After being mocked for his The Darker The Skin, The Blacker The Soul post on Trayvon Martin, Breitbart blogger and urban warrior Dan Riehl explains that he is not racist; all you guys are the real racists, particularly now that President Obama has joined the Holy Trinity of Race Pimpism: Jackson, Sharpton & Farrakhan.
Explains Riehl why this makes him sad:
Said leaders, I use the term loosely, seem only interested in fueling outrage and a mob mentality for political gain. It’s sad to see so many black Americans still falling for it after so many decades. Their minds haven’t been freed, all that’s changed is the owners of the plantation. Too many would be black leaders are too happy to lead them down a path through a cotton field of ignorance and hate ending at the ballot box, before just going on and on with no real end in sight.
Black Americans, please! Do you not want to taste the sweet nectar of freedom that can be be found in the watermelon patch of liberty? Or are you too fried chicken? Dan Riehl wants to know.
You know, I remember when Riehl was much more subtle as when he accused Matt Ortega of “ringing the taco bell” and then asked if his parents were illegal immigrants. Looks like he has uppitied his game…
Also, I blame Obama. And Robert Byrd…





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What is the best that can be said about the pathetic existence of Dan Riehl? How about this: he is the only person on the planet who might be more obnoxious than John Ziegler. I don’t know if he’s married or has kids but I know if he is, he’s not a good father or husband. You can’t be and have his mindset. The man is pond scum.
Breitbart. It is funny that you mention him. He has been very quiet lately. Too quiet.
Shorter Dan Riehl: African Americans know nothing about racism and are too ignorant to know what’s good for them. That makes me very sad.
Because when I want to understand the black experience in America, Dah Reihl is my go-to guy. Dan knows whassup.
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It’s pretty difficult to progress to the post-racial society, so long as the racists insist on regressing back to the ‘good old days’.
“If those n!%%@rs weren’t so stupid and lazy they’d see that libruls are the real racists.”
I love it when a white guy comes to explain to us all what’s racist and what isn’t. It’s so clarifying to hear these little-heard voices.
Breaking News: Dan Riehhll has discovered the mass media is forging pictures of Trayvon Martin. That is done to exploit a tragic tragedy for political purposes, and makes innocent gun owners the real victims. What next, from the media elites? Forging videos?
I am so surprised no one has suggested the logical extension of “stand your ground” is that had trayvon had a gun, he would still be alive, or something.
It’s racist for black people to follow black leaders instead of white republicans to the ballot box.
Or they’d both be dead and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Well, judging by their attitudes, they sure seem to know how everyone else should be living their lives.
Oh ohhh. Irresitible Bogg bait.
Got out of the boat and waded into the RWV’s comments. So much vitriol for a lazy Sunday morning: The whole world is against them, boo hoo, but they will end up victorious because their numbers are far greater. And by the way, their neighborhoods are armed and fortified, so the ???? should keep to the metropolitan neighborhoods.
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No, I do not come away with the idea that Wingers harbor anger and fear against people who are different from them. Nope. And to say that I did would make me a racist.
Next logical extention: The kid might’ve killed a white guy and would be on death row by now.
And to say that I did would make me a racist.
You, surely? It’s hard to keep up.
What, non-pale faces are allowed to stand their ground also, too? That’s outrageous!
You know what’s even funnier?
He’s been quiet because he’s dead!
Fortunately, his hollow heart found a hollow space in Cheney’s chest to fill. Would have hated to see a decent heart go in there…
[obligatory:] He’s not dead, he’s just pining for the fjords…
I am so sorry to hear that. Will he continue to produce videos?
Yes, but they’ll be full of flames, and people covered in excrement being whipped by demons. Kind of like CPAC.
Riehl proves conclusively by this that Negros are the real racists for making him fear and hate them so much, also because he has a really tiny dick.
That never stopped him before.
Ahem.
I blame Obama.
Obama’s fault obviously.
