I wrote earlier that there is no way that NBC’s Zimmerman edit was an accident or error, as the network claims. I base my position on nearly 20 years of editing video and audio. NBC’s Zimmerman edit was deliberate, done in a network editing studio at the specifications or orders of a producer who in turn answers up a chain of command that ends with the executive producer of the show that aired it. That show was the Today show, the highest-rated morning news show on the networks, and one of NBC’s prime products. Today aired the edited clip of George Zimmerman’s 911 call last week, and the network also put a text version, with the same dishonest edit, on its web sites. Only after this blog and others called NBC out did they “apologize,” while refusing to name anyone involved.
NBC’s deliberate edit was an attempt to build a narrative that George Zimmerman killed Trayvon out of racial animosity, but that does not square up with facts. NBC’s editors and producers knew that when they deliberately cut an important section out of the audio recording of Zimmerman’s 911 call. Someone in the network must answer for this deception, publicly. But NBC is hiding behind weak apologies and phony claims that the edit was a “mistake.”
Today‘s latest statement indicates that a “seasoned producer” was involved. A “seasoned producer” knows what they are doing, or should, and does not make an embarrassing “mistake” like the Zimmerman edit. Whoever this “seasoned producer” is, nothing gets on the air on a show like Today without the show’s executive producer’s approval. The executive producer of the Today show is Jim Bell. His bio describes him as a “hands on producer.” The 44-year-old Bell also fits the description of a “seasoned producer.”
“Today” news coverage overseen by Bell includes the 2008 Presidential Election, Hurricane Katrina, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the earthquake in Haiti. He led “Today’s” six-hour live broadcast of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Bell also oversaw the two of the most prominent and successful anchor shifts in morning television history when Meredith Vieira replaced Katie Couric and Vieira was succeeded by Ann Curry. He also launched the successful fourth hour of “Today,” pairing Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb as hosts.
Prior to joining “Today,” Bell was coordinating producer for NBC Olympics, leading the production hiring for the Olympics unit and supervising nearly 100 hours of afternoon and late night programming on NBC during the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
Bell’s reputation as a ground-breaking, hands-on producer is well documented. He was responsible for the “Ends of the Earth” series that aired the first-ever live simultaneous broadcast from the Arctic, the Antarctic and the Equator. He was the executive producer of Matt Lauer’s primetime special “Decision Points: A Conversation with George W. Bush,” the President’s first one-on-one television interview after leaving office. Early in his career, he developed NBC’s AFL in-game interviews, with game announcers interviewing coaches during live telecasts, a technique used throughout the industry today.
Jim Bell must BE ARRESTED for what he has done. JUSTICE AT ALL COSTS. HOLD THE MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE. NBC IS RACIST! LAMESTREAM MEDIA IS BIGOTED!
Bell is just one of many. This is just the mind set at the MSM. They just got
caught. We have many unemployed lawyers. They might hit the jackpot this time.
This is a slam-dunk lawsuit for media malpractice. Not a lawyer so I don’t know if it’s libel or slander. Sorry
Triedto call both landmark legal foundation and media research center today. Andcalso mr zimmermans attorney
He is interested in clearing himself
We are interested in taking them out for this reprehensible behavior. It isn’t just enough to cashier out mr bell and Brian Williams. They should PAY THROUGH THE NOSE for this. Ditto for Cnn and the third network
I’m just hoping Zimmerman’s lawyers will file an anti-defamation suit against NBC for $100 million just like the lame-o left does at the drop of a hat….!
slander is spoken. libel is written. no need to be a lawyer; just have a dictionary!
On what criminal charge? Bell may well be a jerk and a slanderer, but the former isn’t a crime and the latter is a civil matter. Calling for Bell’s arrest when he’s been charged with no crime is no better than the screaming calls for Zimmerman’s arrest before the investigation is even finished.
Let’s not act like the Left.
how about ‘inciting a riot’?
YES!
I agree in general, though it’s conceivable he could be charged with some sort of incitement. It’d be pretty tough to get a conviction.
