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To celebrate the Fourth of July, Alexander Bonds coolly walked up to NYPD Officer Miosotis Familias police vehicle and shot her dead.

An African-American, Bonds made his distaste for the police clear in many of his social media postings. The NYPD did not hesitate to call Familias death an assassination.

Like the man who shot Rep. Steve Scalise a few weeks ago, Bonds, a Hillary Clinton supporter, occupies a spot on the extreme end of the suggestibility curve.

What the media repeatedly suggested during the Obama years, occasionally at the presidents prompting, was that blacks were uniquely vulnerable to gratuitous abuse at the hands of white authorities. No media outlet reinforced this notion as insistently as CNN.

Although there are countless examples of the way CNN twisted the news to drive this theme home, one stands out for its sheer fakery. It unfolded a month or so after George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida.

For the record, the Black Lives Matter movement began as a hashtag after Zimmermans acquittal. Those who followed CNN and the other major media had every reason to be shocked at the verdict. The media deceived them over and over again in the months following the February 2012 shooting.

Prodding CNN into action was the profane, upstart Current TV show, The Young Turks. On the night of March 19, 2012, host Cenk Uygur played the unedited Zimmerman call to the police dispatcher.

No network had played the unedited tape, in part because Zimmerman used the word fing at one point and aholes at another. On an unenhanced tape, the word fing is difficult to hear. The word that follows it is impossible to hear.

Yet like those zealots who see images of the Blessed Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich, some in the Young Turks viewing audience found racism in empty static and convinced themselves that Zimmerman said, fing coons.

The next evening Uygur thanked his audience for their perceptiveness. No one picked up what you guys picked up, he congratulated them. He then played the unedited tape again, the key words of which were utterly incomprehensible and declared, Thats unbelievable.

Uygur continued, Its possible he said goons. Its possible he said something else. That much conceded, Uygur concluded, but it certainly sounds like coons.' He then explained how relevant was Zimmermans use of that word given that it elevated the shooting to a hate crime.

The next day, March 21, on Anderson Coopers AC360, CNN reporter Gary Tuchman worked with audio design specialist Rick Sierra to isolate and enhance the audio from Zimmermans call to the dispatcher.

Even cleaned up, the audio was unintelligible, save, of course, to the true believers. Tuchman was one of them. It certainly sounds like that word to me, said Tuchman, that word, of course, being coons.

Media critic Tommy Christopher agreed. Said he, voicing the media consensus, The result is, at the very least, more convincing than the raw audio.

At the time, no one at CNN was asking the most fundamental questions about Zimmermans use of this word. Why, for instance, in 2012, would a young Hispanic civil rights activist and Obama supporter think to use an archaic throwback word like coons?

More basically, why would Zimmerman begin a sentence with the pronoun it if he were to complete his thought with a plural noun, as in, Its fing coons.

Not everyone was on board for this nonsense. Liberal media pundit Jon Stewart said on his show what many ordinary citizens were thinking, That doesnt sound like a word at all!

In the blogosphere, almost everyone agreed with Stewart. One suspects that there were those within CNNs legal department who did as well.

Tuchman was sent back to the studio. This time, allegedly using an even higher-tech method with the help of audio specialist Brian Stone, Tuchman admitted to CNNs Wolf Blitzer on April 4, It does sound less like that racial slur.

In fact, the word in question sounded a whole lot like cold. Again, though, Tuchman failed to mention the role that its should have played in interpreting what was said. Its fing cold makes sense, especially on a cool, damp Florida evening.

Its fing coons never made any sense either as a linguistic construct or as a reflection of Zimmermans character. Still, the damage had been done.

Despite what should have been a complete exoneration of Zimmerman, Blitzer concluded his broadcast saying, But its readily apparent there will still be controversy over what he said.

The stable members of the CNN audience moved on. The suggestible members of that audience never let go.

Jack Cashills book explains how the truth was exposed about the Trayvon case: If I Had a Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman

Media wishing to interview Jack Cashill, please contact media@wnd.com.

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