Rush Limbaugh Compares Suspected Boston Bomber To Trayvon Martin

[DonViejo]

Conservative radio prognosticator Rush Limbaugh used his nationally syndicated show on Tuesday to try and tie Dzhakar Tsarnaev, the captured suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings last week, to murdered teenager Trayvon Martin.

Last March, weeks after 17-year-old Martin was shot and killed, Limbaugh and the rest of the conservative echo chamber spent a considerable amount of time attacking Martin’s character and pushing back against a widely circulated photograph of the teen, claiming that the media was trying to gin up sympathy for the murdered boy.

On Tuesday, Limbaugh compared the media’s portrayal of Trayvon to the treatment of the captured Tsarnaev, citing the media’s use of slightly outdated photographs in both instances:
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called out a variety of media outlets on Tuesday for trying to [do] “to Dzhokhar [Tsarnaev] what they did to Trayvon Martin.” He said that showing images of Tsarnaev at 14-years-old is an effort to humanize him and frame him as a “normal” or “mixed-up kid,” rather than an accused murder[er] and terrorist.

‘The news media are doing to Dzhokhar what they did to Trayvon Martin,” Limbaugh observed. “They’re regularly showing a photo of Dzhokhar that was taken when he was about 14. Soft, angelic, nice little boy. Harmless. Cute. Big, loveable eyes.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/04/23/1910521/rush-limbaugh-compares-suspected-boston-bomber-to-trayvon-martin/

[Skidmore]

1. Bashir showed the clip of Limbaugh describing the "soft, angelic" Dzhokhar and it was downright

creepy. In all these years of Limbaugh describing people, I've yet to hear him use that string of adjectives with anyone.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Yes, Travyon Martin, who committed the horrible, despicable, disgustingly criminal act of....

...walking home from the store.

[El Progreso]

3. Limbaugh believes Trayvon attacked Zimmerman without being attacked first

In Limbaugh's mind, Trayvon was not simply a boy who went to the store.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Limbaugh's an idiot.

I don't care what he "believes."

[Blue_Tires]

6. Because Limbaugh is a racist who believes ALL black men are criminals

[Lawlbringer]

5. Dzhokhar is babyfaced.

Even his Twitter profile pic and the surveillance footage shows that he has a baby face. I don't agree with the fat dummy, but I know what he's trying to get at. Trying to pin the sympathy movement on the left. Because we’re the bleeding heart liberals who would rather see a criminal go free than bring him to (the right’s idea of justice. I won’t even call it HIS idea of justice because I don’t even believe that’s his own stance. He’s such a scumbag that he’s pandering and hatemongering while his own views are totally apathetic)

Oddly enough, the Alex Jones conspiracy theorist crowd sits on the super far right (in my thoroughly unfortunate experience), much like Rush’s crowd, and they’re the ones who are mostly saying it was false flag and Dzhokhar’s being framed.

[Alva Goldbook]

7. Limbaugh is a troll.

And trolls are best left ignored.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Could it simply be that there aren't many photos available of Tsarnaev

other than the unclear ones from the day of the bombing? What if there weren't many photos taken of him between 14 and 19?

[ecstatic]

9. He's a racist POS nt

[surrealAmerican]

10. both teenagers ...

... otherwise there are no similarities.

When you show a two or three year old photo of someone in their fifties or sixties, you don't see much difference. Of a teen, this is not the case. There's nothing sinister about it.

[Rex]

11. So he compares the murder of a young man walking home from a 7-11

to two young men that killed or tried to kill hundreds of people at the Boston Marathon? Then says it is the medias fault for false portrayals?

Are his followers really that backward ass stupid?

[Initech]

12. And Limbaugh reaches the point where he no longer knows what the hell he's talking about.

[Demo_Chris]

13. He's an evil racist piece of $%^#. nt

[lpbk2713]

14. He's scum. Don't dignify what he says by attaching any importance to it.

It's his role in the GOP inner circle to keep the drums beating with his lies, deceit and exaggeration.

He doesn't even believe what he's saying most of the time so no one else should either.