Posted on 04/10/2008 5:48:31 AM PDT by Leisler
Another HATE crime toward whites.
One thing the Wright issue has brought to the front of the page is racist blacks.
I say hang them all.
I think the point was that if this had been a white on black or straight on gay hate crime, it would have been the lead story every day since it happened. And a lot of people seem to have never even heard of it. Compare that with Duke Lacrosse ‘rape,’ Tawana Brawley ‘kidnapping,’ Mathew Shepard murder, or another important case that stayed in the press for months. The savageness of this crime and innocence of the victims did not garner the attention and media outrage it should have.
So what you're saying is that the excessive coverage of the Duke Rape Case and Sheppard and Brawley was all justified, and that it's a shame that a media circus wasn't also made out of this case?
Cursory attention indeed. Considering that crimes involving such vile depravity are rare, you’d think this would be a much bigger story. The “robbery gone bad” angle sounds just a little absurd.
After the Cheshire CT home invasion/murders last summer, the cable networks were on that for days. The family victimized was even on the cover of People magazine. One issue Nancy Grace covered closely was why were the scumbags, with long criminal records, still out on the streets. To my knowledge, Nancy and the others have not done any segments on this Knoxville atrocity. The accused in this case also had long records, and perhaps even more violent ones than the creeps in the CT case. One of them already had been a carjacker and served only a few years. Yeah, I guess that taught him not to do it again.
I did read a transcript of a CNN story from last year where they talked not so much about the crime as about coverage of it. One of the panelists was insisting there was no dearth of coverage, and even made the laughable statement that if the races had been reversed, we would hear even less about it.
Nope, just making note of the obvious bias in what the MSM considers newsworthy.
The WAR ROOM controls information, facts, and context.
This feels like a bad sci-fi futuristic flick, where we are all zombies with no emotion, just fear, walking around taking orders from a giant TV screen.
(just walk thru an airport where CNN blares out at you every few feet, you can't escape it)
No, more that the Brawley, Sheppard, and Duke cases were all massively overblown because of the racial or “hate crime” angle. A story like this, in a country this big, really is more of a local story, horrible as it is, and won’t make much of a blip on the national news scene. This crime was more horrible than any of the other three allegations, and yet has received about 1/100th of the attention. There are some fairly obvious conclusions to draw from that regarding what the MSM finds “newsworthy.”
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“Three strikes” law is a GOOD thing.
Vlad the impaler is my choice for executioner. The pole is the way to stretch them properly.
The heart of someone who would would choose to do these things would have to be black with evil, even if their skin were white as snow.
Our skin color will be neither a justification, nor an excuse for words, thoughts, or deeds done in the flesh, when we stand before the heavenly throne of judgment.
"...a vacant house on Reynolds Street where Davidson, wearing Newsom's tennis shoes, was hiding.
I wasn't thinking about the color of Davidson's skin when I read that. I was chilled that a heart could be so removed from God as to be able to do what was done to Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, and then to put on the dead man's shoes and walk away.
The problem isn't skin color. It is much deeper than that. It's the color of our hearts that matters.
I couldn't handle it. If animals such as this harmed a member of my family in such a way, I would pray for acquittal just so I could hunt them down and kill them one by one.
People organize themselves by the strongest signals.
Black murder, rape rates are almost universal world wide.
Ditto Asian industriousness.
Don’t know the reason, and don’t care.
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