Video: CNN covers the Christian-Newsom murders
posted at 10:39 am on May 30, 2007 by Bryan
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As only CNN can, with a sneer that anyone who cares about what happened to Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, and why it happened, has to be a redneck bigot white supremacist. The report starts off citing an Aryan blogger and descends from there.
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Nothing like the KKK to lend credibility to the story. Poor kids.
GoodBoy on May 30, 2007 at 10:48 AM
Nooo! Kiran Chetry defected???
I’m sad.
Blacklake on May 30, 2007 at 10:51 AM
So what was the useful crime here, that the killers were caught?
unamused on May 30, 2007 at 10:52 AM
We love KC. Even if she’s taking CNN’s dirty money.
Enrique on May 30, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Now I feel sick.
ITmonkey on May 30, 2007 at 10:56 AM
I love KC too.
However, the slant by CNN is incredible. Had the races been reversed on this one, I can’t even imagine the outcry.
asc85 on May 30, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Caucasians are outraged…cue the white supremacists. So predictably PC.
Buck Turgidson on May 30, 2007 at 11:04 AM
Sigh.
Can’t watch. But at least its out there. You guys deserve some of the credit. Thank you again.
Professor Blather on May 30, 2007 at 11:04 AM
Link your critics to white supremacists in order to marginalize them. This is a new low.
Verbal Abuse on May 30, 2007 at 11:06 AM
What’s wrong with this country? They were raped, tortured, burned, but it’s only a “hate” crime if they did it because of race? This goes both ways, too.
Painting as swastika on someone’s house should be a “hate” crime. Murder and rape are bad enough, who the hell cares if you call it a hate crime as well. Any time someone commits a crime against someone of another race, creed, nationality it could be called a hate crime. What’s the point?
That being said, there is a double standard. If the races were reversed, I have no doubt Rev. Al would be on the scene keeping his franchise alive.
Something is fishy though, because this case should have been covered around the clock because of the attractive white girl targically murdered standard. I think the bottom line is that CNN and it’s ilk have no ethical standards at all, and this contrived piece is a lame attempt to defend itself.
reaganaut on May 30, 2007 at 11:08 AM
Because as you know, only a Racist would be outraged by the RAPE, TORTURE, SEXUAL MUTILATION and MURDER of two innocent naive young people by 5 repulsive predators.
JayHaw Phrenzie on May 30, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Typical of the MSM - change the topic from the atrocity to something else.
Hilts on May 30, 2007 at 11:13 AM
Now, everyone say it with me…
nuance.
It’s obvious that the real story is about white supremacy.
Apologist douche bags.
natesnake on May 30, 2007 at 11:27 AM
I do suspect that if the races had been reversed this story would have likely received more coverage. However, I doubt it would have received the round-the-clock, Greta Van Sustern treatment some seem to think it would have.
What this case lacks relative to other high-profile ones of recent years is an inherent air of mystery. With Scott Peterson, there was the mystery of the missing pregnant wife, then the entire “whodunnit” when the body was found. Any missing child case obviously involves a mystery from the start. The fate of Natalie Holloway remains a mystery to this day. The Duke Lacross scandal at least had the initial controversy of the he-said, she-said scenario, which also presents a kind of mystery (who’s lying, and why? Also, the case had an inherent air of salaciousness, which no doubt helped its ratings appeal).
Here you simply have a gruesome, disgusting crime, the details of which are difficult to hear, and in which the perpetrators are already well established. There’s plenty there to make one sick and outraged, but nothing to really stimulate curiosity; all the questions seem to be answered (many with more detail than you really care to hear).
I’m not saying it isn’t newsworthy, but I can see why coverage of it doesn’t constitute a formula for ratings, which, cynically, seems to be the primary concern when it comes to media coverage and crime.
Blacklake on May 30, 2007 at 11:27 AM
At least some moderation allowed both sides to be heard.
