{"id":27291,"date":"2012-04-06T08:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27291"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:07","slug":"you-are-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27291","title":{"rendered":"You Are The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of this blog’s more consistently popular long-running features is my “Climate of Hate<\/a>” page, in which I keep a running tally of episodes of liberals exercising their hatred of conservatives, usually via violence. \u00a0I started it at the height of the liberal media’s obsession with trying to find and pin an example of violence –any <\/em>violence, any violence at all – on the Tea Party, to underscore the invariable accuracy of Berg’s \u00a0Seventh Law<\/a>: “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>“. \u00a0 And there are a lot <\/em>of misdeeds.<\/p>\n

And as we sift through the collapse of the media’s concerted, deliberate effort to frame the Martin case as a racial hate crime (and armed self-defense as a disaster, just to keep white liberals interested in the death of a black kid), it occurs to me – we need a similar feature for Media Witch Hunts.<\/p>\n

What I”m looking for is cases where the media arrived at a conclusion prejudicial to some conservative institution or belief, looooong<\/em> before the facts warranted it. \u00a0Especially if the facts were completely at odds with the conclusion.<\/p>\n

It’s too early to say with the Martin case – but a few other examples pop to mind:<\/p>\n