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Here this man goes, talking out the side of his neck again!
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Conservative radio asshole jock Rush Limbaugh decided to use his nationally syndicated radio show to tie Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with…wait for it…slain teenager Trayvon Martin.
Yeah, you read that right.
Limbaugh compared the media’s portrayal of Trayvon to the portrayal of the captured Tsarnaev brother, pointing out the media’s use of slightly outdated photographs in both instances.
‘The news media are doing to Dzhokhar what they did to Trayvon Martin,”Limbaugh observed. “They’re regularly showing a photo of Dzhokhar that was taken when he was about 14. Soft, angelic, nice little boy. Harmless. Cute. Big, loveable eyes.”
“Not at all what he looks like today,” Limbaugh added. “The way, when we’re shown Osama bin Laden, it’s in his shepherd pose with his walking stick, walking through the mountains or whatever.”
Limbaugh is trying to make a point that showing younger, less threatening pictures of the suspected bomber at 14 is an effort to humanize him and frame him as normal.
But why attack Trayvon? What did an innocent, unarmed kid do to turn into a terrorist of the United States?
Limbaugh has made it no secret that he doesn’t think the 17-year-old, who was shot down by George Zimmerman, was a “great” kid. In fact, he demonizes his character and believes that the media tried to stir up sympathy for Trayvon.
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Comparing these two situations is like apples and oranges. They can’t be mixed. How can you compare a victim with an assailant? We just don’t get it.
SOURCE: ThinkProgress
