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“Obama Campaign: Republicans ‘Politicizing’ Trayvon Martin’s Death”

Yes. Republicans. It is they who are ‘politicizing’ Martin’s death — they who are organizing marches, they who are putting out bounties, they who are selling hoodies and t-shirts, they who have scheduled mock Congressional briefings, they who used the bully pulpit to call for a national soul-searching because we’re somehow collectively complicit in a young man being shot to death while beating a neighborhood watch captain in Florida. Republicans. It is they who have blamed violence on freedom fetishists, they who have sought to turn the case into a call for federal review of state gun laws, they who stood before the nation and noted that, had they a son, he would have looked like Trayvon, while failing to show any public concern over the death of Brian Terry. It is they who have taken a local case, turned it intentionally into a national story, stoked racial animus, and are trying to orchestrate a lynch mob from the halls of Congress — all while ignoring due process.

Republicans, we’re to believe, are doing all this. Republicans. Many of whom are so terrified of being labeled racists that they’ll happily join in to calls for re-examining gun laws, or are “sympathetic” to calls for the arrest of a man who, an investigation showed, committed no crime.

Republicans are ‘politicizing’ Martin’s death. Republicans.

Up is down.  Black is white.  Malcolm is Martin.

 

113 Replies to ““Obama Campaign: Republicans ‘Politicizing’ Trayvon Martin’s Death””

  1. Crawford says:

    I thought Malcom was in the Middle?

  2. sdferr says:

    The republicans will be found responsible for having spent all those wasted dollars on Obamacare, should the Supreme Court cast the ACA down altogether. Mark it. The bastard conservatives just didn’t think.

  3. Crawford says:

    Keep in mind, it will be Republicans explaining why the upcoming riots were understandable results of injustice, and Republicans arguing that the truck driver pulled from his cab and beaten to within an inch of his life had it coming, because of his white skin privilege.

  4. newrouter says:

    Sharpton didn’t just insinuate himself into this, he was brought in from the first to do exactly what he does as part of a PR effort by a law firm that also mobilized all the resources that a Community Organizer would to get Action!

    In Trayvon’s case, they alerted the news media more quickly. They phoned the Rev. Al Sharpton almost instantly, and organized marches with local civil rights activists. They also started pressing for federal involvement and alleging a cover-up from the get-go.

    The results: The Sanford police chief received a no-confidence vote and stepped down temporarily. The prosecutor stepped aside to make way for a special prosecutor. The Justice Department and the FBI have joined the investigation. Celebrities from Cher to Donald Trump have gotten behind Trayvon’s case. And thousands have marched and protested across the nation.

    Even President Barack Obama weighed in Friday on what he called a “tragedy.”

    “You gain some experience,” said Parks, who has had a more behind-the-scenes role in the two cases as a matter of coincidence. “You brainstorm. You use what works and you don’t stop.”

    These same attorneys got one major news source, Reuters, to do a piece on March 7th which got on the Yahoo internet news service. This piece was just the one side and included an animated video inside a longer video that depicted Zimmerman as shooting Martin from a distance in cold blood. This is at 55 sec. into the 3:21 video. Last night for a while the video at the same link was changed to a longer one (4:11) with an intro by Charlie Rose and the animation changed to one of Zimmerman assaulting Martin and then shooting him at close range. Today the original seems to be back up, for now.

    It is the Community Organizing attorneys who have made this into a national matter, purposefully, and did so before they had determined the facts available in the case. They were intent upon making their own narrative the one that would be seen as reality. All else be damned. Else why the animation that has nothing to do with any thing known?

    link

  5. mt_molehill says:

    So Obama has bad instincts, but error recognition is getting quicker.

  6. Ernst Schreiber says:

    If, by error recognition, you mean they’ve got poll results showing them it’s time to start deflect blame, then yes, they are getting quicker.

  7. Squid says:

    “The President spoke from his heart on this…”

    I think we’ve discovered a new media code phrase for “Never mind what kind of stupid shit the President said this time.”

  8. JHoward says:

    View through the right polarization I have to admit that clip is just about the most stirring rendition I have ever seen of the poor downtrodden taking it to the man.

