Posted on 08/25/2014 6:20:09 PM PDT by maggief
John Eligon, a 31 year-old black New York Times reporter who says that he has been racially profiled by police, was mercilessly bullied by the Left Monday into recanting his description of Michael Brown as "no angel."
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Nonetheless, in the online Soviet-style show trial, Eligon was found guilty of an inconvenient truth and recanted:
“I understand the concerns, and I get it,” Mr. Eligon said. He agreed that “no angel” was not a good choice of words and explained that they were meant to play off the opening anecdote of the article in which Mr. Brown saw an angelic vision. That anecdote “is about as positive as you can get,” Mr. Eligon said, and noted that a better way to segue into the rest of the article might have been to use a phrase like “wasn’t perfect.” “Hindsight is 20/20. I wish I would have changed that,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
He was a rounding error?
REminds me of when the Overseer forced Kunta Kinte to call say he’s “Toby”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CpJpGF8lS8
When do I get my bullies? I've got a present for them.
/johnny
“I pray for the day when my little children will be judged on the basis of the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.” MLK
Character a problem? Just change the definition of character! There are no thugs, they are all just misunderstood “Good boys.”
Here’s the original NYT article:
Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196912/posts
Here’s some left-wing push-back:
New York Times on Michael Brown Is Everything the Media Gets Wrong About Black Men
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196943/posts
So, Mr Eligon recanted, and agreed that Michael Brown really was an angel, after all? Is this what I am reading?
UNREAL: NY Times Apologizes for Writing Robber Michael Brown Was “No Angel”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/pathetic-ny-times-apologizes-for-writing-michael-brown-was-no-angel/
The black leaders are telling their kids, go ahead and rob, go ahead and steal, go ahead and bully, and in the end, you will be a hero in America.
Michael Brown was big, gentle giant angel, and also was a genius who was on the verge of inventing a cure for cancer. He sought to reach out and embrace everyone in the world with love, even Darren Wilson, who misunderstood his loving gestures and deliberately gunned him down out of pure racist hate.
There - do I pass?
Make no mistake. All the leftist groups, from the media, the democrat party, the minority caucuses, women's groups, the environmentalists and the “justice” department are all playing from the same fascist, totalitarian playbook.
If people aren't intimidated this time, then maybe the next time, or the time after that. They are patient and will never stop, because they are evil.
I AM TRAVON
lithograph picture and all...
Shook my head and thought: no, you are not Travon...he is dead.
But damn, he looked very angry...
Everyone knows angels push little old shop keepers around as they rob them and they write pornographic rap songs for their blogs. (Did Sharpton quote any of those filthy writings as a tribute to Brown’s spiritual side in his shout fest today?)
“There - do I pass?”
No. He is part of the TRINITY. TM, MB and some other thug ... they actually said this and compared MB to Jesus Christ ...
Looking at MSM headlines, they have gone back to the “Gentle” guy lie they started with.
“Looking at MSM headlines, they have gone back to the “Gentle” guy lie they started with.”
It was so bad I don’t even think the MSM could suck it up enough follow them ...
“no angel” was not a good choice of words
True, goon, thug, bully, small time terrorist; all these would have been better choices.
I’d have laughed in the guy’s face. The t-shirt didn’t spell “Trayvon” right.
Check out this article about the original article Eligon wrote.
The mind, she boggles.
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/new_york_times_michael_brown_no_angel.php
Since the guy’s dead, no reason to keep his juvi records sealed, now, is there?
I mean, if we wanted to prove that he was a “good boy”, his juvi record would be near spotless.
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