Libel is a different matter (I think it’s technically libel, but it could be slander), and NBC is wide open on this one. Whatever the outcome of other aspects of this case, Zimmerman should own NBC when this is over.
It could be NBC committed both libel (the written report) and slander (the broadcast). A little mnemonic device: Libel = Letters; Spoken = Slander.
How about that liberal favourite a Hate Crime.
Arrested? No. Sued for defamation? Yes
PEOPLE WHO TYPE IN ALLCAPS SCARE ME A LITTLE; perhaps we could tone down the hysteria a little bit?
Typical media bias. NBC needs to be cited for inciting violence,
Be Breitbart. Get this bastard fired. Get Zimmerman to sue him for everything he owns. Ruin his career and bankrupt him. These people are enemy traitors, and nothing should be off the table when it comes to destroying them personally. Remember Alinsky. Hurt the individual, not the institution!
Most networks have a morals clause and if it has to do with news an ethics clause. these two alone would be enough to get him fired. First NBC must publicly apologise for the hatchet job at Prime Time and publicly sue this guy for any monitary damage they will have to pay out.You cant arrest him but you can make him pay for his unethical actions.
“Be Breitbart. Get this bastard fired.”
Apparently you don’t get what “Be Breitbart” is about. Breitbart would have asked for and gotten an interview with this guy so that his views could be broadcast. Breitbart would have done everything he could to shine a light on these shenanigans. I seriously doubt he would ever attempt to try some silly activism since he was all about allowing people to sink themselves.
Get real — Breitbart would have allowed this guy to hang himself.
Kinda wonder if NBC really gives a rip about ‘the public’s trust’? Most networks have always treated the public as idiots with a few exceptions on cable: FOX which are chipping away at the nets’ viewership.
News is a loss leader for the nets anyway. So, their ‘credibility’ to them, is rarely an issue.
Time to Rather-ize Jim Bell.
3. John Skookum
+ 1
Be Breitbart!
What I love about all of this is how the media so often doesn’t seem to understand why the right doesn’t trust them. I’ll give them a hint. It’s because you lie, and even when you get caught lying, you try to cover it up, so who knows how many other lies you tell on a daily basis that you don’t get caught on?
Who advertises during the Today sow? This kind of dishonest reporting is far more deserving of advertiser boycott than the unpopular opinions of non-journalist Limbaugh.
Advertises?
Dude, who even WATCHES the “Today Show” ?!?
Most everyone I know has a JOB.
With never having seen with my own eyes, a single minute of a “Today” show broadcast ever in my life, Lemme guess their advertizers….
Ambulance chasing lawyers,(for scammers who dont want to work) trade schools (for people without decent jobs) Depends Undergarments, medical alert systems, and denture creams (for people too old to work)
Am I warm?
Haven’t watched the show either, but you’re most likely spot on.
I have one of those jobs where the management can decide what shifts they want to put me on. Tonight, I worked the late shift. It all has to do with staff coverage and the scheduling needs in the store.
But even on the days when I happen to be home in the daytime, I do NOT watch daytime network television. The stuff is truly execrable. It’s truly toxic.
This is the kind of thing I’d expect from Breitbart, is he still dead?, not NBC but competing with the half truths and outright lies from FOX must be hard. Someone cracked over there. Move over Fox you’ve got company in that gutter.
Good grief… don’t EVEN try to pseudo-defend NBC by engaging in another (yawn) libtard attack on the evil FOX News, implying there is some sort of equivalence. Apparently, you’re not too familiar with truth as you can’t seem to recognize it. If you can’t admit that what NBC did is deceitful and wrong… uh… well… then you must be on staff at NBC.
NBC and the chevy pick up truck exploding gas tank.
Exhibit #2 of why I will never vote leftist.
The gentleman has accused Fox News of lying, and rather than back up accusations, he uses it to excuse NBC from an exposed lie.