  9. geoffb says:

    Thank you newrouter @3:20.

    The 2nd through 5th paragraphs are quoted from here.

  10. mt_molehill says:

    Indeed, Ernst, that’s exactly what I mean.

  11. Bob M. says:

    Only slightly off topic, but check out the posts at Ulsterman (http://theulstermanreport.com/) for oh, about the last week or so. Interesting stuff. Still not sure if he makes this stuff up or not, but I find myself more often hoping that he is.

  12. JD says:

    Fuck. Them. Swordfish-style.

  13. Bob M. says:

    And to clarify, by “makes this stuff up”, I was refering mostly to his “White House Insider (WHI)” posts, maybe Wall Street Insider as well. The other stuff on his blog is all depressingly too real.

  14. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Just my $2 cents, but I’m inclined to let this play out. Of course we know Republican politicians won’t dare argue against this particular narrative ™ for fear of being labeled Klan members. And it’s been established conservatives already hate women.

    But…it was this kinda shit that inflamed the Tea Party and gave us 2010. The town halls were a catalyst, but it was when Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, et all started with the “un- American, terrorist, nazi” crap that Mom & Dad were telling the kids, “We can’t go to your soccer tournament this weekend. Nanna & Grandpa will take you. We’re road tripping 14 hours to DC with 20 of our friends to attend a Tea Party rally. Also, here’s some poster board & markers. We need you to make us some signs for us. Have fun with it.”

    Maybe I’m wrong. Hope not.

    I don’t have to get excited about Mittens, but I can get excited about whoopin’ some ass in Senate races.

  15. bh says:

    I think the clear lesson here is that Latinos should keep their eyes peeled for roving bands of Democrats looking to string them up and ask questions later.

  16. B Moe says:

    The Black Panthers have changed their bounty to only cover a “legal citizens arrest.”

    This shit is straight out of Amos & Andy. Its going to set race relations back 50 years.

  17. B Moe says:

    The funny thing about the hoodie is that the only reason Zimmerman mentioned it was to explain why he wasn’t sure of the race of the kid.

    And by funny I mean fucked up as shit.

  18. bh says:

    By the way, if you’ve never spent much time in Chicago, you’d enjoy reading about this guy’s history.

    I wonder if he has any connection to the Black Panthers? Ever do any jail time on weapons charges? Okay, I don’t really wonder.

    Here’s a fun quote from Mr. Rush:

    “He went to Harvard and became an educated fool,” Rush told the Chicago Reader during the campaign. “Barack is a person who read about the civil-rights protests and thinks he knows all about it.”

    Here’s another:

    State Senator Donne Trotter, who was also vying for Rush’s seat, told the same reporter that “Barack is viewed in part to be the white man in blackface in our community. You have only to look at his supporters. Who pushed him to get where he is so fast? It’s these individuals in Hyde Park, who don’t always have the best interest of the community in mind.”

    Geez. I sure hope Obama has never taken these sorts of statements to heart and then felt the need to overcompensate. Because that would sorta be the opposite of post-racial, I’m thinking.

  19. newrouter says:

    yea baracky’s sol in the 100% slave blood competition

  20. geoffb says:

    Bobby Rush was born in Albany, Georgia on November 23, 1946. His family moved to Chicago when he was young, where they settled on the West Side. Bobby Rush attended Marshall High School.

    After dropping out of high school, Rush joined the U.S. Army in 1963, joining the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1966. He went AWOL in 1968, co-founded the state’s Black Panther Party while stationed in Chicago and received an honorable discharge in 1968.[2]

  21. geoffb says:

    More:

    [C]o-founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers in 1968 and was made its “defense minister”. His son, Huey, was named after Panther leader Huey Newton. “We were reacting to police brutality, to the historical relationship between African-Americans and recalcitrant racist whites,” Rush later told People magazine. “We needed to arm ourselves.” Rush was present when fellow Black Panther Fred Hampton was killed in a police raid and later made a official statement that the police, referred only to as “pigs” by Rush, had murdered Hampton. Rush’s own apartment was raided in December 1969 where police discovered an unregistered pistol, rifle, shotgun and pistol ammunition, training manuals on explosives and booby traps, a small amount of marijuana and an assortment of communist literature. [3]

    Earlier that same year Rush stated the philosophy his membership in the Black Panthers saying, “Black people have been on the defensive for all these years. The trend now is not to wait to be attacked. We advocate offensive violence against the power structure.

