I try to avoid looking at local TV news but it is often unavoidable. I’m pooped and turn on the TV to relax. The regular programming is more offensive and even more idiotic than the news. So I leave the news on.
There is one consistent and persistent story that fascinates the local and national TV news and is subsequently picked up by the print media.
Oh you poor victim.
The story is simple.
Some idiot does something criminally wrong like stealing a car, a cell phone or mugging an old person; sometimes it goes so far as to include shooting a child or simply pointing a machine gun at a police officer. Sometimes it is a woman accussing white men of raping her under improbable circumstances.
The idiot is usually black or Latino and television fixates on the parent or uncle of the idiot criminal and talks about what a poor victim of police brutality he was. Now he's dead and we see pictures of him as a star athlete at some unknown school and we see pictures of him cuddled in the warmth of his large family and friends. We are always told what a good person he was and what a great future he had.
I don't know how far back this ‘poor victim’ story goes. It certainly extends back into the early 1980s.
This is the major story in the United States.
Oh you poor victim.
Every single day, without fail, for four years the half black president of the United States has blamed every problem he had on the previous president or Rush Limbaugh or Fox news.
In his current second term he still blames every single problem that he has on Rush Limbaugh, Fox news and the Republican Party. Oh, our president is a poor black victim.
This president’s victimhood carries weight with the media instead of the appropriate ridicule for a man of such pathetic incompetence and moral lassitude. It carries weight because that is the primary story of the media in our lives.
Oh you poor victim.