{"id":1865,"date":"2013-07-19T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/07\/george-zimmerman-was-found-not-guilty-2.html"},"modified":"2013-07-19T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T21:18:00","slug":"george-zimmerman-was-found-not-guilty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/07\/george-zimmerman-was-found-not-guilty-2.html","title":{"rendered":"George Zimmerman was found not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In case you missed the news. \u00a0Which would be just about impossible for anyone not living on one of Saturn\u2019s moons without electricity. \u00a0Just like the Tuscon shooting was exploited by the Left in an effort to encourage suppression of dissenting speech, however so subtly, this is being used to attack two things that had nothing to do with the shooting: race and stand your ground laws. \u00a0Of course that\u2019s why we know about this, as opposed to any one of tens of thousands of other cases over the last year. \u00a0It fits the media agendas.<\/p>\n

The media are doing this more and more, making mountains where there aren\u2019t even any molehills. \u00a0Why? \u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0But I\u2019m sure it\u2019s no accident, coincidence, or blind luck. \u00a0After all, they all couldn\u2019t be wrong about the same things over and over again if that were the case. \u00a0But in any event, as I reflect on several media frenzies over the last few years: Tuscon, Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke, George Zimmerman, Sarah Palin\u2019s ignorance; and as I reflect on other things that have gotten less proportional coverage than the annual Zucchini Festival of Edison such as the IRS scandal, Benghazi, Obama\u2019s drone attack powers, Joe Biden\u2019s ignorance, I just can\u2019t help but think of this:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed the news. \u00a0Which would be just about impossible for anyone not living on one of Saturn\u2019s moons without electricity. \u00a0Just like the Tuscon shooting was exploited by the Left in an effort to encourage suppression of dissenting speech, however so subtly, this is being used to attack two things that had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nGeorge Zimmerman was found not guilty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In case you missed the news.  Which would be just about impossible for anyone not living on one of Saturn's moons without electricity.  Just\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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