A Mistake?

Watch this video:

My question is; Did the "news" station try to mislead its viewers? 

Of course they did.  Once again the news tries to portray young black men (women and children) in the worst light possible.  The story of the shooting was bad enough, another life lost for no reason, but to try the protray the child as a future thug is shameful.  Why would they even do this?

WBBM's communications director Shawnelle Richie has stated the following on the situation:

We accept responsibility for the mistakes that were made, both in the reporting and editing of the story. The video of the child should not have aired. As soon as news management identified the problem, they took immediate steps to ensure that the video would not air in subsequent newscasts. In addition, we have followed up with our employees to make sure that we all have learned from the mistakes that were made.

We will see if they will indeed learn for their mistakes.

Tar Baby?

So it appears that another U.S. Representative using another borderline term to define the president. Or at least define what working with him is like. Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado apparently said the following (emphasis mine):

Even if some people say, ‘Well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that,’ they will hold the President responsible. Now, I don’t even want to have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar baby and you get it, you’re stuck, and you’re a part of the problem now and you can’t get away. I don’t want that to happen to us, but if it does or not, he’ll still get, properly so, the blame because his policies for four years will have failed the American people.

I think he was trying to describe the situation as he felt it. But you never know. My history teaches me he knew exactly what he was saying. The term tar baby has been a derogatory term about blacks for decades now. You would think he would know better. Maybe he did and said it anyway. I am sure somehow that this will get him the publicity that politicians grave. And he is in a long line of this type of thing.

Still I am reminded of this particular skit from Saturday Night Live. When it was funny.