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MSNBC’s Capehart: Zimmerman ‘Is Becoming the O.J. Simpson of the 21st Century’
Mediaite ^ | November 18, 2013 | Matt Wilstein

Posted on 11/18/2013 2:39:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Frequent MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart took to the Washington Post’s opinion blog Monday afternoon to denounce the latest actions from George Zimmerman. Citing the news that Zimmerman was arrested earlier in the day on what appears to be domestic abuse charge by his girlfriend, Capehart wrote “We don’t know what the official charges are just yet, but if TMZ is right, Zimmerman is once again in big trouble.”

Capehart goes on to explain the scant details of what we know so far about Zimmerman’s latest domestic dispute, before making a stark analogy about the Florida man’s role in 21st century culture:

“At the rate things are going, Zimmerman is on his way to becoming the O.J. Simpson of the 21st century. That is, a notorious personality eventually put behind bars for something other than the original crime everyone believes he committed but got away with.”

During the murder trial this past summer over the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Capehart was one of MSNBC’s many outspoken critics of Zimmerman’s defense team, at one point attacking attorney Don West for acting “cold” and “culturally unaware” towards the prosecution’s witness Rachel Jeantel.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: capehart; florida; trayvon; zimmerman
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Mr. Capehart, if you don't recall, is the black homosexual columnist who instigated this whole thing, long before Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson had sniffed it out.
1 posted on 11/18/2013 2:40:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The statement would imply that Ron Goldman stalked and physically attacked OJ.


2 posted on 11/18/2013 2:43:49 PM PST by research99
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
culturally unaware” towards the prosecution’s witness Rachel Jeantel.

"Can you tell me what wet grass sounds like?"

Great moments in court room history!

3 posted on 11/18/2013 2:44:22 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC is trying once again to convict even before the facts come out.

They just can’t stand the fact that someone was able to defend themselves against a thug with a GUN.


4 posted on 11/18/2013 2:45:11 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What did he do this time? Tell his girlfriend she stinks? She has cooties? BTW, last time I checked Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman didn’t smash OJs nose in or use his head like a jackhammer on cement.


5 posted on 11/18/2013 2:46:47 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn’t OJ still a hero in the black community?


6 posted on 11/18/2013 2:54:07 PM PST by Baynative (Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray.)
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Zimmerman has been very arrogant & entitled his whole life. He has been always looking for trouble and being a busy body long before Trayvon. Who goes follows a black youth who he thought was on drugs and carrying a weapon into a very darkened area? He goes looking for confrontations and has very arrogant and entitled attitude. Zimm will get himself killed because of his arrogance and entitled attitude problem. He also thinks other people property belongs to him. The father-in-law’s property and now the girlfriend’s house. He kicks GF out of her own property and barricades her out. His ex wife has to get permission from ZIMM (unbelievable) to get things from her own FATHER’S house. Then Zimm shows up when he was told not to by his lawyer. He shouldn’t even have a say! very arrogant!


7 posted on 11/18/2013 2:57:04 PM PST by snowstorm12
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To: snowstorm12

Zimmerman was railroaded. Or at least they tried. He’s not a very wise man but Trayvon was a thug.


8 posted on 11/18/2013 3:01:23 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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9 posted on 11/18/2013 3:02:10 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: unixfox

Totally different scenario. Zimmerman didn’t lay in wait for Martin. It was the other way around and the evidence and eyewitness testimony support it. But don’t let the facts stand in your way, MSNBC. I wonder how many ads you sell a day lying to the public just o get them to watch your race baiting hatred on the tube? I hate to break it to you but good black and white people are seeing through your ploy and are forming bonds based on their character and not the color of their skin much to your dismay...


10 posted on 11/18/2013 3:06:46 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: snowstorm12
Zimmerman has been very arrogant & entitled his whole life. He has been always looking for trouble and being a busy body long before Trayvon. Who goes follows a black youth who he thought was on drugs and carrying a weapon into a very darkened area? He goes looking for confrontations and has very arrogant and entitled attitude.

When the area around your home has been the scene of multiple burglaries and a home invasion, that makes sense. Unfortunately, the guy seems to have no off switch - he's not just aggressive against bad guys - he's aggressive against people around him.

11 posted on 11/18/2013 3:07:05 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: snowstorm12

Huh?

George Zimmerman: the black, Hispanic, Peruvian, kind-hearted non-white, not-racist poster boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876692/posts


12 posted on 11/18/2013 3:09:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re doing their damnedest to destroy him.