OT but OMG
It’s sad to see Mr. Riehl being assailed just for doing brave journamalism. He has complained about this very thing:
And yet, unenlightened correspondents continued with their unenlightened questions:
Well, there is only so much Mr. Riehl can do in helping people understand. When you’ve reached that point, time to walk away:
Mr. Riehl is of course employing a technique recognizable by long time watchers of Fox News, and identified by Jon Stewart as “The Cavuto” (that clip [3:43 length] is pretty damn funny, BTW). In this case, the approach goes like this: ‘Hey, I’m not SAYING that Trayvon Martin was a threattening young Negro gangsta-thug! I’m just asking the question!’
It’s hard out there for a (white) journamalist, explaining how it is with people from da hood.
I’ve heard it rumored that it was his heart in Cheney’s chest cavity. It’s all beginning to make sense now. Only cold blood pumps through both of them and neither had the conditioning to get it to their respective brains. Not that either of them would’ve done things differently. They had no souls,too.
Normal people dont carry guns and walk through suburban neighborhoods ready to draw and fire on other humans. thats not normal. thats psychotic paranoia. He had no reason to expect to be killed by the neighborhood watch person. But just to play along, If black Trayvon had shot the non-black zimmerman, he would now be another black man sitting in a Fla prison awaiting trial for murder.
heh heh .. jcricket called plesh “shirley” … where’s the posting poe-lease when ya really need ‘em eh ?? ;)
and .. toooo [also] misser tbogg .. i’m not sure this topic lives up to the exceedingly high standards expected of an FDL front-pager ..
and ..lol .. too-too [also-also] #29 .. what the hell would people who frequent this venue [including me ] .. know about “normal people” .. eh ??
Have you people not heard that it was Martin that attacked Zimmerman?
If that’s true, Riehl’s points about the chief race-baiters on point.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-trayvon-martin-case-jesse-jackson-20120323,0,2131299.story
http://themoderatevoice.com/142394/new-trayvon-martin-twist-witness-reportedly-tells-police-martin-attacked-zimmernan/
Yes. George Zimmerman who stalked black people in his neighborhood, called Trayvon Martin a “fucking coon” right before he killed him because Martin was packing Skittles and a can of ice tea, is the real victim here.
Jesus. You guys just love killing black people, don’t you “shooter”?
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So, Zimmerman had a right to “self-defense” but Martin did not?
Suppose Martin DID attack Zimmerman – AFTER Zimmerman had been stalking him both in his truck and on foot. And also, with a gun. Are you suggesting that you wouldn’t have the right to defend yourself against someone who was chasing you with a gun? Really?
If Martin did, in fact, attack Zimmerman after Zimmerman chased him down, you’re still left with the fact that Zimmerman was the aggressor and at the point the “attack” occured, Martin was just defending himself against someone who was chasing him FOR NO REASON other than his own paranoia and/or racism.
But as TBogg notes, just the fact that you’d try to excuse a guy stalking and shooting an innocent person because the innocent person tried to defend himself pretty much says it all.
Is there ANYTHING you asshats can’t be wrong about?
Hi troll!
Shooooooterrrrr! Howdahellareya? I should have figured this story would strike your fancy.
But yes, questions do remain, especially when you ignore those pesky 911 recordings, and also ignore* witness statements (*much like the local police did!):
Did young Mr. Martin assumed his winged form, flitting around Mr. Zimmerman in such a way that left the latter frightened and confused? http://randomshitipulledoutofmyass.com
Or, did Mr. Martin use his shape-shifting abilities to transform into surrounding lawn and sidewalk, leaving Mr. Zimmerman with no other option? http://Icanmakeupanythingthatfitsmyagenda.com
The questions, endless they are…
shooo fly …
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http://youtu.be/U7pv7sO5Gng
To all above:
It has come to pass that the meme of Mr. Martin being an innocent in all this is fading fast. However it lasted long enough that the race industry geared up in time to declare blacks victims yet again, white/hispanic people evil, and the justice system hopelessly biased against skin color.
All of which is apparently a big fat lie, just like the Duke rape case.
What is known for sure about this case is the speed and willingness of race baiters to declare their version of events incontrovertibly true, allowing a full-throated cry for sympathy, revenge, and reparation. Worse, Sharpton et al have conned the black community into an outrage, using them to elevate themselves.
