Media Malpractice At Its Worst

I started tracking this on a prior post, but have decided to place the updated chronicle portion of it here for simplicity sake.

Let me be clear, I do not believe this boy should be dead. I also do not believe Zimmerman should be tried in the court of public opinion — especially one as mistake laced and agenda driven as the media has created in this case.  I’ve taken flak for pointing out these items in various forums, Twitter and Facebook. I am sure I will take some more, but you can hate the messenger all you want — the truth is, the media has decided Zimmerman is a racist and this is a hate crime, therefore it shall be so. It is clear no one in the mainstream media learned anything from Tuscon other than how to push their own narratives out of the starting gate.  Now, here comes the tin-foil hat moment: I think they did it on purpose. Think about what was going on (obamacare) when media attention exploded, think about the poll position Obama was in and the string of failures over the last month. There is one card left to be played – civil unrest. What better than a series of race riots quelled by the first Black President – the healer of oceans and a nation? Right… Maybe that’s nutty, maybe not.

The updates are mainly calling out media malpractice, but there are some timeline type links as well. In order, newest first:

• UPDATES TO THIS THREAD HAVE CEASED NOW THAT CHARGES ARE FILED. NEW UPDATES WILL BE HERE.
• Zimmerman makes court appearance in Fla. shooting 
• Zimmerman Affidavit
• Trayvon Martin’s mom: “It was an accident”
• Flashback: Breitbart Predicts Trayvon Race War at 2012 CPAC
• The New Black Panther Party Chief apologizes for saying “Let me tell you, the things that’s about to happen, to these honkeys, these crackers, these pigs, these pink people, these —- people. It has been long overdue. My prize right now this evening … is gonna be the bounty, the arrest, dead or alive, for George Zimmerman. You feel me?” More “feeling her” here.
• Mike Tyson is staying classy.
• Zimmerman To be Charged with 2nd Degree Murder. I am with WeaselZippers on this, I expected manslaughter. Video here.
• WI Trayvon supporters vandalize town- leave message “kill whitey”.
• DatniggyTB.
• Teacher fired for Trayvon Fundraiser & activism in her classroom including students writing about Martin — lovely.
• Zimmerman to be charged. No statement as to with what he shall be charged with until 6pm, April 11th.
• Editgate.
• Man Claims Gang Shouting ‘Trayvon’ Beat Him
• Zimmerman’s lawyer quits the case, have “lost contact with him.”
• Link at Instapundit: “Since when can a group of people in the United States put a bounty on someone’s head, circulate Wanted posters publicly, and still be walking the streets?”
• Video: Manufactured Racism? How NBC Edited Racism Into the George Zimmerman 911 Call
• Martin Family Lawyer warns about not charging Zimmerman: Nice court ya got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.
• Via Instapundit, PJTV has a video everyone needs to see.
• Eric Holder is defending “his people”; won’t arrest Black Panthers for bounty and threats to Zimmerman family.
• NBC has a history of trying to compel racism where it is not.
• TheRealGeorgeZimmerman.com – Yes, it’s his.
• Media Dishonesty and Race Hustlers.
• The Martin case won’t go to the Grand Jury.
• The New Black Panthers (language warning) are plotting their race war.
• CNN’s “watchdog” segment spends 60 seconds on the Zimmerman edit.
• Instapundit has two links regarding NBC firing the editor in question, but there are three names that remain questions.
• Voice analysis: Martin’s father told police that the screams were not his son’s.
• NBC doth protest too much.
• Because we haven’t had enough celebrities meddling in this case yet, here is Bill Cosby.
• Apparently Zimmerman passed a lie detector right after being brought in.
• On April 7th around 7pm in Oakland you can hit the ‘Hijab and Hoodie March’. I’m sure that will end well.
• NBC Fires Unnamed Producer Who Deceptively Edited the Zimmerman Tape. Well, now that this guy has trashed Zimmerman sufficiently, there is no need for us to know his name.
• NBC/ABC racist narrative busting poll here.
• The Koch brothers are to blame for Trayvon, so sayeth Van Jones. In related useful idiot news, 61% of Americans think Al Sharpton is an idiot. Glad Obama is  having him to the White House for Easter!
• Obama Passover message: Remember Trayvon, vote for me! Nope, no Republican politicizing it there, Mr. Scarborough.
• We’ve reached the ceiling of absurdity now: UN Human Rights Chief calling for investigation of Martin shooting. Someone let Joe Scarborough know, eh?
• Zimmerman has a lawyer and he’s doing what the DOJ won’t – going after Sharpton and Jackson.
• Eleanor Norton Holmes shows up Joe Scarborough again.. Pesky politicizing Dems!
