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DragonStryk72
12-17-2012, 12:31 AM
Saw this on my facebook today:


Morgan Freeman's brilliant take on what happened yesterday :

"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.


It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."



Gotta say, I pretty much agree with this all around.

Dilloduck
12-17-2012, 12:36 AM
The people who have commited these crimes are irrational. Not saying their names will not make them rational nor will it make the next crazy person change thier behavior.

DragonStryk72
12-17-2012, 12:52 AM
The people who have commited these crimes are irrational. Not saying their names will not make them rational nor will it make the next crazy person change thier behavior.

But he's all we talk about, same as with the other mass shootings. We never really talk about the victims, only the murderer, and we do it everywhere. As I said in another thread, it's like posting a leaderboard for the mentally disturbed.

Dilloduck
12-17-2012, 12:59 AM
But he's all we talk about, same as with the other mass shootings. We never really talk about the victims, only the murderer, and we do it everywhere. As I said in another thread, it's like posting a leaderboard for the mentally disturbed.

Give it a few weeks-----it will be " how about that crazy dude who killed all those kids?". Do you really think that contributed to this guys motive

logroller
12-17-2012, 03:23 AM
Saw this on my facebook today:



Gotta say, I pretty much agree with this all around.
Me too. Although, Would of been better to hear it from him rather than read it. Love that guy's delivery.

DragonStryk72
12-17-2012, 03:39 AM
Give it a few weeks-----it will be " how about that crazy dude who killed all those kids?". Do you really think that contributed to this guys motive

Do you really think he thought that far into the future?

Hey, remember Columbine? We don't even think of it as a separate place, like the whole town is just the high school now. How about VA Tech? Or Aurora?

I don't even have to give you a reference point. You're not going, "so, what about their football team?" Whether we remember their names down the line, we will not remember the names of their victims, since we pretty much never hear them, and hear only about the perpetrator.

taft2012
12-17-2012, 08:12 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/morgan-freeman-denies-making-statement-school-shooting-013627371.html




LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Actor Morgan Freeman said on Sunday that he did not issue a statement blaming the media for sensationalizing the Newtown School shootings that left 20 children and several adults dead.
The award-winning actor added that he never made or posted the statement that became a Facebook and Internet sensation, saying it was a hoax.
His publicist Stan Rosenfield told TheWrap that the actor's camp was trying to determine the origin of the hoax statement.

C'mon. We should all know liberals never make that much sense. :laugh:

aboutime
12-18-2012, 08:26 PM
Freeman has become the LIVE version of Harry Belefonte, with a little Hugo Chavez added for Obamination purposes.

Add those three to that Democrat who called for the SHOOTINGS of NRA members...and you get PURE SOCIALISM, wrapped in Racism.