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Coulter Reacts: Media, Obama Needed Zimmerman As âSacrificial Lambâ For âMississippi Burningâ Narrative
by Evan McMurry | 9:50 am, July 14th, 2013
Ann Coulter appeared on Fox & Friends Sunday morning to follow up on her initial reaction to the Zimmerman verdictââHallelujah!ââin more detail. Coulter maintained that George Zimmerman was a sacrificial lamb for the mediaâs race-driven narrative, a narrative necessary to enable Barack Obamaâs liberal agenda.
âThis was a media-led mob, and an innocent man almost went to prison for thirty years because of well, Al Sharpton stirring up hatred and creating a narrative for which there was never any evidence and after this long trial there is still never any evidence,â Coulter said.
âThis case never should have been brought. It was purely political for the media to continue their narrative of all of America as âMississippi Burning.â They want to keep us divided by race, ginned up by race, and itâs a relief that someone who was innocent did not have to be the sacrificial lamb for this media narrative about America as being run by the Klan.â
Tucker Carlson wondered about the lack of progress in race relations, despite the election of Obama.
âItâs been sixty years since the Civil Rights movement began, and yet youâd never know that in the press,â said Carlson. âBut I thought the election of Barack Obamaâ even if I wasnât for itâI thought at least weâre moving past this one stage in American history into something new and better in race relations. And it turns out: thatâs not true, at all!â
âI think it ended right after the O.J. verdict,â Coulter said. âAt that moment, when a mostly black juryâ100% Democrat by the wayâfound a spectacularly guilty black celebrity not-guilty of murder, white America said, âThatâs it we are shutting down the white guilt bank.â And we had peace for a decade. And youâll notice we didnât have cases like this for about ten years after O.Jâ¦.Obama brought it all back because the liberal media needs this âMississippi Burningâ in order to promote the black president with his liberal policies, which is what they care about. But at least it wasnât brought fully back, because George Zimmerman was found not guilty.â
Coulter finished by arguing that assuaging what she would call race baiters will never satisfy them: âEnough white people will think, if we just make a black man president, it will all go away. If we just allow this cop, or this person falsely accused of racism, theyâll be our sacrificial lambs, thatâll be the end of it. Itâs never the end of it. You have to say, âNo, this is not fair, this is not
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Coulter Reacts: Media, Obama Needed Zimmerman As âSacrificial Lambâ For âMississippi Burningâ Narrative
by Evan McMurry | 9:50 am, July 14th, 2013
Ann Coulter appeared on Fox & Friends Sunday morning to follow up on her initial reaction to the Zimmerman verdictââHallelujah!ââin more detail. Coulter maintained that George Zimmerman was a sacrificial lamb for the mediaâs race-driven narrative, a narrative necessary to enable Barack Obamaâs liberal agenda.
âThis was a media-led mob, and an innocent man almost went to prison for thirty years because of well, Al Sharpton stirring up hatred and creating a narrative for which there was never any evidence and after this long trial there is still never any evidence,â Coulter said.
âThis case never should have been brought. It was purely political for the media to continue their narrative of all of America as âMississippi Burning.â They want to keep us divided by race, ginned up by race, and itâs a relief that someone who was innocent did not have to be the sacrificial lamb for this media narrative about America as being run by the Klan.â
Tucker Carlson wondered about the lack of progress in race relations, despite the election of Obama.
