The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Inspired by MSNBC

Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 40 Comments

Because I don’t want to leave the blog going stale while I crank out another 1,500 words, I’ll share a few thoughts that crossed my mind as I was sitting here with the office TV on MSNBC.

 

Category: MSNBC

‘The Greater Good’: Heretical Facts vs. the Myth of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie

Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 151 Comments

Trayvon Martin: ‘And by this sign shall ye know me …’

Pete Da Tech Guy on how the system failed Trayvon Martin:

After all what’s the life of a single black man, the safety of individuals, the policing of schools  or doing your job compared to the greater good of appearing politically correct, getting the right stats, financing the grievance industry or electing Democrats?

Well — “How dare you?”

The Politics of Indignation practiced by Democrats requires quite a great deal of narrative management, and relies on the cowardly unwillingness of Americans to speak the blunt truth. We are offered an iconic martyr — St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie — by the High Priests of the Temple Cult and if we fail to mimic their superstitious ritual, if we do not reverently genuflect before this sacred symbol of innocence  . . .

“How dare you?”

Our Moral Superiors have become so accustomed to preaching such sermons to their worshipful congregations that the slightest expression of skeptical impiety seems to shock them.

Only within their sanctuaries of belief, where none but the voices of the faithful are heard, is it possible for Edward Wyckoff Williams to expect to be taken seriously when he writes nonsense like this:

If there is no justice, there can be no peace. But in the American South it seems white folks suddenly believe that decorum and charm are a proper response to unspeakable acts of violence and unconscionable injustice.
The day before a jury delivered an acquittal in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger and Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith gave a national press conference to appeal for a peaceful reaction to the verdict — regardless of its outcome.
Eslinger, who is white, said, “We will not tolerate anyone who uses this verdict as an excuse to violate the law.”
The veiled threat of an aggressive police response to imaginary civil unrest belies the very logic that led to Trayvon Martin’s death to begin with. For, you see, African-Americans are never protected or served by the law enforcement apparatus — yet they are always subject to its military might.
Sanford police coyly “tolerated” the actual killing of an unarmed black child, but yet refuse to “tolerate” any anger expressed for the acquittal of his murderer.
This is the new Jim Crow realized. . . .

(It’s 1963 and Sanford, Florida, is rural Mississippi.)

President Barack Obama is not immune — as he’s become the target of incessant “white rage”: race-baiting attacks, prejudice and bias even prior to his election. The Republican Party and its neo-Confederate Tea Party wing has been committed to invalidating his political and legislative legacy as much as the Zimmerman jury invalidated the civil rights of Trayvon.

The counterfactual conflation of distinct phenomena and the deliberate misuse of grossly inappropriate historical analogies are errors of rhetoric and logic that we are not supposed to notice, much less to point out and refute. Facts and logic are unwelcome within the Temple of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie, and common sense is heresy.

Trayvon Martin, a lanky 6-foot-tall 17-year-old dopehead, is miraculously transformed into “an unarmed black child,” and the testimony and evidence indicating that Trayvon deliberately waylaid the neighborhood watch captain must be disregarded.

Similarly, we are expected not to notice how little Seminole County, Florida, resembles “the American South” that Williams invokes.

Sanford is a 30-minute drive from downtown Orlando, and 45 minutes from Daytona Beach. Seminole County has a population of more than 400,000 residents, the vast majority of whom were not born there, but are transplants from elsewhere, including retirees from up North as well as many immigrants (11.5% of the county’s population were not born in the United States). The median home value in Seminole County is $225,500 and the median household income is nearly $60,000. This prosperous suburban community, however, Edward Wyckoff Williams offers us as emblematic of “the American South” (newsreel footage of Klansmen burning crosses) as though he were discussing some backward poverty-stricken redneck crossroads town in Appalachia.

Edward Wyckoff Williams does not tell you any facts about Seminole County, nor does he mention that Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith was hired from Elgin, Illinois. And Sheriff Eslinger — “who is white,” Williams points out — is scarcely an ignorant hillbilly:

Sheriff Eslinger has 33 years of service with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. His career began in 1978 as a Radio Dispatcher and he advanced through the ranks as a Patrol Deputy, Criminal Investigator, Special Operations Investigator, Watch Commander, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team leader, two tours with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a Task Force Agent; and returning as Commander of the City/County Investigative Bureau.  At the time of his appointment, Sheriff Eslinger held the position of major, third in command of the Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Eslinger earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences from National Louis University and is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  He also attended the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Chief Executive Institute in Tallahassee, Florida and the National Academy of Corrections – U.S. Department of Justice.

