NBC manipulating the Zimmerman police call in the Trayvon Martin case is interesting - not that I wanna wade into the swamp of that altercation - although is amusing that the post-racial sort of black president, whose election the naive if not fatuous legions of the left remarkably assumed would lead to some vague, miraculous affirmation of a new tolerance, some kind of pan-national virtual group hug, has rather probably done more harm than good in that regard, I'm guessing because having a 'black' president implies the need to address a racist past that America [white, hispanic, Asian etc etc America] has by and large moved on from but which many African Americans themselves remain trapped in, bound to as a self-defeating fixed point of reference [certainly the self appointed activist voices of black America haven't moved on nor do they have any desire to - this perpetual state of grievance and victimhood pays the Sharptons et al way too well][and of course the white liberal elite of academia doesn't want the racist narrative going away either, it's too handy a tool for focusing their rage and contempt of 'Imperial' America and cognate evils - this why the black guy Obama was a much more appealing presidential choice for them than the mere woman Hillary - Hillary could never hope to compete against the persistent and irrepressible allure of slavery to white uber liberals] - but I have no hankering to wade into what did or didn't happen between the hispanic and the hoodie that night and I'm certainly not interested in debating racial issues - way too toxic and rife with irrational sympathies and absurd agendas - although I now see that Zimmerman has been arrested - and of course the liberal press goes nuts with coverage as if some great and weighty 'race in America' conundrum is about to be solved, some profound question answered, some vile and grotesque racist underbelly exposed - over a 'murder' of which all we know for sure is that some it would seem unfortunate, wrong place wrong time black kid confronted or was confronted by some hispanic [or white hispanic if you're a member of the MSM] 'security guard' possibly operating under the skewed influence of a law and order police fetish and then, apparently during a struggle initiated by no one knows, the hispanic fired a gun resulting in the unfortunate black kid's demise - and that's all that's known with any certainty - and yet the press [and the Sharptons] will drone on and on and on.
But if the incident itself doesn't especially interest me, the media reaction to it does, particularly NBC's manipulation of the Zimmerman call to make it sound like he definitely targeted Martin because he was black where in fact the audio seems to suggest race wasn't a factor at all in Zimmerman's behavior - the call seems to clearly indicate that Zimmerman became suspicious of Martin before identifying his race. But regardless of that - such a brazen distortion of reality in order to promote a political agenda by a supposed mainstream news organization raises an interesting question: that the MSM has a liberal bias is not even disputed anymore it seems, not even by the left - they just rationalize the bias by contending it's merely a result of the left being so right and the right being so wrong on all the issues that should matter to an enlightened etc etc - but given that the times are so rancourously partisan and the coming election looks to crank that partisan vitriol up a few notches - and given that the liberal media has a vested interest in seeing Obama win, not just a preference, but a vested interest - and given that NBC has just clearly demonstrated to what desperate lengths the liberal media will go to promote its agenda and protect that interest - given all that and how important this election is like to prove, how likely is it that even the pretense to objectivity falls by the wayside, that American media devolves into shameless propaganda more reminiscent of an autocracy or a banana republic than a great democracy? What NBC did was not only egregiously wrong - what's worse to me is how obvious it was - what that suggests is that the bias has been completely internalized - not even the pretense of objectivity is there anymore - the truth and what they want the truth to be are now seemingly indistinguishable, one and the same - hard not to be disturbed by that.