Two lies don’t make a truth; they just make two lies. If you think Fox is lying to you, go prove it, and publish it for the world to see. *You don’t respond by doing the same thing you accuse them of yourself.* If you do, then you are using their perceived malfeasance to justify your very real ones.
Keep it classy libs, how often do you slander the recently dead?
but competing with the half truths and outright lies from FOX must be hard. Someone cracked over there. Move over Fox you’ve got company in that gutter.
I didn’t realize that Dan Rather worked for Fox.
Just one more example of ignorant wingnut me and a wise, knowledgeable lib.
Why not just ask Jim Bell if he was involved? Twitter @jib
Simple. They’re trying to get Zimmerman killed, or bully him into committing suicide. Then they can report on his death and keep this story going. Bazy lastards.
Starboardhelm, I’m afraid you are probably right about this. This is EVIL. And they have probably convinced themselves it would amount to some sick life-for-life “justice” (although these are generally the people who cry mercy for stone killers on death row for especial brutality).
Bloody hell. Andrew Breitbart is dead, and this lying reptile Bell lives, and has the temerity to use the power of the press for THIS?! Where is justice now?
NBC was just doing backup work for “the Won” since he said that if he had a son he would look just like Martin—-they have to use those kneepads when they carry their water buckets for their great messiah. Gotta keep all those stories straight, guys. No way could Martin be anything other than the ‘victim’.
Someone needs to find and tweet his home address.
No personal addresses. This is not negotiable.
You are right. No personal address or personal contact info on PJMedia. But as #3, John Skookum and #12 Bobo alluded to, we have to fight them harder than they are fighting us. Just as in the war on terror it would take us being harder than them to win (unfortunately we don’t have the collective hardness in our souls for that as it is what it would take to bring peace to the middle-east). Alinsky’s tactics work and we need to find it in our hearts to use them. Instead of attacking the msm or networks as institutions, attack the “journalists” or producers personally for the spin they spew toward socialism. It’s the only thing that will work. Anything less and we will lose the constitution completely and end up as the USSA in effect if not in name.
It is not the only thing that will work. I would not use Alinsky’s tactics to further my politics any more than I would use Satan’s tactics to spread my religion.
Then you will lose.
No, they don’t.
There’s no honour in winning a race to the bottom.
I believe Mr. Spike demonstrated why this is a really, really bad idea.
When will we figure out that this is not a game? If they do something, do it back! In spades!
Either that, or lock and load.
Which is better? Rudeness, or war?
Or surrender.
You choose (for now).
Let me take some issue with your use of the phrase “deliberate edit” in order to bolster your argument and agree with you. I’m sure the phrase is used for emphasis to inform the uninformed, but it is, after all a redundancy. Anyone who has ever edited even home movies or home video understands the concept; editing is to decide what to cut out and what to leave in. The very act of editing involves deliberation; it’s the nature of the craft. The only way an edit could not be deliberate is if the editor were making choices by flipping a coin. Is THAT how seasoned NBC producers do it now?
So NBC’c attempt to pass this of as an “honest” mistake is risible and absurd, like saying that the surgeon picked up the scalpel but did not intend to actually cut.
If more people bleed, it leads.
I guess they think a race war would not only be good for ratings but might bolster Obama’s reelection chances, otherwise known as a two-fer.
Darren, even if you’re right that Fox leads the rest of the media in half-truths and outright lies – and I think you have to be a partisan with highly selective antennae to think that’s an obvious truth – how does that make it any less wrong for others to follow suit?
In your mind, are you defending them, or are you saying, So’s your old man!
Every American should sue NBC for the racial tensions that have resulted from this lying and deceite. Seriously, all of us should call, e-mail, and file suit for a blatant out-right lie. Not to mention all those young black men that die everday on the streets because of gang violence and these fools at NBC do not care about that, nor Fast and Furious, nor gas prices, food prices, and real womens issues like JOBS! I say start a campaign so big NBC will have to change or get out. Lets roll!
dude….demand he get’s drekcanned and sure his hide. but let’s not descend to the level of Spike Lee, kay?
Ok, now that was uncalled for. Need a mod to take that address down post haste.