It’s all a self serving manipulation of people’s emotions for personal gain, and it stinks.
OT Back to the good old days before those uppity black folks and hippies took our freedom and liberty away.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2012-03-14/news/cia-lsd-wayne-ritchie-george-h-white-mk-ultra/
I blame Obama.
Not quiet enough…
So the armed man who chased after and outweighed the person he shot by nearly 100 pounds is the ‘innocent victim’ and the unarmed teenager lying dead after being shot is what?
Kid innocently walking home from 7/11 back to his dad’s house is killed by stalking cop-wannabe who called him a “fucking coon” on a 911 call is actually the guilty party.
Jesus, shooter, just say “the nigger had it coming” and quit wasting your time and ours dancing around it.
Gay, mon…
According to some sources Martin attacked when Zimmerman was returning to his car. Zimmerman was the person yelling for help and suffering from a broken nose. If true, Zimmerman was the victim and Martin the aggressor, yes? Some people have commented that the stand your ground law won’t even come into play, that it was straight up self defense.
But getting back to you, why would you believe the first thing you hear that fits your world view of race? Doesn’t it seem too pat, yet you’re willing to swallow the story hook, line, and sinker, all the while the facts remain unknown? Did the Duke case teach you nothing about assumptions?
Wow.
Now that’s race baiting at it’s worst.
What is the matter with you?
So the armed man who chased after and outweighed the person he shot by nearly 100 pounds is the ‘innocent victim’ and the unarmed teenager lying dead after being shot is what?
A n*gger, of course.
Just keep fucking that chicken, shooter …
“…fucking coon”
“They all get away”
One dead black kid who just went out to buy some Skittles.
Hi, troll! Good to see you back with all the right talking points. I just know that everyone here has missed you so much – and we’re all looking forward to playing with you!
Well now, who could argue with that?
Go ahead and lay them sources out there, homes….
You’re a racist shooter. An unrepentant racist who would, if given the opportunity, enjoy having his picture taken with a lynched black man.
According to some sources Martin attacked when Zimmerman was returning to his car.
No, according to one source. Named Zimmerman.
We get it. The boys on Duke’s lacrosse team give you a woody, apparently just like killing an unarmed black kid does…
Troll.
You’re left four or five comments since you were asked
and you’re STILL afraid to answer it.
So I guess that’s your answer.
Hey Shooter, are you a retired NYPD cop, by any chance? Maybe even Rudy Giuliani himself? You’re bringing back some memories, dude.
The end of that post might offer you a clue as to why black folk so often seek out Al Sharpton when a tragedy like this happens.
Why don’t they just go to the cops?…
…Oh, yeah, the services of the police are not for those people.
[And as always, RIP to the much missed but never forgotten Steve Gilliard.]
Don’t you understand what really happened? Martin tricked Zimmerman into stalking him so that he could then assault him for no logical reason.
It’s commonly known that Blah people and goons are very tricky.
At least shooter is consistent. His trolling always ends with him looking like the fucking pussy that he is.
Boy oh boy Dan really “stepped in it” this time. Let’s all laugh while he “fetches it”. Oh you pointy hatted Britebonerboy. Shut up while you’re still just thought of as a dunce that works at a playtime newspaper.
There goes shooter, shooting into his dirty gym sock again.
Shake it don’t break it bonerboy.
Shorter shooter242:
If you’re walking along MYOB, and a guy starts chasing you with a gun, defending yourself makes it ok for him to shoot you.
Of course, if you don’t fight back, he’ll probably shoot you anyway – or, since you don’t know what’s in the mind of the guy with the gun, you have to assume that he will, because if you don’t you might wind up dead.
And if you’re black, either way it’s ok if he shoots you.
t has come to pass that the meme of Mr. Martin being an innocent in all this is fading fast.
Here’s what I wish for you, Mr. Shooter-Troll. Since someone who says the shit you say can’t possibly know what it’s like for a parent to lose a child, I wish you will someday experience the joy of having a beautiful baby boy.
And then I wish your child, your son that you nurture from a smiling infant, sweet soft-skinned baby child, will be gunned down in his innocence, in a horrible mistake. Just like Trayvon. Then you could fucking have the authority to talk about how Trayvon Martin deserved it. You’re nothing less than scum.
