Posted on 07/16/2013 6:36:53 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
As the media arm of the State, it is the MSM’s job to lie.
Everything I said was based on what the network news media had been reporting, and continued to report for months. And it was almost entirely wrong.
Not quite.
Everything I said was based on what the network news media had been reporting, and continued to report for months. And it was almost entirelywrongdeliberately dishonest.
I’m glad you fixed it.
” The detective was bluffing”
No, the detective was lying. Cops lie routinely. They’re allowed to lie. They’re encouraged to lie. They’re rewarded for lying.
It has become very scary.
Something akin to the “Fairness Doctrine” might someday prevent any reporting contrary to what comes from pre-approved media outlets.
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
-Winston S. Churchill
Wow. A journalist with some self-respect and humility.
This COULD be what therapists like to call a teachable moment for the country as it was for this writer. There’s little chance it will ..but he’s likely to convince some.
bttt
In this case it was to Georges benefit. Maybe not what the police initially wanted, but to his benefit nonetheless
I should send that clip to my mom. She's an MSNBC viewer. She's outraged over the verdict and is still repeating the MSNBC and Nancy Grace lie that Zimmerman said "coons". She wouldn't believe her own son that the "coons" thing is a blatant media lie, but maybe her white guilt will make her actually believe the guy in the video when he dispels that "coons" myth.
He’s a former “conservative” talk show host in Seattle....I’m surprised he was scammed....by the “news” media....
John Carlson was a conservative talker on KVI for quite some time.
The fact that he believed the lies and spin ginned up by the Martin family legal team, and the PR firm (Julison Communications) hired by Ben Crump to put pressure on the Florida justice system to file charges speaks volumes.
The spin machine got the first impression out, and I believe many conservatives bought into it because it made them appear “reasonable” and was a cheap inoculation against being thought of as racist.
The sad fact is that anyone that believes the MSM on any story without independent verification, especially if it involves race, is a fool, and if you voice an opinion based on that naive trust, you become a tool.
Carlson is a good guy, and he saw the light, but the fact that he got used by the race hustlers shouldn’t be the basis for an apology, it should be the spark for anger.
Carlson owes it to his listeners to call out the schemers who used him, but I bet, in order to stay in good graces with his current mainstream audience on KOMO, he won’t go there.
self ping
Jodi Arias?
A lot of people got scammed -- many who should have known better.
I recall Hannity interviewing Santorum the first or second day after the story broke. And they agreed that the story was "an especially tragic reminder of the racism that still exists in the country".
It was not Hannity's finest moment. Nor Rick Santorum's.
But you can go to jail for it...
that guy is great http://whateverhappentocommonsense.com/
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