These ‘seasoned’cretins must be punished – NBC must become professional news gatherers – presenters and journalists again!
If not – and soon – institutions like NBC will become targets of the angry mobs and pissed off anarchists – as well as what ever racial group the media has alienated on any particular day!
Loss of expensive office buildings and valuable equipment will all be traced back to the sloppy morals and failing ethics of today’s rather pathetic collection of Main Stream Media ‘seasoned personel’.
Please rearrange your current commu-crat approach to news manufacturing – give us something to be proud of – while you can!
ABC was just as disgraceful in their purposeful reduction in quality of the police station video to claim that Zimmerman had no injuries. They used a video of a video to lower the quality then added a large, shaded chyron to make it even worse.
Mr. Bell’s “edited” bio…
Bell…led the Wedding of William and Meredith Vieira… Katie Couric and Vieira. He also launched Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb…on Matt Lauer…’ leaving a technique used throughout the industry today.
I plead “Fake but Accurate”.
“”Today” news coverage overseen by Bell includes… Hurricane Katrina.”
Well, that certainly explains a lot.
If that’s Bell in the photo in the twit update … (oh, EXCUSE ME, “twitter” update — did I selectively edit that? *gasp* Heaven forbid!) … then he appears to cultivate the image of a rock star. Question is, does he have an ego which matches that photo?
I don’t think so.
To me he looks bemused.
Whoever did that at NBC, whether Bell or someone else, attempted to incite a race riot and may well have contributed to the harming or conviction of an innocent man.
Rush Limbaugh called a professional political activist some bad names.
The left demands Limbaugh be silenced and driven from public life. About the race riot inciter from the left we hear crickets.
Hey, post his address and put a bounty on him and see how that goes over in the MSM.
I know you’re joking for effect, but I feel compelled to issue a warning: Anyone else who does post Bell’s personal address will be banned, no questions asked.
Then there’s the “seasoning” that the whole media added to spice up the story and to betray their agenda.
NBC should fire him even for even doing his propaganda assignment poorly. You can see with his “mistake” that the entire story could have been handled by Mr Bell in the audio seasoning room. Think of how many different reporters it took to push the audience to think racist and read between the lines when all the lines between just could have been eliminated from the start.
ZIMMERMAN: In my neighborhood there’s a guy who looks like he’s black.
911 DISPATCHER: Okay, is this guy black?
ZIMMERMAN: He looks black.
911 DISPATCHER: Did you see what he was wearing?
ZIMMERMAN: A dark hoodie.
ZIMMERMAN: F^%$ing coon. (extra seasoning to emphasize as a slur)
I think the word you’re looking for is malicious. This act was malicious.
If I were Lionel Hutz, I’d be trying to get in touch with Zimmerman.
It would be interesting to see if he has contributed any political funds to candidates or organizations.
News outlets that engage in these despicable practices need to be shut down and the producers or editors responsible fined or jailed. This isn’t free speech, it’s yelling fire in a crowded theater when there isn’t one.
Didn’t Rupert Murdoch shut down one his media properties that went rogue?
If only General Electric would hold NBC to the same standards that FOX’s owner has.
Well, I think Mr. Bell may have made a minor mistake but that this action does not rise to the level of problem. In fact, I think his creative editing has actually advanced the national dialog and I’d like to drop him a supporting note thanking him. Will some one please post Bell’s mailing address, his media addresses and his ‘phone numbers. Thanks!
I don’t even want him fired at this point. That an experienced producer would think this was a good thing to do is bad enough. Then there’s the whole culture of NBC would not make one rethink doing such a thing is worse. And then for NBC to not even pretend to be aghast at this and fire the guy is the last straw. At this point all of NBC news has no credibility, not the Sunday morning talking heads, not Brian Williams, none of them. It doesn’t matter if they still employ Bell. Firing him would not restore their credibility now.
Like Bryan said: No persnal addresses. Also, no going to his residence; no confronting him on the street. No threatening e-mails.