Neither of the two law enforcement officials whom Williams offers as symbolic of “unconscionable injustice” would seem to fit the profile. But the martyrdom myth of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie is crafted entirely of such shoddy fabrics, and if the reality of Seminole County doesn’t match the myth, well,  damn those pesky facts!

Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez wants the House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on the Trayvon Martin shooting, which would be an excellent idea, seeing as how the House of Representatives is one of the few major institutions in America controlled by the Republican Party.

Trayvon’s parents cry in front of the cameras, and we are supposed to ignore the fact that they got divorced when Trayvon was 4 years old, and that Trayvon’s mother kicked her son out of her house because he was so impossibly unruly. Most of all, nobody can mention that Trayvon wasn’t even from Sanford, that he was only in Sanford because (a) his father was dating a woman who lived there and (b) Trayvon had been suspended from his high school 240 miles away in Miami-Dade County.

All these facts we might ignore — for “the greater good,” as Pete says — were it not for the fact that liberal lies inspire fools to action:

Witness claims youths yelled
‘this is for Trayvon’ in beating

A half-Peruvian neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, shoots a teenage dopehead from Miami and, because Our Moral Superiors insist that this is a matter of national importance, some innocent guy in Baltimore gets beaten up by a gang of thugs?

Yeah. That makes perfect sense — it’s the New Normal.

No Justice. No Peace. No Facts. No Logic.





 

 


Category: Crime

When You’re Doubled Over In Agony, Your Guts Are ‘Sploding And #ObamaCare Has Broken Our Medical System, Watch This

Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 29 Comments

by Smitty
Remember, boys and girls: triumph begins with visualization and a peppy soundtrack:

(rest in) Peace Through Bureaucracy

via Rare

Category: Health Care

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.16.13

Posted on | July 16, 2013 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Harry Reid Says Senate “Broken”

Opening the silos, fueling the boosters...

Opening the silos, fueling the boosters…

Vows to limit filibuster

Top Islamist Ghulam Azam Sentenced To 90 Years For War Crimes
Masterminded atrocities during 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence

Mexican Marines Capture Alleged Chief Of Zetas Cartel
“Z-40” taken in Anahuac on the Nuevo Leon/Tamaulipas border


POLITICS
Spitzer, Weiner Coming On Hard In NYC Races

Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner

Leading Democrat primary races for comptroller, mayor

LA’s Zimmerman Demonstrations Continue Into Third Day

Petraeus Now A Dollar-A-Year Man For CUNY

Charleston WV Welcomes Boy Scouts To Jamboree

Bush The Elder Toasted By Obama

Nixon Aide Leonard Garment Dies, 89

Pentagon Report Finds Flaws In Sex Assault Probes

California Lawmakers Want Answers On Prison Sterilizations



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Trades Near Three-Day High As Oil Stockpiles Seen Shrinking: NYMEX $106.06, Brent $108.81
Twinkies Make “Sweetest Comeback”
Stocks Gain On Earnings As Treasuries Rise On Retail Data
Nissan Brings Back Datsun Brand With Go Car
Consumers Hold Back, US Retail Sales Moderate
Interesting: Ray Ozzie Joins HP Board
Surface Watch? Microsoft Allegedly Testing “Translucent Aluminum” Smart Watch
Apple Crawls Back To Samsung For iPhone Processors
Bill Gates: The College Lecture Is Dead, But Microsoft Bob Isn’t
Apple Investigates Report Of Electrocution by iPhone
Ad Netwrks Strike A Blow Against Online Piracy



SPORTS
A’s Yoenis Cespedes Beats Nationals’ Bryce Harper To Win Home Run Derby

Launching the bombs

Hits 17 in first round, finishes with 32

Real Madrid Tops Forbes List Of Most Valuable Franchises

Matt Harvey To Start For NL In All-Star Game


Kovalchuk Inks Deal With SKA St. Petersburg

Tennis Star Agnieszka Radwanska Catches Flak In Poland For Nude Pix In ESPN Body Issue; Dropped By Catholic Youth Group

Metta World Peace Heads Home, Signs Two-Year Deal With Knicks

Chip Kelly: Vick Will Have To Earn QB Job

Nolan Ryan: Manny Ramirez Could Be An Option For Rangers Soon

MLB’s Biogenesuis Squeeze Little More Than Legal Version Of Hidden Ball Trick



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Kelly Osbourne’s Engaged!

