The Press Gets Shy In Chi-town

The story is appalling; the press treatment is to be expected, although it is evolving.

The NY Times has broken with their normal practice and decided to give their readers a dose of reality:

4 Questioned After Video Shows Racially Charged Beating in Chicago

By Mitch Smith and Niraj Chokshi

CHICAGO — The police here were questioning four people on Wednesday as video circulated online showing a white teenager tied up and beaten as a group of young African-Americans shouted antiwhite messages and insulted President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Well, OK. One might wonder how the races of the victim and alleged perpetrators could be suppressed in what has all the look of a hate crime, but this is the MSM in 2017. John Hinderaker has the initial AP coverage, headlined "Chicago police investigate video beating"; his linked article has been updated, as of 10:20 PM Jan 4, but here is the key graf, paragraph 5:

While police officials did not confirm the races of the suspects or victim, video from Chicago media outlets appeared to show someone off-camera using profanities about "white people" and President-elect Donald Trump.

The current AP story, 7:30 AM Jan 5, headlined "Charges Expected in Chicago Beating Broadcast on Facebook", amends that fifth graf and drops it to eighth:

While police officials did not confirm the races of the suspects or victim, video from Chicago media outlets appeared to show someone off-camera using profanities about "white people" and President-elect Donald Trump. The victim appeared to be white, while others shown in the video appeared to be black.

Whatever. Ed Driscoll, posting at Instapundit, has more on the network "coverage" Wednesday night.

And just to state the obvious - Heaven help us if four awful whites did this to a black person. We would be having a national conversation about nothing else and there would be Serious People calling for a delay to the Trump inauguration.

 

 

Comments

[henry]

TM made a new thread. A new Florida shooting thread, for those who can survive the faux pas of being on topic.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Here are some questions about t his icident:

1. Why was he flying to Ft. Lauderdale? What was his business?
2. Wno is the mother of his baby?
3. What is the status and background of his mother and brother who are currently in Puerto Rico?
4. Is there a connection between the dropped charges of child porn and his claim to being forced to fight for ISIS?
5. What was the diagnosis at the mental health facility where he spent 2 weeks after he went to see the FBI? Was that a government facility? Was he put on medication? What kind?

[Captain Hate]

lyle, it was written like a straight narrative with no obvious disclaimer, but almost everybody sounded like an idiot. Good job either way...::shrug::

[Account Deleted]

As an aside---the "wah wah" pedal has a vocal twin: the "talk box" pioneered by Alvino Rey in 1939, to make what amounts to a talking guitar when attached to the human singer and routed through the axe.

Peter Frampton glamourized the talk box with his "faux concert" album "Frampton Comes Alive" including the hit "Show Me The Way."

Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way" features the talk box.

http://www.gibson.com/news-lifestyle/features/en-us/joe-walsh-to-frampton-talk-box-0107-2013.aspx

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CH-

Parody or not? I had to read it three times before giving the author the benefit of my doubt. First time through I took it literally.

A fellow JOMer suggested it was tongue in cheek. I was headlong into some scathing rebukes but thought better of it once I read it assuming it was tongue in cheek.

At any rate, Chappaqua chicas sound alot like Berkeley chicas and their "coaches." That shitake is real guaranteed.

[Willy]

I don't hear any enthusiasm. Did you expend yourselves on foreplay?

Thank god I don't have a dog in this hunt.

It's all yours baby.