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Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Henry Eliot, Sam Holmes

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Ferguson - The Lies They Leave Behind

The former paper known as the independent got around this problem by claiming in an on line headline that written house had shot t black men with his rifle. Other media were happy to mislead their consumers in similar ways. And in its way, it is perfect for in such cases, anybody can be whatever you want them to be. Convicted pedfiles armed with guns stalking around canosha threatening to shoot people, can be urned into peaceful protesters. White men can be made black fires that burn on camera for all to see. Can be erased from the collective memory. A thug can be turned into a martyr, and a naive young man can be turn into a storm trooper of white supremacy.

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