May 30, 2007
— Ace So says Linda Chavez, at least of all of you who oppose the new open-borders bill.
And if you thought that the Christian-Newsome murders weren't being covered because the victims were white and the perpetrators black, CNN says you're a Nazi too. A lot of people have weighed in on this, but apparently the only people CNN can find to suggest a media double-standard are avowed White Supremacists with blogs with such names as "Arayan Awakening."
That has got to be one of the most despicable hit-pieces I've ever seen.
The media is claiming its brand-new "objective standard" on reporting about such stories is whether the crime in question is a "hate crime" or not. Listen how many times CNN claims the Christian/Newsome butcheries were "not hate crimes" as a defense against their non-reportage of this outrage.
I'm sorry, I hate to break this to CNN, but the Duke Not-A-Rape suspects were never charged with hate crimes, either. And yet CNN trots this little fact out as if this triviality, and no other reason, explains the disparate coverage.
To be honest, I've thought about this some, and while I think it is all but undeniable the media loves them some Whites/Straights Abusing Minorities/Gays stories (and never the opposite), I don't think the non-coverage of the Christian/Newsome rape/slaughter/mutilation is explainable by that.
Given the fact that the media does in fact cover Pretty Missing Blondes and Dead Blonde Playmates pretty damn thoroughly (often, um, a bit more than thorooughly), I think it's safe to say that the media is most interested in crime -- only interested, pretty much -- when there are whites involved in it, either as victims (preferrably missing) or as suspects.
True enough, there are other factors here (Christian and Newsome are obviously white); the media tends to embargo crime stories as a general rule because so many of them involve black perpetrators, and twenty years of whining from black lobbying groups has convinced them that reporting on crime is inherently "racist" as too many black faces are showed in a negative light.
It's a mix of things. It's a PC code of reluctance to identify the culprits in heinous crimes as blacks. It's the ratings thing, as most Americans are white, and so more closely identify with stories with white victims (again, preferably female, blonde, attractive, and missing). And of course it's the eternal hunt for, as Tom Wolfe called it, the Great White Suspect.
However you come down on this -- whether the media should have reported this crime more, or whether, frankly, given the scandalous rates of violent crime among blacks, this is in fact a case of dog bites man and, sadly, not really newsworthy at all, just as the media says -- CNN's hatchet-job branding of its critics as Nazis is a new low for the network.
Godwin's Law, assholes.
Google it.
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"It's a PC code of reluctance..."
Political Correctness is the conviction that it is possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Posted by: Cerebrum Minus at May 30, 2007 05:43 PM (41Dd+)
Posted by: MikeX at May 30, 2007 05:46 PM (GLMrI)
Dr. Harry Edwards, the black guy with the big beard who helped out Bill walsh, said "you ain't seen nuthin' yet" with regards to the thug shit appearing in the NFL.
Of course, he's right...and of course, we white people are all racists for noticing it and for giving a shit about it.
Ace nailed it.
Posted by: E Buzz Miller at May 30, 2007 05:52 PM (2WK36)
If you want to kill the bill, if you don't want to do what's right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it, you can use it to frighten people. Or you can show leadership and solve this problem once and for all.
Solve it once and for all? Like in 1986?
He should be thankful Jimmy Carter was President so he looks good in comparison to someone. And he does. Barely.
Hey Mr. President...go to hell.
Posted by: Drew at May 30, 2007 05:57 PM (gNyUT)
Posted by: Barry Goldwater's Ghost at May 30, 2007 06:06 PM (5qjR5)
Posted by: Slublog at May 30, 2007 06:10 PM (O5JE4)
Relax man, you're more like Barry Bonds' Ghost On a Steroid Rage with your brawl challenges.
No need for a brawl, I'd just like for you to provide some evidence and/or facts to back up your "belief" that we are "losing the war in the field" and that "the
military is lying about that.". Thus far, you have failed to produce any and I am just curious what led you to that belief or if as I suspect, you are simply talking out of your ass.
Posted by: Drew at May 30, 2007 06:16 PM (gNyUT)
many of us here in the Blue states work, so we can produce that tax money to support all those out-of-wedlock-children-bearin', meth-makin'-n-dealin' Republican hillbillies
Huh. I thought I was a rich, fat, cigar smoking capitalist who builds smog spewing factories on top of orphanages.