• Instapundit has three links related to “The Walkback Continues” with regard to the 911 tape and the alleged, now debunked, racial slur.
• The NY Times screws up again. Won’t correct their errors.
• Jesse Jackson continues to fan the flames. The blood is on your hands now.
• Don Cheadle has something to say to NBC about their editing.
• Hoodie vs Hooded.
• Preaching Racial Unity from the Pulpit.
• Thank you Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, The Media and New Black panthers: 78 year old white man beaten by two black youths shouting, “This is for Trayvon.”
• Worth mentioning again – Trayvon Martin Twitter Accounts: @T33ZY_TAUGHT_M3 and @No_Limit_Nigga
• NY Times: Zimmerman Killed Trayvon Martin “In Cold Blood”
• NBC: We deeply regret our error that made George Zimmerman sound like a racist, and now you should leave us alone
• Three things people think they know about the case.
  
• Quote of the Day (share this!): Narrative Destroying Edition
• The Other McCain: The Corpse Of Trayvon Martin Has Lost Propaganda Value; Fortunately, Sandra Fluke Still Has A Pulse Truer words…
• ABC News Correspondent: Trayvon Shot ‘Because He Was Black’ Really? Where do you get that from? 911 Transcript here. More of ABC’s ineptitude here.
  By the way ABC et al, Zimmerman is 170 not 240 pounds.
• Only after being totally busted by Pajamas Media, The Daily Caller and Breitbart, ABC News “re-releases” the Zimmerman police station footage agreeing he had injuries.
• A National Travesty.
• Apparently God told the New Black Panther Party to put a bounty on the head of George Zimmerman. Yes, really. Still waiting on someone to arrest them for it.
• HuffPo publishes an ala Occupy flavor  hit piece on Zimmerman describing him as a huge racist and blaming Stand Your Ground, then pulls it. Cache exists.
• Obvious headline: Trayvon Martin case exposes worst in media andThe Times Keeps Shouting ‘Stand Your Ground,’ While Reporting That the Real Issue Was Probable Cause
• Video: “The Media will demonize and glorify who they want.”
• The Mother of All Republicans politicizing this sad death.
• Geez, ANOTHER Republican politicizing the case. No wait, it’s Dem. Representative Steve Cohen. Scarborough is starting to look like a real jackass at this point, eh?
• Jesse Jackson: Trayvon would be alive if he hadn’t been suspended from school. Errr, what?
• New Black Panthers plan “Day of Action” for April 9th – poster complete with Zimmerman in the crosshairs. Crickets from the DOJ.
• Bomb planters in hoodies: If You see something, say something.
• Another Republican politicizing the Martin shooting.. oh wait, it’s Dem Gov Granholm of MI. Someone tell Joe Scarborough.
• Sharpton Fail. When will MSNBC boot him?
• #Fail: Eugene Robinson. 
• Yep:Bill Kristol: Trayvon Martin controversy now ‘is just demagoguery’
• The Hill reports that there are more Republicans for Joe Scarborough to be annoyed at for politicizing the Martin Case. No, not really – read it.
• Geraldo apologizes for telling the truth.
• ABC news wonders, “Are death threats going too far?”
• From Sister Toldjah — #Trayvon fallout: If “racial profiling” is so wrong, why do liberals tolerate @RevJJackson?
• Rosanne Barr retweets George Zimmerman’s address – AGAIN. She then deleted her account and restored it. Tweet is still there. Why has no one arrested her yet?
• Another narrative fail: Stand Your Ground
  Why aren’t the Koch’s suing? This is defamation. Oh wait, forgot – according to Morning Joe, Republicans are the ones exploiting this case. Someone tell that to Jan Shakowsky.
• Obama’s Million Dollar Donor, Bill Maher, steps in it some more with bonus Van Jones fun. Note the use of laugh tracks. They so very much want this to be about race, they practically are drooling. I feel dumber for having watched it – the things I do for you people! #ReturnTheCheck
• Elspeth Reeve of The Atlantic has a piece titled: ‘What did Trayvon look like? Depends on your Politics‘.  She does a nice job making those who uncovered the recent photos and life of Martin look like monsters. Well in answer to your question, Ms. Reeve,  we all already know he would look like Obama’s son if he had one.
• Marchers stage protests at the Police station in Florida. FTA: ‘I come from an era where people wore white hoods and nobody arrested the KKK,’ said Roulhac-Lumpkin. ‘Wearing a hoodie does not mean you’re a hoodlum.’ Yes, but you and the Klan both  are wearing hoods in racial solidarity and the messages are both the same – kill the opposition.
• Boston.Com has a slideshow with loads of Republicans exploiting the case.
• Syracuse, NY – Million Hoodie march complete with speech from Minister Mark Muhammad, the Syracuse representative for Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.  There is video.