  22. leigh says:

    Sounds like ole Bobby is still gangstah.

  23. bh says:

    I wonder — okay, again, I don’t actually wonder — if any of this history was related in the news stories about Mr. Rush’s historic hoodie protest?

    No? See. That’s odd, isn’t it? The proper use of weapons and the Black Panthers have become part of this story yet a guy with a personal history involving both stages a protest and it doesn’t warrant a mention.

    Hmmm… odd. I have absolutely no idea what to make of that sort of journalistic omission.

  24. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Oh man.

    That’s too perfect.

    The next time I’m forced to fill out a form that asks my race, I’m checking “Other”, and writing in Recalcitrant White.

  25. leigh says:

    I’m sure it’s just an oversight, bh. Not.

    Bobby Rush is the guy who basically called out Obama as a punk-ass bitch back in the day. So, stopped clocks and all.

  26. leigh says:

    Heh. Lamont, I wrote in “human” on our last census form.

  27. newrouter says:

    Hmmm… odd. I have absolutely no idea what to make of that sort of journalistic omission.

    oh biz as usual for the mbm. just regurgitate the proggtard talking points.

  28. bh says:

    I actually was surprised when I went through the first few news hits at Google and they didn’t even refer to Rush as controversial or firebrand or some other euphemism.

  29. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    “Rev” Jackson got caught on a hot mic “snatchin’ Barry’s nuts”, if I remember.

    Glad to see it’s all water under the bridge.

  30. B Moe says:

    I am going to start answering race with “white caucasion” just to remove all doubt.

  31. sdferr says:

    Not even as a stroke victim? Sheesh, a powerman can’t catch a break.

  32. bh says:

    Here’s an OT anecdote. When I first got to the U of C, Carol Moseley Braun was running for Senate and they were making a big push for her on campus. I remember hearing her speak and asking an older local I knew if she wasn’t the worst politician of all time.

    He just laughed.

    Unknown to either of us, Barack Obama had just started at our law school that same year.

    He was right to have laughed at me.

  33. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    If I had Grandparents, they’d look just like David & Elaine McClain.

    I’m sure Obama has called them to express support, urge calm to a “certain public”, and make sure all is well.

    If not…well the McClain’s may be hard to find.

    Ya know, trying to live below the radar in a shitty motel and all.

  34. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Unknown to either of us, Barack Obama had just started at our law school that same year.

    Ha! That implies you may have partial knowledge of an “academic transcript” bh.

    Secret Service knocks on your door in 3…2…1…

  35. newrouter says:

    you should be proud to have such a distinguished constitutional scholar like b. hussein obama on your campus

  36. bh says:

    I think I’ve talked about this before but I don’t know a single person who remembers seeing Obama on campus. As a not-particularly-exceptional undergrad I met and socialized with more than one Nobel Prize winner but Obama is just this big blank at the U of C. Who took his classes? Who ever had a beer with him at Jimmy’s? Who remembers him taking his TAs for pizza at the Med?

    No one.

  37. B Moe says:

    He was probably busy writing one of his books, bh.

  38. bh says:

    Heh, Geoff just sent an email that implies his “teaching” was exactly like his books, B Moe.

    Give me a sec… okay. From Ann Barnhardt’s joint, via Geoff (it’s rather long, sorry if you’re on a smartphone):

    Obama Didn’t Write His Own Course Syllabus.
    Posted by Ann Barnhardt – March 27, AD 2012 8:20 PM MST
    Breitbart.com published Obama’s University of Chicago “Constitutional Law” course syllabus a couple of weeks ago.

    HERE IT IS.

    Guys, Obama didn’t even write his own syllabus. The prose is sophisticated, the grammar is flawless, and the punctuation is good – heck, there are several semicolons used, and used correctly. In other words, the syllabus is everything that every other sample of genuine Obama-written prose is not. It isn’t the same voice. It isn’t the same author. Period.

