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Just last week, newly christened Fox News media-analyst Howard Kurtz broke down the evolution of the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case with colleague Bret Baier. The topic was the same one that everyone had been chewing on, namely the great deal of coverage accorded to the trial.

Heres part of the discussion:

BAIER: Do you think this trial would have gotten as much coverage from the beginning had a lot of the activists not really got into the game in the beginning?

KURTZ: Bret, I dont think even it ever would have become a national story. It never would have been on the radar. It was the issue of race and the activists descending on Sanford, Florida that catapulted this. And really, you know, there seems to be this hunger in cable news land for the what I call a soap opera spectacle. Before this, there was the Jody Arias trial. Before that, it was the Amanda Knox trial.

Variations on this strain of thought have circulated in the media in advanced of the widely expected not-guilty verdict announced on Saturday night. On Fox & Friends this week, Geraldo Rivera, for instance, held the Rev. Al Sharpton of MSNBC responsible for serving as a catalyst for the prosecution of George Zimmerman. On the Fox News show The Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld declared, the media right now is on trial for those first three to four months after this crime occurred, of all of the race-based content they ran with, without facts, but emotion, because it created ratings.

Get used to this line of reasoning, for its likely to spill into the public via self-satisfied, I-told-you-so professions in newspapers and TV monologues in the coming weeks. Hell, it may not subside till Labor Day.

Dont believe a word of it, however.

Indeed the media committed atrocities in covering the encounter between Zimmerman and Martin. Most notably, NBC News mal-edited a police audiotape that portrayed Zimmerman as an out-and-out racial profiler.

Yet to posit that the media and activists orchestrated a national issue gives too little credit to the nation. Simply put, people across the country were horrified that a 17-year-old kid walking through a neighborhood with candy and a soft drink could have ended up shot to death. They didnt need the media to tell them to get out and demand Zimmermans arrest, or simply to express solidarity with the victim.

Toggle back to that tumultuous period after the killing and before Zimmermans arrest. On March 31, 2012, the News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) carried a story documenting how around 300 students at William Penn High School wore hoodies in a silent demonstration. More:

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Conservative firebrandAnn Coultergrosslymisrepresented Pew data,falsely suggestingthat 25 percent of Mexico's population hasbeen "taken in" bythe United States, creating a false narrative that is spreading through right-wing media.

During a May 26 interview with Fusion's Jorge Ramos, Coulterallegedthat the United States has "taken in one quarter of the entire Mexican population."

Coulter doubled-down on her claim while appearing on theMay 28 edition ofThe Sean Hannity Show,citingthe Pew Research Center toassert"yeah we already have a quarter, a quarter of the entire Mexican population."

Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh parroted Coulter's assertion the same day,claiming"25 percent of the total population of Mexico has already immigrated, not all legal obviously, to the United States." Rush went on to say "you can trace the demise of California to this."

The Pew data Coulterreferenced actually includesboth "native born" and "foreign born" Hispanics of Mexican origin. Pew's summary of thedataexplained that"this estimate includes 11.4 million immigrants born in Mexico and 22.3 million born in the U.S. who self-identified as Hispanics of Mexican origin."

That means 65 percent of the people Coulter claimed thatthe United States has "taken in," were born in this country.

Using Coulter's flawed logic, if we were to analyze the number of people ofIrish descent in the United States, the country has taken in 737 percent of the population of Ireland.

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Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul brought his presidential campaign to Chicago on Wednesday, appealing to African-Americans on the South Side, entrepreneurs downtown and Republicans in the suburbs.

On a stage set up on a blacktop parking lot in front of an American flag mural at 66th Street and South King Drive, Paul continued a unique approach for GOP White House contenders making an appeal to African-Americans who tend to favor Democrats.

Paul opened his speech by referring to the "black lives matter" refrain used by protesters after the controversial deaths of African-American men at the hands of police. Paul said the phrase reminds him of the deaths of Eric Garner, who was choked to death by officers in New York, and Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured in police custody in Baltimore. But Paul said the phrase also has meaning in Chicago.