Posted by: Warden at May 30, 2007 06:20 PM (Mo8Oa)
Posted by: Bullwinkle at May 30, 2007 06:28 PM (Trfyl)
so we can produce that tax money to support all those
out-of-wedlock-children-bearin', meth-makin'-n-dealin' Republican
hillbillies in Mississippi, or whatever benighted part of the country
it is that votes for Bush
Huh. I work in a blue state as well.
In one county in my state (which went heavy for Kerry in 2004), it was recently discovered that over 50% of those who lived there were completely dependent upon the government for their income.
But please, continue with your amusing little exercise in stereotypes.
Posted by: Slublog at May 30, 2007 06:34 PM (O5JE4)
Posted by: ro-ro at May 30, 2007 06:42 PM (8xCvb)
out-of-wedlock-children-bearin', meth-makin'-n-dealin' Republican
hillbillies
Your compassion is.....well, it almost brings a tear to my eye.
I guess you wouldn't be so obviously angry about providing that support if they were a different color, huh?
Posted by: wiserbud at May 30, 2007 06:43 PM (hp0Gj)
"Minstrel show" and "kind of like blackface".
Posted by: tachyonshuggy at May 30, 2007 06:44 PM (8WlSy)
Posted by: zetetic at May 30, 2007 06:50 PM (wvvkg)
Posted by: type7 at May 30, 2007 06:52 PM (1alN/)
And they want me to pay 30 bucks a month for cable?
Posted by: Guy T. at May 30, 2007 06:52 PM (kMm/k)
It's not a conspiracy or a conscious decision. They. Just. Don't. Feel. Outraged.
Can't help the way they feel, can they?
Posted by: The Professer at May 30, 2007 06:52 PM (xjQDz)
Posted by: tmi3rd at May 30, 2007 06:58 PM (7XeAy)
What I support is a general uprising of the people to seize control of the reins of power in order to arrest and execute all the ruling elites that make up the nomaklatura of 21st century America,,,,,, I mean at least the top million or two...and then to restore Constitutional rule of the country
I don't know if that makes me a "Nazi" so much....probably more of a proactive Construtionalist.
Posted by: Kasper Hauser at May 30, 2007 07:02 PM (TnDwM)
Posted by: ro-ro at May 30, 2007 07:05 PM (8xCvb)
Since you have so little respect for us, we will be forced to stop deliveries to your city. The grocery stores will be empty in a few days and without cigarettes about 21% of the adult population will be going through nicotine withdrawl. I suggest you go to stock up on canned goods. Then... That might not do you any good because you may live in a city that bans the possession of weapons so the bigger and tougher city dwellers will just take your possessions.
Thankfully old red will alert you if a stranger approaches. What's that? You can't own a dog in your 4th floor walk up? Well, best of luck.
Posted by: Farmers de Blog at May 30, 2007 07:17 PM (gxYF3)
We're going to stop deliveries of fuel to your city. We can only be insulted so many times by the likes of you.
Hippie. *spit*
Posted by: Truckers de Blog at May 30, 2007 07:19 PM (gxYF3)
so we can produce that tax money to support all those
out-of-wedlock-children-bearin', meth-makin'-n-dealin' Republican
hillbillies
Give in to the Dark Side, BGG. We want to end your pain so you can just play the big-taxing liberty-hating socialist within the confines of your own slow-learning delusional state of residence. Is that so disagreeable?
Oh, and what The South said.
Posted by: VRWC Agent at May 30, 2007 07:42 PM (Z3AmO)
Get back to work, you redneck monkeys! Don't you have child support payments to make or meth to buy or something?
Sorry, Drew. I had a full day of work today (unlike those hillbilly welfare loafers down South) and I'm just too tired to debate Iraq. I'll get back with you on that.
Nighty-night.
Posted by: Barry Goldwater's Ghost at May 30, 2007 07:46 PM (5qjR5)
Here in the SF Bay Area, this is an old story.
When there's a heinous crime and the suspect is a white male, you hear about it from the get-go.
Otherwise, you hear about a heinous crime, and the suspect is just a 'suspect'. No race, religion, or gender.
The police are simply searching for a 'suspect'.
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at May 30, 2007 07:54 PM (iBgga)
27:
Also, didn't that Afghan guy who drove his car over a bunch of Jewish people do it in SF? And, IIRC, the story was embrgoed, save a defense that he was nervous over an arranged marriage.