    Every sample of genuine Obama-written prose in existence is HORRIFIC in terms of prose, grammar and punctuation. Agonizingly horrific. Please see Jack Cashill’s body of work, including several new pieces at AmericanThinker.com .

    Look at the course structure itself. Obama only had to bluff his way through four actual class periods, with most of those class periods consisting of student discussion. Students were explicitly graded on their participation in these four class sessions. The other six sessions were “small group project” presentations by the students. Obama wouldn’t have to say or do anything in those class periods except play the part of the “wise professor.” Total scammage.

    I think Obama was (and is) so stupid, and such a fraud that he had to have someone else prepare his course for him, including what little bit of lecture he delivered in those four class sessions.

    Who might have prepared a course syllabus and light lecture notes on constitutional race issues with an emphasis toward education and race?

    Bernardine Dohrn. As in Bill Ayers’ wife.

    Bernardine Dohrn was a paralegal at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin from 1984-1988, and, as an aside, was very likely acquainted with Michelle Robinson (later Obama) when Michelle summer interned at Sidley Austin while she was in law school and was later hired right out of Harvard Law in 1988. The dates match exactly. Barry was hired as a summer associate by Sidley Austin in 1989 while he was still in law school. That is allegedly how he and Michelle met. Since both Barry and Michelle are affirmative action frauds and put together don’t have the brains God gave a goldfish, neither one lasted long in an actual performance environment, and have only ever held non-performing meaningless crony positions.

    The reason Dohrn was a paralegal and not an attorney is only because she was a convicted felon per her terrorism activities with the Weather Underground back in the 1960s and 1970s. Dohrn was fully capable of passing the bar, and was working as a de facto attorney at Sidley Austin, just under the necessary title “paralegal” due to her criminal past.

    So, here we have yet another possible connection between Bill Ayers-Bernardine Dohrn and both of the Obamas. But back to the syllabus.

    We now know that Bill Ayers’ parents put Obama through Harvard, thanks to Allen Hulton’s testimony. The Ayers also knew that Obama was a lightweight intellectually who needed as much help with his academic tasks as he needed with his finances. Now Obama had been hired at the prestigious University of Chicago law school as an adjunct and had to actually teach a class – and appear credible. So, roll in the Ayers-Dohrn machine to the rescue. Just like the way that Ayers came to the rescue and wrote “Dreams From My Father” for Barry.

    Lawyer-in-all-but-name Bernardine Dohrn puts together a curriculum including lecture notes, and even writes the syllabus for Obama (as evidenced by the excellent prose, grammar and punctuation). All she needs to do is give Obama a few rhetorical platforms per class session (of which there were only FOUR) upon which he can then launch “class discussion.” Dohrn could have put this together in just a few hours. In class, Barry kicks back, fakes the role of all-wise “professor”, and cruises while the students in the class basically teach themselves.

    It should be mentioned that Dohrn has been a law professor since 1991, and focuses on race and juvenile/education issues. Which is pretty much exactly the focus of Obama’s course syllabus.

    Oh, and Bill Ayers has a Ed.D. in “Curriculum and Instruction.” As in, putting together curricula.

    Just sayin’.

  39. bh says:

    Just imagine if there was a functioning press in this country. Just imagine it.

  40. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    No one.

    Ah, that don’t mean nothin’. So, he didn’t physically exist between Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard. Plus, he had different names and stuff. Everybody does that. Also, pardon me sir, am I on the right road to Manchuria?

    Ok, that last part was mostly for the Alex Jones/ Paul bots.

    Mostly.

  41. newrouter says:

    baracky don’t need black shirts he got black panthers

  42. B Moe says:

    Muhumud “Kingfish” Shabazz gonna put a bounty on y’alls ass.

  43. newrouter says:

    rubio says on hannity that mittens offers a “stark contrast” to mittens. barf bags to the left.

  44. newrouter says:

    i meant baracky there ‘ “stark contrast” to mittens.” oh tough to keep the lies straight.

  45. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Shabazz !!!!

