[fgoodwin]

Does anyone doubt the media would be all over this, if the victims were black and the suspects white? Does the Duke lacrosse case ring a bell?

[USNBandit]

digging up evidence that the documents may have been forgeries.

May have been forgeries? Riiiiggghhhhtt.

[Colonel_Flagg]

It was bloggers who undermined CBS anchorman Dan Rather's 2004 report about President Bush's National Guard service,

Yo, Dunc ... this ain't no blog!

[SkyPilot]

It was bloggers who undermined CBS anchorman Dan Rather's 2004 report about President Bush's National Guard service, digging up evidence that the documents may have been forgeries.

I heard Stalin was really a warm and cuddly guy too. The New York Times said so.

[misterrob]

That AP is even writing about this shows that the story is being kept alive. I am not interested in having these two young people’s tragic and horric deaths turned into a cause to bash the liberal media but if more people out there demand higher standards from the media then so be it.

[headstamp]

“It was bloggers who undermined CBS anchorman Dan Rather’s 2004 report about President Bush’s National Guard service....”

Poor wittle Dan was “undermined” by those bad old bwoggers.

[Yardstick]

...from what the bloggers regard sneeringly as the liberal media.

Wrote media member, and liberal, Duncan Mansfield.

[headstamp]

“.....digging up evidence that the documents may have been forgeries....”

“Fake but accurate” in mediaspeak.

[ChildOfThe60s]

"But I can't say that this one would have had any more coverage if five whites had been accused of doing these things to two blacks, absent a blatant racial motive," he said.

Please spare me the baloney. If 5 whites had committed the same heinous acts against a black couple, it would automatically be branded a "hate crime" and rivaled Anna Nicole.

Which is an idiotic term anyway. What other kind of crime is there?

Get ready for the racial apologists to come out during and after the trial.

[Tall_Texan]

Reminds me of the rape and murder of that teenaged boy by two gay men. No, no media suppression there... none whatsoever. < /sarc>

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****The critics include mainstream conservatives, such as the National Review, and white supremacists.****

Leave it to AP to bunch National Review with KKK-type groups. You just can't make this stuff up. LOL!

[eureka!]

I will not search for the details of the horrific facts of this case. Suffice it to say that in a just and perfect world may the perps, regardless of race, would suffer the same...

[Eagles6]

"But I can't say that this one would have had any more coverage if five whites had been accused of doing these things to two blacks, absent a blatant racial motive," he said. "As bad as this crime is, the apparent absence of any interest group involvement or any other `angle' might also explain the lack of coverage."

What's truly amazing is that this guy can say this with a straight face and still make more money than a garbage collector, who, BTW, is a much more productive member of society.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

AP covering its ass so the story will be “old news” by Monday.

[Tzimisce]

Whether or not this was a hate crime is secondary (although if the races were reversed, there would be nothing but charges that it was.)

The issue here is over REPORTING of the story. If the races had been reversed, it would be all the media would talk about. If this had been a gay couple, it would be all the media would talke about. This is *gasp* Tn after all and we all know what WHITE southerners are like (that’s not a racial charge, it’s just a fact...)

[proudpapa]

Correction: It was bloggers who EXPOSED CBS anchorman Dan Rather’s 2004 report about President Bush’s National Guard service, digging up evidence that the documents WERE forgeries.

[kb2614]

The critics include mainstream conservatives, such as the National Review, and white supremacists.

Oh, thats nice AP. No agenda here, move along. White supremacists have very little in common with NR, not with all those crafty JOOOOOOOOS over at NR. Nice of AP to connect them anyway. F'ing morons!

"But I can't say that this one would have had any more coverage if five whites had been accused of doing these things to two blacks, absent a blatant racial motive," he said. "As bad as this crime is, the apparent absence of any interest group involvement or any other `angle' might also explain the lack of coverage."

Um, no. The MSM would make sure to "surround" the story to make sure the racial angle was played up.

Similarly, claims made over the Internet that the couple were sexually mutilated are "absolutely not true," John Gill, special assistant to District Attorney Randy Nichols, said Friday.

Hadn't heard about this. I guess nobody will know what is true until the trial, in theory anyway. As for if it is a hate crime of not. Crimes of this nature are motivated completly by hate. I "hate" the hate crime law. Its redundant.

[FormerACLUmember]

The AP is attempting to cover up its evil by implying that the conservative blogging community are Aryan Nation White Supremicist Neo-Nazis for wanting this story told.

[Paleo Conservative]

Some Internet postings have suggested the killings should be treated as a hate crime. But Police Chief Sterling Owen said: "We have no evidence to support the notion that this was a race-based crime. We see this as a cold-blooded murder."

All the witnesses who could testify to about the racial motivations of the murderers are dead.

[Paleo Conservative]

Here's another gruesome "hate crime" that was not prosecuted as a "hate crime". If the murderers in this case had been white and the vicims black, I guarantee you it would have been front page news in the New York Times.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=carrbrothers