Tom Maguire:
The Zimmerman trial is underway with jury selection, so it is time for the mainstream media to start making thiungs up.
Our fave du jour comes from the New Yorker, where Jelani Cobb links the Martin shooting with the larger liberal ongoing nightmare:
It’s possible—no, reasonable—to look at Martin’s death as the opening scene in a four-act drama centering on American gun culture. The subsequent scenes were set in Aurora, Colorado; Oak Creek, Wisconsin; and Newtown, Connecticut.
From an overzealous neighborhood watchman to a lunatic gunning down kindergartners. Hmm – that connection is not really explained, but I think liberals all just “get it”. Which leaves me stuck outside, but I can still nitpick at factual claims:
In the weeks following Zimmerman’s arrest, the already-febrile imaginations of Internet conspiracy jockeys were arguing that Martin was far from the baby-faced tween we’ve seen repeatedly but rather a six-foot, hundred-and-ninety-pound, facially-tatted thug apparent.
One hundred ninety? The police report had Martin at 160, which is the highest estimate I can recall seeing, and I do my share of non-mainstream poking about. By way of example, I daresay David Duke counts as a febrile conspiracy jockey; Google tells me that he was putting Martin’s weight at 160.
I have no doubt the New Yorker will provide some supplemental links documenting this claim, given their legion of fact-checkers. I’m lying – Hades will freeze before Jelani Cobb comes back to this.
And why did anyone care? Folks who remember the background will remember that Martin’s supporters were pooh-poohing the notion that tiny Trayvon could have possibly initiated an attack on Zimmerman. Let’s cut to Charles Blow, a reliable font of CW:
As I have said before GZ will not get a fair trial. Between the judge and the press I don’t have much hope. The fact that they always show the angelic Trayvon’s picture shows bias. Show his most recent picture, it is scary. The judges ruling that says the defense cannot use Trayvon’s recent history of behavior is very telling.
The NYT let its editorial bias show last Sunday. They showed a photo of a 13-year innocent Trayvon, with no bling. And they showed Zimmerman, shaved head, prison smock. No bias there!
Come on.
The veridict is in. Zimmerman is guilty. And he will be hanged.
The facts are irrelevant. In fact the facts may not be brought up during the trial. Trayvon’s personal history is not allowed, while Zimmerman will be eagerly portrayed as a bigot. Obama has already issued a guilty verdict, and the IRS will be unleashed on any juror who thinks otherwise.
“Power to the People!” Unleash the Trayvons of this world so that they can kill with immunity.
mathman
yes I notice and I don’t like the FACT that they take away all the necessary clue favoring GEORGE ZIMMERMAN,
but I have faith on O’MARRA, and he did not take the case for money also,
and he is not alone either ,
that judge is PROBABLY INTIMIDATED BY THE CRUMP GROUP DELARENTA PROSECUTOR WHO
already foam at the mouth thinking he has the case in his pocket.
I hope she remember her OATH,
too many felons are showing up for actions so miner they should not have to go on theit knees to beg for a job, in their own COUNTRY, there is an abuse of power from JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS to keep their money coming. and a check is mandatory now.
COREY the first procecutor in FLORIDA has emprisoned a black pregnant mother of 2 children , for trying to defend herself from an assault from her HUSBAND wife beater,
she took her gun and shot on the WALL to freak him up, MARISSA
IN PRISON FOR MANY YEARS,
is in it fair, no not at all. the bully go free
they are afraid because he SHOT TO SAVE HIS LIFE,
which go against the ANTIGUN RIGHT of OBAMA
and they are afraid of the rioting from the BLACKS being organize by the BLACK ELECTED,
which would at the end work against the BLACKS and proove the need of the WHITES to shoot to save their lives, remember that 80 years old war veterans being visciously attack and beaten by 6 young blacks leaving him for dead
hidden in the woods almost dead from his wounds, and the white woman taking a room in an apartment being rape and thrown down the third floor, and other stories as bad resulting in the TRAYVON MARTIN being innocent, influencing the violence from blacks on whites,
It tells us a lot that the Zimmerman case is getting front page coverage (the victim looks like Obama’s son!!!)
versus the Gosnell abortion doctor case got virtually no coverage at all anywhere in the papers!