CNN Mocks Texas Town For Backing Father Who Killed Pedophile (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/06/12/CNN-Mocks-Texas-Town)



CNN has, in their usual fashion, patronized rural America once more. In their coverage of the Shiner, Texas case where a rancher found a man attempting to sexually molest the rancher’s four-year-old daughter and beat the molester to death with his bare hands, CNN couldn’t resist the opportunity to lampoon such primitive behavior.

The report begins with the female reporter’s voice-over: “When you hear what happened in Shiner, this town will be known for more than just beer.”

Already the town is belittled for its championing of that “low-class” beverage. One wonders if the reporter would have reported on the same story from the Loire Valley in France: “When you hear what happened in Sancerre, this town will be known for more than just white wine.” Doubtful.

The news story continues with a local woman saying, “Everybody was talkin’ about the same thing, they would have did the same thing.”

Notice the choice of a woman whose grammar doesn’t quite measure up to people in the Hamptons. Obviously (according to CNN) any woman with grammar such as this is unqualified to pass judgment in this matter.

The voice-over continues: “We don’t know all the details of this case, but the people here say they know enough.”

Delicious. Now the clear implication is we’re dealing here with a case of frontier justice. Why, those dumb folks down in Texas probably have a lynching every other Sunday. Where’s Judge Roy Bean?





in a moment of passion, justifiable Homicide ....... never even be an arrest or trail


'Your Honor, He Just Needed Kill'n' - that is still a valid defense in Rural Texas ....... :killingme

The Communist News Network strikes again.

The actual CNN report. They suck.

Sheriff: Father kills man sexually abusing his daughter - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/index.html)

I think the evidence, as pointed out in may studies done by those with the right accents and who attend the right parties is clear. These guys, meaning the guys who molest children, not the fathers who kill to protect them, will NEVER get any better. Not with counseling, not with castration, not with time spent being the party toy on the cell block, not ever.

So the media folks can phrase it as they wish, any clear thinking person knows the best and highest use for child sexual predators is as fertilizer.

Shiner, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiner,_Texas)

"Shiner is the home of the Spoetzl Brewery, the oldest independent brewery in Texas. The brewery is most well known for producing Shiner Bock, a dark German/Czech-style beer that is now distributed in 41 states."

They mock now, but what would they do if this was their child? Stand by, watch and run the video camera?

Say on Oprah how they understand this poor man was driven by urges he couldn't control, after all, he didn't get his Twinkies in his lunch back in 2nd grade one day, and they forgive him and only hope that someday, with help and understanding, that he can be healed.

Oh, wait, that's what they would say if it was someone elses kid.

They mock now, but what would they do if this was their child? Stand by, watch and run the video camera?

Call 911 and stand there listening to the child scream, secure in their knowledge that they did the right thing and the perpetrator was just a victim of an unfair society.

Breitbart.com and The Daily Caller strike again.

The video report they're citing is a report from KHOU-TV Houston, not CNN.

Breitbart.com and The Daily Caller strike again.

The video report they're citing is a report from KHOU-TV Houston, not CNN.

you said this ;


https://forums.somd.com/politics/246726-washington-post-faces-circulation-revenue-colla.html#post4822509

CNN is more conservative than FOX "News" and anyone who watched both networks tonight would know that. I get my news from a wide variety of sources, including Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller among others. But go ahead and put words in my mouth.





Did CNN Replay the Video without Comment ...... or editorial ?

then they must agree 100% with the story as filed


..... I cannot tell if you are trolling here or ...........



Perhaps the news station replaying another's filed story should have been a bit MORE Obvious




but I stand by my assessment ..........

you said this ;






Did CNN Replay the Video without Comment ...... or editorial ?

then they must agree 100% with the story as filed


..... I cannot tell if you are trolling here or ...........



Perhaps the news station replaying another's filed story should have been a bit MORE Obvious




but I stand by my assessment ..........

I don't know if CNN aired the report on NewsRoom or not. The only time I watch CNN is when I'm suffering from insomnia and need to go to sleep.

I don't know if CNN aired the report on NewsRoom or not. The only time I watch CNN is when I'm suffering from insomnia and need to go to sleep.

did you even watch the video ..........


Sheriff: Father kills man sexually abusing his daughter - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/)

(CNN) -- A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.

The father was casually acquainted with the alleged abuser, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.

Neither has been publicly identified.

The girl was left inside the family's house during the social gathering, while other members of her family were tending to horses, the sheriff said.

The alleged abuser was known for his horse-grooming abilities, Harmon said.

