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underpants

(182,788 posts)
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 01:36 PM Mar 2012

....aaaaand Glen Beck's website joins the "Trayvon deserved it" rightwing chorus

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203210006

The Blaze: Do We Know Trayvon Martin Wasn't An Arsonist Kidnapper?

In an article attacking MSNBC's Al Sharpton for "exploiting" the "racial controversy" surrounding Martin's death, The Blaze editor Mytheos Holt writes that "we're also learning more about Trayvon Martin. According to reporters he had been suspended from school." Martin's English teacher said that he had been suspended for "tardiness," but Holt says he has "doubts" and listed every single offense that could have resulted in Martin being suspended from school for 10 days -- to include arson, kidnapping, and murder:
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appleannie1

(5,067 posts)
1. The school said he had been suspended for 5 days for tardiness. I have a grandson in grade school
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 01:44 PM
Mar 2012

that has been suspended for 5 days for the same reason. He has not missed school, just been a couple minutes late about 14 times.

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
2. How we know that Glenn Beck didn't rape and murder a girl in 1990?
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 04:30 PM
Mar 2012

He refuses to provide proof that he's innocent.

If Trayvon were alive today, I'd trust him before I'd trust Beck... Trayvon wasn't a freaking nut job like Beck is.

underpants

(182,788 posts)
3. Mr.Scorpio
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 04:51 PM
Mar 2012

I just really got into this story yesterday (rainy weekend) and every single part of it breaks my heart. I am not new to the world but this whole thing stinks from the obvious racist - eh it's like he mattered anyway - point of view. I am glad that my fellow citizens have united to bring this to the attention of a media who clearly didn't care.

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
4. Thanks for caring about Trayvon's murder
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 05:05 PM
Mar 2012

You're behaving the way that a decent human being should.

I look at instances like this as Rorschach tests, they tell us so much about what kind of person someone is when they comment on them.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
5. so "suspended from school" is now an offense worthy of the death penalty?
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 06:05 PM
Mar 2012

some of these RW jerkoffs better clean up their acts in school ...

oh, wait ... they're white ... NEVER MIND ...

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
8. Ot was only a matter of time until the fiercely "independant" white racists started just
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 06:16 PM
Mar 2012

straight out calling young Mr. Martin a n*gger. They are obviously worked up into a lather about this now, so they feel free to come and go in their white sheets like the good ole days.

Number23

(24,544 posts)
9. Wow. A whole 10-day suspension for MURDER??! That's some serious justice right there
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 08:36 PM
Mar 2012


If Glenn Beck and his fans were any more stupid, they'd be killed flushing a toilet.
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