This is a horrific crime and the lack of coverage shows the very real lack of parity in the MSM.
Speakup on May 30, 2007 at 11:34 AM
Aryan Awakening, Michelle Malkin. A coincidence?
Ha!
Seriously, where’s the autopsy report so that we can judge for ourselves if there was torture and mutilation involved here. The local DA didn’t reek of any sort of authority.
thegreatbeast on May 30, 2007 at 11:34 AM
Now that it’s finally on their radar, you can bet your sweet a$$ that CNN will be keeping a close eye on anything around Knoxville that even remotely resembles a white on black “blow back” reaction.
Because that, is what the real story is about.
natesnake on May 30, 2007 at 11:34 AM
Categorize then marginalize.
[Blacklake on May 30, 2007 at 11:27 AM]
Agree.
Spirit of 1776 on May 30, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Well if CNN is going to show it, of course they need to twist the story to meet their political agenda… you don’t think they would waste air time by just giving you the facts do you ?
Maxx on May 30, 2007 at 11:47 AM
However, the slant by CNN is incredible. Had the races been reversed on this one, I can’t even imagine the outcry.
asc85 on May 30, 2007 at 11:02 AM
YOu got that right!!! What a bunch of @#$%^&!!!!
Lonevoice on May 30, 2007 at 12:01 PM
This was a heinous crime no matter what the circumstances. Was it a hate crime? Absolutely…anyone who can do this to another human being is doing it out of hate.
heatherrc77 on May 30, 2007 at 12:04 PM
What’s really amazing is how they turn it around into a white on black racism story. But ok, it’s the left, so what’s new? Welcome to the upside-down lefty reality show.
It’s exactly the same principle as reporting on ‘islamophobia’ after every terror attack, foiled or otherwise.
Aylios on May 30, 2007 at 12:26 PM
Will the MSM even point out the hatrid that goes on left wing blogs like Kos ? The jewish bashing that goes on there is beyond belief.
No its only “Right wing blogs” that spew hatrid.
Leave it to the MSM to take a story like this and make those who want justice to be smeared as “Racists” themselves.
William Amos on May 30, 2007 at 12:29 PM
The whole CNN report is evidence that in order to be heard (exposed)some issues need to be either put up on web sites or taken to the street. The fact that an extremist group has latched on to the issue is unfortunate but I think due the lack of information on the case the MSM has made a rod for their own back. They are now trying to turn lemons into lemonade, and are probably happy the demonstration took place. Seeing as it let them off the hook for their bias and lack of reporting. I think the nature of the crime is what ignited the intense outrage, and mabey these demonstrators at least had the cahones to take it to the street.
sonnyspats1 on May 30, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Dissent: I can’t blame CNN for including the racist groups in their report, but I blame them for making it the story. Kind of hard to ignore a protest with a guy holding a sign with a swastika on it.
Yet another example of why “hate crime” legislation is counterproductive and without any value. All murders are hate crimes. Punish the crime, not the motive.
As for the murderers, I still say burn them in the public square.
Jaibones on May 30, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Reaganaut and Blacklake, well said both of you.
I cringe when I hear the term “hate crime” always. A crime is a crime. Murder is murder. It reminds me of the term “date rape.” A rape is a rape. Period. I believe these terms were invented by liberals in order to make a political statement about the crime that is being committed. I don’t use them.
Zetterson on May 30, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Makes sense: even this murder is a reason to feel white guilt. Thought there was no way that they could stick with the narrative, but they are plucky over there at CNN.
jaychandra on May 30, 2007 at 12:45 PM
In these matters as in others we discuss, no substitute seems to exist, for a growing, expanding citizenry that crowds out and diminishes its opponents. The citizenry’s children had better be educated not just in money-making, as the Americans’ children are presently, but regarding politics and warfare, both in a broad sense. It seems a citizenry can’t safely relent, but had better insist on being better-trained, better-armed, and better-organized than their potential attackers.