Here in St. Louis, we get this shit all the time as well. The big AM Radio blowtorch here, KMOX, has an Angry Black Woman on who does nothing but cry racism over everything, including crime reporting and curfews at local malls. Never mind the malls had to do that because of riots that broke out among youths (that's all the local MSM would say) and people were injured. But never let the facts get in the way of a good meme.
Posted by: eddiebear at May 30, 2007 08:19 PM (xwgYX)
Posted by: R.L.Page at May 30, 2007 08:19 PM (Pawsp)
wiserbud "I guess you wouldn't be so obviously angry about providing that support if they were a different color, huh?"
Down here in Red land, a lot of the local citizens ARE of a different color. Why, it just occurred to me, that they have black people in Mississippi, too! It's something that people seem to forget in such diverse Blue States as Washington, Maine and Vermont.
Posted by: D. Ross at May 30, 2007 08:37 PM (lAPRr)
BGG...you ignorant slut...
If it wasn't for rednecks working, this country would not exist.
Look elsewhere for your welfare recipients/frauds. I'm getting tired of watching the Spanish-speaking lady in front of me at the grocery store paying for her top-dollar luxuries (instead of necessities) with WIC phony-money, and getting hard cash for change.
FOAD
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at May 30, 2007 08:51 PM (iBgga)
Posted by: someone at May 30, 2007 09:12 PM (LS1TS)
Aqui estamos
y no nos vamos,
If you don't like it, gringo, tell it to El Presidente Arbusto.
Posted by: R.L.Page at May 30, 2007 11:16 PM (Pawsp)
Posted by: Cybrludite at May 31, 2007 12:24 AM (XFoEH)
Posted by: Arayan Nation at May 31, 2007 12:36 AM (EEX7R)
About 15 years ago I taught in Virginia. On the LAST DAY of class, the day of the exam, a black kid, with whom I'd always had a great rapport, starting acting up. I told him to cut it out. He didn't; I spoke more sternly. He then said, "You're just a racists."
I told him to get on in the hall. I said, "How dare you? You know I couldn't care less about your race. I'm an attitudinist--I hate your attitude!"
Ever since then, I consider calls of "racism" almost the same as crying "wolf." I won't discount it entirely without investigation, but the burden of proof has definitely shifted.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at May 31, 2007 01:56 AM (oTFml)
Oh look. R.L. "the idiot that cannot write" is back. Hey R.L.! How's the GED classes goin'?
LOL. Lefty trolls are too much fun.
Posted by: Red Dog at May 31, 2007 02:27 AM (8vZvE)
In the 1930's, this country changed it's ancient name to reflect it's leaders admiration for the Nazi philosophy. Today, it is the greatest source of anti-Semitism and international lawlessness and terrorism on the planet. Meanwhile, lefty morons and talking heads with not a shred of understanding of history or geopolitical knowledge call the US President who stands up to this country Chimpy McBushitler. In Farsi, the countries name actually means "Land of the Aryans". What country is it?
Answer in the form of a question please.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2007 02:53 AM (t+mja)
Posted by: just thinking out loud at May 31, 2007 03:06 AM (ATbKm)
BGG, I live in Connecticut. Pretty fair to call it a deep blue state.
We have plenty of welfare cases here (on my street in Hartford I was one of the only few households out of hundreds that worked for a living), as well as rednecks.
We call the rednecky areas 'East of the River,' but really, they're everywhere in little pockets. Even the swanky counties have them. No matter where you live, you have them too.
That's what happens when you let people emigrate from East Windsor.
Posted by: lauraw at May 31, 2007 03:11 AM (DbybK)
Posted by: Long Knives at May 31, 2007 03:18 AM (R8+nJ)
to support all those out-of-wedlock-children-bearin', meth-makin'-n-dealin' Republican hillbillies in Mississippi, or whatever benighted part of the country it is that votes for Bush).
All your tax dollars are belong to us.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at May 31, 2007 03:35 AM (pzen5)
Well since none of you will actually comment on the atrocity displayed in that hitjob I guess it's up to me to be the "racist" in the commenting crowd.
It was a fuckin' HATE Crime. Yes, I think it was a case of Black on White crime. Kinda like how there is black on white humor (come on....you fellow honkey's know were just the butt of -every- joke a black comedian will bring up.), but I digress...this is obviously a chance for the mainstream media to get their rocks off since they botched up that Duke-rape-but-in-no-way-rape case.
