LAPD: Police firing beanbags at bottle-throwing Trayvon Martin protesters [photos]

twitchy ^ | 7/14/13 | staff

[Piranha]

Don’t be distracted. The Federal government is going to use sleight of hand, to keep our attention focussed on riots and demonstrations like the ones in Oakland, San Francisco and elsewhere, to try and give Boehner and Cantor breathing room to force amnesty for illegal aliens down our throats. DON’T LET THEM DO THIS!!

[UCANSEE2]

Are any of the protestors black ?

[Vendome]

LOL

Now that’s funny.

[UCANSEE2]

when every other protestor interviewed says: “the federal government needs to stop these stand your ground laws!”

Or "where's the free meal?"

[ArmstedFragg]

There’s a group of self-styled Communists who take every opportunity to create a disturbance. The dudes on Hollywood looked like they had a batch of those darlings amongst them.

[af_vet_rr]

The news media will whip up the demonstrations so they can get viewership and readers of their yellow journalism.

That is exactly what is happening, it's just a little more refined than in ages past. All CNNABCFOXNEWSMSNBCNBC has to do is find the right commentators. They don't even have to fake anything (unless you are NBC).

Meanwhile, this country is going downhill and things like the IRS harassment, the NSA crapping on the 4th Amend., etc. affect 10s of millions more people than this case that affects a couple of families.

Obama and his minions, and his allies in the GOP, are laughing their butts with glee over the public being so easily distracted from the issues that affect everybody.

[jonrick46]

You write perfectly my thinking on the matter.

The type of discourse we enjoy on the Free Republic was something our nation’s founders spent so much time doing. It was an intellectual pursuit enjoyed at a time when there was little else to distract them. It was the cause of freedom. We can put aside our modern day distractions and pursue that which is our legacy. Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Our modern day journalists do not understand freedom. It is something foreign to them. We cannot expect they will pass it on to our children. We the People can and it is our responsibility to do so.

[MasterGunner01]

How about bringing in LRAD devices to break up the crowds. The Long Range Acoustic Device projects painful, directional sound against mobs. The sound can cause disorientation and nausea. Perfect solution for this group of morons. Or, fog the mob with OC (pepper gas).

[fella]

So the LAPD is supplying the beanbags for the protesters ‘Corn Hole ‘ games?

[Eagles6]

What the heck is up with Twitchy and Daily Caller? I have a 3 g iPhone and these sites are impossible to read.

[CodeToad]

Crap. Looks like the Mexicans think amnesty passed!

[denydenydeny]

To read Twitchy you really need to read it in the app version, not the web version, and it should be the latest version. If you’re having trouble reading Twitchy in the app version, check the App Store for recent upgrades.

[SauronOfMordor]

White communists trying to get some traction at starting a black riot. Blacks not going for it, knowing how well armed whites now are.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Yes it is organized but the people ain’t following the professional pudding stirrers . This is what really annoys the professional pudding stirrers 8*> .

[Taxman]

See my post #32.

[Eagles6]

Thanks.

[CJ Wolf]

They have as much a right to the road as LA bicyclists...

[Nachum]

What the heck is up with Twitchy and Daily Caller? I have a 3 g iPhone and these sites are impossible to read.

Don't get me started. The sites truly measure 10 on the Richter Scale of Web-Suckatude.

[sten]

... and street pavers

[af_vet_rr]

Our modern day journalists do not understand freedom. It is something foreign to them. We cannot expect they will pass it on to our children. We the People can and it is our responsibility to do so.

I'm sure many of them do understand freedom and journalistic integrity, it's just that their bosses at CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. are all looking at the mighty dollar, and anything that is sensational and gets you ratings automatically gets you a lot of advertising bucks. If you are not turning a nice profit at any of those places for your bosses, you will be replaced. When keeping your job through sensationalism and ratings outweighs your professional responsibilities, something has to give.

As you or somebody else mentioned, Hearst understood this in the 1890s just as much as the networks understand it in the 2010s.

That's why if you were to look at the websites of CNN, Fox News, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, right now, you would see that the top headlines are all about the Zimmerman case. I just looked at all of them, and all of them are playing up some angle of the Zimmerman trial.

Meanwhile, we have the IRS harassing American citizens, we have the NSA spying on American citizens, we have the White House trying to prop-up anti-American governments, etc. and nobody gives a damn in the media.