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August 20, 2013, 08:42 PM | #1 |
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It's not Three Thugs - it's Gun Violence
I don't know if this is the right forum but right now I'm so spitting mad I can hardly see straight.
By now you've probably heard of the 22 year old collegiate baseball player from Australia who was murdered by three teenage thugs who admit to doing it because they were bored. http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireSto...slain-20018968 Kindly Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News described it as 'Another incidence of Gun Violence". Not "Another incidence of criminally insane behavior by out of control teenage boys" .... "Gun Violence"
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August 20, 2013, 10:33 PM | #2 |
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Of course, NBC got it wrong. NBC also edited 911 audiotapes to make it appear that George Zimmerman was acting under racial motivations. NBC has an anti-gun agenda and will never fail to twist the facts of a story to advance that agenda. It's what they do.
Just like the rest of the liberal lame-stream media, NBC is 'tone-deaf'. Getting mad at NBC is like getting mad at a brick wall. It's a waste of time.
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I know - you're right....
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I followed the link on Drudge to the Australia Herald story. This was also initially the same nauseating spin they gave it there as well, though the tone seemed to have changed a bit later in the day. At least in Australia they actually showed pictures of the suspects.
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If Mr. Holt stated "Another incidence of violence with a gun", would that be a correct statement? Last edited by twins; August 21, 2013 at 07:25 AM. |
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August 21, 2013, 07:50 AM | #6 |
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The issue isn't semantic correctness, though neither is correct. It is the selection of particular phrasing to advance an agenda. There is no question that is what's happening. |
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They ignore and play down Chicago - when they have to cover it it's "Gun Violence"
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While the initial story was one of boredom, later reports indicate the boys were members of a new branch of the Crips that had expanded out of Lawton, OK. These reports included photos of the boys in Crip attire, flashing gang signs, and hanging out with felons.
The man who turned them in, did so because he said they were trying to recruit his son into the Crips, and threatening to kill him if he refused. So they may have been bored, but I suspect they were trying to build street cred with the gang. Last edited by MLeake; August 21, 2013 at 09:30 AM. Reason: spelling (iPhone and fat fingers...) |
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And, of course, the mother of the Luna creature and the father of the Edwards creature both claim that their sons are innocent, and good boys to boot.
The driver, at least, has already confessed to his role. |
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I, too, find the regular parade of parents trying to explain away and cover up for their thug children repugnant.
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Comcast owns NBC. Brian Roberts, Comcast CEO is a close personal friend, and fund raiser for Obama. So is Comcast second in command David Cohen, and many other if not all of their execs. They were partying, and playing golf with Obama on Martha's Vineyard recently. Thick as thieves.
Are you surprised that NBC is the TASS or PRAVDA of the USSA?
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Always admired that.
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But you're right. Thick as Thieves.
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Lew. It disgusts me too. I just don't understand how a large percentage of the population falls for this crap.
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People fall for that crap because a lot of them are not brought up around guns, so they don't know the good things about them, or that they can be fun. All they hear about guns are the negative aspects of them which comes from the media.
Back to the original post though, if it were a baseball bat or knife these idiots used, only then would the media have blamed the person and not the weapon.
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This low IQ crap has got to stop. It's profiling, and I resent it. What does IQ have to do with hunting and the shooting sports? The whole IQ thing is vastly over-rated. If anything, I would consider that it's the higher intelligence quotient folks are more easily sucked in by yellow journalism.
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Strafer Gott, I assume it was a joke. The point being, an IQ of 100 is statistical average, so half of any audience is likely to have an IQ at or under 100.
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I agree Strafer.
As one of my Radio Buddies - Dennis Prager - is fond of saying... you have to have gone to graduate school to be that naive. The youts of today have gone to school from age 4 to age 23 or so. They've been trained to not question what they're told at the risk of their grades. That's why people who go out and work for a year or two - or who are returning from the Military - and then go to College are such a disruption. They're far more likely to call B.S....which the educators cannot tolerate.
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Complaining about media has wandered away from any relationship to a real firearms issue.
Whether media is biased is a fun discussion - of course, they are. All networks are but that's not a firearms discussion. Thus, closed.
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