Despite No Publicly Available Proof, Press Treats Mizzou Feces-Swastika Incident As Fact

Newsbusters ^ | November 10, 2015 | Tom Blumer

[grundle]

Name the missing word in the following sentence from tonight's Associated Press report on the current situation at the University of Missouri: "On Friday, the now-former chancellor issued an open letter decrying racism after a swastika smeared in feces was found in a campus dormitory." The obviously missing word is "allegedly," as in, "was allegedly found." That word is also missing in sentences found in three separate reports at the New York Times. On October, 24, the Washington Post unskeptically accepted the recounting of the incident in a report shortly after it — ahem, allegedly — occurred.

There's a really big problem here. Sean Davis at The Federalist was unable, after extensive efforts, to locate any evidence that the incident really took place. Additionally, he found that a photograph supposedly representing what was done has been present elsewhere on the Internet for a year.

While Davis's work doesn't conclusively show that the incident is a hoax, it should be far more than enough to convince establishment press journalists with integrity covering events at the university to surrender their clearly expressed assumption that the incident actually occurred.

[Parley Baer]

Again the msm proving how morally bankrupt they are.

[SandRat]

Is “Dan Blather” trying to get his job back with this? LOL

[headless_thompson_gunner]

I know that whenever I want to offend a group of affirmative-actioned, entitled, victimized, America-haters (supposedly named after their African ancestors, such as LaQueisha, even though they are challenged to come close to identifying Zimbabwe on a map), a Feces Swastika is the first thing that comes to my mind.

[easternsky]

Hands up don’t shoot

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[TYVets]

Despite No Publicly Available Proof, Press Treats Mizzou Feces-Swastika Incident As Fact

All of them graduated from The University of Missouri School of Journalism.

[a fool in paradise]

What was it made out of?

Horses***?
Bulls***?
Catscat?

Or plain old BULLSTALIN?

[digger48]

I didn’t catch the name, but a FOX reporter was talking to Dana Loesh today baout trying to get info from the po-po about the incident reports yesterday.

After being told that he would have to go through FOIA channels to get them, the woman he was speaking to admitted to him that there were only TWO such reports and there was no evidence backing either of them.

And the kicker...he was told that he was the FIRST reporter to have even inquired about it!

[Busko]

Sounds like a bunch of SH!T to me!

[TigersEye]

I kept finding poop swastikas in my yard.
Turns out my neighbor owns a German Shepard.

[uncitizen]

Fake but accurate...

[pfflier]

Wait...where are the everpresent fact checkers??? You always hear from them during Republican debates.

[punditwannabe]

Hands up don’t shoot! Yeah, right.

[dem bums]

There's a really big problem here. Sean Davis at The Federalist was unable, after extensive efforts, to locate any evidence that the incident really took place.

After Davis posted his article (and after NewsBusters posted the linked article), the Daily Caller was able to obtain a copy of the police report from the "poop swastika" incident, which reflects that a campus police officer did, in fact, observe a swastika drawn with feces. (link).

Obviously, there is no telling who drew the thing, but it seems to put to rest the "it never happened" theory...

[A_Former_Democrat]

And today it appeared in AP/NYT that a black journalism professor claims the same “white guys in pickup” bs, n-word, the finger, et al

Then she said the same thing has been done to her by colleagues at the School of Journalism.

Not one bit of proof, not one bit of prior complaints, and not one bit of fact checking by AP or NYT.

Gee, I wonder why?

[A_Former_Democrat]

So how many of you find the following credible?:

I have lived in Columbia and been at the university for almost 18 years. During this time, I have been called the n-word too many times to count.

My most recent experience was while jogging on Route K in May of 2015 when I was approached by a white man in a white truck with a Confederate flag very visible and proudly displayed.

He leaned out his window (now, keep in mind I run against traffic, so his behavior was a blatant sign that something was about to happen). Not only did he spit at me, he called me the n-word and gave me the finger.

Of course, I responded with, “Oh yea, get out of your car, you coward, and say that to my face.” He then raced off. Typical.

After the Zimmerman trial, I wrote about my experiences being called the n-word twice while I was on my jog. And yes, I have had a few faculty call me the n-word and treat me with incredible disrespect. Yes, faculty.

I have had a student who said he couldn’t call me Dr. Frisby because that would mean that he thinks I am smart, and he was told that blacks are not smart and do not earn degrees without affirmative action. Yes, true story. I have so many stories to share that it just doesn’t make sense to put them all here.

What I am responding to is the frequent question I have been asked all week: How have I endured these many hateful experiences for over 17 years, and why am I still here?

[Kickass Conservative]

LOL

Let me guess, you’ll be here all week, right?

[MarkL]

Just as false flag lies of supposed racist and antisemitic incidents are handled by universities as "teaching moments," rather than the crimes they are. Rather than kicking the people who pull off these lies out, and having them prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, they treat them as heroes.

What's going on at MU is just what the university deserves.

Mark

[dfwgator]

Speaking of Feces and Mizzou, what’s Michael Sam up to these days?