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Drudge links to report on murder in Chicago with headline "Olympic Spirit: Video Shows Brutal Gang Murder In Chicago"

September 29, 2009 11:56 am ET by Media Matters staff

From the Drudge Report, accessed on September 29:

Olympic Spirit

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    • Author by mk3872 (September 29, 2009 12:01 pm ET)
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      Where are all of the MSM Drudge fans in calling out their hero for what he has now become: a Grade-A race baiter ??
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      • Author by Doug-Life (September 29, 2009 1:30 pm ET)
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        race baiting?
        That was a cheap shot, though.
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        • Author by mk3872 (September 29, 2009 2:06 pm ET)
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          No? You don't see this here as race-baiting either?

          Drudge continues to use race as a another tool in his fear-mongering tool belt. Right up there with pictures of troops marching in North Korea and Iran firing missiles ...
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    • Author by The_Cat (September 29, 2009 12:09 pm ET)
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      And the video is from MyFOXChicago. Part of the report reads as follows:

      But while that investigation goes on, students say they will remember Derrion Albert as a good kid. A quiet, smart kid with no gang affiliation. But just a kid who may not have had enough street smarts to go another way.

      Really? Why not laud him for getting in the middle of a melee to rescue a fellow student? This could as easily be an example of the kind of bravery the military awards medals for as an example of lack of street smarts, FOX. I deeply regret this loss of life, and my sympathies go out to his family.
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    • Author by shaggles (September 29, 2009 12:15 pm ET)
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      So the right is going to oppose bringing the Olympics back to the US just because the President supports it?
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (September 29, 2009 12:51 pm ET)
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        You guessed it.

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        Baracknaphobia
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      • Author by rumpleteasermom (September 29, 2009 12:51 pm ET)
           
        The right would protest a verified visit from God if Obama supported it.
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      • Author by magnolialover (September 29, 2009 1:09 pm ET)
           
        I think that there are many who have already opposed it.
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      • Author by raine315 (September 29, 2009 1:31 pm ET)
           
        2016 is an ELECTION YEAR! If the games are indeed held in Chi-Town every 2 faced, phoney smiling republican will be there looking for their photo op and taking CREDIT for bring the games to the USA
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      • Author by DellDolly (September 29, 2009 3:25 pm ET)
           
        It's unprecedented, I tell ya, unprecedented, for a President to personally lobby for the Olympics.

        Okay.....

        Tell me how many hometowns of a US President have been up for the Olympics. Tell me how many presidential advisors (Valerie Jarrett) just left a role as someone working to bring that event to the city? Tell me how many Presidential wives attended the meetings?
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