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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (5486)	9/16/2013 10:33:35 AM
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Report: Reagan Washington National Airport Flights Grounded ................................................................................................. WUSA-TV via Twitter ^ \| Monday, September 16, 2013 \| Andrea McCarren Radio news says additional airport in NYC closed. (Mass shooting at Wash, DC Navy yard) September 16, 2013, 8:58 AM Washington Navy Yard shooter leaves multiple victims, some fatalities

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (5486)	9/16/2013 10:34:18 AM
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Syria crisis shows Israel cannot rely on Obama

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (5486)	9/16/2013 1:05:55 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Matthew Shepard, Trayvon Martin, Brandon Darby and the Power of Leftist Mythmaking by Lee Stranahan 14 Sep 2013 1105 post a comment The blockbuster story that the facts in the Matthew Shepard murder case have been distorted in order to promote a political agenda is another example of the power of the left's narrative mythmaking. Gay journalist Stephen Jimenez presents a new argument as to the details of Shepard's murder in The Book of Matt, but he's up against 15 years of storytelling and inverted reality. A piece in the gay culture magazine The Advocate by Aaron Hicklin lays out the facts about the Shepherd mythology, but it also contains a line that is the Rosetta Stone to understanding how leftist narrative mythology is so pervasive in both the arts in journalism. Despite the clear evidence that the story that Shepard was done in by deadly homophobia was inaccurate and that Shepard was instead killled in a meth-fueled bender by another man who was bisexual, Hicklin states: There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way at pivotal times, but that doesn’t mean we have to hold on to them once they’ve outlived their usefulness. Take a moment and read that quote again, because it's one of the clearest statements ever written on how the left sees "the narrative." It's moral relativism applied to epistemology and metaphysics. There is no such thing as truth to the left. There are "certain stories" that can be told "a certain way." The story tellers, whether they are artist or journalist, simply pick and choose which story they will tell which way depending upon whether it's a "pivotal time." This philosophy explains why in so many cases you get a story that is heavily hyped in the culture at one point and then later the real story comes out. While trying to drive a gay rights agenda, the myth of Matthew Shepard was useful, so that's what ended up getting reported. If it's useful to say that Shepard was killed by homophobic good ol' boys in Wyoming, the news media and the arts go all in on that story. Because the means of cultural production--the mainstream press, the entertainment industry, and academia--are all held by progressives, fables like the one told about the tragic death of Matthew Shepard are told, retold, and regurgitated in a thousand different form and formats, from new stories that get the facts wrong to protests based on those false facts, stage plays, movies, and HBO specials all ultimately ending up in a legislative or activist ground fundraising effort. There are myriad examples. Why did the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman story become a wall-to-wall media event? Why has the left done countless stories and even two movies--including " Informant," which is in theaters and on iTunes now--about Breitbart News writer Brandon Darby? Why did the mainstream media and hactivist group Anonymous focus so much attention on a rape case in the small town of Steubenville Ohio earlier this year? Why promote a lie? Because the lie is more effective. That's all that matters in a culture that's dominated by the leftist views of Saul Alinsky, the Frankfurt School, and the media machines of the mainstream media, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. Saul Alinsky realized the first goal of a community organizer is to agitate. By creating resentment and hostility, you can build a mobthat can be easily controlled.Sometimes you need a lie to do that. The truth seldom fits the left's narrative. One of the big revelations of the protest movement of the late 1960s proved that radical leftism was something that could be actually be marketed and sold. Events like Woodstock, consumer products like the Volkswagen Beetle, Broadway musicals like Hair, TV shows like The Mod Squad, and countless albums, movies, books, and more proved to Hollywood and Madison Avenue that youth resentment and anger could mean big bucks. America would later see the same strategy applied to punk rock, grunge rock, and hip-hop. And so the media – entertainment/journalism industrial complex delivers us well packaged fables with great production values, where the facts have been twisted to fit the moral of the story. The Matthew Shepard case proved that America was so homophobic that gay men could be crucifiedby straight men just for being gay. Except the story we were sold wasn't true. The Trayvon Martin myth proved that America was so racist that young black men can't walk the streets without fear of being racially profiled and murdered. Except it wasn't true. The Steubenville myth proved that America is so sexist and sports-obsessed that a small town covers up a brutal rape. Except it wasn't true. The Brandon Darby myth proves that America uses entrapment to make up stories about a terrorism threat that doesn't really exist. Except it wasn't true. In all of these cases and so many more, the facts about the actual people at the center of them hardly matter.Don't make the mistake of blaming Trayvon Martin or Matthew Shepard. Neither of those young men had anything to do with how their stories became entwined in the myth machine. Attacking either Martin or Shepard only serves to distract from the people who use their deaths to promote an agenda. Those activists are the ones who rightly deserve to be criticized. The antidote to the progressive media command-and-control structure is to follow the Andrew Breitbart legacy of truth telling; harness the power of technology and new media to research the facts and use social media to share the truth with the world. breitbart.com credit brumar