Kralizec on May 30, 2007 at 12:48 PM
Jailbones, I’m not trying to be a wise guy here because I agree with you but what about radical Islamic Jihadists and terrorism? Is it not important that we take into account the connection between their murders and how they are committed in the name of their religion?
Zetterson on May 30, 2007 at 12:53 PM
I know who would have covered it…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tzqp3Ly5Reg (this never stops being funny)
RightWinged on May 30, 2007 at 12:53 PM
It sounds to me like it was a regular crime that turned into a hate crime. In other words, they started out wanting to jack their car, but then they found the cute whitey white white couple inside and decided to have a little “fun”.
I mean, for anyone, just answer this: if they had found an Asian, Latino or black couple in the car, would they have acted in the same way?
I seriously doubt it.
Seixon on May 30, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Damn - I must be the only black conservative left in America. Evil is evil. Sometimes even the KKK is right - there I said it.
This is a hate crime. There is no reasonable doubt that this escalated from a car jacking to kidnapping, to rape (including repeated homosexual rape and sodomy), torture, and mutilation because of racist hatred.
To prove otherwise would require that these “perpetrators” do this all of the time (which begs the question how many black folks have they murdered - since the premise is that they have not done so to white folk, prompting outrage).
If however they are only guilty of any one of the above individually or collectively in other cases with black folks, then the escalating catalyst could only be race.
This is what the death penalty is for, however I prefer they be thrown in a jail with Aryan Brotherhood dominance. There I said it.
As for Chetry, I hope she feels dirty. She has proven she is too much of an airhead to get the point of this vile misdirection. As the new kid maybe she wants to protect her pay check. Surely she was “recruited” and overpaid just to annoy FOX. Good riddance.
Agrippa2k on May 30, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Uh, right.
Because, like, there sure haven’t been any RECENT cases that I can think of involving an alleged white on black sexual crime that DID get round-the-clock coverage.
Mmm-kay.
Professor Blather on May 30, 2007 at 1:14 PM
Maybe you didn’t read everything I wrote, as I specifically addressed that case. As I said, it did involve an element of mystery: He said/She said is always a polarizing situation (Who’s lying? Why? Is everybody lying?), and the fact that there was a stripper involved, along with all the other naughty little details, only added fuel to the fire.
I don’t deny that the white-on-black nature of the Duke case did play into a liberal meme, and that that also played a role in exciting the coverage. It simply was not the only thing that played that role.
In this despicable case, there doesn’t seem to be any obvious question that the people in hand are the ones responsible, and it appears their identities have been known essentially from the start. So, in addition to the fact that the case doesn’t play into a liberal meme, it’s also just not objectively all that interesting, as there aren’t many questions unanswered. It’s only disturbing, and disturbing by itself doesn’t make for ratings.
Blacklake on May 30, 2007 at 1:31 PM
“Damn - I must be the only black conservative left in America. Evil is evil. Sometimes even the KKK is right - there I said it.
This is a hate crime. There is no reasonable doubt that this escalated from a car jacking to kidnapping, to rape (including repeated homosexual rape and sodomy), torture, and mutilation because of racist hatred.
To prove otherwise would require that these “perpetrators” do this all of the time (which begs the question how many black folks have they murdered - since the premise is that they have not done so to white folk, prompting outrage).
If however they are only guilty of any one of the above individually or collectively in other cases with black folks, then the escalating catalyst could only be race.
This is what the death penalty is for, however I prefer they be thrown in a jail with Aryan Brotherhood dominance. There I said it.
As for Chetry, I hope she feels dirty. She has proven she is too much of an airhead to get the point of this vile misdirection. As the new kid maybe she wants to protect her pay check. Surely she was “recruited” and overpaid just to annoy FOX. Good riddance.”
Agrippa2k on May 30, 2007 at 1:00 PM
You are not alone, bro.
I be here.
