Posted on 08/20/2014 3:47:12 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
It's important to remember that, in police shooting cases like the one in Ferguson, Missouri, the initial facts are often wrong. You don't want to end up looking like Rich Lowry, National Review editor, whose March 23, 2012, column on the Trayvon Martin shooting was titled, "Al Sharpton Is Right."
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
National Review is often wrong
“This week, we saw the X-ray of Officer Wilson’s fractured eye socket. “
Anybody got a link to this x-ray? I saw one posted the other day and it was marked clearly as a ‘file photo’. In otherwords the story talked about the broken orbital, but the x-ray they provided was a broken orbital x-ray from a previous source.
Ann’s been off lately with her lead balloons so I wouldn’t be surprised if she got that one wrong too.
I'd say that was a shot....
I’m hearing a lot of “first time callers” to conservative talk radio (both local and national shows) this week. They are black. They are angry. The admit to never having listened to the show(s) before.
Someone is “faxing” out the call lines and feeding them talking points. They don’t ALL decided to “tune in and complain” all at once.
And they are ignoring reports of the officer’s eye injury, witness statements to corroborate the officer’s account, etc.
I doubt any of them have even see the photo of the body dozens of feet away from the vehicle facing TOWARDS the vehicle with his arms at his sides.
That looks like the file photo from the article I read.
No date, no time, no reference on what that x-ray is.
bump
That is in fact the file image take from:
If you go to the link you’ll see it’s clearly labeled ‘File Image’ which I take to mean it’s an example, and not an actual x-ray of the broken orbital being discussed.
This is how you document “eye-witness facts” when you analyze the way a story is reported.
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