The father returned to the house, caught the man in the act, and stopped him by striking him in the head several times, Harmon said.

The man was pronounced dead on the scene, while the daughter was taken to a local hospital in Victoria, Texas, for examinations before being released.

Man kills his alleged abuser

The incident took place Saturday.

Harmon described the girl as "OK besides the obvious mental trauma."

Asked whether they would press charges against the father, the sheriff responded, "You have a right to defend your daughter. He acted in defense of his third person. Once the investigation is completed we will submit it to the district attorney who then submits it to the grand jury, who will decide if they will indict him."

Harmon described the dad as "very remorseful," adding that he didn't know the man was going to die.

Authorities were withholding the deceased man's name while they notified next of kin. Officials did not know immediately if he has a prior criminal history.

Lavaca County Precinct Judge Alene Lyons, who is coordinating information in the case including autopsy results, said Monday

that a preliminary autopsy report indicated the victim "died from blunt-force head and neck injuries."

"It will take six weeks to get the full report back because they also did a toxicology report," Lyons said.

18 rescued in child pornography raids, feds say

CNN's Carma Hassan contributed to this report.




CNN Bottom Right Corner .......... news report played on CNN, no additional commentary ....... no opinion, nothing added ....

THEN CNN MUST AGREE WITH THE STORY AS FILED .............






YOU Just want to throw stones at The Blaze and The Daily Caller

:cds: Oh NO's ........ its Glenn Becks News Company ...... or worse Breitbart

did you even watch the video ..........


Sheriff: Father kills man sexually abusing his daughter - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/)






CNN Bottom Right Corner .......... news report played on CNN, no additional commentary ....... no opinion, nothing added ....

THEN CNN MUST AGREE WITH THE STORY AS FILED .............






YOU Just want to throw stones at The Blaze and The Daily Caller

:cds: Oh NO's ........ its Glenn Becks News Company ...... or worse Breitbart


Yes, I watched the video. It's still a KHOU-TV report. It was a KHOU report the first time I watched it, and it was a KHOU report the second time I watched it. And the article from CNN.com is not the KHOU-TV video report. :lol:

It's not me trying to throw stones at The Blaze (which has nothing to do with this), it's me pointing out that the CNN video report that BreitBart.com and Daily Caller are outraged about is not a CNN report but a KHOU-TV report. It's that simple. :lmao:

it's me pointing out that the CNN video report that BreitBart.com and Daily Caller are outraged about is not a CNN report but a KHOU-TV report.


It's that simple. :lmao:




Replayed in its entirety on CNN .............

Replayed in its entirety on CNN .............

It's still a CNN affiliate's report.

This is the same flawed logic Media Matters uses when criticizing FOX, when some guest (who is not a FOX employee) says something stupid on FOX so they say FOX is stupid. Would it be fair for me to say FOX is stupid everytime Kirsten Powers makes an idiotic remark (which is everytime she's on the air or everytime she logs on her twitter account)?

It's flawed logic. Bite the bullet on this one, Brietbart.com and Daily Caller screwed up.

Shiner, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiner,_Texas)

"Shiner is the home of the Spoetzl Brewery, the oldest independent brewery in Texas. The brewery is most well known for producing Shiner Bock, a dark German/Czech-style beer that is now distributed in 41 states."

Good Stuff

Good Stuff

Take your word for that, I've never had it. I was actually commenting on the original post that said something about the town being belittled for championing a low class beverage, when the town is apparently actually known for its brewery and low class beverage. On the other hand, I didn't know beer was a low class beverage, if fact many of my highflautin, hoity toity acquaintances drink beer and discuss snobby french wines.

Maybe I watched the wrong video or something - I didn't see anything outrageous about the report - it looked like any other news report with interviews with local people - who might be more inclined to have that drawl if they're locals. I think somebody is way too sensitive and it's not you.

Take your word for that, I've never had it. I was actually commenting on the original post that said something about the town being belittled for championing a low class beverage, when the town is apparently actually known for its brewery and low class beverage. On the other hand, I didn't know beer was a low class beverage, if fact many of my highflautin, hoity toity acquaintances drink beer and discuss snobby french wines.

Maybe I watched the wrong video or something - I didn't see anything outrageous about the report - it looked like any other news report with interviews with local people - who might be more inclined to have that drawl if they're locals. I think somebody is way too sensitive and it's not you.

Whether beer is a low class beverage aside (I didn't know people drank beverages by class standing), I have to agree with you on the rest of your post. I don't see what is wrong with the report. Where did they belittle the father for doing what any red-blooded American man would have done to save their child? I must be a little dense, so someone should point out to me the part of the report that is offensive.