We may not be the remnant that many think we are, either.
http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/
In his autobiography, Colin Powell described a lesson learned in how our government works: It is like a large dinosaur that when you kick it as hard as you can in the tail, nothing happens, you continue on about your business and years later you hear a scream.
Keep working, keep writing, keep talking to others, keep voting, keep working the grassroots, don’t let the “instant gratification” thing of the TV generation delude you into wanting it now or losing interest.
“Never, never, never, give up.” –Winston Churchill said that in a speech to a boys school during WWII.
Winston won.
The media of Churchill’s day was as devisive, dishonest, pandering and ugly as our media is today.
You know you are right.
That knowledge alone is power enough to stay with it, bro.
Dr. King was registered as a Republican.
His views were decidedly conservative in many ways.
His dream frightens the other side so much that we see what we see today.
And what we see today is so far removed from the true American Dream, which is one and the same.
It is my strong belief that we do not fight an ideology, we do not fight a political battle, as much as we fight a war of good versus evil.
We fight a war of Absolute Truth versus so-called “relative truth” — which can only be a euphemism for the lie.
Whether one chooses to be on the side of good or on the side of evil knows no racial or ethnic boundaries.
.
The Machine on May 30, 2007 at 1:38 PM
Incidentally, as counter-examples, the Natalie Holloway case fails to play into any liberal meme I can find, yet it received wall-to-wall coverage for rather a long time. The reason for this was the crime-novel type setting, the attractive cast of characters, and the pervading sense of creepy mystery. (Come to think of it, much of the same is true for the Lacie Peterson case.)
I’m not suggesting that looking at real human tragedies in such terms is laudable, or that exploiting them for the purpose of boosting TV ratings is appropriate. I personally find Van Sustern, Grace and their ilk repellent. I’m merely suggesting that these are some of the factors that do, in fact, make some true crime stories the stuff of good ratings.
Blacklake on May 30, 2007 at 1:40 PM
Only CNN could do this. The perpetrators of car-jacking, kidnapping, rape, forced sodomy, torture, poisoning, possible sexual mutilation, and double murder are the victims of white racism. This is a new low, even for the network that invented low. If hatred equal evil, then my feelings for CNN make me a very, very bad man.
dostrick on May 30, 2007 at 1:42 PM
despicable…
Watch as this progresses, I’ll put money on CNN trying to spin the perpetrators into victims.
liquidflorian on May 30, 2007 at 1:46 PM
Funny, the New Black Panther party needs no proof whatsoever that a crime against a black person is indeed a hate crime. And yes I do put the New Black Panther Party and many other black power groups on the exact same footing as the Aryan groups.
There is no question that this story was buried, due to the political climate. Crime and hate against white America is now accepted and in some peoples minds, deserved. Welcome to the new world.
americaslaststand on May 30, 2007 at 1:57 PM
The perpetrators are victims: they are a product of slavery and racism. If white persons do something evil it is because they are evil, if they have something evil done to them, again it is blowback because they are evil. Tight logic.
You might say that it is racist to say that because it robs non-whites of agency; but that is just you again projecting your racist, white categories like ‘agency’ on non-whites, which you do just so you can take away even fictions from non-white people.
jaychandra on May 30, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Somebody shopuld’ve asked the lame-o reverend if this was a “love crime.” or just a “crime of apathy.”
-T
The Therapist on May 30, 2007 at 2:04 PM
The local DA stated there is no evidence of a hate crime? How about the dead bodies & abuse the couple took! My God! This wasn’t a love crime DA Moron. Death Penalty is too easy. They should get the same treatment for their punishment.
If a guard looks cross eyed at a Muslim at Gitmo it’s splashed all over the news as a human right violation and hate crime.