âItâs been sixty years since the Civil Rights movement began, and yet youâd never know that in the press,â said Carlson. âBut I thought the election of Barack Obamaâ even if I wasnât for itâI thought at least weâre moving past this one stage in American history into something new and better in race relations. And it turns out: thatâs not true, at all!â
âI think it ended right after the O.J. verdict,â Coulter said. âAt that moment, when a mostly black juryâ100% Democrat by the wayâfound a spectacularly guilty black celebrity not-guilty of murder, white America said, âThatâs it we are shutting down the white guilt bank.â And we had peace for a decade. And youâll notice we didnât have cases like this for about ten years after O.Jâ¦.Obama brought it all back because the liberal media needs this âMississippi Burningâ in order to promote the black president with his liberal policies, which is what they care about. But at least it wasnât brought fully back, because George Zimmerman was found not guilty.â
Coulter finished by arguing that assuaging what she would call race baiters will never satisfy them: âEnough white people will think, if we just make a black man president, it will all go away. If we just allow this cop, or this person falsely accused of racism, theyâll be our sacrificial lambs, thatâll be the end of it. Itâs never the end of it. You have to say, âNo, this is not fair, this is not
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It seems pspr is correct here. There will be no civil suit unless there is something to be recovered. Even then it is highly unlikely that such a suit could be won, and it would cost the plaintiff a lot of money.
Though we have no idea of what Zimmerman's current financial status is; it seems doubtful that after an expensive defense he would have much in the way of cash or other attachable assets. My guess is that he is largely judgement proof.
Could there be civil rights violation charges. Yes, but there does not seem to exist any basis for such in the publicly known information about the case.
My guess is that the DOJ will delay, while pretending to actively investigate, until the media has exhausted the attention span of their audience, and fanning the fires of black racism has gained all the viewers, and thus advertising revenue, that can be gained for now. This Zimmerman business will fade from the public consciousness once the public is captivated by another sensationalized event -- and there is hardly anything more suitable for this purpose than sex in the White House, an horrific crime involving a child, or animus between ethnic groups or races. The Zimmerman case did not meet the media ideal, so they needed to tweak it by characterizing Martin as a child on his way home, in the dark, with a pocket full of skittles and Zimmerman as his 9mm-armed, craved pursuer. It worked, and millions of viewers tuned in to the constant prattle of this or that uninformed person.
Now that we know there was nothing to the media version, I would expect, as public interest fades and political utility is lost, the messieurs Jackson and Sharpton, along with the NAACP, to quietly fold-up their banners and tents and go home.
You can mix justice and politics all you want, but the result is virtually guaranteed to have a foul aroma.
Though we have no idea of what Zimmerman's current financial status is; it seems doubtful that after an expensive defense he would have much in the way of cash or other attachable assets. My guess is that he is largely judgement proof.
Could there be civil rights violation charges. Yes, but there does not seem to exist any basis for such in the publicly known information about the case.
My guess is that the DOJ will delay, while pretending to actively investigate, until the media has exhausted the attention span of their audience, and fanning the fires of black racism has gained all the viewers, and thus advertising revenue, that can be gained for now. This Zimmerman business will fade from the public consciousness once the public is captivated by another sensationalized event -- and there is hardly anything more suitable for this purpose than sex in the White House, an horrific crime involving a child, or animus between ethnic groups or races. The Zimmerman case did not meet the media ideal, so they needed to tweak it by characterizing Martin as a child on his way home, in the dark, with a pocket full of skittles and Zimmerman as his 9mm-armed, craved pursuer. It worked, and millions of viewers tuned in to the constant prattle of this or that uninformed person.
Now that we know there was nothing to the media version, I would expect, as public interest fades and political utility is lost, the messieurs Jackson and Sharpton, along with the NAACP, to quietly fold-up their banners and tents and go home.
You can mix justice and politics all you want, but the result is virtually guaranteed to have a foul aroma.
Zimmerman is going to get busy suing people. First on the list is MSNBC. Those vicious race baiting bastards have been doing any stunt they can come up with in an attempt to get off the bottom rung of the ratings. They gambled on a guilty verdict. That tells me they knew nothing at all about the facts in the case. He should go after CNN for disclosing his social security number and home address. That is some vicious shit to pull on a guy.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/15/zimmerman-lawsuit-against-nbc-to-start-in-earnest-asap/
Apart from what the Department of Justice might decide to do with George Zimmerman, there remains one piece of unfinished legal business from the sensationalized case â what to do with the sensationalizer. The death of Trayvon Martin might have fallen under the media spotlight over what it meant for the definition of self-defense and the limits of community-watch programs even without the overtones of race. After NBC selectively edited Zimmermanâs call to police, though, that angle overtook all other aspects of the case, and many other unrelated crime stories with a little more national significance.
