My Rightwingnut Fauxzombie co-worker lost his mind today,

[absyntheminded]

..after overhearing me and the rest of my left leaning co-workers talking about the Trayvon Martin shooting. He went into the usual rabid rightwing, teabagging, fundy, racist mode of discourse, you know... the mouth breathing, knuckle dragging, veins popping out of his neck and forehead mode, where he raises his voice talking "over" everyone, blurting out some nonsense about a "witness" that saw Zimmerman walk away from Trayvon, and that Trayvon actually followed Zimmerman to his truck and started the altercation, shortly followed by Trayvon beating the crap out of Zimmerman...which prompted the "self-defense" shooting....

The rest of us were dumbfounded, looking at each other with our jaws on the floor.... Now I follow a lot of news sources (except you know what) and I may have missed something, but I don't recall hearing anything about this one?

So I said "So this guy (Zimmerman), who's armed, and had at least 3 assault convictions (one involving a cop), who outweighed this unarmed 17 year old kid with skittles, by 25 lbs or more. Walked away from the situation, but was followed and attacked by Tayvon?

His response "Yes - there was a witness"

Me - "so there's this alleged witness whom none of us have heard anything about, makes a claim on probably a Faux affiliate makes this TRUE?!?! - are you SERIES!!!"

Nutjob co-worker (with veins bulging out of his neck and face) shouts - "YES!! - It's TRUE"

The rest of us just looked at each other and busted out laughing our asses off, there simply wasn't anything to say at that point

Un-Fuckin-Believable.... The stupid BURNS!

[Iris]

1. Why would someone act like the know everything about this case?

Someone like this has surely spouted out this kind of rubbish and ultimately be proven wrong. Wouldn't you learn a lesson about being this sure of something and running your mouth off about it?

[absyntheminded]

2. You have to live on that planet...

Where the rightwing is never wrong...even if you murder someone..

[Iris]

17. It is truly disturbing

[monmouth]

3. I had a similar conversation with a sly right-winger,I say sly because he didn't come

right out and say he was. I then said..."Aaaah, you watch Fox news, right?" Didn't want to answer that either. He kept calling it the "shoot" and I kept correcting him with "No, it was murder."...He really didn't like it but kept on with his "new things are coming out about "the boy." This was the type of man who did not like to be contradicted in any way, especially from a female. As I was gathering my stuff to get away from this 80 some year old nut, I said "You know, you're going to have to start watching another tv station, get some truth in your life." I then sauntered off and left him to steam. Uppity white woman from New Jersey, is there anything worse?

[absyntheminded]

5. Nice...:)

[absyntheminded]

4. I see now the threads already running here

about the witness he was spouting about...so it only took the killer and the negligent police dept a month to build some kind of excuse they can now hide behind....

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. It was originally printed and posted here at least a week back

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. There is one witness out there who is describing Martin as the aggressor at one point

Not giving his full name "john&quot ?). Print and TV have interviewed him and its on You-tube.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. There is no witness that claims Trayvon initiated the fight. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Wonder if he name is...Joe?

[Cali_Democrat]

8. Why aren't right wingers taking Trayvon's side? Aren't they all about liberty and freedom?

Wasn't Trayvon just minding his own business FREELY walking before he was stalked?

Oh never mind, Trayvon is black. Right wingers will never take the side of a black person. it seems like all right wingers are now on the same page when it comes to this story. They are with Zimmerman and against Trayvon.

[noiretextatique]

16. right...apparently their belief in racism

their supposedly belief in self-defense and liberty and freedom and all that jazz. they are circling the wagons to defame Martin, but it has NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH RACE

[TrollBuster9090]

19. Let's not forget...before this incident libertarians and right wingers like Rand Paul had already

said it was a constitutional right to discriminate, and that the Civil Rights act, which forces restaurant, hotel and swimming pool owners to not discriminate customers based on race, should be struck down.

So, yes, they're consistantly in favor of the "right" of people to discriminate based on race! Although, after this I'm sure they'll be scrambling to distance themselves from that argument, and we won't hear it again for awhile.


Other than that, it's a fact that they'll always defend:
A) the right of non-blacks to carry arms around, and shoot first in "self defence." While at the same time...
B) they'll always defend the POLICE MAN who shoots a black kid on the street who is carrying a video camera or a wallet that he THOUGHT was a gun.

So, this whole right to bear arms thing is very color dependent!

[awoke_in_2003]

20. "Wasn't Trayvon just minding his own business FREELY walking"...

yes, but he was doing it while being black.

[PoliticAverse]

9. Zimmerman apparently doesn't have any 'assault convictions'...

"When You Point A Finger At Someone Remember You Have 3 Pointing Back At You."

[ananda]

11. I just heard it on my local news show...

... as they were reporting about a rally for justice for Trayvon.

They said this with straight faces, like it was actual fact... that
Zimmermann said yes he was following Trayvon, but that he
was walking away from Trayvon back to his truck when Trayvon
attacked him and he defended himself rightfully according to the
stand your ground law.

The media everywhere is SO compromised. Why should anyone just
take Zimmerman at his word.

LET THE EVIDENCE SPEAK!

[malaise]

12. Not unbelievable at all

just ignorant, uninformed and happy to remain a 'moran'.

[absyntheminded]

14. Spot on...

We pound this "moran" with facts all the time and can't make a dent, GOP/right winger in a bubble syndrome, just no getting thru...

He's a huge fundy/evangelical too, and when faced with the "what would Jesus do?" conundrum, he just acts like we didn't say anything... He's in complete denial of his own sociopathic/psychopathic ideology.

[blm]

13. It's believable - for 30years all the 'news' they've absorbed has been from RevMoon and Murdoch's

vast media empires. What do you think their brains look like after a steady diet of daily talking points crafted by the media machines of a fascist cult leader and a fascist extortionist - neither born in this country and both global fascists.

[absyntheminded]

15. Exactly...

Why I love the term "Fauxzombie" - just so fitting.

I'm waiting for the new AMC series "The Fauxing Dead"

....you said "brains!"

[blm]

21. There were MOONIES long before there were FAUXZOMBIES. Murdoch entered 'news' arena as RevMoon did -

for catapulting the propaganda for GHWBush and his fascist cronies' political advancement of their global fascist agenda - New World Order.

[Initech]

18. The Fox Ministry Of Propaganda: You Will Think What We Tell You To Think!

[lpbk2713]

23. Boy is he gonna be pissed!

... when he hears about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.