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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC Fires Producer of Misleading Zimmerman Tape — NBC News has fired a producer who was involved in the production of a misleading segment about the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. — The person was fired on Thursday, according to two people with direct knowledge of the disciplinary action …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Uncorrected: Charles Blow Finally Returns To The Scene Of His Journalistic Crime — When last he wrote on the subject of Trayvon Martin Charles Blow focused, appropriately, on the grief of a family in shock. In so doing, however, he emphasized the implausibility of George Zimmerman's self-defense claim …
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Instapundit and Gallup
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
NBC Producer Out But Unnamed — The NY Tmes breaks its Trayvon Martin silence long enough to report at one of their blogs that an unnamed NBC producer has been fired as a result of the doctored Zimmerman “He looks black” report. — The people with direct knowledge of the firing characterized …
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The Daily Caller, New York Times and The PJ Tatler
Michael Miller / Riptide 2.0:
Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, Say They Are “Prepared” For Post-Trayvon Martin Violence
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The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Firedoglake, The Impolitic, The Raw Story and Little Green Footballs
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
CNN proves “beyond a reasonable doubt” why cases should not be tried in the media
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JustOneMinute
Josh Barro / The Barrometer:
Why National Review Must Fire John Derbyshire — Last week, National Review Editor Rich Lowry wrote a column arguing that the Trayvon Martin case is a distraction, because the real problem facing black Americans is black on black crime. And on Monday, he complained that some people had called him a bigot for writing the column.
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Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, Vox Popoli, The Daily Caller and The New Civil Rights Movement
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Alexander Nazaryan / NY Daily News:
How to succeed in racism without really trying: John Derbyshire tells his children to stay away from black people — Once in a while, I read something and think: Please, Lord, tell me that this is a joke. Please, please tell me that a human being did not actually think these things and, worse yet, think to write them down.
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
National Review Writer Pens Racist Screed: ‘Avoid Concentrations Of Blacks,’ ‘Stay Out Of’ Their Neighborhoods — Popular conservative columnist and National Review writer John Derbyshire topped all of his previous racist screeds (and sexist rants) today by posting a long breakdown …
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The Maddow Blog, The Other McCain, 24Ahead and Mock, Paper, Scissors
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
A sorry spectacle — Jay Cost takes a look back at Obama's public performances this week, as I did in “Twice in a lifetime,” and explains exactly what is happening: … Cost absolutely nails what is happening and what it portends for our future in this terrific column.
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The Other McCain
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Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: A Sorry Spectacle — Many commentators have expressed outrage over the president criticizing Paul Ryan and demagoguing the Supreme Court. Personally, I can't muster outrage. I think it's just a sorry spectacle. — Somewhere along the line, Obama decided that his best path …
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Booman Tribune
John Derbyshire / Taki's Magazine:
The Talk: Nonblack Version — There is much talk about “the talk.” — “Sean O'Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 …
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Little Green Footballs and Macsmind
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
Arby's Is Messing with the Wrong Slice of America — On Wednesday, Arby's inflamed the conservative blogosphere with the announcement on Twitter that it will no longer advertise on Rush Limbaugh's show. Big mistake. The statement probably would've blown over, like all the rest of them …
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Joseph Williams / Politico:
Obama reflects on Easter message — In his weekly address broadcast to the nation Saturday, President Barack Obama set aside political partisanship to reflect on the Easter holiday and the ancient religious story of Christ's resurrection, as an inspirational message for all Americans regardless of religious beliefs.
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The Hill
John Holbo / Crooked Timber:
Needless To Say? — I'm a bit puzzled by Rich Lowry's degree of confidence that no one at NR agrees with what the Derb wrote. After all, the Derb himself is at NR. He was posting there as of two days ago. Does this mean he's out at NR? Is Radio Derb going to cease broadcasting its message of freedom?
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