VikingGoneWild on May 30, 2007 at 2:05 PM
Like the good Professor, I couldn’t watch it either because it’s CNN. You know it never ceases to amaze me that one has to belong to “a protected class” to get an hate crime designation. Yeah, we all know Rev Al & Jesse would have been down there so fast it would have made the people’s heads spin. Right before we left HI, there was a question of a hate crime (luckily the people were not killed but were injured). A white (haole) woman hit someone’s truck backing into a parking spot. Before she could get out to aplogize she and her husband were dragged from the truck, called “F-ing haole’s” over and over again and thrown up and down on the concrete and he had just gotten back from Iraq and probably thought he left that sort of people dragging you out of your car behind there. I don’t know what happened to the case but it was being debated if this should be a hate crime or not. Knowing the HI, I doubt it will be.
Anyway, like others have said, where are the libs screaming about these two?? Maybe some of the libs who troll here can tell me why this is not a big deal. I mean, heck we have had to listen to that Natalee Holloway story off and on for two years now and why does this not rate?
Catie96706 on May 30, 2007 at 2:31 PM
Translation - it was their own fault, they should have known better than to be where they were when they were there.
Oh, and for CNN. You b*stards. Many blogs other than racist ones have commented on this HATE CRIME, and you cherry-pick the most volatile, just to smear whites?
- John Gill, Knox Country District Attorney’s office
Nuance for Dummies…
To The Machine,
Preach on.
Freelancer on May 30, 2007 at 2:39 PM
Wat?
ar_basin on May 30, 2007 at 2:45 PM
CNN cherry picks the volatile for ratings and to promote their own politil objectives. Ya, why look at Hot Air, and MM’s blog which is amoung the large majority of blogs reporting this case for what it is, when you can pick from the fringe?
Why doesn’t CNN hop on the left web-sites that preach that whites are devils, when a white on black crime occurs?
Rode Werk on May 30, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Not unlike Bush or Linda Chavez at Townhall (in regards to illegal immigration).
jeffNWV on May 30, 2007 at 3:05 PM
When did CNN cover this case prior to this Hit Piece?
Oh, never mentioned? Never mind!
Oxybeles on May 30, 2007 at 3:20 PM
As Ann Coulter stated, ” … it doesn’t pay to be nice … ”
Remember what they did with Juba (the Sniper) and our U.S. Soldiers?
ar_basin on May 30, 2007 at 3:24 PM
Classic red herring.
Aren’t all crimes by definition ‘hateful’?
locomotivebreath1901 on May 30, 2007 at 4:01 PM
At the end of the segment, “Reverend” Ezra Mayes says that it’s people outside of Cincinnati who are trying to make this a hate crime. This just in smart guy, the story is centered in Knoxville, TN. Wrong city, wrong state. I wonder how good his analysis really is since it seems that he is stuck on the supposed cop-on-Black crimes in a different city.
I also noticed that CNN didn’t portray the counter-protesters as being hateful. Remember, these are the folks who were claiming that these White students deserved what they got because of the poor condition of inner-city Blacks. Talk about racist! But it didn’t fit the MSM template of crimes can only be committed by Whites.
cmay on May 30, 2007 at 4:17 PM
Classic Left Bias by MSM that labels any protest by whites that is not blessed as politically correct as racist. Classic MSM Left Bias that also denies that if the races had been reveresed, if the crime had been white on black, that the coverage would have been different.
Double standards favoring blacks and disenfranchising whites in every way possible are so politically correct and supported so completly by the MSM their reporting and coverage is entirely predictable. Any white who points this out is immediately labeled a racist and coverage is focused not on the issue of the crime but on any miniscule point they can hang their while racist label on.
omegaram on May 30, 2007 at 4:30 PM
Riiiiiiight. We’re outraged because we’re racist. Let me state for the record, that I do not condone or sympathize with the KKK in any way. Nor do I believe that I am superior to any human being because I am caucasian. For example, I would never throw oreo cookies at an African American who was running for the Senate. I find that disgusting. Yet, I am outraged about the murders and the fact that the MSM ignored this story.
foxforce91 on May 30, 2007 at 4:43 PM
Sadly it takes a “White Supremacist” group for this case to see the light of day, and for the Main Stream Media to picked up the story. If the color of the people involved were reversed, this story would have been all over the Headlines. Does the color of a persons skin dictate the severity of a crime? What is the Country coming to?
