{"id":171,"date":"2012-03-28T01:37:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T01:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-03-28T02:52:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:52:07","slug":"the-simplest-things-are-complicated-for-the-liberal-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"The Simplest Things Are “Complicated” for the Liberal Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

See this headline?\u00a0 Multiple suspensions paint complicated portrait of Trayvon Martin.<\/a>\u00a0 It’s only “complicated” because the media’s narrative is falling apart.\u00a0 They’ve been painting a picture of a clean cut youth “gunned down” by a “white Hispanic,” whatever that is.\u00a0 It’s turning out this clean cut youth has been in trouble several times at school.\u00a0 But it’s not complicated at all, really.<\/p>\n

That suspension was followed four months later by another one in February, in which Trayvon was caught with an empty plastic bag with traces of marijuana in it. A schools police report obtained by The Miami Herald specifies two items: a bag with marijuana residue and a \u201cmarijuana pipe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, this is simple, but apparently beyond the reach of the standard newspaper reporter these days.\u00a0 Here’s what happened.\u00a0 He used the “marijuana pipe” to smoke what was in the baggie.\u00a0 And I suspect he was bummed that he was out, like any self-respecting doper.\u00a0 You smoke it all and then you don’t have any and you look for some more.\u00a0 I suspect in this particular instance, however, he was glad it was all gone because it’s better to be caught with an empty bag than a full one.<\/p>\n

Trayvon was shot to death Feb. 26 while serving out his suspension in Sanford, where his father\u2019s girlfriend lives. A neighborhood watch volunteer called the police to say he saw someone in a hoodie who looked high on drugs, and was suspicious because he walked too slowly in the rain. The unarmed teenager carried Skittles and iced tea, and was talking to his girlfriend on the phone, records show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is also simple.\u00a0 He was walking slowly in the rain because he was stoned.\u00a0 He’d found some more dope.\u00a0 That’s what it does to you.\u00a0 It mellows you out, causes you to walk slowly.\u00a0 And for those who are not hoofing it, it also causes people to drive without lights at night if they had been parked in a well-lighted area.\u00a0 It’s bright enough out for them to see okay, so they don’t even think about turning on their lights.\u00a0 The Skittles were for the munchies, although chocolate chip cookies are better.\u00a0 How do I know these things?\u00a0 You hear stories here and there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See this headline?\u00a0 Multiple suspensions paint complicated portrait of Trayvon Martin.\u00a0 It’s only “complicated” because the media’s narrative is falling apart.\u00a0 They’ve been painting a picture of a clean cut youth “gunned down” by a “white Hispanic,” whatever that is.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mainstream-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}