Matthew Mosshart and Kelly

It’s official!

Cory Monteith: Alcohol, “Substances” Found In Room Where He Died

Carly Rae Jepsen’s First Pitch At Rays Game Goes Awry

Chris Brown Probation Revoked

Gabourey Sidibe Pranks Jimmy Kimmel, Wears Bridal Gown To His Wedding

Anti-Vaccination Loon Jenny McCarthy Joins “The View” As New Co-host

Stranded Dave Mathews Hitches Ride With Fan

Dina Lohan: Oprah Winfrey Will Be Lindsay’s Mentor

“Despicable Me 2”, “Grown-Ups 2” Beat “Pacific Rim” At Box Office

Is Fox Teasing A “Predator” Reboot?

Could “Doctor Strange” Be Too Big For Marvel?

Doctor Says Randy Travis Awake And Alert After Stroke

Tom Hanks A Grandfather Again

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Slams Spotify

Kirstie Alley “Livid” At Leah Remini For Leaving Co$



FOREIGNERS
Aussie PM Rudd Outlines Plan To Terminate Carbon Tax In 2014
Putin Wants Snowden To Leave, But Hasn’t Ruled Out Asylum
Burma To Free All Political Prisoners By Year’s End, President Says
Spanish PM Refuses To Resign As Scandal Deepens
David Cameron Accused Of Betraying Syrian Rebels
British Woman Dies Trying To Swim Channel For Charity
Uttarakhand Missing Now Presumed Dead; Death Toll From Floods Over 5,000
Gay Marriage Clears House Of Lords



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: The George Zimmerman Trial And The Philadelphia Inquirer
Twitchy: Race-Baiting Salon Article Sparks Hilarious Outbursts Of #WhiteRage
Volokh Conspiracy: Provocation And Self-Defense
Stephen Green: We’ve Only Just Begun To Race-Bait
American Thinker: More Lies From The Mainstream Media About The Zimmerman Case
JustOneMinute: NYT Editors On Zimmerman Acquittal – Keeping The Dream Alive
Allahpundit: Holder Tells Audience He Shares Their Concern Over Zimmerman Verdict
Power Line: An Early Look At The 2014 Senate Battleground
Legal Insurrection: Schweitzer Backs Out
Jim Geraghty: Democrats Still Seeking Anyone To Run Against GOP Senate Incumbents
Conservatives4Palin: National Journal Doesn’t Understand Why MSNBC’s Ratings Are Plummeting
Questions & Observations: Unions On Obamacare – “This Vision Has Come Back To Haunt Us”
Sister Toldjah: My Heart Bleeds For Big Labor. Really, It Does.
Bryan Preston: DOJ Hits Gallup With $10.5 Million Fine For Doing What DOJ, Obama Administration Do


Category: Live at Five

Can Anyone Verify These Disturbing Allegations About Trayvon’s Family?

Posted on | July 15, 2013 | 402 Comments

A commenter on the earlier post wrote this:

Here’s something else you don’t know. From the age of 3 until age 15 or 16, Trayvon Martin lived NOT with Sybrina Fulton but with Tracy Martin, a known member of the Crips, and his then-wife Alicia Stanley-Martin, who was mentioned above. Alicia Stanley-Martin in that interview with Anderson Cooper said Trayvon spent 90% of his life in her home being raised with her two daughters from a previous relationship.
When Tracy Martin dumped Alicia for Brandy he sent Trayvon to live with Sybrina — a woman he hardly knew. The two didn’t get along at all. Sybrina kicked Trayvon out two days before he jumped Zimmerman.
Oddly, at that point Tracy was living with his sister because he’d dumped Alicia but hadn’t yet convinced Brandy to let him shack up with her and her son Chad. According to Trayvon’s text messages the plan was for him and Tracy to move in with Brandy soon but there was no definite date.
So Sybrina kicked Trayvon out knowing that Tracy had no home of his own, meaning Trayvon had no home to go to other than his aunt’s house where his father was staying.
Mother-of-the-year award material.
The part that gets me, however, is that Sybrina would let a known member of the Crips to raise her child from age three. I’m sorry but that’s too messed up for words.
You ought to check out Trayvon’s text messages, the released ones anyway. All evidence points to Tracy initiating Trayvon into the Crips, including purchasing illegal guns on the street. Yes, you read that correctly.
The text messages may be found at the website created and ran by Mark O’Mara. Look at the ten text message reports. Oh, and Tracy Martin’s Crip nickname is “Fruit.”

