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October 29, 2007
Jena 6 Lies
Posted by Dave Blount at October 29, 2007 9:51 AM
The appalling deterioration of the mainstream media into nothing more than a vehicle for extremely pernicious leftist propaganda has never been in starker evidence than in the Jena 6 case, in which we were asked to side with six black thugs who attacked a white guy from behind, beat him unconscious, and left him for dead. Craig Franklin, assistant editor of The Jena Times, lists a few facts that contradict the misinformation spun by a national media that has lost all concern for truth:
- The infamous "whites-only" tree was not whites-only at all.
- The nooses hung in the tree that supposedly justified the assault on Justin Barker were actually a prank targeting white members of the rodeo team.
- The nooses did not constitute a "hate crime."
- District Attorney Reed Walters did not tell black students at Jena High that he could make their life miserable "with the stroke of a pen."
- When Jena 6 thug Robert Bailey Jr. tried to crash a party and got hit, it was with a fist, not a beer bottle.
- Eye witnesses corroborated the version of events described by a white guy who was attacked by Bailey and some other goons, and had a shotgun stolen from him.
- In what was misreported as a "schoolyard fight," black students including the Jena 6 barricaded an exit to the school gym and laid in wait for Barker.
- The attack was not linked to the nooses.
- The Jena 6 jury was all white because blacks summoned for jury duty didn't show up.
- The Jena 6 were hardly model youth. Some already had criminal records. Mychal Bell had been arrested for violent crimes four times prior to the attack on Barker.
- Jena is not a "racist" town.
- A U.S. Justice Department investigation found no support for the claim that local justice is biased against blacks.
As should be obvious, the Jena 6 are vermin, the sort of scum that can be scraped from the absolute bottom of any society. Yet we have been asked to sympathize with them, for no other reason than to conform with depraved liberal ideology.
As with the Duke Lacrosse case, black aggressors have been portrayed as victims, white victims have been portrayed as aggressors, and the most nefarious villains are the professional liars who call themselves journalists.
We have passed the point where it would still be possible to take the mainstream media's word for anything it reports. Liberal journalists are drawn to their profession by a festering hatred of America, which they hope to destroy with their corrosive ideology of defeatism and balkanization, so that it may be replaced with a moonbat culture more to their liking. This is the purpose of establishment journalism. Honestly informing the public is not on the agenda.
On a tip from V the K.
