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trumad

(41,692 posts)
Fri Sep 13, 2013, 09:35 AM Sep 2013

George Zimmerman's De Facto Spokesman Launches a White-Power Podcast



Yesterday, after George Zimmerman was taken into custody for allegedly threatening his estranged wife with a gun, HLN turned to a familiar source for commentary: Zimmerman's neighbor and de facto media emissary, Frank Taaffe. In an interview with HLNTV.com reporter Graham Winch, Taaffe argued that Zimmerman was distraught because his wife, Shellie, was trying to take his Rottweiler. "Now, that's pretty vindictive," Taaffe said.

Ever since Zimmerman gained notoriety by fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, Taaffe has been his most visible and outspoken defender. As Mother Jones has reported, Taaffe also happens to be a fire-breathing racist. And he now has a new forum to air his inflammatory views.

Shortly after Zimmerman's July acquittal on murder charges, Taaffe appeared on two episodes of the white-separatist podcast, The White Voice, and unleashed a string of racist diatribes. At the time, he claimed that he had gone on the show in response to a routine interview request. "I was invited," he told Mother Jones. "End of story." But in mid-August Taaffe teamed up with The White Voice's cohost Joe Adams, a white-power activist who has authored racist screeds such as the Save the White People Handbook, to launch a new weekly white-power podcast called Standing Our Ground.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/george-zimmerman-frank-taffe-white-supremacist-podcast
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George Zimmerman's De Facto Spokesman Launches a White-Power Podcast (Original Post) trumad Sep 2013 OP
What a pig maddezmom Sep 2013 #1
Truly sickening! Sissyk Sep 2013 #2
I have a pretty good guess on a couple DUers who will subscribe regularly... Blue_Tires Sep 2013 #3
I love when the heaven05 Sep 2013 #5
it was horrifying.... blm Sep 2013 #7
The fucker has his own quite interesting rap sheet. Fantastic Anarchist Sep 2013 #4
This needs to spread further. blm Sep 2013 #6
Wow! HappyMe Sep 2013 #8
Zimmy and all his allies are just one big shit stain on the hemmorhoid of humanity! gopiscrap Sep 2013 #9
that a clown like this heaven05 Sep 2013 #10

Sissyk

(12,665 posts)
2. Truly sickening!
Fri Sep 13, 2013, 09:39 AM
Sep 2013

That guy makes my skin crawl. I saw him once or twice on HLN during the trial. Changed the channel every time he was on after that.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
5. I love when the
Fri Sep 13, 2013, 10:18 AM
Sep 2013

truth about the racist souls of some on here is told. Zimpigs apologists on here sickened me during that sham of a trial that shamed amerikkka.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
10. that a clown like this
Fri Sep 13, 2013, 10:44 AM
Sep 2013

even gets a forum is telling about amerikkkan culture and what lies right beneath the surface of our so called civilized society.

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