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Democrats Say Talk Radio Killed Black Florida Teen
Investor's Business Daily ^ | March 23, 2012

Posted on 03/23/2012 7:19:31 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

On MSNBC last week, Democratic Party strategist Karen Finney blamed talk radio king Rush Limbaugh for the fatal shooting last month of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch captain in a mixed neighborhood in Florida.

Limbaugh, along with Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, "reinforce and validate old stereotypes that associate the poor and welfare as criminal behavior with African Americans and people of color, calling us lazy, undeserving recipients of public assistance," Finney said.

In the Trayvon Martin incident, Finney claimed "those festering stereotypes had lethal consequences."

One might ask how Finney knows that Martin's half-Peruvian killer, George Zimmerman (whose photo suggests he's a person of color himself), listens to Limbaugh or has been affected by the candidates' speeches.

As in ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords' shooting last year, this is a case of a Democratic mouthpiece accusing foes of their big-government schemes of murder. So much for President Obama's call for civility in political discourse.

But Finney is just one manifestation of a new war aiming to silence Limbaugh and like-minded talk radio hosts. After Limbaugh several weeks ago used rude words to describe a Georgetown law school feminist activist who wants taxpayers to finance her contraception, the Los Angeles city council last week entered the realm of government censorship of the airwaves.

By 13-to-2 vote the L.A. City Council called on "management of radio and television stations in Los Angeles to do everything in their power to ensure that their on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs over public airwaves in the City of Los Angeles."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; georgezimmerman; karenfinney; msnbc; rushlimbaugh; trayvonmartin
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If Rush is guilty then who is guilty of the white father of a 8 year old daughter who was shot in front of the child at a basetba;; game by a black man?


21 posted on 03/23/2012 7:42:10 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Grammar & spelling maybe wrong, get over it, the world will not come to an end!)
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To: guitarplayer1953

Great tagline. Btw, “maybe” should be two words...lol.


22 posted on 03/23/2012 7:46:41 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Sometimes the road less traveled.... is less traveled for a reason.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Well, of course they do. After all, Obama just told America his own son might as well have been killed, and anyone knows, Obama is president to save America from our sins.

So...to paraphrase Shakespeare "cry occupy and let slip the molotov cocktails of glorious anarchy!"

23 posted on 03/23/2012 7:49:14 PM PDT by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: SkyDancer
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are hoping and praying for a black on white war. And the media it seems is stoking the fire.

The best they can hope for is a summer of riots in the concentrated Democrat parasite nests ("cities"). As long as they stay confined there, I'll be watching TV and laughing and eating my popcorn, waiting for some action to erupt when a Korean store owner starts blasting away at the looters.

24 posted on 03/23/2012 7:52:02 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Obama been laudin' that fairness doctrine: "Hot damn! A honky killed a black man!"

Gotta take advantage of this.. it don't happen too often.

25 posted on 03/23/2012 7:54:44 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: molson209

"and tomorrow it will be Wall St and the big banks, Oh and don’t forget Bush"

Ed Schultz is already blaming Bush (Jeb) for this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2862954/posts

26 posted on 03/23/2012 7:57:46 PM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: SkyDancer
RE: Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are hoping and praying for a black on white war. And the media it seems is stoking the fire.

Those white employees of the media are a swarmin's and swoonin' around blacks calling for "justice." They won't be missed. (pun intented)

27 posted on 03/23/2012 7:59:24 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: JerseyDvl

It came from the practice of using it as an email address.


28 posted on 03/23/2012 8:01:23 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Grammar & spelling maybe wrong, get over it, the world will not come to an end!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This is all the Unibomber’s fault.


29 posted on 03/23/2012 8:05:59 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If they are so sure of their "facts" why are they hiding what the kid really looks like NOW instead of YEARS ago?!

30 posted on 03/23/2012 8:10:42 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Tailgunner Joe
I have not followed this story in detail, preferring to let the facts come out and speak for themselves in the end. But this rush to judgment reminds me very much of the lynching attempt made by incompetent and possibly criminal law enforcement including the FBI, against the security guard who tried to warn people of the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics.
31 posted on 03/23/2012 8:11:39 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Stealth Ninja
All of this is designed to keep the conversation away from Obamacare, the miserable economy, the deficits, and now the pending John Corzine indictments.

I hope Rush is smarter this time not to fall for the ploy and spend weeks talking about himself and debating social issues.

32 posted on 03/23/2012 8:12:05 PM PDT by Stealth Ninja
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I thought that it was Bush’s fault?


33 posted on 03/23/2012 8:12:36 PM PDT by matthew fuller (A patriotic American would be ASHAMED to have 5 non-veteran adult sons.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This kind of crime happens in and around Detroit every *WEEK.* Nobody is immune; babies as young as 6 months have been shot this year alone.

The only thing preventing Detroiters from blaming “those people” in the suburbs is that Detroit hasn’t had a Republican in office in over 40 years.

These murders are probably the only crimes they’re NOT blaming on whites.


34 posted on 03/23/2012 8:12:50 PM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason!

Our modern use of the word, as defined by the liberal outlet Wikipedia and seemingly what nonsensical people think, says Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of people based on some prior assumptions. (notice the personal and emotional response that permeates from this definition)

Our more conservative dictionary founded by one of our very influential Founding Fathers, Daniel Webster, tells us that a stereotype is something conforming to a fixed or general pattern. (notice the short and concise, crisp definition)

It seems to me that the more overused stereotype is used by the left who have a “fixed or general pattern” of race-baiting absolutely every debate and pandering to the overly politically-correct crowd that stands for nothing and falls for everything.


35 posted on 03/23/2012 8:16:05 PM PDT by gatopfs ( E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one...))
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The police report list three adult witnesses, and a second officers observations of injuries to Zimmerman in the nose and back of the head. Was he listening to Bose speakers when talk radio did all that? Arrest those speakers at once.


36 posted on 03/23/2012 8:16:29 PM PDT by swamprebel (Where liberty dwells, there is my country.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The only solution is more Midnight Basketball and Free Condoms.
37 posted on 03/23/2012 8:17:10 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Yep. And talk radio is responsible for the 40 shot and 10 killed last weekend in Chicago too.

Al Sharpton is missing his call, he's not representing all of these people.....Maybe all the different locations would be tough for him to cover (sarcasm).

The Thug Report

38 posted on 03/23/2012 8:21:26 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: GVnana
Obama just told America his own son might as well have been killed

Is that the same Obama who called his grandmother a typical white person?

39 posted on 03/23/2012 8:22:29 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: ALPAPilot

Am I the only person who watched Hannity and Greta tonight? Both had excellent programs. Shawn’s show was all about the nasty things that liberals say and nobody cares. Sarah was on and Star Parker gave one of the best explanations I’ve heard on why blacks go nuts over black conservatives. Greta’s whole show was a Rush interview. Yet I can’t find a thread on this.


40 posted on 03/23/2012 8:26:42 PM PDT by WVNan ("Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." - Winston)
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