Well, that really was the primary purpose behind these “don’t back down laws.” Sort of a redneck “coon” hunting license.
Slow day over at Storm Front today?
Nah, little shooter works at *teh blaze*.
You forgot John Bolton. Just sayin’
I’m sure you’ll excuse me for not replying promptly. In all the years I’ve commented this is the first time anyone has said I’d enjoy having my photo taken with a lynch victim. it seemed like a good time to hit some range balls.
Meanwhile back at the racebaiting, your contention is that Zimmerman was waving his gun around like Yosemite Sam? You don’t know that. In fact you don’t know anything for sure, no one does.
What can be said with certainty is that Sharpton and company are making lots of assumptions and infuriating a lot of people with no evidence. Of course we’ve seen that he’s capable of making up evidence if necessary. See “Tawana Brawley” for reference.
O.M.G.! That explains the mysterious circumstances surrounding Breitbart’s death! And why Cheney was seen at the last Rethug fundraiser with handfuls of disposable beer cups. He finally found the perfect tissue match….
I’ll see your Tawana Brawley and raise you Emmett Till. If you want to go “hit some range balls” (is that what the kids are calling it these days?) over that one, we’ll wait…
Hmmm. And just an hour or so ago you were presenting this:
…as if you knew something for sure.
Let’s suppose that you “know” that Zimmerman wasn’t waving the gun around like Yosemite Sam. So, now it’s not ok for Martin to defend himself against someone who he knew was following him (for reasons unknown to him)? See, that’s something we DO know…that Martin at one point while Zimmerman was on the phone with 911 noticed that Zimmerman was following him, which is why he started running (also KNOWN from the 911 tape). We also KNOW from the tape that Zimmerman was instructed NOT to chase Martin…and yet he did, not only chase him, but chase him with a gun. We know he chased him with a gun because Martin ended up dead, and Zimmerman admits to shooting him. Here are some other things we KNOW: Martin was unarmed, Martin was not in the neighborhood for “suspicious reasons” unless watching a basketball game with your dad is “suspicious” and Martin had no criminal record.
From all of this, we can conclude that Martin is dead because Zimmerman ASSUMED some things about him that weren’t true. That’s the root of the whole thing. Otherwise, Zimmerman wouldn’t have called 911, wouldn’t have stalked him (with a gun), wouldn’t have (allegedly) been “jumped” by him after stalking him, wouldn’t have (also allegedly) had his nose broken, and Martin wouldn’t be dead. We know all of those things. And what they add up to, at a minimum, is manslaughter, though 2nd degree murder seems, from what we KNOW, to be a more appropriate charge.
Now, come back and tell us all how we should just take Zimmerman’s story as the only thing we need to consider because the only other person who could fill in the gaps of what we KNOW is now dead. And also, he was black.
I think he is referring to his particular technique, which involves considerable pain. You know how hard it is for these guys to get it up, since they are constantly terrified, hiding under the bed, and peeing themselves.
What in the world does Emmet Till have to do with Sharpton racebaiting? I’m talking about the left making up a myth and repeating it ad infinitum. You know, fraud?
1.) The story in the LATimes, which is generally recognized as a newspaper of record, totally contradicts your position that Martin attacked Zimmerman first.
2.) The headline story in “The Moderate Voice,” which I have never heard of, but given the tenor of the writing, appears to be geared to non-critical readers states: “Anonymous Witness Reportedly Tells Police Martin Attacked Zimmerman.”
It doesn’t say: “Eyewitness Tells Police Martin Attacked Zimmerman.”
It doesn’t say: “Reliable Witness Tells Police Martin Attacked Zimmerman.”
It doesn’t even say: “Reliable Source Confirms Martin Attacked Zimmerman.”
If the distinctions between the above elude you, next time, “pix or it didn’t happen.”
One thing that is certain: It was Zimmerman who was following Martin. Not the other way around.
An unarmed 17yro kid, alone, late at night, in the rain was being followed by a guy who outweighed him by 100lbs, who chased him down, confronted him, and shot him.