With the acquittal behind them, Zimmerman and his legal team plan to push their lawsuit against NBC âASAPâ:
According to Zimmerman attorney James Beasley, the case against NBC News was stayed pending the outcome of the criminal case. Now thatâs out of the way, and Beasley is ready to proceed. âWeâre going to start in earnest asap, we just have to get the stay lifted which is a ministerial act,â says Beasley, a Philadelphia lawyer, via e-mail.
When asked how the not-guilty verdict affects the civil case against NBC News, Beasley responded, âThis verdict of not guilty is just that, and shows that at least this jury didnât believe that George was a racist, profiling, or anything that the press accused George of being. That probably doesnât get you that much but itâs simply time for us to start the case and hold accountable anyone who was irresponsible in their journalism.â
NBC had earlier declared that a jury verdict in the case would vindicate their journalism:
The company also noted the pivotal nature of the second-degree murder case: âf Zimmerman is convicted, that fact alone will constitute substantial evidence that the destruction of his reputation is the result of his own criminal conduct, and not of the broadcasts at issue which, like countless other news reports disseminated by media entities throughout the country, reported on the underlying events.â
Dâoh! As Erik Wemple dryly notes, âThat formulation is now null.â Itâs a curious defense anyway. Surely an objective news report should stand on its own without relying on a criminal trialâs jury to rescue it, no?
Varietyâs analyst thinks that Zimmermanâs status as a public figure will protect NBC in court, as well as a lack of ability to show malice:
In December, Zimmerman sued NBC, reporter Ron Allen and two other news personnel on claims that the networkâs edits of his 911 call to police were manipulated to make it sound like he was a racist. The Florida judge in Zimmermanâs case, Debra Nelson, put the defamation case on hold pending the result of the criminal trial.
Jody Armour, professor at USCâs Gould School of Law, said that although it is âpossibleâ that Zimmermanâs claim against the network will be strengthened, it âmay not have a big impact because he has to prove actual malice if he is trying to prove defamation.â
He believes that Zimmerman âis almost certainly going to fall into the classificationâ of a public figure, raising the bar for plaintiffs, in that they have to prove knowledge that they knew that the information was false or had reckless disregard for the truth.
In a defamation trial, however, NBC can say that the not guilty verdict âhas limited probative value as far as establishing a claim that they acted with actual malice toward him, that they acted with actual indifference to the truth,â Armour said. The point is that a defamation trial would have to do with the circumstances at the time the story aired.
There are a couple of problems with this defense. First, the media doesnât get protection when their libelous reporting creates a âpublic figure.â Zimmerman did not set out to make himself a public figure â he holds no elective office, and didnât publicize his efforts at neighborhood-watch security. He was entirely obscure before the shooting, and only NBCâs false report made him into a national figure.
Second, if the Zimmerman team wants to show malice at NBC News, all they have to do is play MSNBCâs coverage of the trial and especially the acquittal. The anger and malice (and even more misinformation) didnât just come from guest panelists on their coverage, it came from MSNBCâs hosts, paid by NBC News. The phrase âshooting fish in a barrelâ comes to mind when proving this particular aspect of the case.
If Zimmermanâs legal team is moving ASAP to get the case to trial, NBCâs lawyers should be moving ASAP to get the check cut for the settlement. Donât expect that to take very long, either.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/15/zimmerman-lawsuit-against-nbc-to-start-in-earnest-asap/
Apart from what the Department of Justice might decide to do with George Zimmerman, there remains one piece of unfinished legal business from the sensationalized case â what to do with the sensationalizer. The death of Trayvon Martin might have fallen under the media spotlight over what it meant for the definition of self-defense and the limits of community-watch programs even without the overtones of race. After NBC selectively edited Zimmermanâs call to police, though, that angle overtook all other aspects of the case, and many other unrelated crime stories with a little more national significance.
