As Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters reports, for the second time in a couple of weeks, CNN has used extremely racially charged language on the air. Susan Candiotti reported on an alleged hate crime in Oklahoma Sunday afternoon, and read from the facebook page of one of the accused.
Oddly, CNN blurred the offensive words on screen while allowing Candiotti to say them aloud, in the middle of the afternoon, on Easter Sunday. Why blur it if your reporter is going to let it roll off her tongue anyway? What’s more likely, that impressionable eyes would be watching CNN on a Sunday, or that they might overhear what gets said on the network if a parent happens to be using the network as background noise?
CNN first used the same vulgar pairing two weeks ago, when reporting on another incident. And CNN brought a sound expert on to state unequivocally that George Zimmerman had said “f****** c**ns” during his call to a 911 dispatcher on the night that he shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL. That same expert later reappeared on CNN to retract his claim, and change his interpretation of the Zimmerman recording so that he either says “cold” or “punks.” Another CNN anchor, Don Lemon, said earlier in the weekend that the media should stop abbreviating the n-word in its reports. He also used the word.
No other network has yet stooped to the level that CNN is making part of its racial routine. Even MSNBC’s standards appear to be higher. We have come quite a way from the days when CNN’s John King apologized for a guest for using the word “crosshairs.”
Watching the trajectory, tone and choice to air these particular stories, one could easily conclude that CNN is going out of its way to find stories involving what it perceives and reports to be white on black violence. Is Ted Turner’s old network trying to incite racial animosity and violence? Didn’t CNN get the memo that electing Obama would move America into a post-racial state of consciousness and harmony?
Evidently not. In Zimmerman’s case, he turned out to be Hispanic and a registered Democrat. It was only after those two facts emerged, that CNN brought its audio expert back on the air to change his opinion of what Zimmerman said in the 911 recording.
Ah! The lovely left and their “It’s OK when WE do it” attitude!
It’s another way to give their racism narrative a little more bite. The man who wrote that on his Facebook page is Native American. Maybe we should refer to him as a “white Cherokee”.
Creepy thing is that people “liked” the psycho’s rantings
I will not excuse the language CNN. The other scary part is that people “liked” the FB posting. England is part cherokee? But his name is England. Definetly white. Maybe Candiotti should get into gangsta rap. So the only way it was conveyed to the viewers that the suspect who killed England’s Dad was black was when she read the racists words on the FB posts. Great reporting….. not
Zimmerman isn’t a Hispanic name either.
True, but German immigrants settled in Spanish-speaking countries, too, and assimilated there just as they did here. Few people named English, however, crossed the Bering land bridge in the Paleozoic.
I quit watching CNN when they refused to release the EASON JORDAN tape.
This won’t win me back.
There is little doubt in my mind, with this incident of highlighting stories of people using racial epithets & efforts to make Zimmerman look like a racist by doctoring an audio recording, that a conspiracy is afoot among the players in the MSM to foment racial discord with the ultimate goal in mind to prompt riots in the streets. Now, I just cannot imagine why such a thing would be part & parcel of Obama’s reelection campaign; I figure too that pigs will soon fly.
– hot summer.
“Please excuse the language, it’s very sensitive.”
That doesn’t even make sense. Words can’t be sensitive. What is she even trying to say? That it’s offensive (rather than sensitive)? Truly bizarre.
To be fair, having watched the entire video, the initial anchor sounds pretty annoyed and does apologize. But still, this is obvious incitation. She says the race of the suspects, but not the race of the man who killed his father. I guess race matters if you’re white, but not black.
Another strange part is how she says everyone is struggling to understand it. Really? They’re insane. It’s certainly disturbing, but, yes, crazy people exist and these two killers are 100% crazy.
Of course if they were black and the victims white it would only make page 6 of the local paper, and if the killers and victims were all black not even that.