• Where is the DOJ on all of the lynching, wanted posters and inciting of violence by visible public figures?
• Food for thought: What if Zimmerman had not been armed and Martin had beaten him to death? Would we be discussing hoodies, bounties and racism? Probably not, because it is doubtful we’d even hear this story at all.
• Biden: Martin case could lead to Gun control laws. Joe, say three words for me: FAST AND FURIOUS.
• Martin Funeral Director: No signs of a fight on the body. Well, there wouldn’t be really if he was the one throwing the punches?
• The strip club party has been canceled. Dear God….but it’s Republicans exploiting it all.
• Allen West’s comment on the situation.
• The Bankrupt Race Card.
• NBC edits the 911 call. Update: Now they are doing an ‘internal’ investigation about it. That’s hilarious.
• This is getting ridiculous, where is the DOJ??
• AFL-CIO blames Conservatives for Martin shooting.
• More from $1 Million Obama donor Bill Maher.  #ReturnTheCheck
• Seminole County NAACP distances itself from Sharpton violent rhetoric. Will MSNBC finally fire Sharpton? Unlikely. More from Yid.
• Mark Steyn brings his usual common sense and logic to the case and the ‘very unnattractive descent into tribalism’. Bingo.
• DNC member Pat Cotham has taken part in a “Hoody” Rally in Charlotte, NC this past Thursday (3/29). I’m shocked she knew what a hoody was.
• The height of journalistic integrity has been hit on CNN, where “you’re Zimmermanning me” has been born.
• As the public learns more about this incident and the media’s malpractice, the CNN poll showing 73% of Americans wanting Zimmerman arrested drops to 48% in just a couple of days.
• Obama’s silence on racism.
• Rosanne Barr is an idiot.
• Yes: “Where preferred victim narratives are concerned, truth is the first casualty of American journalism.”
• ABC is still running the childhood picture of Martin next to the 2005 Mug shot of Zimmerman for their timeline piece.
• George Zimmerman’s brother speaks out. Sidenote: the column lists Martin as 19 not 17 years old.
• The Martins enlisted Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney, to keep the circus alive apparently just days after the shooting. He’s responsible for much of the circus since. No word on his opinion of the 10k New Black Panther bounty on Zimmerman. Crump’s handiwork here.
• CNN corners a Congresswoman who can’t remember the name of a little white girl murdered in her own district (video).
• Blown off news:  Racial Beatdown in South Carolina Related: Parents of Murdered British Students Slam Obama For Lack of Compassion | The Gateway Pundit
• A demagogue with kerosene. Andrew Breitbart was there.
• At some point, you’ve sold enough skittles.
• Perhaps this person was listening to All my black hoodie: Trayvon Martin Sympathizer Arrested After Threatening to Hunt Down Police Chief & His Family “Like a Dog” 
• More exploitation and violence inciting activity: All My Black Hoodie
• Pelosi thinks it was courageous of Congressman Bobby Rush to wear a hoody on the House floor and rave like an unhinged loon.
• Obama: “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon” — Part II
• ABC has outted the 13 year old witness who corroborated Zimmerman’s story. Nice job – I’m sure the poor kid will be in hiding within hours.
• Video of George Zimmerman’s Father Blasting Obama: “So Much Hate Coming From The President”
• Kids, don’t do drugs: Bill Maher Remarks On Trayvon Martin To Dr. Drew: ‘The New Racism Is Denying Racism’
• The Media Is Getting The Trayvon Martin Story Wrong
• The ‘Post-Racial’ Lynch mob.
• If Obama had a Twitter feed, would it looks like either of Trayvon Martin’s?
• This is inappropriate and rather sad.
• Liberal compassion has taken to Twitter under the handle @KillZimmerman and Twitchy has more here. Bonus: The Icon for it has crosshairs on it.
• According to Stephanie Cutter (Obama Deputy Campaign Director), it’s Republicans who are politicizing the Martin shooting and not Obama who said that if he “had a son he would look like Trayvon”. Right.
• Spike Lee finally Did The Right Thing – well via Twitter. No word if he actually spoke to the elderly couple his tweet sent running for their lives. I found his some of choice of words in his apology questionable: “I Deeply Apologize To The McClain Family For Retweeting Their Address. It Was A Mistake. Please Leave The McClain’s In Peace.”
• ABC has footage they say is George Zimmerman at the police station. The story repeats several times the video shows no blood or abrasions on him but doesn’t mention what time that video is taken, that 2 witnesses have corroborated his statement of the events or the possibility the medical attention he received at the scene might have cleaned him up.  Watch the video and then read it for yourself. The Daily Caller spots what ABC doesn’t. More here.
• Professor Jacobson is asking some good questions about the details here.