Publicity through regular channels and pressure for a full accounting and accountability is what’s needed. There is nothing Bell can be “arrested” for, but there seems to be stuff he can be sued for, and that’s up to the Zimmerman family. For everyone else: maximum exposure of this duplicity is what is called for.
Awww, come on. How about a $10,001 bounty?
I think that the AG for Fla should sue NBC et al for inciting riots with deliberate and malicious manipulation of known facts. After all, it’s Fla that will have to deal with the fall out from the riots these news outlets obviously want.
I thought the producer would be black given the racial animosity characterized by the CBC as well the racial makeup of the protesters.
ratings combined with white guilt
part of the reason doj started its investigation was due to the racial overtones that nbc broadcast.
wonder if there is a way, if we had an actual doj, to take him to task over that.
So what is his home address?
NB who? Didn’t they used to be something special back in the 20th Century? Maybe the parent company will shake up the cool kids’ treehouse after paying a hefty legal judgment and watching their already declining ratings drop more.
As I expected, this man is UG-LEEE! I believe that 70% to 80% of liberals become that way because the world is so unfair to the incredibly unattractive.
Tune out NBC/ABC. If you view Jim Bell’s name in the credits, turn it off. Get a Roku, and watch only what appeals. It’s death to the alphabet media anyway, and the print media as well. As in the New York Times, few purchase a physical paper anymore.
I volunteer to picket Ann Curry’s house. I’ll do it for free.
Wait a minute. Until Jim Bell admits that he is at fault, or someone at NBC rats him out, this is just speculation as to whether he’s responsible for that execrable edit or not. It’s likely that he is the one (that picture makes him look like just the kind of clueless, nerdy boy wizard who would do anything for ratings), but we don’t know for sure yet. Let’s not “Zimmerman” him until we do know.
Don’t take this as a defense of NBC or anybody there. I gave up on network news and newspapers long ago, because ever since 9/11, I’ve regarded them as lying sacks of shxx. I just don’t want the left to accuse us of doing what they do, in the unlikely event it wasn’t Bell.
As the executive producer, he’s responsible for the show’s content whether it was actually his decision or action.
The Trayvon Martin story took too long to develop and had too many political strings attached. Police investigated the incident the evening of Feb 26th. George Zimmerman said Martin attacked him and he shot in self defense. His injuries were consistent with his account, which was confirmed by several other witnesses. There was insufficient evidence to hold Zimmerman.
Ten days later, Drayvon’s parents lawyered up and granted an interview with CBS in Atlanta. Sanford police released the 911 tapes March 17th. Martin’s face book page was sanitized and the race pimps, Leftists and the media crafted a narrative. White vigilante stalks and kills innocent, unarmed, black boy in a gated community. Police covered it up. Florida stand and fight law prohibited prosecution. DoJ weighs in Mar 20th. Obama utters his usual uninformed opinion on Mar 26. The lynch mob forms with the usual suspects. Congressional Black Caucus embarrasses themselves again.
The media’s narrative begins to disintegrate. Zimmerman is a Latino, not white. The gated community is 46% white and relatively poor. George has a history with the NAACP of standing up for blacks mistreated by police. The tapes were faked. Stand & fight did not apply. Trayvon was not a little boy, he was 6’2″ football player with a troubled past. In the end, Zimmerman will not be indicted because there is zero evidence.
If you watch CBS, NBC, ABC or CNN, switch to FoxNews. If you take a paper, especially if it is the NYT, WaPo, LATimes, Chicago Trib, or USAToday, cancel it and get your news here. Main Stream Media are Obama’s ministry of Propaganda.
WSJ is pretty good, and they do more than just financial news. In fact, they are probably the only newspaper that is actually growing. I wonder why.
The best 300 word summary of the case so far.
What would Saul Alinsky do? Would Alinsky post Bell’s home address? Would the leadership at the SEIU post Bell’s home address?
They bring a knife to a fight, we bring a what? Moral position?
Why would you not picket Bell at his home residence?
