Posted on 03/25/2015 4:37:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
They just can't help themselves -- and their agenda-driven media enablers never, ever learn.
This week, the NAACP made national front-page headlines with a local press release demanding that the feds investigate the hanging death of a local man in Port Gibson, Miss. Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference, immediately invoked the specter of a "hate crime." In response, the Obama Justice Department flooded the zone with a whopping 30 federal agents.
News outlets grabbed the bait. USA Today asked ominously: "Was it a lynching?" The discovery of ex-con Otis Byrd's body swinging from a tree by a bed sheet "brought back unpleasant memories of America's violent, racially charged past," the paper's video reporter asserted. Voice of America similarly intoned: "Mississippi hanging death raises lynching specter." The Los Angeles Times leaped into the fray with: "Why this story haunts the nation."
Whoa there, teeth-gnashing Nellies. Didn't we just recently witness the implosion of an NAACP-incited non-hate crime with the same exact narrative? Why, yes. Yes, we did.
As I reported in January, the group was here in my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs hyping a so-called "bombing" at the city's chapter office. Local, state and federal NAACP leaders, amplified by political and media sympathizers, claimed the alleged hate crime "remind(ed) me of another period" (Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis); "undermines years of progress" (Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee); "harkens to bad old days" (MSNBC); and "evokes memories of civil rights strife" (Time magazine).
But the allegedly racist perpetrator of the "NAACP bombing" turned out to be a disgruntled client of a now-deceased tax accountant who once worked in the same office complex. The financially troubled suspect had unsuccessfully tried to contact the tax preparer for years to obtain past tax returns. But unbeknownst to the "bomber," who set off a pathetic improvised explosive device on the opposite side of the NAACP office, the accountant had been sent to prison for bilking other clients -- and had passed away several years ago.
Confirming what only a few of us in the media dared to theorize out loud, race had absolutely nothing to do with the wildly inflated and cynically exploited incident in Colorado Springs. Zip, zero, nada.
None of this appears to have chastened the journalists who reflexively empower the NAACP agitators who reflexively cry racism. Just weeks after the not-NAACP bombing, here they are stoking fears of a probably-not-racist-not-lynching. Despite law enforcement reports that Byrd's hands were unbound, despite warnings from the local sheriff (who happens to be black) not to jump to conclusions, and despite the very real possibility that Byrd committed suicide, the papers and airwaves disseminated Blame Whitey and Blame Righty talking points without thinking twice.
The incident indeed "brought back memories" for me -- memories of the embarrassing 1996 media malpractice of former USA Today reporter Gary Fields, who manufactured a purported epidemic of racist church-burnings in the South with 61 hysterical stories. A typical and familiar headline: "Arson at Black Church Echoes Bigotry of the Past." The NAACP jumped onboard and demanded that then-Attorney General Janet Reno investigate. President Clinton fanned the flames; panels were formed; federal spending programs were passed. But a year later, Fields' own paper was forced to admit that "analysis of the 64 fires since 1995 shows only four can be conclusively shown to be racially motivated."
Several of the crimes had been committed by black suspects; a significant number of the black churches were in fact white churches; and the Chicken Littles had obscured numerous complex motives including mental illness, vandalism and concealment of theft.
Same old, same old. Then, as now, for publicity and profit, the race hustlers stoke the very societal divisiveness they claim to abhor -- and knee-jerk journalists suffering institutional amnesia aid and abet them.
I remember too, Bill Clinton said he had personal memories, as a boy, of black churches being torched in Arkansas. It was an example of lies upon lies, whipping people into a frenzy about a false story.
I think we all remember that
Inasmuch as white people are fast becoming a minority in the USA, isn’t it time we have a National Association for the Advancement of White People?
I’m reminded of the incident a few years ago where they found the body of a man hanging, with a sign in him that read “Fed” or something like that. Turned out it was a suicide. But the libidiot media went nuts for a while with it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3271784/posts?q=1&;page=51
"According to his Forbes bio Rick Ungar is also a paid Democratic strategist for Mercury Public Affairs, a lobby group for Democratic issues."
Ungar is that idiot rat who always on Saturday morning on one of those business shows on Fox News after Fox and Friends. I always mute him as soon as he opens his mouth, or wheen he is addressed by the host
I just checked the TV Guide and it’s Forbes on Fox which comes on at 10:00 am my time
NAACP: North American Advocates for the Communist Party. Nothing more, nothing less.
Thanks for the heads up.
As long as you have any organization that advocates communism (income redistribution); wants government to control more and more of their lives (welfare, food stamps, etc.) and dedicates itself to self-annihilation (abortion), there is no sense in even recognizing them.
They are loud, ear-splitting noise.
National Association for the Advancement of Corrupt Politicians
National Association for the Advancement of Corporate Profits ( many of their “solutions” involve building structures- bond financed, natch).
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