done to chris lane. unfortunate australia feels that way. united states has been a great friend to australia, i certainly understand that there is some raw feelings up there certainly raw emotions. and i think that s something that would be anticipated people are different ideals and concerns themselves. chris: some people on the right note civil rights leaders and president obama spoke out quite quickly about the trayvon martin case and yet have remained silent in the case of christopher lane. on wednesday, 48 hours after this became international news, the white house spokesman was asked about the case. take a look. do you have any reaction to the christopher lane case? i m not familiar with it, actually. chris: governor, what do you make of the silence of people like al sharpton and quite frankly the silence of the president? well, you know, i don t know what to think about
me. they are very different situations. in one case in oklahoma the gun was illegal. they caught the guys right away. in trayvon martin s case there was questions about whether they could bring charges at all. this falsie equivalency is an attempt to keep score as if we have to find a white victim too. chris, the fbi did investigate in the trayvon martin case and george zimmerman and after its investigation they said there was no race motivation in that particular case. in this case of course people will ask questions even though the authorities hearsay they do not believe at this point they are investigating whether race was an issue or not. we have the teens we have the tweet usa ledgedly from one of the teens charged with murder in the christopher lane case saying he hated white people. fair to have that conversation or are you jumping ahead to say race may have played a factor? you know, when you have the tweets as we have in this case making it clear that one of the perp
done to chris lane. unfortunate australia feels that way. united states has been a great friend to australia, i certainly understand that there is some raw feelings up there certainly raw emotions. and i think that s something that would be anticipated people are different ideals and concerns themselves. chris: some people on the right note civil rights leaders and president obama spoke out quite quickly about the trayvon martin case and yet have remained silent in the case of christopher lane. on wednesday, 48 hours after this became international news, the white house spokesman was asked about the case. take a look. do you have any reaction to the christopher lane case? i m not familiar with it, actually. chris: governor, what do you make of the silence of people like al sharpton and quite frankly the silence of the president? well, you know, i don t know what to think about
melbourne newspaper which said no such thing. the implication of the one black photograph and one white photograph of the victim side by side and the plural usage of black teens i think was implying that all of the defendants in this case where is african-american when in fact they weren t. and my thought is that and there are several instances of this, limbaugh being one of them. on the right individuals taking their cue from drudge all ran with the ball and repeated a story which said this was a racially inspired crime and that all the defendants were african-american. jamel, how did you piece it together and what do you think of my theory that the first domino that fell in terms of the mistruths was the drudge report? i m not sure it began with the drudge report though i think a lot of right wing bloggers took their cue from the report. you had rush limbaugh, glenn beck saying something similar, a panel at fox and friends all saying this was a racially moat have aed killing, tha
it is, let s not be it is a grossly cynical undertaking. but i suppose it s their job. first, o reilly and others showed this video on loop of three boys beating another boy. the attempt to inflate that incident into some kind of racial symbol more or less failed. and so fox started to look around for another story. and when the truly horrific details emerged of the brutal murder of chris lane, they got aid head of themselves. an australian transfer student at east central university in oklahoma apparently murdered in cold blood by three teenage boys who reportedly committed the crime out of boredom. it s a horrible, upsetting, enraging story. nearly immediately fox rushed to turn this into a story of racial hate and white victimhood. allen west has tweeted this. we were bored and decided to kill somebody. three black teens shoot white jogger. who will president of the united states identify with this time? excellent point. i wonder when celebrities are going to put on, i am chr