Oops Conservative Pundits guilty of race baiting

Rush Limbaugh used his radio show Wednesday to insist that Lane's killing was "Trayvon Martin in reverse." Limbaugh insisted that the "mainstream media's" failure to cover the racial dimensions of the crime was clear evidence of complicity in "the destruction of American culture and society." He said one of the accused shooters "worships rappers" and celebrates "thug culture.".

A similar message was put forward by Fox News, with more embarrassing results. On Wednesday morning, "Fox & Friends" falsely reported that all three of the suspects were black, during a segment in which host Steve Doocy, like Limbaugh, brought up Trayvon Martin.

The Daily Caller made the same factual error, and compounded it by showing what it claimed to be photos of each of the suspects. The person identified by the website as Michael Jones, who is white, was a black man entirely uninvolved to the shooting.

The Drudge Report, meanwhile, dedicated a portion of its left-hand column on Wednesday to the shooting -- in the process playing up race, and Trayvon Martin, in its own appraisal of the crime.

Mediaite's Noah Rothman elaborated on this argument on Wednesday: "A media that arguably fostered the creation of a racial angle in the killing of Trayvon Martin … has contorted itself in tortured ways to avoid describing the suspects in Lane's murder."

LOL
One of the suspects is white!

didn't the white kid snitch and become state's witness?

UncleBuck said:

didn't the white kid snitch and become state's witness?

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Yeah
He cried in court and got a million dollar bond

ChesusRice said:

Yeah
He cried in court and got a million dollar bond

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i wonder why the righties haven't been screaming about this yet.

normally, this forum adopts the childish, ghetto attitude of "snitches get stitches end up in ditches", but they have been oddly silent about a white kid snitching on his two black friends.

This does remind me of the "Trayvon"thread. You guys are jumping out with conclusions way too early. I will wait a few days, at least, before I make any substantive comments.

Buck, didn't one of them say, "fucking baboons"?

What I find most interesting about this case at this point, is the stark contrast between the Aussie press reporting and that of their US counterparts.
Aussies seem to be blaming guns, as the US fans the racial flames.
Hmm.

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Do I win anything if I know that is Adam Clayton Powell? Please.

I met him at a Knicks game in 1969.

Wavels said:

Do I win anything if I know that is Adam Clayton Powell? Please.

I met him at a Knicks game in 1969.

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I award you one internet. The "light, bright, almost white congressman from Harlem".

<edit> The point I was making by posting Adam Clayton Powell's photo is that identifying one of the murderers as "white" might make Cheesy and Buck laughing stocks yet again.

desert dude said:

I award you one internet. The "light, bright, almost white congressman from Harlem".

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ROFLMAO...good one, and I thank you kind Sir!

Cheesy, one of the links in your opening post was this one. I find nothing in that story to disagree with.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/media-that-routinely-called-zimmerman-white-avoids-describing-christopher-lanes-killers/

The media&#8217;s decision to reveal the races of the principal actors in the coverage of Trayvon Martin&#8217;s killing and their efforts to conceal the descriptions of Christopher Lane&#8217;s murderers is instructive only in how the press identifies narratives. The fact is that the race of Lane&#8217;s killers is as relevant as was the race of Martin&#8217;s killer, which is to say not that relevant at all. The key difference is as simple as the fact that one narrative attracts attention, e.g. &#8220;sells,&#8221; while the other does not.

desert dude said:

<edit> The point I was making by posting Adam Clayton Powell's photo is that identifying one of the murderers as "white" might make Cheesy and Buck laughing stocks yet again.

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I have a hunch those guys are too young to recognize the long deceased Congressman. They are likely as well to be too young to know what "passing" meant.

Wavels said:

I have a hunch those guys are too young to recognize the long deceased Congressman. They are likely as well to be too young to know what "passing" meant.

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Probably true. On the other hand, you "got it", so it was not wasted. Powell was a hoot in his day.

desert dude said:

Cheesy, one of the links in your opening post was this one. I find nothing in that story to disagree with.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/media-that-routinely-called-zimmerman-white-avoids-describing-christopher-lanes-killers/

The media&#8217;s ... efforts to conceal the descriptions of Christopher Lane&#8217;s murderers

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you're missing the whole point of the thread, smarty.

the point is that conservative media is making an effort to identify the race of the killers, to the point where they even misidentify them as all black.

one is black, one is white, one is biracial. they were stopped when their killing spree went on to target a black kid after they killed a white guy.

that fox news is crying "hate crime!" and misidentifying the races of the murderers is the whole point.

you are so dumb.

desert dude said:

I award you one internet. The "light, bright, almost white congressman from Harlem".

<edit> The point I was making by posting Adam Clayton Powell's photo is that identifying one of the murderers as "white" might make Cheesy and Buck laughing stocks yet again.

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I was thinking A young Ricardo Montelbaum

desert dude said:

Cheesy, one of the links in your opening post was this one. I find nothing in that story to disagree with.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/media-that-routinely-called-zimmerman-white-avoids-describing-christopher-lanes-killers/

The media&#8217;s decision to reveal the races of the principal actors in the coverage of Trayvon Martin&#8217;s killing and their efforts to conceal the descriptions of Christopher Lane&#8217;s murderers is instructive only in how the press identifies narratives. The fact is that the race of Lane&#8217;s killers is as relevant as was the race of Martin&#8217;s killer, which is to say not that relevant at all. The key difference is as simple as the fact that one narrative attracts attention, e.g. &#8220;sells,&#8221; while the other does not.

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The whole point of this thread is to call out those yesterday who were parroting "the daily caller" and FOX asking why there is no media outroar that "3" Black teens killed an innocent white guy and there is no Outrage from Sharpton , Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama

And those that are guilty of this KNOW WHO YOU ARE

ChesusRice said:

The whole point of this thread is to call out those yesterday who were parroting "the daily caller" and FOX asking why there is no media outroar that "3" Black teens killed an innocent white guy and there is no Outrage from Sharpton , Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama

And those that are guilty of this KNOW WHO YOU ARE

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Well, cheesy, the victim in this case is clearly an innocent guy just out for some exercise. Why is there no outrage from the left? Why is Obama too busy to claim paternity in this case?

ChesusRice said:

I was thinking A young Ricardo Montelbaum

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You might be too young to know of AC Powell. He was as corrupt as any politician in the last century, but he was entertaining as hell. I don't see the Montalban resemblance. Congressman Powell was a good looking guy, though.

UncleBuck said:

you're missing the whole point of the thread, smarty.

the point is that conservative media is making an effort to identify the race of the killers, to the point where they even misidentify them as all black.

one is black, one is white, one is biracial. they were stopped when their killing spree went on to target a black kid after they killed a white guy.

that fox news is crying "hate crime!" and misidentifying the races of the murderers is the whole point.

you are so dumb.

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Has anybody asked the shooters what race they are? Does it really matter? Why didn't the media report the incident in a manner similar to the Zimmerman shooting? Any guesses? Is the middle guy really "white"? Do you think they have a "stand your ground" defense? Didn't that middle guy say "fucking balloons"?

the races were reported by the sheriff's office, you unremitting failure.