Usually, right-wingnuts insist the victim should have been packing, too. Guns will solve everything, right? Why so silent on the rights of the victim?
Did you not know there was a witness?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119615/Trayvon-Martin-case-Anonymous-witness-claims-teen-attacked-killer-George-Zimmerman-fatal-shooting.html
Congratulations Shooter, you sure can stir-up a shit storm. However:
One definition of a LIBERAL is a person who will pursue objective truth even if it takes time and holds the risk that it may not be what you want to hear. This is clearly a political weakness. You can’t go to the barricades hollering, “Let’s wait for the verdict!”
I wish you hadn’t diverted this discussion off its rails, but on the other hand, I’m wishing I’d heard a lot more liberal response from the liberal people on this liberal blog.
Emmett Till winked at a white woman. He had it coming…
Go blow a dead goat.
BreitTard’s merry band of bonerboys can edit him into their upcoming Racist Exposes. It will be like he never died. Whenever they have OWS footage they can spice in BreitTard slurring “Stop raping people”. It will continue to be awesome.
“According to some sources” and “Anonymous-witness-claims” the best you got there clownboy?
Have all of Trayvon’s classmates been advised by Republican bullet heads to go to school “packing heat”?
OK people, let me make my position perfectly clear.
The facts are not available. One would think then that the race industry would wait for facts before condemning everyone it can. But no, the race industry has exploited an explosive emotional situation for it’s own purposes.
If Zimmerman is found to have committed a crime, fine, let him fry. But Sharpton and Jackson are playing judge, jury, and executioner. It’s exactly the behavior they decry, it’s bigotry and prejudice writ large designed to enhance their status. This is not about justice, this is about building their brand at the expense of other people’s feelings. It’s wrong.
Really, point us to the place where Sharpton and Jackson explicitly said “Kill Zimmerman” because it seems that the only one who has played judge, jury, and executioner is George Zimmerman who executed Trayvon Martin for the crime of walking the streets while black.
Sharpton and Jackson are leaders in the black community. You do not like them. We get it. But you can’t say the facts of this case are not available, shooter242. You can’t say, “we don’t know anything”; look at Jenn’s post again. You read it and replied, “did you not know there was a witness?” Look again, shooter. Those facts should lead a reasonable police officer to make an arrest or at least bring Zimmerman in for further questioning. That didn’t happen and that’s why people are upset.
“If Zimmerman is found to have committed a crime, fine, let him fry.” In order to find that out, he would need to have been brought in at the time by the police, right?
Speaking of sex toys, hidden cameras, roofies and rape. isn’t James OKeefe, Bretbart’s protege, boy wonder, and heir apparent. OKeefe does have a problem with one woman of color. And one last time, Andrew speaks.
How do you know he wasn’t brought in by the police? Do you think they just laughed about a dead kid and said see you later? This isn’t 1950′s Mississippi.
Unless you’re prejudiced toward all police, you have to ask yourself why the police would let Zimmerman go. Reasonable people would assume there is more to the story than they know. But sadly the race industry is not reasonable.
Race industry? Really? Is that something like the gay agenda? Or the baby killing industry?
Where do you idiots get these terms? The only industry involved here is the one represented by the NRA. What does it matter if Trayvon “attacked” Zimmerman now does it? Zimmerman had the gun. The state of Florida sanctions such killings through its “stand your ground” law. A young man, kid really, is dead, murdered in cold blood because of it.
You’re saying that’s right, shooter? What kind of world do you live in? I sure as hell don’t want to be a part of it.
You are lying. Or else you have not been paying attention, in which case you are spouting assertions that you have no basis for making. What turned this from a local into a national story was not race, not even murder, but the failure of the police to investigate it properly. From there it has spiraled in a number of directions, including the kind of misdirection you and others are committing, in attempting to make the complaints racial.
I know I should not feed a troll, and I shall not respond again, but dammit. You.Are.Lying. Go away.
Cold blood? You don’t know that. Are you clairvoyant?
Come on, shitter. More substantive questions have been asked of you; why have you ignored them? Can it be that you can’t, and you’re really just here trolling? Sure it can. Prove me wrong.
