Originally published at: How a Grainy Video of Renee Good’s Anguished Wife Convinced Right-Wing Media to Blame the Widow - TPM – Talking Points Memo
In the days before the Trump Justice Department asked Minnesota federal prosecutors to investigate Renee Good’s wife over her death, right-wing media pushed to blame the widow for the killing. Right-wing news outlets and conservative influencers have focused on Rebecca Good, who was in the passenger seat as their car careened out of control after…
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Soulless, empathy-free trolls
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Why waste time on what convinced right-wing media of anything? Don’t allow those trolls to set the agenda. Who do you think they are? See B S News?
Here is what I saw Liz Warren say last night.
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Good did not commit a felony. Ross did.
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Rebecca Good was not in the vehicle when it took off and crashed. She was standing in the street being appropriately mouthy with the soon-to-be shooter.
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They’re killing us in the streets, and the Republicans couldn’t be happier.
We are in a Civil War. Shots have been fired. They understand what they are doing, what is going on.
It’s time we understood.
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The fascists don’t need a video to “convince” them; they already know who’s at fault before anything even happens.
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Once I saw the article was about proscibiac and Andy ngo and the ny post and Fox News pushing some bullshit heinous slop… well, nuff I need to know to not keep reading..
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The scapegoats must be savaged publicly and ruthlessly.
Mr. Abrego Garcia, meet Ms. Rebecca Good.
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It isn’t your reading I worry about. It is our liberal media falling for the clickbait every time Josh should keep his eyes on the prize.
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Right wing Republican Americans: the worst motherfucking murderers in the world. But “Christian”and white, of course. USA! USA!
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Josh, it might be worth mentioning that an equally plausible reason Renee and Rebecca Good were in the neighbourhood was to observe and record, to support their neighbours, or to peacefully protest, as many Minnesotans are doing. Rebecca could be referring to whose idea that was. The right has leapt to the conclusion, as usual without evidence, that they were there to commit a crime.
Pulling back a little further, everywhere a pack of maurauding ICE agents shows up in public places they are surrounded by people who are some unknown combination of ordinary people going about their daily lives, citizens, immigrants with legal status, undocumented immigrants, people of colour, adults, children, convicted criminals, wanted criminals and people with no criminal record, people with ID to prove who they are and people without. ICE and CBP have taken, or been given, licence to assume (Kavanaugh stops) any one of those can be a target or a danger to them. Often, ICE and CBP will be wrong. If ICE or CBP wreak violence on any of those people without reasonable cause, they would (should?) be guilty of a crime.
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You’re the getaway driver in a robbery that you don’t even know involves guns, but you’re held liable for murder when one of the hold-up guys kills someone. We’ve all seen this on TV and in movies. Many people (criminal defense attorneys among them) think this kind of law should be changed, but at least it involves close proximity to a (potentially) violent crime, certainly to a serious one.
That’s on a par with “Let’s go honk our horns at ICE-type agents,” and “Let’s park in the middle of the road” (not blocking them, just slowing them down and being a nuisance)? Hardly.
So Rebecca felt at fault in her grief in the moment. For those feelings she deserves our sympathy. Being part of a causal chain is not the same as responsibility for someone’s murder at the end of it. If only I had or hadn’t’s – the world is replete with them. If one of my children, my husband, or a friend died in the course of a causal thread I’d been a part of, I’d be full if “if only’s.”
These people are so unbelievably cruel. Rebecca Good needs out sympathy and reassurance that, no, it was not her fault.
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I assume you are in the 157th Keyboard Commandos Real Live Blow-Em-Up Separatist Brigade?
No? STFU.
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And when that’s proven in court, to follow the ‘logic’ of these rightwingers, who was it who told Ross to go there? Does the “felony murder rule” still apply when the perp is a federal official? Or do we now live in a country where corporal punishment against an uncharged, unconvicted citizen ‘suspected’ of obstructing a law enforcement officer is now seen to be in the realm of official duties?
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O/T thank you stupid for bring this back into the news
Ford factory heckler suspended but has ‘no regrets’ after Trump yells ‘f*** you’ and gives him middle finger | Daily Mail Online
A worker at the Ford factory in [Michigan](Michigan, USA | Daily Mail Online) was suspended but said he had ‘no regrets’ after he accused Donald Trump of being a ‘pedophile protector’ during a visit on Tuesday.
TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old line worker, was given the penalty after Trump cursed him out and gave him the middle finger while touring the factory, according to The Washington Post.
‘As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,’ Sabula told the outlet.
‘I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.’
A video shows the president walking across a gangway as he points to a heckler below, mouthing, ‘F*** you.’
Trump then gives Sabula the middle finger as he walks away. Earlier, the heckler could be heard calling the president a ‘pedophile protector’, an apparent reference to the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
‘A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the president gave an appropriate and unambiguous response,’ White House spokesman Steven Cheung told the Daily Mail.
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Going well! Of course nobody saw but his few viewers
MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor Pleads With Viewers After Ratings Collapse
Tony Dokoupil sent a direct message to viewers after they deserted CBS’s primetime show during his first week as anchor.
CBS Evening News’ MAGA-coded freshman anchor Tony Dokoupil made a pointed appeal to viewers after his first week on the job ended in a ratings bloodbath.
Dokoupil, 45, saw his ratings plunge over his first four nights in the anchor seat following his disastrous debut on Jan. 5, with viewership declining 11.4 percent overall.
At the end of his Tuesday program, which featured a 13-minute interview with President Donald Trump at a Ford factory that was drowned out by machinery, the anchor made a forced appeal to viewers.
“You may not agree with everything you hear on this broadcast, but we trust you to listen, and we trust you to decide for yourself,” Dokoupil said.
He took a deep breath before signing off with his closing line, “And that’s another day in America.”
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The Flying Dead. This isn’t even the first incident of dead making it through security and trying to board an Easyjet. Didn’t manage to board this time, however.
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