Posted on 11/18/2014 3:42:15 AM PST by Biggirl
Ferguson, Mo., is sadly back in the news. The city and an eager media anticipate a grand jury decision in the possible indictment of Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of an African-American teenager.
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Nov 5th was the day before a major election when the US POTUS who could have completely dissassociated himself and condemed it. Instead by met with the Ferguson protest group offers support for protests by telling the group “To stay the course.” Generated by his use of the Bully Pulpit and through surrogates in the black media and the MSM Promoting the fiction of an unarmed shot in the back while surrendering afro american teen.
Think there will be any connection made to what our fearless leader is doing by enciting this racial strife and any attempt to restore a constitutional government?
It would not surprise me if I learned that the media was behind ALL the protesting and vandalism. They want the chaos. They need a story. Even if they must motivate the story, themselves.
Now if this were multiple cases of ebola they would be crying out for CALM. But no, they are liberals and liberals thrive on racism.
The mob getting ready to riot is a pack of violent racists, hypocrites, and criminals.
I'll sit here in my home office on my computer and laugh my *ss off as they burn down their town. Just hope there are some Korean types (think LA riots) that will stand fast with weapons locked and loaded.
In the old days, rioters would be shot. Just saying...
No, the cold will only motivate them to burn more things, and sooner. Now, a night of freezing rain might be helpful.
The people doing the demonstrating listen only to Al Sharpton and his ilk, and are unaware that there is another side to the story, one that exonerates the policeman.
All the media is crowing about the forthcoming violence. The truth is that they WANT it. They love it and will rush their cameras to film it.
We have to call out the domestic enemy, as you put it, explicitly by its actual name, wire service journalism. When journalists are associated, you cant expect them to be independent of each other. But all the biggies belong to the Associated Press.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
“Ferguson.....back in the news”?
When did it ever leave the news? I have been reading stories about this since August 6th. It isn’t over, its just getting started (again and again). The media has been, and wants to hype this story forever as they look for that BIG STORY to sell their garbage news. Stop giving Ferguson rioters and protesters their 15 minutes of fame and things just may calm down a bit. Nope, it ain’t gonna happen.
And while your point re 'wire services' is well taken, it is but a symptom of the underlying malady, imho.
I would assert that the primary contagion is the glut of socialist indoctrination machines that presume to call themselves 'schools of journalism'.
In churning out their legions of leftist drones - either incapable of, or hostile to, critical thinking and objective reporting - the inevitable casualty is Truth.
To the extent that any individual 'reporter' is muzzled therefrom by their entrenched doctrine and/or blinding ambition, to such extent do they side with the enemies of Truth.
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Yes, but where do they come from?? What they teach is only what the AP has been teaching since the Civil War. Some of it actually good, in the structure of a news article.But the fundamental problem lies in the assumption that journalism is objective. Note, I did not say, the fact that journalists are objective, and I did not say, the effort of journalist to try to be objective. It is the claim of actual objectivity which is central to grubercratic politics. Once recognize the plain-as-the-gruber-on-your-face fact that journalism is politics, not objectivity, and you delegitimate not only the FEC and all campaign finance reform but all efforts of the FCC to control fairness.
The Constitution forbids titles of nobility and it forbids government-established priesthoods - but we now have - have had, since memory of living man runneth not to the contrary - an established press. Lots of different outlets, but only one press - the associated press. Able to enforce an orthodoxy onto the public conversation, which is only now being even dented by the new media.
This morning on Chicago WLS AM radio 890, traffic news reader and anti-White - Ms. Kelli Walker at the 7:00 AM hour went off against radio host Bruce Wolfe calling him a racist for basically saying that Michael Brown was a thug.
http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/5990-wls-am-hires-kelli-walker-as-morning-traffic-reporter
http://www.wlsam.com/common/more.php?m=102&is_corp=0&r=41&title=bruceanddan
I think now because of the very cold weather, that any protests are going to be brief at best.
Chores beckon so gotta scoot, but will revisit your reply asap.
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