On day 1, this was the responsibility of the seasoned producer. What’s more, people make mistakes. On reflection, it’s clear that the edit falsely makes Zimmerman look racist. It is conceivable though, that at the time, he didn’t notice the implication. Once he saw the newscast, that innocence is no longer possible.
By day 2, everyone who watches NBC knew the message being gleaned from the audio clip. On that day, the responsibility extends to everyone at NBC who saw the whole clip.
NBC. Honest mistake. I’d hate to see what would happen if they meant to edit it for effect. Much like the editing of the Rodney King beating. I remember seeing the clip on the first day in it’s original length. Later, maybe that day or the next it was only a continuous loop of the horrible beating. Nothing else. I wonder what would have happened if they had selectively edited that tape to show only the cops standing around watching Mr. King trying to stand up. In fact, why doesn’t someone do that and post it on the internet. No, we wouldn’y do that because that would slant what really happened.
NBC is racist to try to stir up a race war so they can save their nosediving rating.
NBC is anti-semetic to try to nail a “white” Hispanic Catholic whose name sounds Jewish.
NBC is carrying water for Obama so the Teleprompteur could look presidential quelling a “race war” started by NBC.
NBC is despicable.
Remind me: what’s NBC again?
nothing but crickets
NBC trained him well. It looks like a bunch of liberal bimbos looking to win promotions, the liberal way, on their backs.
just another good comrade contributing to the cause
I would like to know if the “Jim Bell” is the same Jim Bell that was a member of The Planetary Society’s Board of Directors — attended President Obama’s Space Conference at the Kennedy Space Center todayhttp://planetary.org/blog/article/00002443/
“….“Today” news coverage overseen by Bell includes the 2008 Presidential Election, Hurricane Katrina……”
I think we’ve got our man.
I felt the need to quote this comment from previously in the thread because it is so right and needs to be said many times:
After one guy said: “Be Breitbart. Get this bastard fired,” this reply needs to be repeated:
“Apparently you don’t get what “Be Breitbart” is about. Breitbart would have asked for and gotten an interview with this guy so that his views could be broadcast. Breitbart would have done everything he could to shine a light on these shenanigans. I seriously doubt he would ever attempt to try some silly activism since he was all about allowing people to sink themselves. Get real — Breitbart would have allowed this guy to hang himself.”
Being Breitbart is hard because that’s how subtle it is – most of us aren’t that smart. But we can keep trying – thanks for clarifying.
Mr. Zimmerman is not a public figure. That drastically changes the difficulty in suing for libel or slander against a news organization. That is why the story has suddenly gone dead and muted apologies have been proffered. Zimmerman has a new lawyer and he smells a big payday.
I say go for it. In this case Times v. Sullivan does not apply and the evidence is out there. The corrupt media never learns.
Interesting picture: One white male nerd looking dude with a bevy of white females, except possibly for one female who could be an “other” (race unknown). Are these his support staff? It surely isn’t a representative cross section of American society below the glass ceiling–unless the picture was taken in northern Wisconsin? Ah, the diversity.
While Jim Bell as executive producer is responsible for the Today Show content
this manipulationin an edit room could have been done without him knowing it had been done. Lets not rush to hang the man until the facts come out. Otherwise we are doing exactly what the left has done the last three weeks
Bell is like the captain of a plane or ship. HE is the responsible party and HE goes down with the ship….unless he’s a coward.
As usual it’s a misdirect, the real problem begins earlier, in the included Riehl link;
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/06/nbc-fires-producer-of-misleading-zimmerman-segment
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/21/10791755-neighbor-comes-to-defense-of-trayvon-martins-shooter
The deception goes back even further;
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/White-House-Weighs-in-on-Travyon-Martin-Case-as-Protests-Mount-143402066.html
The handling of this is unacceptable. I don’t know what “Defcon 2″ is in terms of American civic life, but it needs to be set, because this is the final straw on “moral superiors” pulling a double standard so they can sway elections. We don’t have to stay one nation.
I continue in my belief that NBC needs to go out of business.
