrospect, my post would be applauded. Instead, the only two who commented have been critical.
Oh well...
Jer
All in all, Jer, ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 2:27am.
a decent job - your original post and your follow up.
Though you do try to be fair, on occasion your lefty lean peeks out from behind the curtain.
NTTAWWT :o)
MD
What, no Skittles?
Submitted by RealVet on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 12:35pm.
Again we are treated to another picture of the young innocent-looking little kid. I guess we should be thankfull that there was no mention of Skittles this time.
It's always about race to these liberal media jerks. Racial profiling instead of criminal profiling. Race riots instead of African-American or Black riots.
What they're not getting is that people are sick & damn tired of gangs, crime, the entitlement mentality, and the anti-social behavior of racist dirtbags in general. These people are demanding, confrontational, and violent. YouTube is loaded with hundreds of videos depicting their public conduct. They are their own worst enemy.
They lay waste to their own neighborhoods and ruin major areas of large cities. They've negatively impacted the economy, the education system, the judicial system, and American culture in general. Left wing social engineering & the media have a lot, if not everything to do with it.
It's bad enough when your own government has your back against the wall, but when you can't feel safe in your own neighborhood, on your own property, or in your own home, you take a stand. Zimmerman did.
Be ready folks because it's only a matter of time - and if & when it does blow, the liberal media would be wise to cover it from a distance. If all that sounds racist, then so be it - I could care less. People are arming themselves. They are organizing and starting to fight back. They're ready.
Don't look to Rodney King to buy the Skittles
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 12:42pm.
King received a $3.8 million settlement from the city, but said he lost most it to bad investments, among them a hip-hop record label he founded that quickly went broke.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Al Sharpton must be so proud:
Submitted by dscott on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 12:23pm.
A beating at Church and Brambleton
http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2012/05/beating-church-and-brambleton
I wonder what Obama's response will be? Who am I kidding? There will be no response other than silence.
Not to worry, dscott, the DoJ will
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 8:47pm.
be all over this, no doubt at all......Oh hell, we all know that nothing will be done. "Hate" crimes, or more correctly, civil rights violations are a one way street to the DoJ, and it begins with the race of the victim, caucasians and white mexicans need not apply.
Eric (With)Holder has better things to do, like run guns to Mexico, and dodge congressional subpoenas.
What was Trayvon doing with Skittles, not eating them...
Submitted by dscott on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 4:17pm.
Update #26 Part 2 – Trayvon Martin Shooting – A year of drug use culminates in predictable violence…
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/05/24/update-26-part-2-trayvon-...
"Purple Lean, or Lean, is an intoxicating beverage also known by the names lean, sizzurp, and liquid codeine. It is commonly abused by southern rappers and wannabe suburban teenagers. It is a mixture of Promethazine/Codeine cough syrup and sprite, or other beverage [such as Arizona Watermelon] with a few jolly ranchers and/or skittles thrown in....
...Arizona Watermelon Juice purchased from 7-11 included in the Crime Scene Photographs and incorrectly listed/discussed as “Tea” by Benjamin Crump, the media, and even police reporting authorities."
btw- if you want more current age appropriate pictures of Trayvon, this link has them, particularly relevant is Trayvon giving the middle finger with both hands. He doesn't look so innocent and non violent as portrayed by the MSM even if you disregard the hand gestures. The innocence of the little boy in the hoody was clearly lost as the years went by.
Oh my, it only gets better...
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 4:37pm.
The Choom Gang and Barack Obama, now we understand the context of Obama's comment that Trayvon would be like a son if he had one...
Remember When the NY Times Suggested Obama Exaggerated About His Drug Use?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/29/choom_gang_and_obama_rememb...
He was the leader of a Pot Gang in Hawaii. Oh! look at that, Obama actually did have some leadership experience, now why wasn't that on his thin resume????
As a bonus: Ezra Levant talking about the MSM fail on vetting Obama and touching upon the Choom Gang. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/020298.html#comments