I love the way she lumps into one group White Supremacist, Fringe Groups and Conservative Columnists at 5:20up or 3:20down. The Liberal Media sure knows how to degrade Conservatives and falsely put them on the defensive.
KCtheKat on May 30, 2007 at 5:43 PM
Don’t you see? CNN’s “take” on this makes perfect sense. KKK - like strike-outs at the baseball game. Think umpire analogy like this:
Lemme’ see. The victims were:
White (Strike 1),
Heterosexual (Strike 2),
From a state that voted for W. in 2000/2004 (Strike 3!)
Yer outta’ here!
Perhaps it’s time for someone to shout “You’re blind..kill the umpire!”
/sarcasm off
Okay. So you’re right. That wasn’t really funny. Virtually impossible to find ANYTHING funny in all of this, isn’t it?
CyberCipher on May 30, 2007 at 6:06 PM
Can this get any more outrageous? First this horrific crime happened to these two poor souls. Then it wasn’t covered because the MSM was too busy trying to score a gotcha in a rape case that didn’t involve a rape but did involve a bunch of white guys and a black female “victim”. Now the MSM as you said Hilts is distorting the story into something else entirely. I can only hope that the trial goes well at this point and these monsters get the death penalty they so very much deserve (a death that will be all too quick IMO but it’s something).
Yakko77 on May 30, 2007 at 7:19 PM
Whether one chooses to be on the side of good or on the side of evil knows no racial or ethnic boundaries.
.
The Machine on May 30, 2007 at 1:38 PM
Thanks for puting that out there Machine. I found your entire post relevant. The MSM loves to divide and conquer. The liberals love to come to the ‘rescue’.
sonnyspats1 on May 30, 2007 at 7:52 PM
How about this take on why the MSM is ignoring the atrocity of the crime?
THEY are the racists.
Seriously. Compared with the Duke case … a bunch of rich, whiter than white college boys are accused of raping a poor, single mom struggling to get by, who just so happens to be black. That isn’t supposed to happen! They are supposed to be good boys! Good, rich, white boys don’t do such things!
Now, a rich, whiter than white college couple is out on a date. They are attacked, car-jacked, raped, tortured and killed. By blacks. In other news, the sun rose in the east and water is wet. Ho hum, nothing new around here.
The racist media finds no “news” in the fact that blacks committed a crime. It IS news when whites do.
They’ve been called on the carpet for this, and are now scrambling to spin it away from their own racist tendancies. Indeed, the white supremist rally here was only on the news because the leader got himself arrested … and the counter-protestors had a rather unique way of getting their message across.
But then, the fact that the media is leftie-biased, and the so-called liberal left is racist to its core is not really *cough* news to many here.
LissaKay on May 30, 2007 at 9:41 PM
The Jasper Texas murder was all over the news the next day, any differance.
joeswampy on May 30, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Oh Kiran, how you have fallen :(.
Kevin M on May 30, 2007 at 10:25 PM
*sniff*
Kevin M on May 30, 2007 at 10:25 PM
They didn’t even answer the question.
Why did it take so long for the MSM to report this crime?
Couldn’t they have bothered to give even one guess at why they didn’t care about this until now?
Esthier on May 30, 2007 at 10:53 PM
I’m trying to think of a “story” where CNN was this vile and dishonest and just plain full of sh)t. In its 27-year history of running “reports” like this, there must be at least one as bad
…….still thinking; I’ll e mail all of you when I come up with something…………
Janos Hunyadi on May 31, 2007 at 12:30 AM
Janos … how about their coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?
