The Media Template on Paula Deen and George Zimmerman

For today's post, I want to begin with two definitions:

tem·plate [tem-plit]

noun

Paula Deen

1. a, pattern, mold, or the like, usually consisting of anything that determines or serves as a pattern; a model:

me·di·a tem·plate

noun

                1.  The means of communication (plural) such as radio, television, newspapers and their news coverage that fits a consistent pattern, or mold.

In case you haven't noticed, there is a media template and it's so predictable. Here are 2 glaring examples of the media template where the outcome is decided by the journalists and news anchors before the facts are even known:

• Paula Deen. I'm sure by now you know that Paula Deen, the Southern comfort food mama who has been a mainstay on the Food Network was dumped for having used the "N" word 30 yrs ago. She has profusely apologized but that has not prevented the politically-correct cowards at Food Network, Walmart, Target, Sears & Random House from dropping her and her products. 

Here's the media template on Paula Deen: She's southern, therefore, she must be racist and dumb. The northeastern elites in the media have a contempt and bias against anyone from the South. Living in New England for 22 yrs., I saw this firsthand at town meetings where people from the South were mocked and ridiculed for their conservative politics along with their distinct speech pattern. I fall prey to this myself at times, living here in Kentucky. But that's another story. 

Alec Baldwin could have used the "N" word 20 times in the last month (and for all we know, he probably did), but he would be excused and forgiven because he's part of the Hollywood elite who can never be considered racist, although the North has its fair share of racism underneath a liberal veneer. 

The only true racists (according to the media template) are those in the Republican party, the religious right and those in the South. Hence, we cannot excuse Paula Deen. She must still be a racist, and worthy of being branded as such. The media in their holier than thou attitude is hoping that Paula Deen's career tanks because she pushes fried food and everyone knows that's deadly stuff, so that's all the more reason to destroy her career.

Personally, I hope that the Food Network's ratings tank and that Walmart, Target and Sears suffer for their pathetic politically-correct behavior which shows that they are nothing more than spineless corporate wimps who have no character or morality.

• The George Zimmerman Trial. 

George Zimmerman, whom the media types as a white-hispanic

Here's all you need to know about this trial: The media is so invested in George Zimmerman being convicted as a racist killer of an innocent black teenager that they can't even entertain the facts or the lack of evidence. That's the Media Template for the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin trial--a racist hate crime.

"It's not about racial profiling," said lawyer Daryl Parks about the murder trial of George Zimmerman. "We never claimed this was about race." James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal writes, "What makes these statements 'head-scratching,' as New York's Daily News describes them, is that Parks represents the family of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, whom Zimmerman fatally shot in February 2012. Zimmerman is pleading self-defense. The media narrative (template) was that Martin was a victim of racial profiling--that Zimmerman, who is white and Hispanic, wrongfully saw the unarmed Martin as a threat because Martin was black. Even President Obama couldn't resist the opportunity to inject himself into this tragedy (he always does because it's all about him). He made this appeal to racial solidarity, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," What a stupid thing for the President of the United States to say regarding this tragedy. So now we're supposed to convict Zimmerman because he took the life of a kid who could have been Obama's son, if Obama had a son, which he doesn't!

From the very beginning, the media hyped this as a racial incident and they have continued to refer to Zimmerman as a white man rather than hispanic because they want this trial to be about race, about racial profiling.

If Zimmerman is acquitted, the media wants race riots:

As the prosecution's case against Zimmerman is imploding, the media is agitating for race riots:

On ABC Nightline, Dan Abrams is interviewing the police chief of Sanford, Florida. Dan Abrams asks Police Chief Cecil Smith, "If Zimmerman is found not guilty, if your office ready for that?"

Smith: I believe we have plans that will be able to deal with issues as they arrive.

Dan Abrams: I assume the worst case scenario, then, would be riots?

Smith: Yeah, and I will say aain, You know, we are no talking about riots. We're talking about rallies. If people choose to come to Sanford and voice their opinion, or if they want to come and rally, we welcome that. We want people to have the opportunity to express themselves.

The Media doesn't want Zimmerman acquitted--He must be guilty of something. How about manslaughter?

In the face of flimsy, unsubstantiated evidence against George Zimmerman, the media is hoping for a lesser verdict of manslaughter. In their eyes, Zimmerman can't be innocent, he's got to be found guilty. Here's a montage from the various media outlets where they are hoping that at least Zimmerman will be convicted on the charge of manslaughter:

Piers Morgan (CNN): What about manslaughter? What about the possiblity that they could convict on a lesser charge?

Judge Alex Ferrer (FOX): If he gets convicted of manslaughter, it's actually as bad for him as second degree murder.

Greta Van Susteren: They have a lesser charge there. Manslaughter.

Tucker Carlson: Why not manslaughter?

Christopher Darden (CNN): Manslaughter. A compromise verdict.

Anderson Cooper (CNN): Is it possible for the jury to on their own say, "Well we don't think it's second-degree murder, but manslaughter?"

Wolf Blitzer (CNN): Maybe better off with manslaughter.

Lis Wiehl (Fox): Negligence, a negligent homicide, manslaughter, assault. Something?

The media is BEGGING for a manslaughter verdict against George Zimmerman.

This is what a media template looks and sounds like. Notice they all have the SAME talking points, as though they're all reading from the SAME SCRIPT. 

What we need is a media that's interested in the truth of a story, not something that furthers their political agenda or ideology. We need a media that will follow the facts wherever they lead and not allow their own

bias to get in the way of presenting the unvarnished facts. Sadly, we don't have that media any longer. We don't have any real journalists and they're all guilty of journalistic malpractice. They are all shills for the Obama administration. They are nothing more than stenographers for Obama and the Democrat Party.