Is this true? The commenter references the “Third Supplemental Discovery” at George Zimmerman Legal Case, and says that all this information has previously been cited by The Last Refuge, a.k.a. The Conservative Treehouse. I find it difficult to believe that anyone — even the most biased liberal reporter at the New York Times — covering this case would look at that and say, “Irrelevant.”

As I’ve explained elsewhere, I didn’t pay much attention to this story when it broke, because in March/April 2012 I was covering the end of the GOP presidential primary campaign. Controversy about a shooting in Florida wasn’t really on my beat. So you’ll forgive me if I’m re-hashing anything everybody already knew. But . . . Trayvon’s father was a member of the Crips? Really? This is “irrelevant”?

Welcome to the New Normal, I guess.

 

Category: Crime

“Sometimes When We Torch” #ALSharptonHitSongs H/T @N_Fatale

Posted on | July 15, 2013 | 36 Comments

by Smitty

You ask me if I love glue
And, sniffing, I reply
I’d rather hurt you verbally
Than just, I don’t know, maybe flatten you with a railroad tie.

For who are you to judge me
In what I say or do
I’m only just beginning
To pile propaganda and false accusations upon bigoted creeps like you.

[chorus]
And sometimes when we torch
I say “Resist we much!”
And I have to close my eyes
(Can’t rhyme)
I want to scold you ’til I die
Little racist! Now you cry!
I want to scold you, ’til the jeer in me subsides.

Racism’s an honest strategy
Chasing grappa with Blender’s Pride
But through years of insobriety
Some liver still survives
I’m just another poser
Whitening my tooth
Unhesitant race-baiter
Busy hiding truth

[chorus]

I was going to work on the third verse, but my Y chromosomes screamed ENOUGH

Category: humor

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | July 15, 2013 | 19 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Once again, it’s time to take a break from the wall-to-wall 24-hour crazy of the news cycle and contemplate the wonder of God’s creation, preferably in bathing suits or lingerie, but occasionally not. Since many of the following links are NSFW, please exercise discretion and avoid clicking when you’re in places where you shouldn’t.

Valley of the Shadow leads off with Vampirella, who’s helping him shake the tip jar this month; Laughing Conservative has Eva Longoria, Fishersville Mike notes Sabine Lisicki, and Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Reaganite Resistance contributes Miss Germany, Caroline Noeding, 90 Miles From Tyranny offers Morning Mistress and Hot Pick Of The Late Night, and Randy’s Roundtable has Louise Kavanagh. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot has Pretty Girls On a Friday: Working For The Weekend, while Wine Women and Politics offers Saturday Night Special, Friday Fineness, and Friday Extra. First Street Journal, as usual, has a slightly different take on Rule 5 but we’re always happy to see the IDF Again.

Postaldog returns after a long absence with Laura Prepon, Paris Hilton, Olivia Sprauer, and Lana Del Rey.

EBL this week has White Hispanic Riot, Zimmerman Trial Dummy, gives an assist to Instapundit with Naked Women As A Fiat Car, and the unlikely pair of Shirley Jones and Alice Eve.

A View From The Beach brings us Cassidy Freeman, Cups, Sharknado Live Blog,  Miss Winchester Sues The NYPD, Are You Ready For Some Baseball?, Whatever Gets The Work Done, Did Spearchucking Make Humans Human? (with cavegirl content), and Photoshopping [The Unspeakable Armenians].

