Tag: Trayvon Martin
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Advice from the self-proclaimed patriot who shit his pants to avoid military service
Nothing like winning gracefully — idiot Ted Nugent, who ranks ahead of the Matador as Detroit’s most lamentable export, thinks Robert Zimmerman should sue Trayvon Martin’s parents. Trayvon Martin’s vicious attack on George Zimmerman and Martin’s tragic death have no doubt surely dragged Mr. Zimmerman through 18 months of untold emotional hell, pain, distress, anguish, fatigue, nightmares and…
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Race baiting the Zimmerman verdict
No one stirred the pot more than Drudge, desperate for a race war, it seems (via Weigel):
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Why cracker is not the ‘C-word’
When I was a kid, white supremacist J.B. Stoner ran for state office in Georgia. His ads, which TV stations were forced to air due to the Fairness Doctrine, included the N-word. It was jarring to hear, even for a kid who had not yet been exposed to politics of race. I also watched shows…
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Yes, but what does Sybil Danning think?
Friday on Piers Morgan (I’m not making this up), Steven Seagal gives his take on the Trayvon Martin case.
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Today’s must-read
NYTimes columnist Bill Keller puts hate crime laws under the microscope. In most cases, hate crime laws take offenses that would carry more modest sentences — assault, vandalism — and ratchet up the penalty two or three times because we know, or think we know, what evil disposition lurked in the offender’s mind. Then we…
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Imagine if this was Trayvon Martin’s past
Strange that most Americans know more about the marijuana residue found in a 17-year-old’s backpack than this: The year 2005 was a bad one for Zimmerman: he was arrested for fighting with a cop trying to arrest his friend for underage drinking, and he and his ex-fiancée took out protective orders against each other. That…
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