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brettdale

(12,381 posts)
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 07:05 PM Mar 2012

Trayvon Martin and what Fox news is hoping

They are really pushing for the zimmerman not to be charged, they are saying the video is inconclusive for some ready, apparently their journos, cant tell if his head was smashed against the concrete.

The reasons why they are lying is this, they want riots, they want black people to riot, they want their bigoted viewers to think "well black people are rioting and Obama is Black, so..."

That is the level they will go to, it's disgusting.

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Trayvon Martin and what Fox news is hoping (Original Post) brettdale Mar 2012 OP
Anything, even remotely, that they can tie Obama to HockeyMom Mar 2012 #1
So true, and so unsurprising Boabab Mar 2012 #2
Also, the hacker that broke into Trayvon's e-mails and found discussions about his wishes monmouth Mar 2012 #3
A life with plenty of potential snuffed out, and the killer still hasn't been charged. smh. n/t Boabab Mar 2012 #4
You got it zeemike Mar 2012 #5
gee oldhippydude Mar 2012 #9
But none of this will happen ithinkmyliverhurts Mar 2012 #6
Hmm, they just want to smear Spacedog1973 Mar 2012 #7
Has anyone been asked if blood was seen on the sidewalk? eom chowder66 Mar 2012 #8
You are 10000000% correct! Have seen them posting about "coming riots" Quixote1818 Mar 2012 #10

Boabab

(120 posts)
2. So true, and so unsurprising
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 07:17 PM
Mar 2012

Earlier today, several prominent blogs came out with headlines that there shouldn't be a "rush to judgment" in the case. In addition, other articles revealed that Trayvon's autopsy was "being discussed" by Florida officials, with no details provided.

My take is that the autopsy shows that Trayvon was shot in the back. Thus, the shooting was an execution, not remotely an instance of self-defense.

monmouth

(21,078 posts)
3. Also, the hacker that broke into Trayvon's e-mails and found discussions about his wishes
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 07:23 PM
Mar 2012

to go to college etc. puts the light onto a young man with a plan. This young man was no thug as they would love for people to think...

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
5. You got it
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 07:38 PM
Mar 2012

But it goes farther than that...they want to create a civil war of sorts where the right wingers in the militias start killing people because they fear communism socialism and those welfare queens and kings that are bring this country down and destroying the constitution...that is madness to most normal people but not to the nut cases.

ithinkmyliverhurts

(1,928 posts)
6. But none of this will happen
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 07:41 PM
Mar 2012

as long as the African-American community doesn't riot. Then Fox's hopes and plans are dashed.

It seems a rather stupid plan, to be honest, and maybe it is their plan. But to pin it all on the irrationality of a specific group seems to be a very dumb strategy.

I think a simpler explanation is that they're trying to make this black/"white" (latino) issue a republican/democratic issue, or, even more likely, a media issue where the black is always presumed the innocent and the "white" (latino) is always presumed guilty. Its just victimage politics.

But who knows, you could be right; Fox could be this stupid in its confidence that the African-American community is likely to riot. What sort of mind does it take to think up such nonsense and to think so lowly of a specific group of citizens?

Quixote1818

(28,941 posts)
10. You are 10000000% correct! Have seen them posting about "coming riots"
Sat Mar 31, 2012, 12:36 AM
Mar 2012

I have seen the nut cases posting about "coming riots that Obama is pushing for" on several you-tube video's and comment sections of news articles on this case. You are SPOT ON! Thanks for bringing this up! Big K and R!
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