{"id":27280,"date":"2012-04-05T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27280"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:07","slug":"did-he-say-the-media-is-disingenuous-or-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27280","title":{"rendered":"“Did He Say The Media Is Disingenuous, Or Disgusting?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s revelation that NBC altnered the tape of George Zimmerman’s 911 call to bump up the “Racist” factor<\/a>\u00a0comes the news that Zimmerman didn’t say “It’s a f****ng coon”, but rather “It’s f***ng cold<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

CNN cleaned up the audio from the 911 call<\/a>. \u00a0I took a listen to it. \u00a0While some quibble, it seemed pretty clear to me that Zimmerman was saying it was “f****ng cold”. \u00a0You be the judge.<\/p>\n

If that’s the case – and I believe it is – then what we have here is a case of the media (aka “Obama’s Praetorian Guard”) committing a series of calculated lies, or at least making a curiously congruent set of unwarranted assumptions, that might<\/em> not have been carefully designed to whip up racial tensions on the part of blacks<\/a> (to draw their attention away from their catastrophic unemployment rate under Obama) and against civilian gun ownership (so as to make white liberals like “Spotty<\/a>“, among many others, care about just another dead black kid) – but it’s hard to see how events and news would have unfolded differently if they had <\/em>been trying.<\/p>\n

We saw all of this here in the Twin Cities last fall with the Evanovich case; until Mike Freeman, the Henco prosecutor, exonerated the shooter<\/a>, the local media was doing its absolute level best<\/a> to whip up exactly the same combination of racial and anti-gun frenzy.<\/p>\n

I was going to invoke Berg’s Seventh Law: “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds<\/em>.” \u00a0But it doesn’t completely appliy. \u00a0It’s actually a contender to be a corollary to Berg Seven, if not a law unto itself:<\/p>\n

“Any time the liberal media (to say nothing of leftyblogs) “reports” on guns or race, they should be distrusted but verified. \u00a0And then, almost invariably, distrusted some more<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

I lost count of the cases in point decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s revelation that NBC altnered the tape of George Zimmerman’s 911 call to bump up the “Racist” factor\u00a0comes the news that Zimmerman didn’t say “It’s a f****ng coon”, but rather “It’s f***ng cold“. CNN cleaned up the audio from the 911 call. \u00a0I took a listen to it. \u00a0While some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4,79,22],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-27280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-media","category-slander-files","category-victim-disarmament","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33256,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions\/33256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}