You may see the story differently, but this is how I see it. It appears to me that Christian and her Boyrfriend, Newsome, were obviously driving in the *ahem* wrong part of town when they wre carjacked. I'm guessing since the suspects, seeing that they found themselves a pretty white girl decided to kidnap her, and since they didn't want to leave a witness they took her boyfriend too.
To which the awful scene unfolds from there. Both Christian and Newsome, lets remember they're white now, were both raped brutally. Both? Really? Newsome as well? Wow, I guess that the MSM wan't me to overlook the obvious gayness of that detail since they want me to overlook that it was a Black on White hate crime. Oh well, moving on.
Then she was forced to drink cleaning fluid and then suffocated in a trash can. Newsome, who in a seperate story was reported to be castrated as well, was then shot and then set on fire.
If either one of those two kids had been my son or daughter (the white victims, not the black murderous animals) then I can assuredly say that not a single one of those suspects would have ever made it to the sanctuary of a courtroom. Ever. Justice would have been swift and, as the word implies, Just.
Sorry for ranting, but this story has had me so pissed off for so so SO very long. If the MSM is going to accuse me of being a "racist" for accusing those four black suspects of a hate crime then so be it. I just hope the four of them get buried under the jail...after getting the death sentence of course.
Posted by: Nth at May 31, 2007 03:48 AM (PV/4J)
Posted by: Nth at May 31, 2007 03:50 AM (PV/4J)
Nth,
When you want to write a long comment, it is a good idea to start with "This comment is not by WickedPinto".
You see, I saw the comment, assumed it was by WickedPinto, scrolled down, saw your name, and had to scroll back up again to read it. You will give me Carpal Tunnel, man!
Posted by: Tushar D at May 31, 2007 03:54 AM (IlgNp)
Anyone walking in a typical white-collar workplace in North-East will naturally assume that the place is full of Liberals and Democrats. Because these people bray most loudly about their political beliefs in any workplace. They are the ones who have posters of Bush and monkeys side by side.
The Conservatives and Republicans are the ones who say that they are not interested in politics. They are probably interested in politics, but do not want to lose their jobs because of their political beliefs.
Posted by: Tushar D at May 31, 2007 03:58 AM (IlgNp)
Posted by: Scott at May 31, 2007 04:01 AM (FAHM2)
Trying to help Tushar with that scrolling problem by making this entry only three lines long. ;-)
Posted by: Drumwaster at May 31, 2007 04:30 AM (d8gHK)
Posted by: Tushar D at May 31, 2007 04:37 AM (IlgNp)
Posted by: Tushar D at May 31, 2007 04:46 AM (IlgNp)
They've done business with enough of them.
Posted by: richard mcenroe at May 31, 2007 04:51 AM (lCheg)
Here in St. Louis, we get this shit all the time as well. The big AM Radio blowtorch here, KMOX, has an Angry Black Woman on who does nothing but cry racism over everything, including crime reporting and curfews at local malls.
Hey eddiebear,
I guess you mean Carol Daniels.
I never thought of her as angry. Just stupid, boring, and talentless.
Classic affirmative action hire.
Posted by: rickinstl at May 31, 2007 05:31 AM (MvmeX)
*snrk*
(I grew up in West Hartford. We always said that east-of-the-river girls were easy, but I never got to find out first hand.)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at May 31, 2007 05:36 AM (gDNGv)
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Posted by: lauraw at May 31, 2007 06:19 AM (BBMtv)
Posted by: Tom at May 31, 2007 06:20 AM (pOU1O)
Posted by: Tushar D at May 31, 2007 06:24 AM (IlgNp)
Oye, RL Page...
Eres un hijo de puta, y tienes ni idea de espanol, ni los illegales aqui.
Ya se que no quieren ir, pero que lo metes en tu culo.
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at May 31, 2007 06:28 AM (iBgga)
Posted by: Slublog at May 31, 2007 06:35 AM (R8+nJ)
Posted by: OregonMuse at May 31, 2007 06:44 AM (efWVJ)
Slu, Laura, I don't know if this was ever a post on AoS. If not, it should be:
I am proud to say that us Indians are just a couple steps away from the white oppressors, when it come to victimhood ranking.
Posted by: Tushar D at May 31, 2007 06:51 AM (IlgNp)
many of us here in the Blue states work, so we can produce that tax money to support
Uh, dum-dum, you "support" mainly poor black & "hispanic" welfare recepients. They take federal tax dollars disproportionately as a % of population and vote heavily Democratic.