LissaKay on May 31, 2007 at 7:32 AM
I live in Knoxville. I go to church with Christopher Newsom’s sister. My wife works with a girl whose sister is friends with the Knox County Sheriff. (No, I am not making any of this up.) I heard details about this crime before even the local media did. This was not a hate crime. This was a crime of anger.
Since all the national attention to this story began, it’s given me a different perspective on news coverage, and how it must affect the loved ones of the victims. I know if it were my brother (or sister, etc.) I wouldn’t want to keep turning on the news and seeing their face and hearing the details over and over again.
That said, this goofball Maize is completely off-base when he says that “if the races were reversed, the media would not have picked up on it.” Uh, hello?? Duke Lacrosse??? Tawana Brawley??? Crown Heights??? Of course, the local “racial activists” here are no different than those anywhere else. There was a case a couple of years ago where a cop shot a black kid who, after being told to put his hands in plain sight, kept reaching for something. The cops shot and killed him. The kid was, indeed, reaching for a gun. But that wasn’t the point. The point was that a white cop shot a black kid. That was all over the local news for months.
And just for the record, Knoxville is not the center of the racist universe, as CNN would have you believe. Whites and blacks alike are shocked and horrified by this crime. But nobody has called out the posse or the lynch mob just yet.
BigOrangeAxe on May 31, 2007 at 8:25 AM
So CNN has turned a horrific tragedy into a right wing hit piece? Well, what else would you expect from the news service that covered up Saddam’s brutality?
CNN. Progressive propaganda at its best.
DannoJyd on May 31, 2007 at 9:15 AM
The Duke Univ., unsubstantiated, absurd story was force fed us for an entire year even after it was very apparent that there wasn’t anything to it. The slaughter of two young people was buried in the news and anyone asking about the particulars of the case is branded a white racist.
I believe our media has an agenda. Ya think?
UnEasyRider on May 31, 2007 at 10:45 AM
How about when thesae dirtbags (CNN) accused the US Military os using Nerve Gas in Vietnam and then could not back up the claim.
JayHaw Phrenzie on May 31, 2007 at 10:59 AM
This report actually proves what many have been saying. The MSM is agenda driven. They have gone out of their way to make the story about “white supremest”. They are complicit in keeping “whitey” down. Play big with the white on black crimes and dismiss, smear or ignore others. They are too secure in their arrogance and omnipotence. We little people couldn’t possibly understand or recognize “race hate” unless they point it out for us. They must really, really hate the internet!
Altura Ct. on May 31, 2007 at 12:40 PM
I saw Kiran Chetry on CNN again this morning. What happened to her? Is CNN taking away her sexiness? Or was FOX tarting her up?
asc85 on May 31, 2007 at 1:56 PM
Admission: “We don’t know too many details about why this crime occurred” -Police Chief
… but it couldn’t possibly be a hate crime … ???
P.S. White Supremists suck - So do Black Supremists (aka: NAACP)
SilverStar830 on May 31, 2007 at 3:29 PM
Non sequitur. People are murdered every single day. The media can’t report every single one. In fact I can only remember a handful of murder cases the national media regularly covered.
Nonfactor on May 31, 2007 at 6:16 PM
Back at ya … people are raped every single day. WHY did the media make such a huge deal out of the Duke case?
LissaKay on May 31, 2007 at 9:24 PM
You’d have to ask them that. But the point still remains - what you said was a non sequitur. To expect the media to report on every single murder case you want them to isn’t plausible.
Let me pose a hypothetical. The media reports heavily on the death of a child due to starvation. Would it be rational to demand the media report on every child that dies of hunger (1 every 5 seconds)? (replace hunger with murder and there you go)
Nonfactor on June 1, 2007 at 2:01 AM
hate crime legislation is a joke. It should not exist.
And cnn is a joke too. It should not be watched….ever.
Metro on June 1, 2007 at 10:16 PM