Breitbart.com and The Daily Caller strike again.

The video report they're citing is a report from KHOU-TV Houston, not CNN.

I don't know, Andi. Looks to me like the video says CNN in really big letters on the top and the link below says "more CNN video." I believe it's CNN property no matter who did the videotaping. I suspect you've been bamboozled again.

The tippy tippy toedance you libbies do when cornered used to be cute. Now it's just stupid.

I don't know, Andi. Looks to me like the video says CNN in really big letters on the top and the link below says "more CNN video." I believe it's CNN property no matter who did the videotaping. I suspect you've been bamboozled again.

The tippy tippy toedance you libbies do when cornered used to be cute. Now it's just stupid.

No matter how many times you say a local television news report is CNN's report, it's not.

If MSNBC plays a FOX News clip, does it make it MSNBC's report because there's an MSNBC logo in the corner of the screen?

You guys are really grasping here.

Andrew ..........



I already said CNN REPLAYED the story as filed, I never said it WAS CNN's Story



NO Commentary .......... PLAYED as FILED

so obvious they AGREE with the story as FILED



and CNN Filed this News Article to go with the Video (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/index.html):

(CNN) -- A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.

The father was casually acquainted with the alleged abuser, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.

Neither has been publicly identified.

The girl was left inside the family's house during the social gathering, while other members of her family were tending to horses, the sheriff said.

The alleged abuser was known for his horse-grooming abilities, Harmon said.

The father returned to the house, caught the man in the act, and stopped him by striking him in the head several times, Harmon said.

The man was pronounced dead on the scene, while the daughter was taken to a local hospital in Victoria, Texas, for examinations before being released.

Man kills his alleged abuser

The incident took place Saturday.

Harmon described the girl as "OK besides the obvious mental trauma."

Asked whether they would press charges against the father, the sheriff responded, "You have a right to defend your daughter. He acted in defense of his third person. Once the investigation is completed we will submit it to the district attorney who then submits it to the grand jury, who will decide if they will indict him."

Harmon described the dad as "very remorseful," adding that he didn't know the man was going to die.

Authorities were withholding the deceased man's name while they notified next of kin. Officials did not know immediately if he has a prior criminal history.

Lavaca County Precinct Judge Alene Lyons, who is coordinating information in the case including autopsy results, said Monday

that a preliminary autopsy report indicated the victim "died from blunt-force head and neck injuries."

"It will take six weeks to get the full report back because they also did a toxicology report," Lyons said.

18 rescued in child pornography raids, feds say

CNN's Carma Hassan contributed to this report.



The Andrew IS CNN's STORY ...........

Wirelessly posted

Andrew ..........



I already said CNN REPLAYED the story as filed, I never said it WAS CNN's Story



NO Commentary .......... PLAYED as FILED

so obvious they AGREE with the story as FILED



and CNN Filed this News Article to go with the Video (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/index.html):

(CNN) -- A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.

The father was casually acquainted with the alleged abuser, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.

Neither has been publicly identified.

The girl was left inside the family's house during the social gathering, while other members of her family were tending to horses, the sheriff said.

The alleged abuser was known for his horse-grooming abilities, Harmon said.

The father returned to the house, caught the man in the act, and stopped him by striking him in the head several times, Harmon said.

The man was pronounced dead on the scene, while the daughter was taken to a local hospital in Victoria, Texas, for examinations before being released.

Man kills his alleged abuser

The incident took place Saturday.

Harmon described the girl as "OK besides the obvious mental trauma."

Asked whether they would press charges against the father, the sheriff responded, "You have a right to defend your daughter. He acted in defense of his third person. Once the investigation is completed we will submit it to the district attorney who then submits it to the grand jury, who will decide if they will indict him."

Harmon described the dad as "very remorseful," adding that he didn't know the man was going to die.

Authorities were withholding the deceased man's name while they notified next of kin. Officials did not know immediately if he has a prior criminal history.

Lavaca County Precinct Judge Alene Lyons, who is coordinating information in the case including autopsy results, said Monday

that a preliminary autopsy report indicated the victim "died from blunt-force head and neck injuries."

"It will take six weeks to get the full report back because they also did a toxicology report," Lyons said.

18 rescued in child pornography raids, feds say

CNN's Carma Hassan contributed to this report.



The Andrew IS CNN's STORY ...........

That's funny because the CNN story you quite doesn't contain any of the allegedly "mocking" language.

Besides the outrage expressed over the original story is a bunch of victim mentality BS.