Google it.
Dumbass.
Posted by: Jay at May 31, 2007 06:53 AM (VZ0Yh)
can produce that tax money to support
ps- I look forward to your calls for ending all welfare/social service programs.
If you're going to complain, that is the most logical solutions.
pps- I pay more in federal & state taxes than you earn yearly, moron.
Posted by: Jay at May 31, 2007 06:55 AM (VZ0Yh)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at May 31, 2007 07:03 AM (pzen5)
Posted by: Slublog at May 31, 2007 07:18 AM (R8+nJ)
Posted by: ro-ro at May 31, 2007 12:05 AM
WTF did you expect after MI2?
Posted by: John from WuzzaDem at May 31, 2007 07:31 AM (Pt3Le)
Most news stories will try to do one of two things: Make you laugh or scare you. The best way to scare you is to over-inflate some trivial event that you personally have little or no connection to. (global warming anyone?)
Now since white folks are already a-scared of coloured folks, only occasional stories are needed to reinforce this. Coloured folks, on the other hand, are most likely to be harmed by other coloured folks, so the news needs to overstate the amount of white-on-colour crime to keep them scared (of white folks? or just scared of everything?)
And Nazis, everyone should be scared of them, eh?
Posted by: 5Cats at May 31, 2007 07:44 AM (cVijR)
Posted by: Dave in Texas at May 31, 2007 07:48 AM (FXakj)
ro-ro: When I think of hate crimes I thing of enhancements increasing the punishment of the underlying. Since, they are all charged with capital murder, it seems irrelevant.
When I think about missing the point, which is that the media is giving this story a pass rather than how the suspects were charged, I think about this kind of post.
ro-ro, there may be a sort of farm system you can work your way up through and eventually get back here in The Show. For now, plainly not ready.
Posted by: spongeworthy at May 31, 2007 07:51 AM (uSomN)
Rick:
Bingo. Ok, so every moment isn't race baiting with her, but she does throw in a lot of race into every story (especially on her blog).
Posted by: eddiebear at May 31, 2007 08:01 AM (wnU1W)
Posted by: richard at May 31, 2007 08:04 AM (s3gta)
Posted by: Slublog at May 31, 2007 08:09 AM (R8+nJ)
When I think about missing the point, which is that the media is
giving this story a pass rather than how the suspects were charged, I
think about this kind of post.
You seemed to have missed the obvious: It has been in the news since it happened, just not to the extent some people feel is necessary to satisfy their prurient interests. Hate crimes carry legal consequences. You remind me of all the bozos who were angry at Bush for not enacting a federal hate crime legislation and citing the murder in Jasper as an example. They ignored the fact that 3 of the 4 defendants were sentenced to death and the 4th one to life because they needed his testimony. Like you, they refused to let facts get in the way of their victimhood.
ro-ro, there may be a sort of farm system you can work your way up
through and eventually get back here in The Show. For now, plainly not
ready.
And you can go back to jerking off to Cold Case Files in your mom's basement.
Posted by: ro-ro at May 31, 2007 08:11 AM (8xCvb)
Heh. The CNN package includes a clip from local coverage of the case in which an anchor is speaking next to a shoulder box graphic that reads "Remebering Christopher."
Posted by: Warden at May 31, 2007 08:15 AM (rZ5uY)
Posted by: Chris at May 31, 2007 08:53 AM (kCQZm)
Hot blonde gang-raped, mutilated and her bagged body found at the perps...
Zero coverage...
Answer?
Pigmentation Pass.
Posted by: DANEgerus at May 31, 2007 09:09 AM (J8yxJ)
When I think of hate crimes I thing of enhancements increasing the punishment of the underlying. Since, they are all charged with capital murder, it seems irrelevant.
So, what then, is your point?
You want to make aggrivated assualt now attempted manslaughter because someone yelled "magical negro" or something?
Posted by: Jay at May 31, 2007 09:15 AM (VZ0Yh)
Dear CNN,
I'm so glad I saw the story on the couple murdered in Tennesee. You see I am white but I have a half Japanese wife, a Japanese Mother-in-law, a Jewish father-in-law and a Costa Rican brother-in-law. I was conviced that I was not a racist but ,since I believe you buried the story because of the races invloved , I now know that I am a racist after all.
Thanks for the increased personal awareness.
Yours,
Captkidney
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