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (5486)	9/16/2013 1:18:42 PM
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CNN forgets Fort Hood: 'I've Never Heard of Such a Thing Happening'... ‘I’ve Never Heard of Such a Thing Happening’: CNN Anchor Blanks on Ft. Hood Shooting? by Noah Rothman September 16th, 2013 mediaite.com A Achoring the coverage of an ongoing mass shooting at the Washington Naval Yard, CNN anchor Carol Costello quizzed a producer on the scene about whether a military base like this has ever come under attack by a gunman before. Some have speculated that she was referring specifically to bases in the Washington D.C. area, but it was unclear why Costello did not reference the 2009 attack on Fort Hood by Maj. Nidal Hasan. “I used to work in Washington, live in Washington. This seems so unusual to me that a gunman could create this kind of havoc at a U.S. military facility,” Costello asked her producer, Brian Todd. “Have you ever heard of this happening before, Brian?” RELATED: Like a ‘TV Show Gone Terribly Wrong’: NBC News Reporter Riffs on Navy Yard Shooting “I was just saying that this is so unusual, because this is such a heavily-secured military facility. I’ve worked in Washington for many years, I’ve never heard of such a thing happening,” she asked. “Well, we haven’t either in this area, Carol,” Todd replied. “This is the first time we’ve seen something like this, at least in many, many years. Now you remember the Fort Hood shooting in 2009, where that was a member of the service who was convicted eventually of doing that shooting.” In 2009, Hasan murdered 13 and wounded 30 others in a mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base. Watch the clip below via CNN: h/t NewsBusters [Photo via screen grab ]

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (5486)	9/22/2013 11:47:26 PM
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Shoppers 'Killed If They Could Not Recite Muslim Prayer'--KENYA ......................................................................................................... Kenya: 'If You Were Muslim They Let You Go' Witnesses to the attack on a shopping centre in Nairobi say gunmen executed anyone who could not recite an Islamic prayer. Sunday 22 September 2013 news.sky.com Video: Shoppers fled the gunmen as armed police gave cover A witness to the attack by al Shabaab militants on a shopping centre in Nairobi has told Sky News the gunmen killed anyone who was not Muslim. Saadia Ahmed, a radio presenter from Nairobi, said: "We heard three explosions outside the building then all of a sudden we heard gunshots and people ducked down. "A lot of people were shot while they were trying to escape. "I saw one of the gunmen with an AK-47 and later two of them were talking and it sounded like Somali or Arabic." Armed police search customers taking cover in a washroom Ms Ahmed said the attackers released people who were able to prove they could speak Arabic. "I witnessed a few people get up and say something in Arabic and the gunmen let them go. "A colleague of mine said he was Muslim and recited something in Arabic and they let him go as well. "I saw a lot of children and elderly people being shot dead. "I don’t understand why you would shoot a five-year-old child. "They were firing at random at anyone who tried to escape." Hannah Chisholm, a Briton visiting Nairobi, said she and 60 others barricaded themselves into a large storeroom. "We kept running to different places but the shots were getting louder so we barricaded ourselves along with about 60 others into a large storeroom," she said. "There were children hiding with us as well as someone who had been shot. "The gunfire was loud and we were scared but at that point we thought the gunmen were thieves so we assumed they wouldn't try to reach the storeroom." Satpal Singh, who was in a cafe when the attackers struck, said he ran downstairs before he was shot near the exit. "A Somali guy shot at me," he said. "He was carrying a rifle, an AK-47." A witness, who gave only his first name, Jay, said: "They were not speaking Swahili. They spoke something that seemed like Arabic or Somali."