13 posted on 11/18/2013 3:14:05 PM PST by jdege
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To: Zhang Fei
When the area around your home has been the scene of multiple burglaries and a home invasion, that makes sense. Unfortunately, the guy seems to have no off switch - he's not just aggressive against bad guys - he's aggressive against people around him.

My "sympathy for George Zimmerman" account is pretty much zeroed out at this point.

14 posted on 11/18/2013 3:22:10 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

POTUS Obama ruthlessly used a Florida black on black episode where a black hispanic security guard named George Zimmerman was forced to shoot an adult sized black teen attacker 17 year old Trayvon Martin .

This occured in a secured mixed race modest means housing complex. Martin who never was approached or contronted by Zimmerman was killed when he attacked the unsuspecting security guard as he was returing to his vehicle. Martin was shot once during a struggle over the guards gun as he was pounding Zimmerman’s head on a cement walk where Zimmerman lay begging for help managed to get his gun first and shot his attacker.

The racism charge resulted from and was led by none other than The President of The United States Obama. Who considering sundry socialist communist objectives saw an opportunity to politicize the event and strike out against stand your ground gun control defence and promote and advance Stalinist type housing collectives which was done through subsequent statements refering to the episode released by HUD.. None of which had anything to with the episode Obama used to stop a losing base among black supporters

With the complicity of the regimes slavish devotion of the print and visual media as its propaganda arm they created a race war. It was declared when the POTUS (president of the United States) announced Martin the attacker ,of a black hispanic security guard George Zimmerman was a “victim”; Obama insisted to a compliant NBC, the attacker “(he) could have been my (his) son” and then subsequently proffered on CNN another cable venue claiming to report “news” “That could have been me”. Thus sacrificing a supporter, Zimmerman, for the benefit of the socialist collective.good..

Trayvon became a cause celeb. “Zimmerman became a white hispanic””The area he patrolled owned by rich jews” Trayvon was”a victim.”Stalked” “ Murdered in cold blood because he was black”” depicted as a 12 year old kid” “All duly reported and embellished upon to the point of hysteric hyperbole by the MSM and promoted by black publications throughout the counrty.The hyperbolic racist reporting are believed as facts by blacks particularly youths Each of the individual visual media alphabet soups ABC,CBS,MSNBC,CNN and NBC ,were falling all over each other curryring favor with the regime with their own particular “spin”. Contriubuting to the racial strife which is leading to killing of whites and hispanics because of what they created .

Since then the only distance the media from their reporting or POTUS Obama has made from these developments his been deathly silence-Not even reigning in his Attorney General who working with a black supremacist group threatened the life of the security guard as well circulated inflamatory racist material.

But what has been happening since this episode are continiuous attacks on whites and hispanics by gangs of young blacks often using racial epithets and Martins first name.when committing these crimes ending in deaths or serious injuries.throughout the country.These attacks have been reported locally often sanitized from their racial nature but never reported as a national trend because of the media and regimes complicity in promoting racial division which played a major role in creating the situation.

As of this review silence has also been the response on the part of the political opposition as well.


15 posted on 11/18/2013 3:27:50 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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Over the past year and a half, the media has caused so much pain and suffering to Zimmerman that they have practically lobotomized him at this point. These recent incidents involving Zimmerman don’t surprise me. Zimmerman has been tortured for so long that he has to be a seriously broken-down emotional mess who cannot function in everyday life. Very sad.


16 posted on 11/18/2013 3:33:34 PM PST by PizzaTheHut
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC is becoming the Goebbels of the 21st Century.


17 posted on 11/18/2013 3:46:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: PizzaTheHut

Democrats lied about wanting an end to the politics of personal destruction. It’s the Saul Alinsky way.


18 posted on 11/18/2013 3:47:32 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: PizzaTheHut

Right. The injustices and bizarre Kafkaesque treatment of this man is truly mind-boggling. He is ruined. He just wanted to help people, go to college and become a cop. All gone. His wife was charged with perjury, he faced a biased judge (or two). Media was totally slanted. Gangs were out to kill him, openly, and cheered on by the media and White House.


19 posted on 11/18/2013 4:46:20 PM PST by shalom aleichem
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To: unixfox

Gun?
Man, I have a speargun, hawaiian sling, bow and arrow, machete, double bladed axe, battle axe, 4 claw hammers and a chain saw.
Gun?
I don’t needs no stinkin gun!!

I’ve thought of using the speargun to staple a criminal to the wall til the cops come fetch their sorry ass.
Gun?
hell


20 posted on 11/18/2013 4:54:38 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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