No matter how many times you say a local television news report is CNN's report, it's not.

If MSNBC plays a FOX News clip, does it make it MSNBC's report because there's an MSNBC logo in the corner of the screen?

You guys are really grasping here.

One thing we’ve come accustomed to is “news agencies” (I use this very loosely) providing commentary to an obviously very biased and wrongly reported story. A report that shows a local news station mocking someone for rescuing a helpless child should be reported on in a very negative fashion. If you were to give me a story and I knew there was something wrong with that story, I would re-report it with corrections and/or commentary. If I just post it out there without commentary then it can be assumed that I agree with it.

We can’t read the minds of the reporters and producers of CNN, and although they are making better efforts to just report the news rather than give us their typical left-wing blather, I think it’s fair to assume their lack of commentary can be interpreted as a sanction to the original piece.

Of course I could be wrong.

Andrew ..........



I already said CNN REPLAYED the story as filed, I never said it WAS CNN's Story



NO Commentary .......... PLAYED as FILED

so obvious they AGREE with the story as FILED



and CNN Filed this News Article to go with the Video (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/justice/texas-abuser-killed/index.html):





The Andrew IS CNN's STORY ...........

It's more likely that they didn't have their own video report for it, so they used an affiliate station's report.

The article is CNN's story, the video is not.

Is it really that hard for you to admit Daily Caller and Breitbart.com got it wrong?

One thing we’ve come accustomed to is “news agencies” (I use this very loosely) providing commentary to an obviously very biased and wrongly reported story. A report that shows a local news station mocking someone for rescuing a helpless child should be reported on in a very negative fashion. If you were to give me a story and I knew there was something wrong with that story, I would re-report it with corrections and/or commentary. If I just post it out there without commentary then it can be assumed that I agree with it.

We can’t read the minds of the reporters and producers of CNN, and although they are making better efforts to just report the news rather than give us their typical left-wing blather, I think it’s fair to assume their lack of commentary can be interpreted as a sanction to the original piece.

Of course I could be wrong.

Nobody knows that they didn't add commentary. Nobody on here knows if it aired on CNN Newsroom or not. All we have to that effect is the word of two websites that said that it was CNN's report.

And the CNN.com report doesn't include any of the "mocking" language the KHOU report doesn't.

You guys are grasping at straws to get outraged over something, and then getting outraged at the wrong people.

Is it really that hard for everyone to admit Daily Caller and Breitbart.com got it wrong?

They Got NOTHING Wrong ....

it is readily apparent CNN Played KHOU-TV's News Story ......... WORD for WORD .......

KHOU-TV Houston Story was patronizing and CNN Played it word for word ....

[if your friend tells a racist joke, and you repeat it, you are a racist ........ F'n Simple Analogy]

and CNN Wrote up a Story to Go Along with the Video Played ...... [not as belittling to the town and circumstances .....]


you got a big fat hard on for Daily Caller and Breitbart.com - if they reported the sun rose in the east and set in the west, you would go outside to watch - because In YOUR Mind, they are right wing mouth pieces and NEVER report anything accurate ..... just

If I just post it out there without commentary then it can be assumed that I agree with it.





:yeahthat:

Nobody on here knows if it aired on CNN Newsroom or not. All we have to that effect is the word of two websites that said that it was CNN's report.

And the CNN.com report doesn't include any of the "mocking" language the KHOU report doesn't.



WTF does the CNN NewsRoom have to do with it, there are 2 different stories replaying the same KTOU Video, ON CNN.com

It's more likely that they didn't have their own video report for it, so they used an affiliate station's report.

The article is CNN's story, the video is not.

Is it really that hard for you to admit Daily Caller and Breitbart.com got it wrong?

I am not up to speed on this yet, but Breitbart does not get it wrong. Stay tune for my comments.

They Got NOTHING Wrong ....

it is readily apparent CNN Played KHOU-TV's News Story ......... WORD for WORD .......

KHOU-TV Houston Story was patronizing and CNN Played it word for word ....

[if your friend tells a racist joke, and you repeat it, you are a racist ........ F'n Simple Analogy]

and CNN Wrote up a Story to Go Along with the Video Played ...... [not as belittling to the town and circumstances .....]


you got a big fat hard on for Daily Caller and Breitbart.com - if they reported the sun rose in the east and set in the west, you would go outside to watch - because In YOUR Mind, they are right wing mouth pieces and NEVER report anything accurate ..... just

They called it CNN's reporting, which it wasn't, it's KHOU-TV's reporting.