Soylent Green starts the week with Monday Motivationer Cali, I For One Welcome Our New Cybernetic Masters, Tuesday Titillation Twofer, Yeah I Like Superhero Movies, Overnighty Awesome, Humpday Hawtness Emily, Who’d Have Thunk It?, Nice Baseboards, Evening Awesome Monica, Falconsword Fursday Cara, Afternooner Kiera, Corset Morsels With Charlize & Dita, T-GIF Friday, Your Supplementary Scarlett, Now That’s What I Call Fully Equipped, Vampire Graves Unearthed In Poland, So LC How’s Your Weekend Going?, and Mea Culpa Scarlett.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Claudia Jordan, his vintage babe is Natalie Wood, and the Sex In Advertising Department asks, Armadillos anyone? Dustbury has Carly Rae Jepsen and Zooey (but no palooza).

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week were Natalie Noelle, Maya Michelle, Kie Katano, Mia Guzman, Monique May, Amanda Harrington, Caitlyn Hixx, Melyssa Grace, Melissa Giraldo, Cherry Mayers, Georgia Karabinis, Taylor Cole, Ursula Mayes, Tiffany Habib, Maria Venus, Satomi Tsubaki, Alicia Machado, Laura Lee, Catherine Kluthe, Kayden Kross, Sofia Jaramillo, Karin Castillo, Jennifer Metcalfe, Jennifer Denise, Jaimie Koeppe, and Hitomi Furisaki.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday (which I will TRY to actually get done on Sunday for once) are due to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox no later than Saturday, July 20.


Category: Rule 5

Mega-Dittos, @RushLimbaugh! Credit Where Credit Is Due and More Questions

Posted on | July 15, 2013 | 114 Comments

“So what you had here was a bureaucracy that was intent on making itself look good, and they were playing games with numbers.
“So real crimes would be committed by students, not just Trayvon, and rather than being categorized as such they were just pushed over here into another column on the spreadsheet that said ‘disciplinary actions.’ . . .
“The upshot is that criminal activity wasn’t punished.
“And so the perpetrators were never held to account, nor did they ever have to come to grips with the severity of their actions.”
— Rush Limbaugh, “The Left Throws a Temper Tantrum Over the Zimmerman Verdict”

When I heard that Rush Limbaugh had read my American Spectator article — “How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin’s Death” — on his radio show today, obviously credit was due to many others. It was Pamela Geller who called my attention to it Sunday and, in doing so, she mentioned that Andrea Shea King and Pat Dollard had been calling attention to it before. But the yeoman’s work in exposing this cover-up was done months ago by The Last Refuge blog.

What did I do? Well, I immediately recognized it as newsworthy. And, rather than just blogging it here, I realized The American Spectator would be ideal because everybody knows Rush Limbaugh reads The American Spectator. Could I have written the same article here, or at ViralRead? Yes, but I put it where I hoped Rush would see it.

So, I recognized it as legitimate news, and decided to write it where it would have the best chance of attracting high-profile attention, and then I wrote it as clearly as I could: “Just the facts, ma’am.”

Part of the reason it was difficult to get that story across was that it wasn’t easy to explain. It’s a complex story and boiling it down to less than 700 words took me several hours, because I had to sort through a lot of stuff and double-check basic background facts. And here is the most important fact of the whole story:

TRAYVON MARTIN WAS NOT FROM SANFORD

The liberal media keep leaving that out, don’t they? And why do you think that is? Because if they told you he was from Miami Gardens, more than 240 miles from Sanford, then the media would have to explain why Trayvon was in Sanford the night of Feb. 26, 2012.

Sometimes, if you pull one thread of a story, the whole narrative unravels and this question — “Why was Trayvon in Sanford?” — is one that the liberal media don’t want to talk about.

This is how you know it’s probably the most important question of all.

Strange as it may seem (or not), the liberal media broke this story before George Zimmerman was ever arrested but never followed up. Frances Robles of the Miami Herald reported it on March 26, 2012: “Multiple suspensions paint complicated portrait of Trayvon Martin.”

And then . . . nothing. Even while Robles’ story triggered an internal investigation within the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department (MDSPD) that helped eventually to bring about the resignation of MDSPD Chief Charles Hurley, nobody else in the mainstream media thought Trayvon Martin’s school record relevant to the story.