    Isn’t that what Billy Batson would holler to turn into Captain Marvel?

  46. leigh says:

    Isn’t Shabazz the name that Malcom X’s kids call themselves by? Are these the same crew or shirttail relatives?

  47. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    newrouter,

    What if Rubio was our own Manchurian? Gave Romney’s West Wing the finger for four years, ran to his fiscal/Constitutional right and set himself up for Rubio/Ryan (or Thune, or Jindal) 2016.

    A man can dream.

  48. bh says:

    I’m willing to bet that Ryan is gonna endorse Romney, too, before very long.

    If it’s in the general, I won’t hold it against him. If it’s after the Wisco primary but before the general, I’ll give him the stinkeye. If it’s before then? Cheese-tears, my friends. Cheese-tears.

  49. newrouter says:

    It has been 32 years since the gunfire erupted, the crowd screamed and Malcolm X fell dead on the stage at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, Manhattan, in front of his pregnant wife and daughters. But relatives, friends and others still debate the impact of that moment on a family whose anguish has seemingly endured through generations.

    Two years ago, Malcolm Shabazz’s mother, Qubilah, was indicted on charges that she tried to hire a hit man to kill Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, whom she blamed for her father’s murder.

    Lost in Shadows of History: Shabazz Family’s Troubles
    By RACHEL L. SWARNS
    Published: June 08, 1997

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    In the world of Malcolm Shabazz, drug addicts slumped on bathroom tiles, naked strangers sprawled on borrowed beds and prostitutes sold their bodies from apartment windows. And little boys like him shuttled from crack dens to hospital wards to relatives’ homes and back.

    But when he walked into Family Court last week, people no longer saw the skinny 12-year-old who had flitted almost anonymously through five cities, five schools and at least two hospitals over the last three years. They saw the grandson of Malcolm X. They saw history.

    It has been 32 years since the gunfire erupted, the crowd screamed and Malcolm X fell dead on the stage at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, Manhattan, in front of his pregnant wife and daughters. But relatives, friends and others still debate the impact of that moment on a family whose anguish has seemingly endured through generations.

    Two years ago, Malcolm Shabazz’s mother, Qubilah, was indicted on charges that she tried to hire a hit man to kill Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, whom she blamed for her father’s murder.
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    And now Malcolm, an occasional runaway and foster child, stands accused of setting a fire that severely burned his 61-year-old grandmother, Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X.

    But the boy in the spotlight spent most of his life in obscurity, the lonely son of a troubled and nomadic mother. Qubilah Shabazz described him as a schizophrenic, and for some time kept him in an inpatient hospital program for children suffering from ”emotional instability.”

    And as they wandered from city to city, Malcolm became not a celebrity, but an adolescent with few close friends, who so desperately wanted a father that he saved his favorite lollipops for a stranger he hoped might become his daddy.

    The story of Malcolm Shabazz reflects the sufferings of an extraordinary American family still wrestling with a singular historical moment. But it also mirrors the struggles of thousands of single mothers and troubled sons who find themselves unable to handle the hardships they encounter.

    And it is unlikely that anyone will ever know whether the violence of the past, the quirks of individual personality or some combination of those factors put Malcolm where he is now: accused of lighting a fire that left his grandmother in extremely critical condition at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.

    link

  50. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Isn’t Shabazz the name that Malcom X’s kids call themselves by? Are these the same crew or shirttail relatives?

    Nah. I think “The Shabazz” was the next product up after the “ShamWow” and “The Slap Chop”, but then that Vince guy went on a meth bender in south Florida and punched a hooker.

    It happens.

  51. newrouter says:

    if the entire barackycare is struck down the reason to vote mittens is struck down too. unless mittens starts talking about liberty and freedom the mittens doesn’t have my vote in november. oh and sorry for the arrangement of my previous post. black panthers, noi, southside of chitown own baracky.

  52. bh says:

    Speaking of which, I’ve been doing a bit of politicking for our theocratic, big-government-loving Santorum and it’s been rough.

    The argument that people seem most receptive towards involves laying out the various problems in the country (high gas, inflation, unemployment, slow growth, all that) and how that means Obama doesn’t have a chance in hell so the whole electability thing is moot. Then it’s a matter of trust. Romney or Santorum.

