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When Racial Hoaxes Make News
Townhall.com ^ | Nov 15, 2017 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 11/15/2017 12:08:04 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

The liberal narrative on President Donald Trump assumes his election is evidence that America is returning to its racist roots. In the angst-ridden aftermath, the media found vindication by reporting all kinds of "hate crime" incidents, lurching so eagerly that they fell for a few that turned out to be hoaxes. Any media outlet that leaps on a small incident of vandalism as a grand statement on Where America Stands ought to have the courage to make a public acknowledgment when the story is fraudulent. To do otherwise is to stoke racial fires with dishonesty.

And that's precisely what they're doing.

On Sept. 29, a shocking story came out of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Five black cadets at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School found racist messages like "Go home, N-word" written outside their rooms. The head of the Air Force Academy, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, had the entire student body stand while he demanded that the racist perpetrator(s) leave. It was humiliating. Put yourself in the shoes of the cadets forced to endure this tongue-lashing.

This turned into a national story. On CNN "Newsroom," Brooke Baldwin offered 11 minutes of airtime to a news report on the story and an interview with Silveria. And CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" added another seven minutes that included another Silveria interview. "CBS Evening News" offered two minutes and 45 seconds on it, and "NBC Nightly News" gave it about two minutes. PBS "NewsHour" offered a minute.

It confirmed a liberal narrative: The U.S military has a racism problem. But on Nov. 7, the academy reported that one of the black cadet "victims" had written the messages. It was a hoax, a vicious, ugly hoax. Some of the news outlets reported this. Baldwin offered three minutes, but not the Burnett program. PBS gave it 22 seconds. But CBS and NBC couldn't find the time. They were comfortable just leaving the fake news of racism uncorrected.

At Kansas State University, Dauntarius Williams reported that his car had been vandalized with graffiti that said "Go home N-word boy" and other messages. The Kansas City Star reported the story on Nov. 1, complete with a headline that said "students are fed up" and a quote from an outraged black student who complained the college campus doesn't have a multicultural center.

This story was another lie. On Nov. 6, the Riley County Police Department reported that Williams confessed to doing the graffiti himself and he would not be charged with filing a false report, since he "expressed sincere regret that his actions had resulted in the negative media attention." Williams said, "It was just a Halloween prank that got out of hand." He had called the Star after the incident and said he was a Kansas State student. He lied about that, too.

On Sept. 8, 19-year-old Yasmin Seweid pleaded guilty to lying to police last December when she claimed that she had been harassed by drunk white men on the New York City subway who yelled anti-Islam slurs and chanted "Donald Trump!" The CBS News website, New York Daily News and BuzzFeed all fell for it.

On Fox's "The Five," Greg Gutfeld blasted BuzzFeed for its response to the hoax. The headline was "Woman Arrested For Allegedly Making Up Story of NY Subway Attack by Trump Supporters." Now compare that to the original BuzzFeed headline of the incident: "Drunk Men Yelling 'Donald Trump' Attempt to Remove Woman's Hijab on NYC Subway." There was no "allegedly." According to BuzzFeed's headline, the hoax itself was "alleged" and might be real. Even today, while its stories admit the reality, the awful headlines keep lying.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakehatecrime
This has been a Democratic/MSM tactic for as long as I can remember where the accusation makes page 1 while the retraction is on page 5 of the Gardening section.
1 posted on 11/15/2017 12:08:04 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Hoaxing a hate crime should carry 2X the penalty of the hate crime...

That would stop that crap quickly...


2 posted on 11/15/2017 12:27:38 AM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“To do otherwise is to stoke racial fires with dishonesty”>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Why is it that Brent Bozell does not get it? This is the strategy of Saul Alinsky and the liberal fascists now in control of the Democrap Party. They know that such false uncorrected reportage inflames the masses and gathers white cannon fodder to support the liberal fascist racial and ethnic balkanization of America. The goal is to disestablish so called “white privilege” in America.

Anti white, anti Christian racism is very much invigorated in America. Look at whats happening to Judge Roy Moore in Alabama, Congress does not want a stereotypical Southern establishment politician in their midst, even if he is elected by the People of Alabama. Moore is a victim of anti-white racism and liberal fascist sexism of the highest order.

That’s what the left supporting media wants to happen, and they will use every hoax they can to bring it about, without correction or apology.

BOZEL DOES NOT YET KNOW WE ARE AT WAR. Its a demographic racial and ethnic cultural war. And it must stop.


3 posted on 11/15/2017 12:52:53 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama FAscism) http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
BOZEL DOES NOT YET KNOW WE ARE AT WAR. Its a demographic racial and ethnic cultural war. And it must stop.

Indeed. Unfortunately many people on the right don't realize it or are afraid to confront it. From 1965 to today. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 started us down this path in earnest.

4 posted on 11/15/2017 1:16:27 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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Fake a “hate crime”, go to jail for what your intended victims would have.


5 posted on 11/15/2017 1:24:26 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: GraceG

Lying about a crime being committed like rape on campus should also bring the same penalty as what the person they lied about would have gotten. Lie about rape; get whatever the time in prison for rape.

This is no small thing to ruin someones life. The penalty for lying like that needs to be at least as severe as the crime they claim was committed but wasn’t.


6 posted on 11/15/2017 1:35:15 AM PST by Boomer (TisOK2BWhite)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

A excellent compendium:

Fake Hate Crimes
https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/

Getting towards 600 incidents documented. What this says about the modern Left is worth pondering.


7 posted on 11/15/2017 4:11:09 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Anyone who falsely accuses MUST pay the same penalty that the falsely accused would have paid. No exceptions.

Proof that hate crime laws were made to criminalize anything a White says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do, and to set free non-Whites who physically assault Whites.


8 posted on 11/15/2017 5:07:53 AM PST by I want the USA back (ItÂ’s Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

These fake hate crimes (the anti-black ones) are designed to explain continued black failures despite decades of easy access to higher education and jobs. They are the white flags of a people who have given up; they themselves, possibly heeding the government’s messages on affirmative action, no longer believe they are equal to whites - or Asians, or Hispanics.


9 posted on 11/15/2017 5:53:35 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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