Media Excels in Implied Slander

Every movie you see, Texas characters are the same way:

Not intelligent, slow talkin', bigoted, hateful, etc.

Never mind the ethnic separation issue for this moment; what matter is that Texans are stupid, as far as Hollywood is concerned, and backward, primitive, not enlightened like these new geniuses of our culture.

So then you see this:



And you think, it's those dumb Texas white farmers again.

Here's the real news:

A Muslim charity and five of its former leaders were convicted Monday of funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the retrial of the largest terrorism financing case since the attacks of Sept. 11.

U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis announced the guilty verdicts on all 108 counts on the eighth day of deliberations in the retrial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, once the nation's largest Muslim charity.

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A chaotic courtroom scene ended last year's original trial, which lasted nearly two months and kept jurors deliberating 19 days.

The Chronicle

They don't tell you here, but the jury was mostly non-white, and the judge was Hispanic.

Who's ignorant now?