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Stolen from Dan Mitchell's very excellent blog.  Though I suspect that he too stole them.

A Brief Note on NBC Media Racism

By now I suspect most of you have come across the story of NBC altering the transcript of the phone conversation between the guy who killed the kid in Florida to make it appear that he was racist.

ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he's up to no good, [begin ellipsis] or he's on drugs or something. It's raining, and he's just walking around, looking about.
911 DISPATCHER: Okay, is this guy, is he white, black, or Hispanic? [end ellipsis]
ZIMMERMAN: He looks black.

          Newsbuster Article

So NBC edited the actual interchange to say:

ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he's up to no good, he looks black.

Now, this is not a "mistake" as the New York Times would have it:

The people with direct knowledge of the firing characterized the misleading edit as a mistake, not a purposeful act. 

Media Decoder column in the Times here

Not a mistake at all, my friends.  A mistake would be dropping a quote mark or misspelling "Zimmerman".  This was a considered, malevolent and shameless act of racism.  This is a perfect example of the "Racism of lowered expectations".  It shows that the White guys at NBC do not believe that the Black guy's story will come out in our legal system, it shows that the sad story of what happened that night must be "helped" by a crew of White guys who know best how to spin the story of black oppression.  

From the Times piece:

Inside NBC, there was shock that the segment had been broadcast. Citing an anonymous network executive, Reuters reported that “the ‘Today’ show’s editorial control policies — which include a script editor, senior producer oversight and in most cases legal and standards department reviews of material to be broadcast — missed the selective editing of the call."

There was no "shock" at NBC, there was fury that their racism was exposed.  Come on folks, read what the review process is at NBC.  Do you think for a minute that they didn't know?  If you do I got a war in Iraq to sell you. Jesus Christ, are you that stupid?   

Thankfully, the liberal media dinosaurs are being clobbered by mammalian neo-journalists who use the net as their foolscap.  Remember the libel from Dan Rather about Bush's service record?  A lie, a big lie right before the election.  Who found it?  Net geeks, that's who.  The vast resources of CBS were trumped by a diet coke swilling fucker who you wouldn't let within 500 feet of your daughter.  But that fat bastard showed that he was a better journalist than Dan Rather that day.  

This is a new age, my friends.  Cops can't bust heads with impunity and great big media organizations cannot lie with impunity either.  

I hope that Zimmerman files a slander suit against NBC.  I hope that he wins.  The bastards betrayed a trust and they should swing.

Later amigos.

MJ

More on Mr. Woozer

You know, I've been watching the Republicans self destruct over the past couple of weeks and I gotta say that it has the attraction of watching a train wreck.  I'd really like to write about some other stuff but I find myself staring like a lunatic at their antics.  Correct me if I am wrong but isn't a litmus test of conservative principles the belief that the central government should keeps it's damn paws out of your personal business?  I'm not crazy, right?  The latest is that Mr. Woozer (the  vile Santorum person) has decided that the feds should regulate porn.  WTF is that about?  Like the War On Drugs is such a smashing success that we need the Feds to wage war on porn.  And what is that going to cost us?  And what bureaucracy will that require?  And what liberties will be infringed as the feds go galloping thru every one's computer records to find evidence of ... Porn ...  Jesus Christ.  And, BTW, what the hell is the definition of porn in the first place?  What Woozer thinks it is?  


And, naturally, it's for the children.  


 I'm telling you: This guy is a liberal of the worst sort.  He thinks that the government can cure all ills, and that to do so all we need are more laws.  And, by the way, he knows whats Right and Wrong.  Idiot.  Like I would ever ever ever trust a politician to determine what I should or should not be doing.  The louder one of these lowlifes howls about something the surer I am that whatever it is they are concerned about and don't want you to do is a big part of their lives.  So far Mr. Woozer is upset about gays and porn.  Draw your own conclusions.

I'm ill.


Edited to add:


In case you think I am making this stuff up, let me assure you that even my fertile imagination could not create the madness that is Rick Santorum.  Read his approved message here:
http://www.ricksantorum.com/enforcing-laws-against-illegal-pornography
Mark my words folks, this guy is going to destroy the Republican Party if he is nominated and will ensure four more years <shivver> of Mr. O.