    Ehhh, like I said, that’s the argument people are most receptive to but I don’t think it’s gonna carry the day.

    Maybe next go around we’ll learn some lessons from this. 1) Don’t fight other good folks to be the Not Romney and instead just take him out first and 2) don’t take one for the team when your team is at odds with the movement. Better to take one for the movement maybe.

  53. Ernst Schreiber says:

    What if Rubio was our own Manchurian? Gave Romney’s West Wing the finger for four years, ran to his fiscal/Constitutional right and set himself up for Rubio/Ryan (or Thune, or Jindal) 2016.

    Thune’s spent too much time in the leadership.

  54. newrouter says:

    “2) don’t take one for the team when your team is at odds with the movement.”

    maybe the sweater vest wised up to the manipulations of the bush gang? go marco “help us with the illegal alien vote” rubio. and perry with his heartless comment. the whole gop establishment needs to go.

  55. newrouter says:

    What if Rubio was our own Manchurian? Gave Romney’s West Wing the finger for four years, ran to his fiscal/Constitutional right and set himself up for Rubio/Ryan (or Thune, or Jindal) 2016.

    you be stupid. romney is the gop statist’s guy and that dude would be out of there

  56. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Maybe next go around we’ll learn some lessons from this. 1) Don’t fight other good folks to be the Not Romney and instead just take him out first and 2) don’t take one for the team when your team is at odds with the movement. Better to take one for the movement maybe.

    I think putting 2 in context and repenting of the error would have helped Santorum’s cause (e.g. Against his instincts/better judgement, he supported Specter over Toomey and that was both a huge mistake and a learning experience).

  57. bh says:

    black panthers, noi, southside of chitown own baracky.

    As you’re a googling sort, nr, a question I have is whether or not Barry ever used NOI security back in the 90s. Lots of South Side black politicians have from time to time.

    It’d be interesting to find out if the same sort of Fruit of Islam types who killed Brother Malcolm for Brother Farrakhan ever worked for a little known Illinois state senator.

  58. Ernst Schreiber says:

    As to 1, that’s rather tricky isn’t it? I mean, if you’re the guy to take out The Guy to Beat, and The Guy’s supporters know it, they sure as hell aren’t going to warm to you, are they? On the other hand, if you’re the guy who took out The Guy to Beat, the fence sitters might move in your direction because now you’re The New Guy.

  59. bh says:

    you be stupid.

    Nah, LYBD is a joker. A talented one at that.

  60. leigh says:

    Bh, how is the politicing going? All y’all Wiscos got be sick to death of politicing by now. I think I would have torn my phone out of the wall (assuming I still had a wall phone) along with tearing my hair out.

  61. newrouter says:

    well the “journalists” in chitown in the 1990’s would. but this ain’t “birth control” so the “journalists” ain’t interested. baracky suxs and they know it.

  62. bh says:

    Well, towards 1, I’ve been complaining about that for months and I think the way this has played out sorta makes my case for me.

    Towards 2, I don’t want to overstate it because I have my problems with Santorum but I have problems with everyone. Take Ryan or Daniels, for example. I have problems with them. So… well, this is what happens when they trade horses and make sausage. It’s a human thing really. It’s just how we are even under the best possible system. Muddled, taking half-measures, misstepping, being less than totally brilliant and perfect at all moments.

  63. newrouter says:

    time to tell the bush family to go to hell

  64. bh says:

    Honestly? It’s not going so well, leigh.

    I don’t see Santorum reversing momentum here. He had a good interview on a big radio show yesterday with a friendly host and I was hoping that might give a bit of juice but I wasn’t feeling it on the phone today.

    Don’t see us even beating expectations here now.

  65. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Don’t see us even beating expectations here now.

    Too many Lutherans! [wink and grin]

  66. newrouter says:

    Muddled, taking half-measures, misstepping, being less than totally brilliant

    george and barbara, and gw, and rove, and wehner over at “contentions” say hi

  67. newrouter says:

    the bushes suck. time the rethuglican party tells them to go to hell.

    from nixon/ford days ghwb doing his statism. eff that whole clan.

