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Drudge's Play of Bus Beating Draws Critics

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 15, 2009 4:24 PM CDT
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(Newser) – A fight on a school bus in Illinois is generating lots of attention across the country. A videotape of the incident shows black teens beating a white classmate while some onlookers cheer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Police are investigating but have backed off an initial statement that the attack was racially motivated. The story has picked up national steam in part because Matt Drudge led with it much of the day on his site.

That decision has brought out Drudge's critics, who say he's once again race-baiting. "Is this national news?" asks Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic. Drudge's motive is "fairly obvious"—he's pushing "the message is that white people ought to be very afraid of black people, starting with the President." At Raw Story, Ron Brynaert wonders whether Drudge is "openly trying to start a race war."

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Guest
Oct 13, 2009 2:33 AM CDT
Feeling and doing what is right are two different things. You still have condemned the attack, and you justify it through elborate rationalizations. The truth is that the 'race war' or whatever would be best diffused by Christian principles. It always cuts through the fog like a ho tknife through butter. Views of revenge, entitlement, narcissistic views on victimization, and supremacy in the black comunity are a few to start with. Whites ignoring the plight of others, side stepping the pain - is well, a depravity that every race shares.
Guest
Oct 13, 2009 2:28 AM CDT
And...you are bargianing for position with white culture. Problem is your boy Obama has burned a lot of the whites who voted for him. Those that mistakenly they would receive a "white guilt" pass. Nu uh. Now, those idiot whites will opefully know better. Which leaves your strategy messed up. No longer willing to fall for the bargaining any more, white America is gaining IMMUNITY to Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton challenger/bargianer shake downs. If the "civil rights" movement doesn't change it will die for decades. What? Oh, I am supposed to play by those rules or you will riot and kill white people? Ain't gonna happen as a permanent solution for you. Advice: assimilate.
Guest
Oct 13, 2009 2:24 AM CDT
Feeling and doing what is right are two different things. You still have condemned the attack, and you justify it through elborate rationalizations. The truth is that the 'race war' or whatever would be best diffused by Christian principles. It always cuts through the fog like a ho tknife through butter. Views of revenge, entitlement, narcissistic views on victimization, and supremacy in the black comunity are a few to start with. Whites ignoring the plight of others, side stepping the pain - is well, a depravity that every race shares.
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