Here’s a CNN discussion on the significance of the charges brought against neighborhood watch commander George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon Martin, armed with Skittles and an iced tea:
Oh, yes:
And then there’s the predictable, increasingly tiresome and trite reaction on the Martin controversy from Rush Limbaugh who blames racial tensions in this controversy on…you guessed it…the White House (if Clinton was in power or any other D he’d blame it on them, too. You see, the Ds are to blame for everything, including Limbaugh’s ingrown toenails.) It’s all part of some big political plot (it says a lot about America and partisans that someone this far out gets big ratings and is idolized by so many..)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.