Guess ABC News producers feel they’re immune to lawsuits
When it comes to the sins committed by the mainstream media in their 18-month crusade to accomplish a media-lynching of George Zimmerman, we have seen countless new lows in an ocean of new lows (including ABC News — more on that below). Thanks to our own reporting and Slate’s William Saletan, we appear to have found another low — this time in the questionable editing of an ABC News interview with Zimmerman juror B29.
Juror B29, or Maddy, made big news this week after her “Good Morning America” interview with Robin Roberts went viral. ABC News and the rest of the media loved that she declared Zimmerman a murderer, that she was the only minority juror, and that they could insinuate she had been bullied by five white jurors into an acquittal verdict.
The only problem, though, is that the editing of the interview appears to be too cute by half:
William Saletan at Slate points out that the unedited interview seems to show something different. Maddy actually hesitates twice when answering Roberts’ question which contains the statement “George Zimmerman got away with murder.” As Saletan points out “she looks as though she’s trying to reconcile the sentiment that’s been quoted to her—that Zimmerman ‘got away with murder’—with her own perspective. So she repeats the quote and adds words of her own, to convey what she thinks: that there’s a justice higher than the law, which Zimmerman will have to face ”
I agree with Saletan’s take on this. Maddy appears to be offering a response to a statement that was presented to her.
The news media, along with some other persons, seems to be intent upon setting up retirement funds for Zimmerman and now the jury too.
Richard Jewell must have been thrown down their own personal memory hole so they could aid Obama’s election in 2012 and his efforts for 2014.
– The only way this sort of bullshit will ever stop is when a few msm offices go up in smoke, not that I’m advocating such a thing of course, but you never know with all the nut cases walking around these days.
Reasonable doubt is such a bitch.
James Taranto makes a good point:
And that assumes ABC wasn’t playing fast and loose in the editing room.
(via Glenn Reynolds)
Stolen (and slightly altered) from a Facebook post:
Listening to the MSM to learn about current events is like listening to farts to learn about cooking.
Did you see Mark O’Mara’s comment on the interview Ernst? He’s got about the same take as Taranto.
– ABC appears to be willing to go all in to raise as much revenue as possible, probably hoping to offset all the tort costs when GZ’s lawyers get through with them. Besides its useful to keep Bumblefucks Florida base activated.
Question: Is it possible to sue for not only monetary damages, but for their broadcast licenses?
Now that, as the saying goes, would leave a mark…
I ‘spose all msm twatwaffles think only hobbits and visigoths have a duty to retreat so will stand their ground on all ‘accidental’ misrepresentations of fact.
I object to calling ABC “Pravda media”. It’s insulting, inaccurate, and just wrong.
You should apologize to Pravda.
LB, I just go with ‘state media’ or ‘StatzMedia” to avoid trademark issues…
I think it’s going to be entertaining when the rank-and-file black community figures out how thoroughly they’ve been trolled by the media in this case. I mean, entertaining for you and me and the black community. Not so much for the media.
I look forward to the Great Pumpkin appearing in my pumpkin patch every year as well.
LA Times buys the lie as it fits their own agenda.
LA Times buys the lie as it fits their own agenda.
Says Robin Abcarian (in geoffb’s latimes link):
*** Anytime the National Rifle Assn. is the main backer of legislation, as it has been on this issue, you can be sure the outcome is aimed at more gunplay, not less. ***
So. I don’t doubt she believes this falsehood, i.e. takes it as a matter of truth, which is to say she isn’t lying about her opinion.
But a worse understanding of the meaning of peaceableness aiming at achieving genuine peace through strength would be hard to come by — or to say the same more simply, she’s a dope, a fool, an imbecile . . . who hasn’t the slightest concern with slandering millions of people. (Taking her lessons from the Turks, is she?)
“. . . who hasn’t the slightest concern with slandering millions of people ”
Including little black children!
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