  68. Ernst Schreiber says:

    That’s the human condition newrouter. If you don’t like it, change sides and try to do something about it. [grin]

  69. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I agree with you about staying out the Bushes, however.

  70. bh says:

    Too many Lutherans! [wink and grin]

    Heh. As I instinctively equate Lutheran and German I can’t rail on those dirty Martinists (don’t know any Lutheran smears so I just invented that) without feeling like I’m also railing beer and brats and… the Packers.

  71. bh says:

    railing against beer and brats…

  72. leigh says:

    That’s “stay out the bushes” yo.

  73. geoffb says:

    Obama 1995 at the Million (black)Man March.

  74. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Like I give a rat’s ass what Jesse Jackson said.

  75. leigh says:

    I figured you were all about context, Ernst. I also do not care What JJ said.

  76. newrouter says:

    well mittens has been touched by too much bush. go johnson 3rd party.

  77. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I’d root for a brokered convention myself

    if I didn’t think Jeb Bush would emerge as the darkhorse.

  78. leigh says:

    Hmmm. It appears that Malik Shabazz real name is Paris Lewis. I’m not sure which is worse.

  79. newrouter says:

    if the scotus shuts down baracky there is no reason to vote for mittens. mittens can to bush hell

  80. geoffb says:

    A Chicago “Neighborhood Watch“.

    Ayers’ wrote: “Our neighbors include Muhammad Ali, former mayor Eugene Sawyer, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Elizabeth Alexander, and writer Barack Obama. Minister Louis Farrakhan lives a block from our home and adds, we think, a unique dimension to the idea of ‘safe neighborhood watch’: the Fruit of Islam, his security force, has an eye on things twenty-four-hours a day.”

  81. newrouter says:

    there’s a “go” insert

  82. leigh says:

    Rubio just endorsed Mittens.

  83. bh says:

    Minister Louis Farrakhan lives a block from our home and adds, we think, a unique dimension to the idea of ‘safe neighborhood watch’: the Fruit of Islam, his security force, has an eye on things twenty-four-hours a day.

    That is a great find, Geoff.

    Neighborhood watch run by black supremacists* in the Ayers/Obama area? I don’t seem to recall Barry talking about this.

    (On a personal note, you could see the clear difference between the losers hawking The Final Call and the Fruit of Islam fanatics. If he’s calling them by the right name and as “[Farrahkan’s] security force”, I’m guessing that Ayers wasn’t confused by the fact that they were wearing bowties and abstaining from pork. Sounds like he knows the deal.)

    *Yes, they’re black supremacists. Read Haley’s Malcolm X or just talk to a crazy dude on the street about the wall of knowledge created by the Caucasus Mountains or the mothership.

  84. geoffb says:

    Mitt campaigned for Rubio in his Senate race as he did Nikki Haley and Christine O’Donnell and got their endorsements too. I expected this.

  85. geoffb says:

    Remember this 2010 “Neighborhood Watch” squabble?

    President Obama’s home is in the same Chicago neighborhood as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. On Saturday night, the overlapping of Obama’s and Farrakhan’s worlds made for a strange, and sometimes testy, encounter between the Secret Service, the press corps covering the president, and the paramilitary security force, the Fruit of Islam, surrounding Farrakhan.

  86. Danger says:

    “Just imagine if there was a functioning press in this country. Just imagine it.”

    bh,

    You’re not gonna go all John Lennon on us, are ya?

  87. geoffb says:

    Lost in the ellipsis again…

  88. sdferr says:

    President Obama’s budget was defeated 414-0 in the House late Wednesday, in a vote Republicans arranged to try to embarrass him and shelve his plan for the rest of the year.

  89. bh says:

    Nah, I’m gonna keep showering, Danger. And I’m going to continue not releasing album after album of fantastic pop music.

    I could though. Don’t doubt me.

  90. Danger says:

    bh,

    Glad to hear about the showering pledge but isn’t “fantastic pop music” a bit of an oxymoron?

  91. bh says:

    I guess I count The Beatles as pop music, Danger. It was certainly popular, right?