Because they are a disgusting pack of cowardly liars, that’s why. Some of them were down for the left-wing agenda, and some just let themselves be mau-maued by the thug mob that was demanding George Zimmerman’s prosecution. In fact, the Miami Herald actually quoted leaders of the thug mob in its March 26, 2012, article:

“It’s completely irrelevant to what happened Feb. 26,” said attorney Benjamin Crump. “They never heard this, and don’t believe it’s true. If it were true, why wouldn’t they call the parents? Why wasn’t he arrested?”
Trayvon, who was a junior at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, had never been arrested, police and the family have said.
“We think everybody is trying to demonize him,” Crump said. . . .
Trayvon’s parents viewed the new reports as an orchestrated campaign to demonize their son as a “junkie and thief,” a routine occurrence in such cases, the Rev. Al Sharpton said at an afternoon press conference. Zimmerman, Sharpton said, had no way of knowing about Trayvon’s school record — “because he didn’t interview him before he shot him.”
“The only thing that’s relevant is what Zimmerman knew,” Sharpton said. “Let’s not play this double standard of trying to damage who is dead and sanitize who is the cause of the death.”
Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, said her son never had any problems with gangs or the police. In fact, she said, when she transferred him out of Carol City High School to be closer to home, the school wanted him to stay at Carol City because they liked him and he was a good student.
“They killed my son, and now they are trying to kill his reputation,” Fulton said.

Let’s leave aside for now this accusation that the only reason anyone would care about Trayvon Martin’s school disciplinary records was because they wanted to “demonize” the dead teenager and “kill his reputation.” Instead, let me call your attention to this: Sybrina Fulton says “she transferred him out of Carol City High School to be closer to home,” but Sybrina Fulton lived near Ben Franklin Park, and it doesn’t take a genius to check Google Maps: Carol City High School is at 3301 Miami Gardens Dr, Miami Gardens, FL — 7.4 miles from Ben Franklin Park — while Krop High School  is at 1410 County Line Rd, Ives Estates, FL, 8.1 miles from Ben Franklin Park.

Whatever reason Trayvon transferred from Carol City High to Krop High, being “closer to home” doesn’t really seem to explain it. Maybe there’s some other explanation that I don’t understand, but we know that Trayvon was suspended three times from Krop High. It might be interesting to know more about Trayvon’s years at Carol City High, besides his mother’s claim that “the school wanted him to stay at Carol City because they liked him and he was a good student.”

I’m just sayin’ . . .

You never know the answer to a question you never ask, and after this one story by Frances Robles in the Miami Herald, it seems that the media stopped asking questions about Trayvon. But that one article by Frances Robles pulled the thread that unraveled an important story, and for a long time, the only people who kept digging on that story were the bloggers at The Last Refuge.

MDSPD Chief Charles Hurley was suppressing the truth about the crime problem within the Miami-Dade school system, and this was why Trayvon Martin never got arrested for his crimes. Instead, he got suspended from school, and I repeat:

TRAYVON MARTIN WAS NOT FROM SANFORD

The reason Trayvon was in Sanford, Florida, more than 240 miles north of his home in Miami-Dade County, was that he had been suspended from school, and was staying in a townhouse community known as The Retreat at Twin Lakes. Trayvon was staying there with Brandy Green, who was dating Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin, which brings us to another story the media doesn’t want to report.

Trayvon Martin comes from what used to be called “a broken home,” back in the days when most Americans got married and stayed married, so that kids had a Mom and a Dad and brothers and sisters — y’know, what we used to call a “family” once upon a time — instead of a kaleidoscopic arrangement of stepparents and half-siblings, Baby Daddies and Mama’s New Boyfriend and so forth. Call me old-fashioned, if you will, but I tend to think it might be relevant when we learn that a Troubled Youth comes from a Broken Home.

Well, let’s not be judgmental. And while we’re not being judgmental, say the mainstream media, let’s just not even mention these facts, because we don’t want to demonize anyone, see?

Start asking questions about Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin and Brandy Green — hater! — and you have no idea what you might find because, quite frankly, nobody in the national media seems to have asked any questions about these people. This is why, for example, you may not know that there was a stepmother, Alicia Stanley, who says she practically raised Trayvon Martin for 14 years before she got shoved aside for Tracy Martin’s new girlfriend, Brandy Green.

How many other wives or girlfriends has Trayvon’s father had? How many brothers and sisters and half-brothers and half-sisters and step-brothers and step-sisters did Trayvon have?