"When I hear people say, 'Black lives matter,' I think of Jacele Johnson, who is 4 years old and got shot this weekend just a few blocks from here," Paul said of the Englewood girl who doctors say is swiftly recovering after being shot on the left side of her head Friday night outside a family gathering. "You may be saying to yourself, 'Why is this white guy saying black lives matter, what does he know about crime in my neighborhood?' Well, I've got crime in my neighborhood too. We've got some kind of thing going on in our country, and we need to come to grips with it."

Paul then talked about a horrific 2011 case in his home state. "In my little town in Kentucky, a white woman cut a baby out of another white woman.

"There is crime going on all across America. It is not a racial thing, it is a spiritual problem," Paul said. "I think government can play a role in public safety, but I don't think government can mend a broken spirit. Government can't provide you salvation, government can't save you. Ultimately, salvation is something you accept yourselves."

A white, libertarian Republican senator from the South urging African-American voters in an impoverished, heavily Democratic neighborhood on the city's South Side to look within themselves to "find your inner grace" isn't a typical scene in a GOP presidential bid. Paul, though, isn't running a conventional campaign.

His stop in Chicago came a day after the release of his book "Taking a Stand," in which he makes the case for a new, more inclusive Republican Party, proclaiming the "Republican brand sucks."

On Wednesday, Paul sought to bring that theme to the stump.

He advocated for reclassifying nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors as part of his call to end "mass incarceration" in America.

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Ann Coulter said in an interview set to air Tuesday night that immigrants to the United States are to be feared more than the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS.

Appearing on the TV network Fusion, Coulter told host Jorge Ramos, If you dont want to be killed by ISIS, dont go to Syria. If you dont want to be killed by a Mexican, theres nothing I can tell you.

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When asked whether she thinks Latino immigrants are biologically predisposed to crime, the conservative writer and activist said, I think there are cultures that are obviously deficient. And if they werent deficient, you wouldnt be sitting in America interviewing me Id be sitting in Mexico.

You fled that culture because there are a lot of problems with that culture, Coulter told Ramos. We can share our culture with other nations without bringing all of their people here. When you bring the people here, you bring those cultures here. That includes honor killings, it includes uncles raping their nieces, it includes dumping litter all over, it includes not paying your taxes, it includes paying bribes to government officials. That isnt our culture.

America is the best in the world, and were about to lose it, said Coulter. She appeared on the show to promote her new book Adios, America! The Lefts Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.

No country has ever had the sort of respect for women that Anglo-America has had, and that is going out the door, Coulter added.

Ramos did not respond directly to Coulters comments in the video clips available online.

Later in the broadcast, during a question-and-answer session, an undocumented immigrant who has lived in the United States asked Coulter for a hug, as a sign of my humanity and yours.

At first Coulter turned her down because she said she was getting over the flu, but then when the questioner said she didnt mind, the conservative writer again turned her down and asked her to get on with the question.

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On The Kelly File Wednesday night, host Megyn Kelly and Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz defended Ann Coulters decision not to hug an undocumented immigrant as a sign of their the shared humanity, calling immigration activist Gaby Pachecos offer a trap.

Coulter was smart not to fall into this activists trap, Kurtz said. The woman was obviously trying to create an embarrassing moment for Ann and have an image that would go viral.

Kelly agreed that it did seem like a trap, and when youre on television, everything feels magnified and you have to be aware when someones trying to bait you into something you dont want to be involved in. And Kelly would know, as she spent the previous evening attempting to exactly that to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.

This was a clear case of baiting, Kurtz replied, adding that her defiant anti-hug stance was the right one. He also noted that all this attention from this manufactured moment only helps her sell more copies of Adios, America, the book whose publicity tour took her to Fusions America with Jorge Ramos in the first place.

Given Coulters genius for publicity, Kurtz said, she should probably send Pacheco flowers for creating this viral moment, because Coulter didnt have to do anything but politely decline.

Kelly later referenced Coulters controversial remarks about ISIS and Mexico If you dont want to be killed by ISIS, dont go to Syria. If you dont want to be killed by a Mexican, I dont know what to tell you and Kurtz admitted that he could see why someone would be offended by that statement if youre a Mexican.

Watch the entire exchange via Mediaite below.

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