I say the above not in a mood of anger, but simply because the other side has made it perfectly clear that even when hands are caught in the cookie jar, they will still play to win. This means that basically unless I threaten to go to “war”, I can never expect decent treatment again. In international diplomacy terms, it is a crisis, because one side has basically already lost face or suffered an injury, and unless the aggressor side back down it often results in war.
Or in other words, I’m tired of NBC, CNN, et al continually launching rockets across the border, and I think it is time to address the situation. They don’t like my kind. I get that. I hope they understand I don’t care anymore and intend to return the favor in spades if they continue with their current method of operations.
The handling of this situation is completely unacceptable. NBC will name names and it will do so in a way that *fully* garners the disgrace they and it deserve. I also fully support revision of the libel laws, and this will continue to be something I will work for as time and opportunity arise.
‘…even when hands are caught in the cookie jar, they will still play to win…’
This says it perfectly. We play by the rules…we’re fair after all. They play to win, no holding back. We play golf, they’re doing MMA deathmatch.
This is more proof the media is a lot of the problem we have in this country about getting accurate information. Obama has used people like this to spreadhis anti-american bull shit. I am sad for the number of people that fall for it.
There’s no way tha a 44-year-old could have had a hand in the AFL broadcasts; the AFL merged with the NFL 42 years ago.
uh, ARENA Football League.
Now the reports say the fired producer was “Miami-based”.
Bell sounds like a New York kind of guy.
????
I predict he will be quietly rehired. This whole mess should never have reached this point. Neither Martin nor Zimmerman are totally innocent: Martin. if he attacked Zimmerman and Zimmerman patrolling with a loaded gun. If these stories are true then both men were looking for trouble.
Unfortunately, because of the cheerleaders of “racism”. the whole mess will probably result in a big riot or riots during whicch people will be injured and property will be lost or destroyed.
This country has allowed the racism industry to gain the upper hand and far too many people have remained silent when they should have spoken out…..years ago.
Come on…this guy is just a scapegoat. The top executives are the ones who really are responsible.
Does this mean yelling “Fire” in a crowded theatre is now permissible. These slime and their Companies should be show cased and made an paramount example ie.. should have their licenses revoked… and be made to pay monetarily to “all” persons affected by these contrived distortions…
Wonder if Law and Order will be doing a smarmy expose on THIS?
If Ann Curry is “touching” him, he must be a liberal leftist creep—certainly looks the part!
NBC is a shill for Sharpton.
I do not believe that race hustler – nor do I believe NBC so-called “news”.
The network is merely a part of the Democrat Party brass band Donkey Kong noise machine.
The tape was edited for maximum racial effect; and once edited it fit the black/white hispanic(?)”hate crime” template.
All of this was done to stimulate the not so energized 2012 black vote for Obama.
Hope & Change?
The first post-racial President?
Forgetaboutit.
Obama is just another politician from Chicago.
And NBC news is just one (of many) water-boy media lackeys.
There are lots of positions available for people with Jim Bell’s talents. Current TV and OWN come to mind.
Conservatives…….keep up the pressure. If they are sincerely sorry, than fire Sharpton!
There are white people who have been attacked by black racists as a result of media incitment. Their purpose in this is not to hurt Zimmerman – he’s a sacrifical lamb. They want to turn the public against self defense. If they can prosecute you for self defense, they can make it dangerous for you to use your firearm in the protection of your life. Then you are at the mercy of their thugs. Think union thugs, black socialist thugs, Muslim thugs…
NBC seems to have as much credibility as Obama’s White House
Wait and see Jim Bell will pop up again and this time he will be getting an award of some kind – Just like Al Gore getting a Nobel – he will be hailed as something special when in fact he is just another thug journalist trying to make a name.
What I’m really wondering, and what I have not seen any Conservative New Media portal toutch on is why doesn’t any of NBC’s competitor’s pick up on this public deception and hammer them for it? Yes, this is a rhetorical question because we all know the Mainstream Media is a collusive political trust, but this is innexusible.