The TalkLeft blog noted last night that the American Civil Liberties Union, after encouraging U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to pursue civil rights charges against George Zimmerman the day after he was acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin, reversed course just four days later.
Though it’s no longer available at its national web site, the Associated Press ran the organization’s press release. Various searches at the AP’s national web site indicate that there has been no coverage of the organization’s reversal. Several center-right blogs have noted the reversal, but no one in the establishment press besides Josh Gerstein at the Politico, where stories the rest of the establishment press would prefer to ignore tend to go and all too often die, has noted it. So did the organization have a change of heart? Or did it attempt to manipulate its media exposure with a politically correct initial press release followed by a legally and constitutionally correct reversal it hopes few will notice?
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Earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry blamed Detroit’s bankruptcy on “government (that) is small enough to drown in your bathtub,” and claimed that it reflects “exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us.”
Nothing can top that, right? Wrong. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz did, by more directly blaming Republicans. With an accompanying graphic containing photos of current Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, former President Ronald Reagan, and 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney above the words “Conservative Utopia,” Schultz claimed that the city’s failure is “thanks to a lot of Republican policies” and “is exactly what the Republicans want.” The relevant transcript follows the jump (video is at RealClearPolitics; HT Hot Air; bolds are mine):
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Melissa Harris-Perry, one of the panel guests on MSNBC’s “Now” program on Friday, managed to tie Detroit’s bankruptcy to small government, i.e., “when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub,” and to analogize it to “exactly the kind of thing that many Republicans would impose on us.” Really.
The relevant portion of the transcript from RealClearPolitics, followed by comments from Erika Johnsen at Hot Air and Noah Rothman at Mediaite, are after the jump:
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Continuing what I started Wednesday, I’m going to keep this open thread at the top during the day.
Rules are here. Possible comment fodder follows. Other topics are also fair game.
If you are on the front page, click “more” to see today’s items, updated sporadically:
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