• Obama campaign cancels Hoodie sales – finally.
• I’m surprised no one has exploited this yet. Oh wait, it’s from Hollywood. Never mind.
• To balance out the race card flingers, Alveda King makes an attempt to bring some calm and sense to the issue. Col. Allen West concurs with her.
• What exploitation of an issue can be complete without Bill Maher making an ass of himself.
• Anderson Cooper sort of does his job. Kudos to him for not letting the NBPP steam roll him.
• Oh move over, Water, Wilson and Rush — here comes Sheila Jackson Lee.
• Not to be outdone by Waters and Wilson in exploiting this media botched story, Bobby Rush (D-IL) was thrown off the House floor for wearing a Hoodie.
• Frederica Wilson (D-FL) announced Zimmerman should be taken into custody for his own good. No word on whether that also applies to the New Black Panthers who issued a bounty dead or a live on Zimmerman.
• Congresswoman and Profanity laced Tea Party tirader, Maxine Waters, has declared the Martin case to be a hate crime.
• New Black Panther Party leader who put out the wanted poster of Zimmerman arrested for pawning semi-automatic handgun; he was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
• Maggie’s Notebook has the story on a 2nd witness corroborating Zimmerman’s account, plus much more. Also check out The Other McCain’s piece on this story.
• More Cashing in: R&B Artists cut Trayvon Tribute track. Obama’s campaign goes one lowers: promoting Hoodies.
• Rep. Hank Johnson commenting on the Trayvon Martin Case (D-Georgia): “He was executed for ‘WWB’ in a ‘GC.’ Walking While Black in a Gated Community.” Will Guam tip over though, Rep. Johnson?
• NBC doing a bang-up job interviewing Zimmerman friend, Oliver Martin.
• Jim Treacher has said it perfectly about the ‘facts’ in his column. My eyebrows shot up and I hurt myself rolling my eyes at the “White Hispanic” testing bit. Just wow.
• Former NAACP leader blasts Sharpton and black leaders on their handling of Martin case. Flashback: Al Sharpton and the massacre at Freddy’s Fashionmart.
• Daily Caller has the actual Police report. Martin listed in it as 6’0″ and 160 pounds to Zimmerman’s 5’9″ with no weight listed.
• Nice job Spike Lee for tweeting the wrong address for George Zimmerman and placing an innocent lady in danger. Update: It’s an elderly couple. Also note that AP, Reuters and the like are ignoring it.
• It Begins: Walmart ransacked by high school students on way to Trayvon Martin Rally. Flash mobs are back, but now have themes it would seem?
• Another Narrative fail. Instapundit has links detailing that Zimmerman is a Democrat.
• Trayvon tried to grab Zimmerman’s gun and more info on Martin’s various suspensions from school.
• Oh, now CAIR is getting in on the media blitz comparing an Iraqi mom of 5 in California to Trayvon. Not a word of mention about that fact her husband should have been deported in 2007 and likely honor killed her.
• Screenshot of the Facebook page dedicated to killing Zimmerman (taken down) and racist slur t-shirts of Zimmerman are linked at Instapundit.
• More Sharpton exploitation with a has-been comedian.
• Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson along with loads of groups, useful idiots and media trying to cash in here, here, here and here.
• Martin’s Tweets. Not quite fitting the narrative but he’d make a great Bill Maher sidekick.
• A Facebook fan of mine writes: Jesse Jackson May 1995: “It would not be appropriate for me to get involved in the court role, legally,”He said he would leave that finding up to “the lawyers, the judge and the jury.” Referring to the OJ Simpson trial.
  Jackson March 2012: “Trayvon is martyr, he’s not coming back, he’s a martyr, murdered and martyred.”
• For the ‘Safety of others’: Black Panther Threats Get Hispanic Man Kicked Out of College
• More details emerge: Martin Family Confirms Trayvon Was Suspended From School Over Marijuana More Suspension details here.
• Nothing says grief like cashing in: Mother of Trayvon Martin Files Paperwork To Trademark Dead Son’s Name
• From 10k to 1 Mil: New Black Panthers Offer $1 Million For Zimmerman’s Capture
• Wild Coincidence: Obama Website Now Pimping Obama 2012 Hoodies 
• Nice: New “Pu$$y A$$ Cracker” T-Shirts Hit the Florida Streets
• Learned nothing from Tuscon: Krugman’s insane Trayvon blame game
• As if the $10,000 Wanted Posters and promises of Civil unrest from Al Sharpton were not enough, Spike Lee has taken up re-tweeting George Zimmerman’s address.
• Raleigh Occupy and NAACP joins the bandwagon.
• Jesse Jackson pushes a congregation on Trayvon being “murdered and martyred“.