I was just in the gym, where I was assaulted with CNN, which has anchors (i.e. dead weight thrown overboard to stop the forward motion of a ship) against a backdrop of a collage of pix of Michael Brown in cap & gown, Michael Brown in a suit, apparent yearbook picture, family pic, etc., while the dead weight are saying, straight-to-camera, how the DOJ (aka Eric Holder) warned that the video “just released” (translation: 2 days ago) showing Brown robbing a store, assaulting the diminutive store manager, shoving him away, and lumbering out the door, might promote further violence.

Do they not recognize the complete hypocrisy?  Or is the drive to construct a narrative of bigotry and hatred and targeted discriminatory violence by the police so core to their identity as news readers that they must protect it even from the curiosity of their own minds?  The pictures they have chosen to assemble to present a picture of Michael Brown show a “Good Kid.”  There is no room for balance, for any consideration of how that kid might have become this kid — a bullying thug.  That story of descent would have made another kind of newscast, but not this one.  No, that might cause misunderstanding — in English, we would call that “understanding” —  That is, we might understand that, whatever promise Michael Brown might have had was subsumed in drugs, gang afilliations, and, in the most benign interpretation, trying to impress one of those gang buddies.

This highly-slanted CNN commentary displays exactly the kind of resolute disconnect from reality that Goebbels fostered in his propaganda efforts and it lays out in stark relief just how far this Administration will go to make the story All About Race and to fan the flames of hatred and irrational victimhood. And I don’t mean to whitewash the police of all responsibility for independent investigation of the officer’s actions to verify that lethal force was justified.  The assumption by the MSM, however, appears to be that they are so obviously guilty that only tarring and feathering is needed and that all violence by community thugs against others in that comunity is justified by that one act that resulted in Michael Brown’s death.  The DOJ’s interference, in the form of suppression of inquiry and encouraging further mayhem to continue, by pushing the narrative, is abhorrent.  But it is Eric Holder true to form.