Oh, here comes the good old race card! As Twitchy reported, CNN broke the news that a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been identified. John King reported it was a “dark-skinned” male. Cue the outrage!<\/p>\n\n\n
CNN describes suspect as “dark skinned male.” Progs going nuts over description.<\/p>\n
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Yep. It wasn’t just the predictable Gwen Ifill. King was also on the receiving end of some freak-outs because he said he wouldn’t give further information so as to not “inflame tensions.”<\/p>\n\n\n John King sayswont give more information about suspect not to inflame tensions doubt he would say that if dealing with a conservative<\/p>\n — In G-d We Trust (@conservative013) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Huh. But, here come the lib freak-outs.<\/p>\n\n\n Heh, now @cnn<\/a> (specifically @johnkingcnn<\/a>) wants to pull back and not “inflame tensions” cc: @aceofspadeshq<\/a><\/p>\n — tsrblke (@tsrblke) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Hm…..”Dark skinned male” says a lot already, John King, who says he won’t release more info for fear of “raising tensions”<\/p>\n — Alex Kane (@alexbkane) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n You don’t want to cause offense and further inflame tensions but you don’t have a problem with mentioning he’s “dark skinned.” Re: John King<\/p>\n — Andrew (@metsfanapk) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Yeah, #thanks<\/a> so much John King for not “inflaming tensions” by saying only that a dark-skinned male is responsible & giving no add’l info.<\/p>\n — Erica L (@infinitehope23) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n As Twitchy reported, Salon’s David Sirota is hardest hit<\/a>. Remember, he hoped the bomber was a “white guy.<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n “dark-skinned male” – John King, CNN (@davidsirota<\/a> hardest hit)<\/p>\n — Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Hear that popping noise? Libs heads exploding over #CNN<\/a>‘s description of “dark skinned individual.” cc:@davidsirota<\/a><\/p>\n — ★♥ Harriet Baldwin(@HarrietBaldwin) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Sirota wasn’t alone.<\/p>\n\n\n guess what! he ain’t a dark skinned foreigner! (at least the pics i saw) #MentallyChallenged<\/a><\/p>\n — Zafar Khudayberdiev (@bianconerifan) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n People are cooked anything other than “white” could be worded as “Dark skinned” that doesn’t mean BLACK! Smdh<\/p>\n — Chericee.H (@ChericeeH) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n #Bostonbombing<\/a> suspect a “dark-skinned male”. #CNN<\/a>, why would you say that? You’ve unleashed the hounds of hell. #foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n — Bonnie Greer (@Bonn1eGreer) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n I feel like counting the number of times #CNN<\/a> uses “dark-skinned male.” I’m so over polarizing and insensitive language in the media.<\/p>\n — Kailey Latham (@KaileyLatham) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Great. Possible Boston bombing suspect identified only as “dark skinned”. Could you vague&racist that up a bit?<\/p>\n — Nicole (@TheNicoleWitte) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n #NeverForget<\/a> RT @lesismore82<\/a> Cuz we all know Boston doesn’t take too kindly to Dark skinned people<\/p>\n — Nicky Flash (@milesfan79) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Yeah, “dark-skinned individual” is not at all vague and devoid of anything but fuel for terrible posts to online comment sections<\/p>\n — Mike Radoslav (@MikeRadoslav) April 17, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Here is an idea, libs. Why not be happy that the case is moving forward and justice may be served? But, then, that doesn’t serve your grievance-mongering, does it?<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/04\/17\/sirota-not-alone-boston-bombing-suspect-idd-as-dark-skinned-male-gwen-ifill-libs-go-nuts\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/pbsgwen\/status\/324569697272086530 Oh, here comes the good old race card! As Twitchy reported, CNN broke the news that a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been identified. John King reported it was a “dark-skinned” male. Cue the outrage! CNN describes suspect as “dark skinned male.” Progs going nuts over description. — Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) April … Continue reading Boston bombing suspect ID’d as ‘dark-skinned male’; Gwen Ifill, libs go nuts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/14867848369330-race-card-v1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}