Maybe that's why more people listen to talk radio, to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and read alternative media, including blog posts. There is more legitimate journalism going on in the alternative media  than the twisted lies and logic that passes for news at NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NPR, NY TIMES, W. POST, etc.

                                 

Why Americans Distrust the Media

When Americans first heard the story of the death of Trayvon Martin, we were told that George Zimmerman, a “white-Hispanic.” What is a "white-Hispanic"? That term has rarely been used before now. But the NY Times and the rest of the media chose that term so as to turn this tragic shooting into a racial matter. It wouldn't play as well if it were just a Hispanic who killed a young black teen. I suppose we should now start classifying President Obama as the first white-African president. 

The narrative was written by the media before the facts were even known. This was a manufactured controversy from the very beginning. Consider the following:

Race pimps, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, to the rescue

• Media, Hollyweird and Dems rush to judge a man before he is charged with a crime, much less given a fair trial.
• Lying Media show a 13 year old Treyvon, when the victim? was age 17, 6' 3" and already had a criminal record.
• (Added note) On 4/9/12, I caught CNN interviewing George Zimmerman's lawyer. The CNN news anchor made a point of saying that George Zimmerman was 5'9" and weighed about 165 lbs. Then she said, Treyvon Martin was taller and may have weighed more. How much taller? How much more did he weigh? How come you have the numbers on George Zimmerman, but not for Treyvon Martin? Is it because you don't won't your viewing audience to know that Treyvon was 6'3" and weighed considerably more?
• New Black Panthers Call for Vigilante Justice in Trayvon Martin Case, offering a $10,000 bounty for George Zimmerman. Where is the outrage and investigation from the President and the Justice Department? If the KKK had done something similar, putting a bounty for the capture of a black man, do you think the President or Eric Holder would sit back and say nothing? No way, they along with the media would make this front-page headlines. But when a black racist group does the same thing, it's met with a wink and a nod from the White House and the liberal media.
• Obama is using the tragic shooting death of Trayvon Martin as a political diversion from his failures as president. He even said Trayvon looks like the son he never had. This is shameless exploitation and most disgusting. Now we learn the police have a report from the night of the shooting that says Martin jumped on Zimmerman. 
• Trayvon Martin was on a suspension from school when he was tragically shot last February 26th. His school, Dr. Micheal M. Krop Senoir High School has not given any details. His family has also evaded the issue. Why isn't the media interested in getting the reason why Trayvon was suspended from school? What are they hiding? It has been suggested by Trayvon's brother that he was suspended for assaulting a school bus driver.
• Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, the two "race pimps" are exploiting this whole affair and trying turn this into a racially-motivated hate crime. Why would they do this? Because their entire livelihood is furthered by stirring up racial tensions. At no time has the press reported that George Zimmerman tutored black children on weekends for the past several years.
• NBC News has fired a producer for editing a recording of George Zimmerman's call to police the night he shot. NBC originally doctored the audio to make Zimmerman sound like a racist.
• ABC News has admitted to doctoring a police video.

This is the same media that rushed to judgment and condemned the Duke Lacrosse players as guilty before the facts were even known. Mike Pressler, coach of the lacrosse team received threatening emails and hate calls. The politically-correct Duke administration forced him to resign. On the same day, the Duke president, Richard Brodhead (a real piece of work if ever there was one--he'd throw his own mother under the bus to save his skin) suspended the lacrosse team for the remainder of the season. Fox News was the only news outlet on record as revealing all the facts concerning this case while the remainder of the media hid some of the salient facts.

This is the same Al Sharpton who came to the defense of Tawana Brawley, a 15-yr old from Wappangers Falls, NY who in 1987 accused six white men of raping her. All of this was inflamed by Al Sharpton who suddenly appeared on the scene as her defender. A grand jury investigation concluded that Tawana Brawley made up this story.

After reading this, you may conclude that I think George Zimmerman is innocent. Well, you'd be wrong. I don't think either Zimmerman or Trayvon Martin are innocent. What I would like is for the media to give us all the facts instead of once again, rushing to judgment and turning this into a racial incident when it wasn't. 

Jared Loughner,  registered Democrat

This is the same media that rushes to judgment time and time again. When Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were shot outside a Tucson supermarket, the media immediately tried to tell us that the shooter, Jared Loughner, had been influenced by the hate speech coming from talk radio and Rush Limbaugh. Turns out that Jared Loughner NEVER listened to talk radio and he was a Democrat. It turns out that lack of civility had nothing to do with the shooting of Gabby Giffords, but we were told by our President, by the Democrats, and the media that it was because of a lack of civility that led to her shooting. The LEFT and the drive-by media attempted to use this shooting to SILENCE talk radio and Rush Limbaugh.

When it comes to a lack of civility, talk to the number one target, Sarah Palin,  who has been called every vile, despicable name under the sun; yet you'll never hear the President or the media rush to her defense.

If there is any moral to this rant, it's this: Don't be so quick to believe everything you read or hear. Don't rush to judgment. Examine your template. Those with a liberal template are quick to blame Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Talk Radio, Conservatives. Those with a conservative template are quick to blame Pres. Obama, Eric Holder, CNN, the Democrats, the Media, the Liberal Press--And according to past history cited in this post, those who are conservative right-wingers are usually seeking the truth and the facts rather than a race riot or a good ol' fashioned lynching of the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Geo. W. Bush, Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin.