Jon Gansen said: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/bozell-hannity-media-mash-nbc-deliberately-skewed-travyvon-martin-story-selective-editing
I believe this clip says alot about the media we have today and also the leaders we have. A very tragic story that has turned into a political tool and has black against "white hispanic". Why couldnt POTUS have just said we will look into this and not given his skewed opinion. Why is it when it becomes national news do we see Sharpton and Jackson become involved? The new black panthers inciting violence, congressmen on capital hill addressing it inappropriately and the very next night six murders happen in his own district.
Jon, who is turning this into a political tool? While I do have a problem with Rev. Sharpton leading rallies and also working for MSNBC on his show, I thought if he was going to be leading rallies he should not appear on his show, but that's me. Why does Rev. Sharpton and Jackson get involved with national news? I believe that is part of their identities or business, the organizations they run or belong to get involved to help bring out what they believe are injustices. I don't want to be the justice system and neither should they, but from what it sounds like, if the police department might have done things a little differently, it might not be the story it is now where we are all getting involved in the story.
On the president, I did not see anything wrong with his comments, please explain to me what problem you had with them.
I will agree with your issue with the new Black Panthers, their talks of violence do not help anything.
I do not have a problem with what the congressman did on capital hill, I am sure there have been plenty of statements made from both sides of the aisle done to the extreme like his. On the six murders in his district while tragic (and I admit I haven't read any stories to see what ties they might or might not have in this Martin case), but were they committed because of the congressman's appearance? What is he suppose to do to prevent murders in his district? Maybe he can lobby for some grant money for more police, but to tie the congressman's action to the murders is irresponsible in my opinion.
Honestly Jon, I didn't watch the whole video, Hannity makes me want to throw-up and the segment was slow loading onto my computer and the starting and stopping did not hold my interest. But I did cut and past the following that was below the video clip. I don't get quite their issue with the editing they are complaining about, it could have been done for time, maybe they could have left it in to show he was answering the 911 operator, but that wasn't what I remember the most about the 911 call, what I remember most was when Mr. Zimmerman was telling the dispatcher that he was following Mr. Martin, the dispatcher told him not to do it, yet he continued to follow Mr. Martin, and from that point forward who really knows what occurred, you only have one side of the story since the other side can not be told.
[quote">Reacting angrily to selective editing by NBC that suggested racial animus by George Zimmerman, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell complained to Fox News's Sean Hannity last night that NBC News was engaged in an "all-out falsehood." The story in question was a March 27 Ron Allen report on NBC's 'Today' in which 911 audio was edited to make it sound like George Zimmerman said "he looks black" immediately after saying "this guy looks like he's up to no good."
In the actual 911 audio, Zimmerman only described Martin's race after the dispatcher asked, "And this guy: is he white, black, or Hispanic?" "To edit that out is so distorting," Hannity complained. "Sean, it's not distorting, it's advancing a falsehood, it's worse," Bozell corrected the Fox News anchor. I do have to give props to (and I can't believe I am saying it) to Ann Coulter, when this morning on "This Week" while I guess trying to defend the "Stand Your Ground Law", she said that if Mr. Zimmerman followed Mr. Martin, then he was basically breaking that law, if he was attacked by Mr. Martin as Mr. Zimmerman says, then he was protecting himself, which is part of the law.
Also the best commenting on the hoodie issue was on Colbert's program last week, if I can find the clip and link it later I'll try.
Mel