    I’ll personally vouch for fantastic.

  92. Patrick Chester says:

    Why does the word “projection” accurately describe progressive antics so well?

  93. Matt says:

    *Shabazz !!!! Isn’t that what Billy Batson would holler to turn into Captain Marvel?*

    Had a good chuckle reading this. Though I think it would have been more appropriate if Teth Adam yelled “Shabazz” when he turned into Black Adam.

  94. leigh says:

    This didn’t take long.

  95. Crawford says:

    I noticed another dog that isn’t barking: why isn’t the press demanding the release of the autopsy results?

    This happened a month ago; I have a hard time believing the work isn’t done already. More importantly, it doesn’t even seem to be a topic of discussion, suggesting to me that someone’s let them know the results won’t be released, ever.

    Now, the police can’t unilaterally release the records (minor, privacy), and neither can Zimmerman’s lawyers — who may not even have access to them, since he’s not been charged with anything. So…

  96. Outrage « says:

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  97. leigh says:

    The funeral director was on Nancy Grace (yeah, I know) saying that he saw nothing to indicate Martin had fought Zimmerman—before admitting he was not a forensic expert and that the autopsy incision had obscured where the entrance wound was on Martin’s chest.

    So, given that nothing burger, I’d like to know when the ME releases her account. Probably when toxicology tests are completed, so another week or two.

  98. Pablo says:

    So, Corrine Brown must be a Republican. Save yourself a lot of blather and just scroll to about 5:55 in this video.

    The amazing thing is that this is a CNN interview.

  99. Blake says:

    I sincerely doubt that even if Zimmerman should spend some time in jail, he never will. These idiot race baiters coupled with media malfeasance have assured there’s no way Zimmerman will ever get a fair trial.

  100. Crawford says:

    So they already released the body for burial?

    Yep — the autopsy report is complete. Can’t see how it couldn’t be — does it take a month to get the toxicology results, leigh?

  101. geoffb says:

    Corrine just got confused as to the sex, race, age and number who died.

  102. leigh says:

    Sorry for the tardy reply, Rob.

    Toxicology reports can take upwards of six weeks (remember Michael Jackson’s or Anna Nichole Smith’s tox screens?) They will test for anything and everything. For instance, if a presumptive test (usually blood or urine), tests positive for opiates, they will then order confirmatory testing (tissues) to ferret out what kind. That is the reason that toxicology is so time consuming and generally irrefutable. Pisses off the families, but death certificates need to be exact.

  103. Crawford says:

    OK, but any physical results would have been finished by now.

    Mainly, I’m thinking of the idiots claiming Trayvon(tm) was shot in the back — if there were evidence of that, the ME would have already come to that conclusion.

  104. leigh says:

    The cops and the DA have the intitial autopsy report and they are not obliged to share it with us.

    Was the funeral (if he had one) open casket? That would put the lie to his being shot in the back of the head. A 9mm gunshot wound to the head isn’t pretty and the funeral director I mentioned above, never mentioned a head wound. So, going on that, I would submit that a head shot is hyperbole to fire up the masses.

    I did read that Trayvon™ had been shot once in the chest (below the sternum? I don’t recall) and that he and Zimmerman were indeed struggling over possession of the gun which jammed accounting for there being only one shot and no more in the chamber, but a full magazine. Zimmerman was lucky to get off one shot before he got his brains beat out, as he was woefully unprepared for Martin’s blitz attack.

    There are a number of flashplayer videos circulating that show Zimmerman shooting Martin in the back of the head from a distance or alternatively, shooting him point blank from a distance and not while in a struggle on the ground. But they all seem to be produced by independent entities with no knowledge of the incident other than the tabloid type reports and gossip.

  105. sdferr says:

    “. . . he and Zimmerman were indeed struggling over possession of the gun . . .”

    This claim would have arisen where? And from what original source?

  106. Crawford says:

    I would submit that a head shot is hyperbole to fire up the masses.

    “Hyperbole” being polite-speak for “inflammatory bullshit”.

    It’s Jesse Jackson’s group, BTW, that’s pushing that BS.

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