Yes. That’s plain.
You were the one with the challenge: “Does evidence ever change your mind?” you asked. I showed it did, and asked you the reciprocal question.
You now say you’re not going to answer me, because I don’t deserve an answer.
OK. We can leave it there.
Why would a bleeding, scared-to-death, Zimmerman, who was being beaten into a pulp – not his exact words but a close paraphrase – by the fastest MMA expert known to mankind (remember, this “deadly” beating took less than a minute, including the muffling, head-bashing, multiple blows, etc) decline to get a simple medical check from the emergency squad that showed-up on site just minutes later? If you thought you were an inch from losing your life due to all the punishment recieved above, would you not, at the very least, want to have specialist on the ground give you a once over?
Maybe Z know what we all know know: namely that he had some minor injuries, same as most people get when they get into one. IOW, I’ll put some frozen peas on it, take a couple Tylenols and be fine tomorrow.
But no! All of a sudden at trial, these scuffs that I used to get all the time just by playing sports, are amped-up to be life-threatening and reason enough to legally blow someone’s heart out.
Not buying what they are selling.
Also, has anyone brought up the fact that closed-fist blows will usually backfire on you – unless you’ve had extensive training (Am I right, Shodan?). Reason being our skulls are the hardest and sharpest part of our bodies. Martin obviously didn’t know that, or else he would have slapped the hell out Z n-- again, you almost always end-up with badly bruised/broken knuckles.
Where are Martin’s?
Had he known about slapping the hell out of someone…one cupped slap to the ear. Can’t blame him though. You do what you can with what you have – and Martin didn’t have a gun.
Skulls are hard, yeah. But sharp? Skulls are sharp? Um…
(Examines several skulls on bookshelf.) Not really. The nasal bones stick out a little, but they’re terribly brittle. The zygomatic arch? Not really sharp. The point of the jaw? Not in anyone other than Dick Tracy…
Hard, definitely.
Not skulls per se but punching someone in the mouth can give you a vicious cut on your hand from the teeth. My uncle got a human tooth embedded in his hand during a streetfight once.
I swear, Bricker, if you put as much effort into speaking truth as you do in defending your dignity, you’d have disciples by now.
That was my uncle’s and he wants it back!
Yes. This lesson in telling the truth brought to you by the poster who said this.
It’s amazing to me how long he gets away with it. It’s the rhetorical version of The Emperor’s New Clothes: he spews a paragraph of bullshit that sounds vaguely like it might be incisive, biting sarcasm, or some mournful insight that brings Holden Caulfield to mind without actually saying anything, and he remains utterly immune to any attempt to pin him down. It’s actually kind of impressive: in a place that’s supposed to work with facts, he affects an air of bored superiority, a few homespun uses of “hoss,” and no one notices he’s actually not saying anything.
Eat your heart out.
In which case, my level of interest goes down, because to me it’s nearly impossible for a news organization NOT to have some kind of unspoken prejudices in how they tell a story. It’s unfortunate, and it’s something that should be struggled against when identified, but it’s both nearly inevitable and a very gray-area scale.
(There’s also the question of how damaging to the democracy it is if the populace gets a slanted view of a particular issue. If there’s a very close national election and a major news organization is strongly tilted towards one side, even if not intentionally/consciously, that’s much more serious than if there’s a lot of coverage of Charlie Sheen being an ass which is strongly tilted towards the he-is-an-ass or the he-is-not-an-ass side. This issue is somewhere in the middle between those extremes.)
I am sure Leo Terrell(sp?)'s characterization of Juan Williams as a “hustler” in the Zimmerman case is “genetic”.
Leo Terrell is getting a lot of good press in the right wing blogosphere for that performance (and make no mistake, it was a performance). Those Fox shows are as authentic as professional wrestling.
Besides, how could anyone call Juan Williams a race hustler, when just the other day he was defending O’Reilly from the race “hucksters”. He is also fond of repeating your favorite Jesse Jackson quote about being followed.
There’s no business like show business.
Update on the Saletan article. :eek:
But first, here is the actual headline, in its entirety:
See what he did there?
Is it any wonder Bricker made that error when he mixed up the header’s wording in his hyperlink?
But that’s not all. Is the media reporting that a “juror says Zimmerman is guilty of murder”? Try googling that phrase and see what comes up.
Guess who the only member of the media who said that is?
Yes, the first hit is… Saletan’s article. *He *is the one saying they said that.
But that’s not true. All the other articles that come up use the “got away with murder” quote, which is what she actually said. Or repeated, if you insist.
Then of course you’ve got bloggers running with Saletan’s article and also mixing up the quotes, which IMO is what he intended. I mean, c’mon.
That’s my last word on an article that supposedly exposes the “misleading liberal media”. 