With the acquittal behind them, Zimmerman and his legal team plan to push their lawsuit against NBC âASAPâ:
According to Zimmerman attorney James Beasley, the case against NBC News was stayed pending the outcome of the criminal case. Now thatâs out of the way, and Beasley is ready to proceed. âWeâre going to start in earnest asap, we just have to get the stay lifted which is a ministerial act,â says Beasley, a Philadelphia lawyer, via e-mail.
When asked how the not-guilty verdict affects the civil case against NBC News, Beasley responded, âThis verdict of not guilty is just that, and shows that at least this jury didnât believe that George was a racist, profiling, or anything that the press accused George of being. That probably doesnât get you that much but itâs simply time for us to start the case and hold accountable anyone who was irresponsible in their journalism.â
NBC had earlier declared that a jury verdict in the case would vindicate their journalism:
The company also noted the pivotal nature of the second-degree murder case: âf Zimmerman is convicted, that fact alone will constitute substantial evidence that the destruction of his reputation is the result of his own criminal conduct, and not of the broadcasts at issue which, like countless other news reports disseminated by media entities throughout the country, reported on the underlying events.â
Dâoh! As Erik Wemple dryly notes, âThat formulation is now null.â Itâs a curious defense anyway. Surely an objective news report should stand on its own without relying on a criminal trialâs jury to rescue it, no?
Varietyâs analyst thinks that Zimmermanâs status as a public figure will protect NBC in court, as well as a lack of ability to show malice:
In December, Zimmerman sued NBC, reporter Ron Allen and two other news personnel on claims that the networkâs edits of his 911 call to police were manipulated to make it sound like he was a racist. The Florida judge in Zimmermanâs case, Debra Nelson, put the defamation case on hold pending the result of the criminal trial.
Jody Armour, professor at USCâs Gould School of Law, said that although it is âpossibleâ that Zimmermanâs claim against the network will be strengthened, it âmay not have a big impact because he has to prove actual malice if he is trying to prove defamation.â
He believes that Zimmerman âis almost certainly going to fall into the classificationâ of a public figure, raising the bar for plaintiffs, in that they have to prove knowledge that they knew that the information was false or had reckless disregard for the truth.
In a defamation trial, however, NBC can say that the not guilty verdict âhas limited probative value as far as establishing a claim that they acted with actual malice toward him, that they acted with actual indifference to the truth,â Armour said. The point is that a defamation trial would have to do with the circumstances at the time the story aired.
There are a couple of problems with this defense. First, the media doesnât get protection when their libelous reporting creates a âpublic figure.â Zimmerman did not set out to make himself a public figure â he holds no elective office, and didnât publicize his efforts at neighborhood-watch security. He was entirely obscure before the shooting, and only NBCâs false report made him into a national figure.
Second, if the Zimmerman team wants to show malice at NBC News, all they have to do is play MSNBCâs coverage of the trial and especially the acquittal. The anger and malice (and even more misinformation) didnât just come from guest panelists on their coverage, it came from MSNBCâs hosts, paid by NBC News. The phrase âshooting fish in a barrelâ comes to mind when proving this particular aspect of the case.
If Zimmermanâs legal team is moving ASAP to get the case to trial, NBCâs lawyers should be moving ASAP to get the check cut for the settlement. Donât expect that to take very long, either.
Zimmerman is no less guilty of a crime then OJ Simpson was. The fact that he is a free man doesn't excuse his gross negligence ending the life of a young man. Do you not understand that in my neighborhood Zimmerman would be guilty of several crimes ? He's only "not guilty" because he lives in Florida.
The fact that he is able to act like this in Florida legally ( best case,
the strong possibility exists that a lack of evidance got him acquitted of manslaughter ) doesn't make his actions OK under my own moral code ( and that of almost everyone who lives in MY neighborhood ). If you like the guy, go ahead and hire him. Don't try to tell me I have to like him or recommend opportunity. The man lacks character and is a hazard to anyone in his vicinity.