Shitter242′s argument has de-evolved from pompous proclamation (“thus it came to pass, that the meme of Mr. Martin being innocent was dispelled, by sources that shall never be cited by myself”), to the “some people say” stunt, to pure Doughy Pantload (“I don’t know all the facts yet, but you’re still all rushing to judgment instead of accepting my own judgment that I’ve rushed to! NOT FAIR! MOTHERRRR!”), and now to preposterously false equivalency (“unless you’re prejudiced toward ALL police, and therefore a Commie Rat, you have to accept my version of events”).
All without a name named, source given, or question answered with anything other than another question.
Textbook weasel-wording.
I didn’t think anyone could come up with a way to make me laugh out loud on the subject of this monstrous injustice, but here we are.
C’mon, shooter, don’t be an ass. You know that’s not really the point. None of us were there. None of us know anything for sure. But when an unarmed 17 year old kid is gunned down while his friend is telling him on his cell phone to run, yeah, that comes pretty close to cold-blood.
It’s exactly like that: a right-wing conspiracy theory, nothing less and certainly nothing more.
Hold it! You said @31:
I need to amend my previous comment. shooter, you’re a fucking lying pussy.
Zimmerman isn’t in jail, he isn’t out on bail, and so far he’s getting other people to claim he didn’t do it, while he cries about being misunderstood and put-upon.
Zimmerman also, in case your trollishness didn’t get the message, is the guy who called 911 to report a suspicious 7-to-9-year-old, four-foot-tall black kid. Six-foot-something, 250-lb white guy was afraid of a kid that young and that small….
Better than you are. You’ve been banned from a lot of blogs because of things like that.
Go away. Go back under your effing bridge. Whack off to Breitbart videos and NRA videos, since they clearly make you happy.
Shooter, you’ve been shown to be a racist lying scumbag… again.
But cheer up! For every racist incident that draws a lot of attention, there are – AFAICT – hundreds that never draw the attention of the wider public. Here’s a story that will warm your heart, although you may find the ending unsatisfactory, what with the protagonist coming out of it alive and all. But hey, no Sharpton!
Oh, so in other words he’ll be doing the same old same old.
Don’t tell Shooter, but even George Will knows that defending Zimmerman is not a wise move:
George Will is one of the more influential mouthpieces for the Republican establishment. If he says something, more often than not it is exactly what the official Republican stance on an issue either already is or soon will be. About the only time this wasn’t so was back in the fall of 1999, when he and Tucker Carlson tried to sound the alarm about what a weak candidate Bush Jr. was, even with Karl Rove and hundreds of millions in oil money propping him up.
And those screams we all heard on the 9-1-1 call — you did listen to the tape,right, Shooter? — that was Trayvon screaming as he attacked a guy pointing a gun at him and Zimmerman just shot him to stop the screaming, right? Because everyone screams as they go after guys just innocently trying to get back in their cars, right? Do you have to listen to a lot of right-wing radio to come up with this shit, or do you just pull it straight out of your own ass?
and when are we going to get the cause of death? This testing for death due to an overdose of hate is taking far too long.
Pretty sure we know this because the Sanford cops admitted as much.
Well, maybe not the laughing over a dead kid’s body.
And no, it’s not 1950s Mississippi. It’s modern-day Florida, some parts of which can be almost as bad, and which – after 13 years of one-party rule – is a complete fucking mess, to the point that the legislature will pass laws designed to make this sort of thing (shooting black people who are “threatening” you) nice and legal whenever possible.
Uh oh… fed the rightwing bigoted racist misogynistic asshole troll again, I see… onwards…
Yes, he was a treat.
He’s just asking the question, and posting pics of people who aren’t the trayvon martin that was killed, but who was flipping off the camera and trying to look like a ‘thug’.
Because Dan, like most people who are only trying to get to the ‘bottom of things’ do it by spreading misinformation on the internet.
My god, what a way to have to live your life….
Let’s see if I have your position straight, shooter: A young black man walking down the street after dark is, by definition, suspicious. If anything bad happens to him, well, that’s how it goes–he shouldn’t have been acting suspiciously.
Does that about cover it?