1. The NYT spins a race-baiting story
After bemoaning memes a few weeks ago, I came across the one above and knew I needed to research it.
As it turns out, the meme undersold the depths of how the story was misreported, nowhere more egregiously than in the New York Times, which ran this story the day after its “Israeli blew up a hospital” debacle.
Background: Leonard Cure, a man with a long rap sheet, was convicted of armed robbery. He served 16 years of that sentence before it was later determined he had been wrongly convicted. He was released, awarded $817,000 in damages and then, months later was driving over 100 miles per hour when a police officer stopped him, and shot him to death after an altercation.
The New York Times wrote a masterpiece of misdirection. In layman’s words, it’s a lie.
First, the chosen picture of a raised-hand man wearing an “INNOCENT” shirt contrasts starkly with the crazed person who bolted out of his truck in Georgia.
The Times then writes about the incident as though it was civilized debate:
“Mr. Cure gets out, saying he had done nothing wrong …”
Yeah, not quite. His first words were actually: “I ain’t doing shit!”
The officer shouted for Cure to go to the back of the truck and put his hands on it. This followed Cure's high-speed, aggressive driving and his refusal to pull over for over a minute. Rather than comply, Cure walked straight toward the officer and stood defiant.
The Times goes back into debate mode:
“Mr. Cure keeps [his hands] on the truck and questions why he is being stopped. ‘Do I have a warrant?’ Mr. Cure asks.”
“‘OK, so that’s a speeding ticket, right?’ Mr. Cure says, to which the deputy responds that ‘tickets in the state of Georgia are criminal offenses.’”
Left out of the verbal repartee, Times reporter Michael Levenson chose to ignore Cure’s continual behavior that was both deranged and combative, such as telling the officer “My name is Yaween (sp?)” and spouting comebacks like “In the name of who?” when directed to step back. Or pointing dramatically at the ground, asking, “Do you see that?”
He was clearly unhinged. And aggressive. And strong.
After repeatedly having his commands ignored, the officer tases Cure, which doesn’t work well. Cure resists the shock, pulls out the probes, then swings wildly, attacking the officer by the busy highway.
They flail about in a violent struggle, where at one point Cure holds the officer’s face at a harsh, backward angle, yelling, “Yeah, bitch! Yeah, bitch!”
Even then, the officer grabs a billy club instead of a gun, but still can’t fight off his attacker. Finally, he draws a firearm and shoots Cure once in the side.
Later, in heart-wrenching body cam footage, the officer breaks down into tears as first responders work to save Cure’s life.
After the Times gave us their whitewashed version of the encounter, they then quoted two of Cure’s siblings. One told us that “for the most part, he was completely compliant.” Another said there was “absolutely no reason why my brother was murdered for a traffic stop.”
The story ends with the head of the Florida Innocence Project telling us, “Had it been approached in a less hostile way from law enforcement, Leonard would have made it home.” The only thing missing was a soft violin melody.
The people at the Times aren’t dumb. They know how to spin, and what facts to ignore to maintain their false narrative of police-on-black violence.
Here’s the full video of the incident:
2. White people need not apply
Meanwhile, the Washington Post published an editorial by Steve Phillips encouraging white people not to run for California’s Senate seat.
Gov. Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat. She will serve at least until the upcoming special election in November 2024.
The author’s entire argument is that a black woman should be elected, because she’s black.
Time and again it has been shown that Black women are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. Democrats across the country agree that Black women are badly underrepresented in our nation’s leadership. Schiff and Porter are White; Lee is a Black woman. The right course is clear, isn’t it?
… Schiff and Porter should step aside and reembrace their vital leadership roles in the House.
It’s hard to imagine a more straightforward, racist argument than this.
Just two excerpts today, from two of America’s (formerly) most important newspapers.
— Ken
MLK is literally spinning in his grave....
The New York Times has historically been a terrible unAmerican news rag putting forth left wing propaganda. Whether it was then MSM (including the NYT) hedging favorably for fascism (yes … it’s a form of socialism) in the 1920s and 1930s, or the NYT’s refusing to give back their Soviet propagandist’s (Walter Durante) Pulitzer Prize for whitewashing the Holodomor perpetrated by Stalin against Ukraine.
In my lifetime, the New York Times has always sucked. It nearly always promotes bigger centralized government over small “r” republicanism based on our US Constitution, and the NYT virtually always promotes collectivism over individual rights.
If the NYT were to go bankrupt and fold … America would be a better place.
See: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-journalists-covered-rise-mussolini-hitler-180961407/
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/justin-h-vassallo-allure-italian-fascism/
https://ukrainegenocide.com/duranty-revocation/
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/10/24/what-do-you-call-a-reporter-who-praises-hitler-a-nyt-journalist-n587226