Damned if I know the answer to those questions, because it seems like nobody covering this story ever asked any questions like that. This kind of explains why I didn’t know until Sunday:

TRAYVON MARTIN WAS NOT FROM SANFORD

Because if the media had made a point of mentioning that, people might wonder why a kid from Miami-Dade County got shot dead in Sanford, more than 240 miles away. And the weird thing about it is, before this turned into the Murder Trial of the Century, there were people who actually reported some of these facts:

The night his son was killed, [Tracy] Martin, 45, was out to dinner with his fiancée, Brandy Green. Martin, who was divorced from Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, in 1999, is a truck driver from Miami who has a long-distance relationship with Green, a resident of the Retreat at Twin Lakes subdivision in Sanford where Zimmerman also lived.
Martin would visit Green on weekends, making the four-hour drive to the Orlando suburb of Sanford. In late February he was able to bring his son because Trayvon, a junior, was serving a 10-day suspension from Miami’s Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School. He’d been caught with a plastic baggie that contained traces of marijuana.

That article by Reuters reporter Daniel Trotta was published April 3, 2012, and  it included important facts that subsequently disappeared from The Narrative of this story, which is what tends to happen to facts that don’t fit The Narrative. Once the liberal media decide to turn what had been strictly a local crime story into a politicized Morality Tale, some facts are more equal than others.

So “a truck driver from Miami” was in “a long-distance relationship” with “his fiancée, Brandy Green,” and there was this 17-year-old son whose mother had been divorced by the truck driver 13 years earlier. While the two lovebirds Tracy and Brandy were out to dinner, Trayvon walked to the store for Skittles and Arizona Tea, and got shot to death by Zimmerman, who was the captain of the neighborhood watch that had been formed in this community a year earlier in response to a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood.

And in October 2011, six months before he was killed, Trayvon had been caught at school in Miami-Dade County with jewelry coincidentally matching the description of items stolen in the burglary of a house about a half block from school. But this wasn’t treated as a crime, because MDSPD Chief Charles Hurley wanted to reduce the number of reported crimes in the school system, see? This evidence was therefore listed as “found items” and the Miami police investigating the burglary didn’t even know this evidence existed, because nobody charged Trayvon Martin with a crime. Instead, it was just a disciplinary infraction and he was suspended from school not for suspicion of theft, but for the act of vandalism (“mischief”) that had led the school police officer to search Travvon’s backpack.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along . . .

Sometime in the past year, the media decided to join this cover-up, evidently agreeing with Al Sharpton that Trayvon Martin’s background was irrelevant to The Narrative, in the same way it was irrelevant that Trayvon was three or four inches taller than George Zimmerman, who said he shot Trayvon in self-defense.

Never mind that, and never mind that George Zimmerman’s mother is Peruvian. Never mind those who knew Zimmerman and said he wasn’t a racist — none of that fits The Narrative, and if you so much as mention any of these irrelevant facts . . . RAAAAACIST!

This explains why I never knew until Sunday that Trayvon Martin was not from Sanford, and why people who have been following this story for months had never heard of MDSPD Chief Charles Hurley. So they can be excused for not realizing that when Chief Hurley started an internal affairs investigation, trying to find out who leaked the facts to the Miami Herald, a series of dominoes began to topple, leading eventually to Chief Hurley’s resignation in February.

No, you never knew about that, even though The Last Refuge had been trying to call attention to it, because the media decided that this is a story about civil rights and racism: Trayvon Martin was killed because he was black, and a half-Peruvian neighborhood watch captain was a fitting symbol of White Racism and Social Injustice, and facts that did not support The Narrative were irrelevant.

Meanwhile — more facts nobody is supposed to mention — President Obama last August signed an executive order that would, in effect, “mandate racial discipline quotas,” so that the methods employed by Chief Hurley are now likely to become nationwide policy.

What could possibly go wrong?

Trayvon’s father divorced Trayvon’s mother when Trayvon was 4. The Miami-Dade schools didn’t want to report Trayvon’s crimes as crimes. So instead Trayvon was suspended from school at age 17, which was why he was in Sanford on the night of Feb. 26, 2012, while Trayvon’s father went out to dinner with Brandy Green.

What could possibly go wrong?

But never mind any of that. Some facts are more equal than others, and Our Moral Superiors in charge of The Narrative know what’s best.

Thanks for the shout-out, Rush. There are some people who need to demonized, and they’re called “liberals.”

 

Category: American Spectator, Media Bias, Racism, Rush Limbaugh
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