{"id":3724,"date":"2016-05-22T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T20:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T20:07:31","slug":"this-justaintright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/this-justaintright\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS JUST\u2026AIN\u2019T\u2026RIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I\u2019m in Chicagoland. I pick up a <em>Chicago Tribune. <\/em>And I read this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/george-zimmerman-taps-into-an-american-tradition-murderabilia\/2016\/05\/14\/eda7b950-19cd-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">crap, taken from the Washington Post. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good Lord.<\/p>\n<p>A man tried for murder is totally acquitted after two brilliant lawyers lead a defense team which clearly establishes self-defense based upon hard evidence. Almost three years later, major newspapers show his pictures alongside those of serial killers John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Dennis Rader. They put the word \u201cmurder\u201d in the story title. The same mass media that became the willing puppets of a plaintiff\u2019s lawyer, his PR man, and an ambitious prosecutor and made George Zimmerman unemployable \u2013 \u201cthe most hated man in America,\u201d some say \u2013 now declare that he\u2019s able to sell his gun for significant money \u201cbecause Americans have always been fascinated with murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who followed the trial and the evidence instead of the headlines and the meme understand that he was righteously acquitted.\u00a0 Those who aren\u2019t up to speed on it can go to the archive next to this column and start reading my blog entry on the day he was acquitted, July 13, 2013, and read the nineteen subsequent entries to understand the reality.<\/p>\n<p>Some, of course, are comfortable with dwelling in ignorance and anti-self-defense bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary journalism is reminding me of contemporary politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I\u2019m in Chicagoland. I pick up a Chicago Tribune. And I read this crap, taken from the Washington Post. Good Lord. A man tried for murder is totally acquitted after two brilliant lawyers lead a defense team which clearly establishes self-defense based upon hard evidence. Almost three years later, major newspapers show his pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}