Trayvon, the Rightwing, and Obama’s 'Mockingbird' Moment - MUST READ
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167273/trayvon-rightwing-and-obamas-mockingbird-moment<snip>
From a rightwing perspective, President Obama’s one-minute introduction to the 50th anniversary screening of To Kill a Mockingbird at the White House (airing tonight on USA Network) is a major propaganda coup: He’s using the1962 film as an opportunity to pose as an Atticus Finch hero, though all that he and the liberal media really want is to divide the country along racial lines and blame whitey.
The elements for such a paranoid vision are all there: The country and the media are passionately torn over the Trayvon Martin case—Fox’s Bill O’Reilly has argued that the liberal media wouldn’t mind “inciting racial violence” against accused shooter George Zimmerman, while MSNBC host Al Sharpton has led protest rallies in Sanford, Florida, where Martin was shot dead. Further, NBC made a grievous error by editing a tape of Zimmerman's 911 call that made it sound as if he had volunteered that Martin was black, when in fact he was asked Martin’s race by the dispatcher. NBC has fired the producer in charge of that tape. (Sure, Fox News has misleadingly edited tapes and promoted lies—for Fox, it’s a minor error and almost no one ever gets fired--but when mainstream media does that, it’s evidence of a hidden bias against conservatives. Fox’s bias is anything but hidden.)
And conspiracy theorists take note, the big-deal White House screening of Mockingbird—endorsed by Harper Lee, author of the 1960 book on which the film is based--is “also tied to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Universal film studio. The studio and USA Network are both owned by NBC Universal,” as the Times writes.
That is, by the right’s lights, liberals and NBC are cynically using the venerable film is to further Obama’s reelection chances. They believe Obama is posing as the reincarnation of the beloved, beyond-reproach character of Atticus Finch, the small-town attorney who defends Tom Robinson, an innocent black man who is accused of raping a white woman. And by extension, many conservatives say, Obama is making Trayvon Martin out to be Tom Robinson, who was lynched. Some commenters on the Breitbart.com site Big Hollywood feel sure about what’s really going down. WALTER90 writes:
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They are batshit crazy 
but remember that this Kenyan-born Marxist socialist Muslim (who had his birth announced in the Hawaii newspapers) has magical powers so he arranged everything for effect in this election year. Remember he is Barack the magic negro! 
See that black power fist before he could creep.
Better we laugh than we cry because they really are sick.
"He’s using the1962 film as an opportunity to pose as an Atticus Finch hero, though all that he and the liberal media really want is to divide the country along racial lines and blame whitey."
Yeah right, it's not like the right has been spewing the most vile racist shit ever since the president was elected. It's all the liberal media 
I love how republicans act like racists then when you call them on it they accuse you of being a racist.
