Now that the whole ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ BS has been proven a lie, even by the racist Eric Holder DOJ, lets examine how the media played it up to stir the racial pot. According to Newsbusters, the race hustling liberal news networks ABC, CBS, NBC 140 times. Broken down by alphabet networks, NBC spewed the phrase 34 times, ABC spewed it 51 times and the ‘winner’ was CBS with 55 times. As far as informing their viewers that the hands up, don’t shoot phrase turned out to be nothing but another liberal race hustling lie, there’s radio silence from these same networks.
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| Networks spewed ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ lie 140 times |
But only the CBS Evening News, which gave 42 seconds to clearing Wilson, noted that there was “no credible evidence Brown had his hands up attempting to surrender.” Passive language and skeptical tone characterized the report from anchor Charlie Rose, who said the DOJ “found no evidence to disprove Wilson’s contention he acted in self-defense.” Reporter Mark Strassmann also called Brown “an unarmed teenager” during the segment, which spent another minute and 20 seconds discussing the racial tensions in Ferguson and hyping “racist emails” found on officers’ computers. The segment was immediately followed by a civil rights poll. ABC’s World News Tonight was even worse. Anchor David Muir teased the segment by not even mentioning that Wilson was cleared by the DOJ or that the protesters were wrong, but instead leading with the racist emails, saying: “Breaking tonight: the Ferguson police department, coming before the cameras at this hour, responding. After the justice department reveals racist e-mails, and alleged excessive force.” In the nearly two minute long segment, just five seconds were given to the fact that Wilson was cleared by the DOJ. The rest of the segment was devoted to the emails. NBC Nightly News followed in the pattern of casting a skeptical tone on Wilson’s clearing. Investigative reporter Ron Allen said: “Despite months of passionate demands from protesters in Ferguson, federal investigators decided not to charge former police officer Darren Wilson saying he feared for his life, acted in self-defense killing the unarmed teenager Michael Brown.” Nowhere in the two minute, 20 second long segment did anchor Lester Holt or reporter Ron Allen find time to mention that the report also found the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative was a lie.