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US media completely ignore racist rampage

NewsBusters asked Saturday if the media will report a New York man becoming brain dead as a result of an unprovoked attacked by a black man saying “I hate white people.”

So far with the exception of local New York coverage, the answer is a resounding “No.”

Analyses of Google News, LexisNexis, and closed-caption transcripts found absolutely no national reporting of Jeffrey Babbitt, the 62-year-old retired train conductor now in a coma at Bellevue Hospital.

Not one word on ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or NBC.

Potentially even more curious, the largest newspaper in New York, the New York Times, appears to have not reported this attack despite it occurring in its own backyard.

If Babbitt were black, and his assailant shouted “I hate black people” before inflicting what appears will be a death blow, would America’s media be so disinterested?

Or would this be headline news much like what we saw with Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman?

Sadly, we all know the answer as our media have once again shown that they are only interested in white on black hate crimes.

The other variety just don’t fit the agenda.

Update: It turns out the New York Times did report this matter at its website Friday and in print Saturday. Unfortunately, the name of the assailant was wrong and the article didn’t include Babbitt’s. That’s why it appeared this event had gone unreported.

Readers are advised the errant report was a total of 152 words buried on page 21.

I guess that’s the importance the Times gives to black on white hate crimes. – newsbusters.org

‘More white kids have to die’

Appearing on the “progressive” cable network owned by death merchant General Electric, MSNBC, a regular guest at globalist forums held at the Aspen Institute and funded by the Rockefeller Brothers and the Ford Foundation, Michael Eric Dyson, said white people will not understand racism until their children are murdered.

“Not until, and unless, the number of white kids die that approximate the numbers of black and other kids who have died will America see it is beyond logic, it is beyond rationality, its about let’s get something done,” Dyson said.

“As for Eric Holder, look the reality is you gotta act now,” Dyson said. “The president, you won the second term, you’re in office, you are ensconced. Do something courageous, bold, and helpful, not only to African-American people, but to America, because unless we do this [subject Zimmerman to double jeopardy] white Americans and others will feel this was a justifiable verdict.”

Dyson argued Sunday also on MSNBC that racism is to blame for Detroit’s financial woes, after the once-booming industrial metropolis filed for bankruptcy last week.

Host Ed Schultz asked if race could be responsible for the city’s downfall.

“Of course, it’s an 85 percent black city,” Mr. Dyson replied. “It’s been perceived as a colony of black people who are ringed by suburban white areas that are now going into the city to plunder it. The perception is that there is a massive takeover of resources and materials and properties, basically being occupied.”

“We have to acknowledge that part of this has to be the racial animus that has characterized that city for the last 50-some-odd years,” he continued. “The service industries hemorrhaged jobs in the inner city, depleted that city of its economic infrastructure and left it to its own fate.” – Kurt Nimmo, Infowars/Washington Times

MSNBC: Saying ‘golf’ and ‘Chicago’ is racist

On Wednesday, hosts at MSNBC informed America that the words “golf” and “Chicago” are racist, especially if they are used while speaking of Barack Obama.

Newsbusters’ Rusty Weiss reported early Thursday morning that while covering the GOP convention, Chris Matthews “came to the conclusion that reminding people of the President’s roots in Chicago politics is racist.”

The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson set the tone of the exchange.

“It’s all part of this Barack Obama as ‘other’ sort of blanket campaign that has been waged by the Republican Party for some time now. It may be gaining some traction now, though I wonder why now as opposed to a bit closer to election,” he said.

“Yea, well let me ask you about that, gentleman,” Matthews responded. “What about now, is this constant barrage of assaults, saying the guy is basically playing an old game of demagoguery politics, where you take the money from the worker bees and give it to the poor people to buy votes. That’s basically what they’re charging him with. Old big-style, big-city machine of 50 years ago.”

“They keep saying Chicago, by the way, you noticed?” he asked.

“Well, there’s a lot of black people in Chicago,” said New York Magazine’s John Heileman.

The same day, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell claimed that a reference to Obama’s golf outings was also racial code.

“For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation’s problems, he hasn’t been working to earn re-election. He has been working to earn a spot on the PGA Tour,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said.

Naturally, O’Donnell saw racism in the remark.

“Well, we know exactly what he’s trying to do there. He is trying to align to Tiger Woods and surely, the — lifestyle of Tiger Woods with Barack Obama,” he said.

Martin Bashir, another MSNBC host, asked O’Donnell to clarify his remarks.

“Lawrence — don’t you think — don’t you think that what he’s really trying to do is to suggest that the president is not paying attention to the central issues that come with the responsibility he has?” Bashir asked.

“Martin, there are many, many, many rhetorical choices you can make at any point in any speech to make whatever point up want to make. If he wanted to make the point that you just suggested and I think he does want to make that point, they had a menu of a minimum of ten different kinds of images that they could have raised,” O’Donnell said.

“And I promise you, the speech writers went through, rejecting three or four before they land order that one. That’s the one they want for a very deliberate reason. That — there’s — these people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches,” he added.

“You really believe that about Mitch McConnell?” Bashir asked.

“I know these people are insensitive. I know the speechwriters are insensitive. I know the way they work. They do not have the same sensitivity level that other speechwriters do. But when you get to the Tiger Woods reference, there were people in the speech writing room, I know this, without a shadow of a doubt, who said wait a minute, do we really want to go there?” O’Donnell responded.

On Thursday, talk show host Rush Limbaugh blasted the network, calling it “sick and depraved.”

“The singular focus of MSNBC for the past six days has been racism. There’s one subject that they’re talking about: racism. The racism of Romney; the racism of Ryan; the racism of every speaker the convention; the racism of the Republican Party; the racism of every Republican and conservative. It’s all they’re talking about. It’s laughably hilarious, except to them,” he said.

Limbaugh went on to say the network is “nothing more than an arm” of the Obama campaign.

“Their charge they’ve been given is to run around on TV and to say that everything every Republican is saying is racist. Because they don’t have anything else. It really demonstrates the depths to which they have descended,” he added.

Townhall’s Katie Pavlich noted that Obama “refers to Chicago often in his own speeches.” By Matthews’ own “logic,” that would make him a racist.

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) said that perhaps Matthews has “gotten off of his medications.” West also wondered what other cities he was not allowed to speak of.