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What the Media Choose Not to Know about Trayvon
American Thinker ^ | June 7, 2012 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 06/07/2012 7:55:58 PM PDT by The people have spoken

Unnerved by an unspoken mix of political bias and racial queasiness, the major media have chosen to know as little about Trayvon Martin as they know about Barack Obama.

As a case in point, consider this boy vs. man fable spun by the New York Times' Charles Blow:

A boy's blood had been spilled on a rain-soaked patch of grass behind a row of mustard-colored condominiums by a man who had pursued him against the advice of 911 dispatchers. That man carried a 9-millimeter handgun. The boy carried a bag of candy.

Blow was writing seven weeks after Trayvon's death. He had no excuse for missing the actual story. Worse, since he is a writer for the Times, his reporting has helped set the media tone worldwide.

The media's willful ignorance was on display again this past week. In reporting this news of George Zimmerman's return to jail, more than a few media outlets showed the dangerously deceptive image of Trayvon as 11-year-old cherub. They did so in the assumption that the narrative was still theirs to control. It is not. The blogs, which have been doing the real detective work on this case, have long since taken control away from them.

The sites I have found must useful are the Daily Caller and theconservativetreehouse.com. What follows is largely culled from those sites and their independent contributors. By probing Trayon's background and parsing his social media chatter, they have put together a picture of a disturbed young man that begins to makes sense of the events that unfolded on that fateful rainy night of February 26.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/what_the_media_choose_not_to_know_about_trayvon.html#ixzz1xAOQDl7g

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2012electionbias; blackkk; blackpanthers; cashill; enemedia; florida; georgezimmerman; innocentuntilproven; jackcashill; lynchmob; media; medialynching; obamasracewar; pravdamedia; trayvon; trayvonmartin; trialbymedia; yellowjournalism; zimmerman
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1 posted on 06/07/2012 7:56:04 PM PDT by The people have spoken
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To: The people have spoken
Sadly, Big Media doesn't let the truth get in the way of their agenda. I pray that George Zimmerman gets a fair trial. I fear the public pressure will convict him before the trial begins.
2 posted on 06/07/2012 8:02:44 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: The people have spoken

very informative, pretty good, Why isn’t the Prosecutor in PRISON YET for this LYNCHING??


3 posted on 06/07/2012 8:08:16 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: The people have spoken
First time I remember hearing....."Please, get an officer over here"...at 7:10 That is a "scared" plea....

Anyone that thinks Zimmerman pursued Tray is DUMB....Zimmerman is trying to be cautious while doing a job....

4 posted on 06/07/2012 8:09:10 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: The people have spoken; CodeToad

Cashill is an amazing reporter and writer, and a very brave one too.


5 posted on 06/07/2012 8:18:03 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: The people have spoken

Well researched and interpreted timeline, in my opinion. This commentary is obviously conjecture, but it sure does fit well as a possible narrative.


6 posted on 06/07/2012 8:24:02 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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7 posted on 06/07/2012 8:26:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: The people have spoken

The last known photos of this thug have been hidden. People will be shocked to their senses when they see the con that has been played.


8 posted on 06/07/2012 8:29:48 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: eyeamok

Dershowitz really goes after this pathetic excuse for a Prosecutor in a column today - Corey apparently called Harvard Law School and demanded they do something about Dershowitz to shut him up. She is quite a piece of work. Hopefully Zimmerman can get a fair trial. Knowing what lying lengths this prosecutor is willing to go, it’s pretty frightening.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/07/dershowitz-zimmerman-prosecutor-threatened-to-sue-harvard/print


9 posted on 06/07/2012 8:35:11 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: The people have spoken

Most revealing. Did not know the meaning of ‘lean’. Does anyone know if the drug culture likes to smoke a blunt then do some lean to swing a mood?


10 posted on 06/07/2012 8:48:47 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: The people have spoken; All
What America choses not to know about the Straits...and hundreds of other heinous cases of black on white crime

While the Zimmerman/Martin ‘white’ on black killing is covered 24/7 on the MSM with an outpouring of rage and charges of a racial hate crime, where is the concern- where is the rage about the home invasion, torture, beating, rape and murder of the elderly white couple by a gang of feral blacks in Oklahoma just a few weeks ago?

The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.

The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.

Can you just imagine the pain, the humiliation, the horror that dear old lady experienced being gang raped by that pack of feral animals?

(the autopsy states she was raped. Don’t think all of these animals didn’t all participate)

And can you imagine the pain, the horror of that dear old husband having to witness this?

Mr. Strait died from his injuries last week.

There’s a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.

WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??

90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?

85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??

Why does it take a foreign press to enlighten America as to this henious crime?

WHERE IS THE NATIONAL OUTRAGE?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117695/Brutal-home-invasion-Oklahoma-couple-ends-65-year-romance-meeting-blind-date.html

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Have they caught the rest of the gang of feral blacks who raped, tortured and murdered this elderly woman? Are they even looking? Not a word about it in the media.

11 posted on 06/07/2012 9:05:00 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Zimmerman sounds a little anxious: "Please, get an officer over here."

Can someone please show me where he said this?

Oh you can't? Just what we need. More Zimmerman pixie dust, more lying and bullshit to cover for his sorry ass.

12 posted on 06/07/2012 9:05:43 PM PDT by anglian
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To: samadams2000
"The last known photos of this thug have been hidden."

If that is the case I can't imagine how much worse they could be than these.


13 posted on 06/07/2012 9:06:26 PM PDT by Spunky
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To: MHGinTN

A lot more info on the drug connection in this article from the site referenced in the above article:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/05/24/update-26-part-2-trayvon-martin-shooting-a-year-of-drug-use-culminates-in-predictable-violence/

“…High doses … are sometimes compared to the effects of other dissociatives such as PCP or ketamine…”


14 posted on 06/07/2012 9:22:11 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: The people have spoken

pingin’ myself for tomorrow.


15 posted on 06/07/2012 9:28:32 PM PDT by digger48
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To: anglian

Go here for the audio. Listen at 1:30. The officer is talking over him but Zimmerman says it right at that time and you can hear it very clearly if you listen a couple times and filter out the police person.

http://audioboo.fm/boos/717340-george-zimmerman-call-to-police#t=1m16s

Any other simple research you’d like someone to do for you?


16 posted on 06/07/2012 9:32:42 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: The people have spoken; a fool in paradise

Yep, can’t mention a black boy buying a watermelon drink. Oops, did I say “boy”? Back to the re-education polish death camp with me!


17 posted on 06/07/2012 9:43:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: The people have spoken

I didn’t notice any “new information”, but it is an excellent summary, timeline, and analysis by Jack Cashill.


18 posted on 06/07/2012 9:53:47 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

“New information” was a poor choice of words. I meant information not widely known.


19 posted on 06/07/2012 10:05:30 PM PDT by The people have spoken
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To: anglian
What the Media anglian Choose Not to Know about Trayvon
20 posted on 06/07/2012 10:07:13 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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