What happens when you combine bogus MSM sensationalism with professional race-baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? You get a small town story of common thugs turned into an international circus based on lies and propaganda.

But the truth always has a way of getting out…

The so-called “white tree” at Jena High, often reported to be the domain of only white students, was nothing of the sort, according to teachers and school administrators; students of all races, they say, congregated under it at one time or another.

Two nooses — not three — were found dangling from the tree. Beyond being offensive to blacks, the nooses were cut down because black and white students “were playing with them, pulling on them, jump-swinging from them, and putting their heads through them,” according to a black teacher who witnessed the scene.

There was no connection between the September noose incident and December attack, according to Donald Washington, an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department in western Louisiana, who investigated claims that these events might be race-related hate crimes.

The three youths accused of hanging the nooses were not suspended for just three days — they were isolated at an alternative school for about a month, and then given an in-school suspension for two weeks.

The only one of the six to be tried and convicted so far, Mychal Bell, 17, was widely reported to be an honor student with no criminal record. Though he kept a high grade-point average, Bell was on probation for at least two counts of battery and a count of criminal damage to property prior to the beating of Justin Barker last year.

The six-member jury that convicted Bell was, indeed, all white. However, only one in 10 people in LaSalle Parish is African American, and though black residents were selected randomly by computer and summoned for jury selection, none showed up.

But why bother with facts when they don’t fit your agenda?

It’s ironic how race-baiters like Al Sharpton can claim a crime has been committed by a white against a black when no such crime occured, and then claim a real crime committed by blacks against a white kid should go unpunished.

1. Web Reconnaissance for 09/26/2007

   A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.

   Trackback by The Thunder Run — 9:24 am
   

2. Hi Tex,

   Your website’s recent slide into oblivion has been a source of endless entertainment for me. For while you used to have a number of dissenters - to keep the debate in your comments pages lively and interesting - I see that they have basically all left you, so that now all that remains is the choir.

   This post is a good example of the ill-informed and hysteric level of dialogue you have recently engaged in - and perfectly representative of why everyone has left.

   In fact - you state a simple untruth. Al Sharpton has not asked that the Jena 6 go unpunished - but simply argued that the punishment does not fit the crime – and that it is particularly unjust given that it is out of proportion to how whites are charged for similar offences.

   Now – I don’t mean to suggest here that Al Sharpton’s point isn’t debatable – but, rather, to simply suggest that when you misrepresent his position, you inhibit the very debate that you pretend to be engaged in raising for analysis.

   Also notable is your reaction to Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University. At first – you are all prepared to take him and other perceived liberals to task for inviting him; then, when he has the nerve to defy expectation, without so much as an admission of your mistake, you begin to spin, spin, spin in another direction. I mean really? So liberals are to be faulted for not throwing pies at him – as they did with Ann Coulter? First of all – do you have any idea what kind of security detail Ahmadinejad had in the U.S.?

   And second – a few kids caught up in an anti-free speech prank is so poorly representative of democratic ideals that your parallel appears very nearly random.

   So – anyway – I hope you are still enjoying yourself with this blog. I particularly enjoy the fact that my help is no longer needed, as you have very nearly slipped into self-parody – what with your rabidly uncritical defense of an increasingly unpopular president – engaged in an increasingly unpopular war, and this even while numerous other of your GOP cohorts (notably, George Will – but numerous others as well) have gone on record to condemn Bush’s foray’s into the middle east as incompetent at best and criminal at worst. You have suddenly become so. . . old fashioned. . . or is it . . . out of date.

   Comment by djernigan — 11:18 am
   

3. Danny,
   I’ve been doing this for more than 4 years now. Liberals like you have come and gone many times over during that time. Each thinks he’s the brightest, most relevant liberal pundit on the planet. And each fades off into oblivion like the last when inundated with facts and reason. You weren’t the first, you won’t be the last.

   “Your website’s recent slide into oblivion … perfectly representative of why everyone has left.”

   You think a 30% increase in daily hits and an increase of 230% in feed subscribers is evidence of a “slide into oblivion”? Apparently math wasn’t your forte, either. No wonder I never get the correct change back in the drive-thru.

   Comment by Texas Rainmaker — 2:56 pm
   

4. Liberals like you have come and gone many times over during that time. Each thinks he’s the brightest, most relevant liberal pundit on the planet. And each fades off into oblivion like the last when inundated with facts and reason. You weren’t the first, you won’t be the last.

   I sure hope he’s the last. His drivel gets older than Robert Byrd’s white sheets.

   Apparently math wasn’t your forte, either.

   Not much is, I suspect.

   No wonder I never get the correct change back in the drive-thru.

   BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Damn, jerkagain, you got pwn3d big time on that one! Get some aloe for that hiney, son, because you just got spanked!

   Comment by crushliberalism — 10:41 am
   

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