aaaand roll the Ferguson story

[underpants]

(cut to Trooper Johnson) (close frame of him speaking) "Peaceful protests by day..... (cut to "rioters" throwing tear gas back at heavily armed cops) "dangerous dynamic in the night". No images of the peaceful protests.

MSNBC reporter "There were peaceful protests and then SOMETHING HAPPENED and the police started lobbing teargas and concussion grenades ... we are not sure what happened but something happened"

The male model script reader who replaces Willie Geist mid show repeatedly interrupted both Ed Rendell and Eugene Robinson when they even sort of ventured off script with "We don't have all the facts" "An investigation is being done".

Switch over to Fox & Friends" - Douchebag "There now reports of up to a dozen people who saw the incident just as the Ferguson Police have reported" ---uh they haven't issued any report on the actual shooting.



I have been following much of this on my iPhone but today I am home with my sick daughter. Now I see how this story is being framed for mass consumption.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Yup

The various Malaysian airline stories are history and the Yazidi "drama" is over, so they found a new story to "report and distort".

[underpants]

2. Running out the clock until another BIG story happens

then in a few weeks the Ferguson report comes out and *POOF* see we did nooooooooooothing wrong

[BumRushDaShow]

4. +1

[BlueStreak]

5. The problem is the victims never seem to be very sympathetic

Clearly it is wrong for a cop to be running down the street shooting off his gun in this situation. It seems there is little doubt this was a horrible incident that isn't justified on any level and I hope this cop ends up in prison. Moreover, one is struck by how many white faces there are spraying the black people with tear gas, bean bags, and rubber bullets. Clearly there is an institutional problem in this police force.

Having said all that, I find it frustrating that people like Brown Trevon Martin and most others in these situation, which clearly victimized, are generally not very sympathetic characters. Maybe some of that is a result of the media and government engaging in systematic character assassination. But the convenience store video doesn't lie. That makes it hard to get the action that this case clearly deserves.