It's not me having a hard on, it's you being butthurt that Breitbart.com and Daily Caller got it wrong and got called out on it.

And I don't have a problem with the report either. Trying to find someone who disagreed with what the father did is part of their job.... it's not bias. I didn't find anything close to "mocking" in it, but everything's a vast left wing conspiracy, right?

I'm done here. You guys keep repeating to yourselves that it's CNN's report and maybe, if you tell yourselves that enough, it will become true. :yay:

I am not up to speed on this yet, but Breitbart does not get it wrong. Stay tune for my comments.

In this case, they did. :lol:

Nobody knows that they didn't add commentary. Nobody on here knows if it aired on CNN Newsroom or not. All we have to that effect is the word of two websites that said that it was CNN's report.

And the CNN.com report doesn't include any of the "mocking" language the KHOU report doesn't.

You guys are grasping at straws to get outraged over something, and then getting outraged at the wrong people.

Is it really that hard for everyone to admit Daily Caller and Breitbart.com got it wrong?

First of all, I’m not outraged over anything. It is what it is.

In this report, I can see how CNN through some little subtle jabs at this local community that you don’t realize until it gets pointed out. It comes off as if they are trying to conjure up the stereotype of some backwoods, hicktown, vigilante mentality; where they believe most people will come away with a negative image of this community rather than rather a clear outrage that this guy was molesting a child. So, in the report, you don’t hear FIRST out of their mouths about the molestation of a child; you hear about a beer-making, redneck, vigilante-mentality community.

I’m giving a point-of-view. After watching plenty of CNN over the years I am comfortable feeling they have a slightly-left-of-center bias. So everything I see from that network will be viewed from a certain level of skepticism. The same is the case with Fox. They have a right-of-center bias. So I watch them with that already in my mind.

All of them, in my opinion, have a tabloid mentality in their reporting. They want to report things in a way that gets peoples’ emotions elevated. They want to elicit anger and outrage. And they want to entertain. I’m okay with being entertained on some things. They’re not much interested in reporting just the news; the raw facts. When it comes to ‘NEWS’ I want the facts; the truth. Not some spin to get me to think one way or the other.

Really? Where did CNN say any implication that the father is unjustified in either report?

As for people talking like that from Shiner, you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't talk yokel there. It was a one stop light town till Shiner started being brewed there.

I don't see any advocation by CNN that this is unfair. You let someone's slant paint CNN where there wasn't any implied.

As far as the way its portrayed, that is the way it would be portrayed on a local station in Texas... We would all have agreed no judge or jury was necessary with what the father caught.

The fact that you all take people talking that way as trying to paint people as stupid, shows how little you think of people that talk that way. It doesn't say they aren't smart. :shrug:

Really? Where did CNN say any implication that the father is unjustified in either report?

As for people talking like that from Shiner, you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't talk yokel there. It was a one stop light town till Shiner started being brewed there.

I don't see any advocation by CNN that this is unfair. You let someone's slant paint CNN where there wasn't any implied.

As far as the way its portrayed, that is the way it would be portrayed on a local station in Texas... We would all have agreed no judge or jury was necessary with what the father caught.

The fact that you all take people talking that way as trying to paint people as stupid, shows how little you think of people that talk that way. It doesn't say they aren't smart. :shrug:

There isn't a person in the world who disagrees with what the father did. The KHOU-TV report hit that. Hell, if I had a daughter and seen what this dude saw, they wouldn't have to worry about a thing because I'd take care of the conviction, execution and burial process. :biggrin:

It's still a CNN affiliate's report.

This is the same flawed logic Media Matters uses when criticizing FOX, when some guest (who is not a FOX employee) says something stupid on FOX so they say FOX is stupid. Would it be fair for me to say FOX is stupid everytime Kirsten Powers makes an idiotic remark (which is everytime she's on the air or everytime she logs on her twitter account)?

It's flawed logic. Bite the bullet on this one, Brietbart.com and Daily Caller screwed up.

Big difference between guest and affiliate. Affiliate - That is like McDonald in Georgia is the same in Maryland. The fact the HQ is hosting it connects the dots. Brietbrat rules.

Big difference between guest and affiliate. Affiliate - That is like McDonald in Georgia is the same in Maryland. The fact the HQ is hosting it connects the dots. Brietbrat rules.

CNN has no more control over its affiliates than FOX has over its guests.

CNN has no more control over its affiliates than FOX has over its guests.

Yes they do... they can choose not to air them.

Yes they do... they can choose not to air them.

And FOX can choose not to book Kirsten Powers.