It’s Wednesday, July 17th, 2013…and here’s The Gouge!

First up, take a good, long look at Liberals and what they’re defending:

Lies, ignorance, hypocrisy and the rankest form of exploitation.  But that you knew; the WSJ‘s Jason Riley offers more on the who, what, where, when and why:

The latest from Commentary Magazine‘s Jonathan Tobin reinforces Riley’s narrative:

Juror B37 Gets a Lesson in Race Incitement

After two days of silence on the part of the jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial, one member of the panel that voted to acquit him emerged last night in a fascinating interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. But if she was thinking that her account of the deliberations wouldn’t be greeted with derision and abuse, she was soon sadly better informed. After a day of non-stop incitement about the verdict, B37’s words were seized upon by the army of racial hucksters shuttling in and out of the studios at CNN and MSNBC as further proof of what they claimed was the unjustness of the outcome as well as the flaws in the trial.

By the time the interview was aired, not only had her plans to write a book about the experience been shelved, but the juror was given a sharp reminder that anyone who dissents from liberal orthodoxy on both the case and the idea that race explains everything that happens is subjected to ridicule and shunning. Rather than listening to her story about the reasoning of the jury, all her critics heard was someone who accepted the defendant’s account of the incident and the claim of self-defense. Like Zimmerman, B37 and the other five jurors—who will probably prefer to keep silent as well as anonymous after this example—are all now marked for life as characters in a morality play in which Trayvon Martin is a martyr to racism and all those who played a part in Zimmerman’s acquittal are the architects of a new era of Jim Crow. Like the willingness to demonize Zimmerman, the smearing of B37 tells us a lot about the desire of the left to trap America in its racial past rather than help the country move on.

The CNN interview told us a number of things about the verdict. The most important nugget of information was the fact that the jury was initially split when they began deliberating and then only achieved unanimity within a day after reviewing the evidence and the law, both of which told them they had no choice but to acquit Zimmerman.

But if you turned on CNN or MSNBC since the interview aired all you heard was that B37’s attitudes about Zimmerman (she was considered too sympathetic to him), prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel (she was too dismissive of her credibility) and her belief that the defendant hadn’t racially profiled Trayvon Martin proved she was hopelessly prejudiced and that the jury had effectively decided the case on race rather than on facts or the law. But the reaction to the juror illustrated just the opposite.

The chorus of liberal pundits and race hucksters like Al Sharpton and others heard on the networks weren’t interested in the law or the facts of the case. They are so eager to make Trayvon Martin a martyr to racial intolerance that they won’t consider—as the jury was forced to do by its obligation to decide the case on the merits—that he may have initiated the fight or that, as the facts indicate, he beat up Zimmerman prior to being shot. Rather than understand that Martin seemed to resemble all those who had committed crimes in the area that Zimmerman was eager to prevent, they choose to treat him as the moral equivalent of Rosa Parks. The comparisons to genuine victims of racial intolerance like Emmett Till are not only inexact; they are redolent of desire to keep race consciousness alive even after much of the country that has already elected and reelected an African American to the presidency has demonstrated that it has changed.

The race hucksters need to demonize Zimmerman and B37 because without marking them down as inhuman racists, the country will see the case for what it is rather than the tale of revived Jim Crow that the left is so desirous of promoting. Zimmerman is no hero. He behaved foolishly and found himself in a fight that led to tragedy. But the defendant, who is as much a member of a minority group as the president, isn’t the villain in a morality play about racism. He’s the excuse that liberals wanting to wave the bloody shirt of race needed to prop up their false theories about America.

The mere fact that Trayvon Martin was black does not make the muddled scuffle that led to his death another milestone in the history of racial intolerance. Justice required the jury to weigh the evidence in the case, not to make a political statement that might mollify those who have used it as a false symbol of hate. The vilification of Juror B37 and the demonstrations about the case that turned violent last night are a reminder to all who find themselves involved in such cases that the left takes no prisoners in their campaign to impose their views on the country. Public figures dissent from the narrative of Martin as martyr at their peril.

And for those you working hard to support the 49%, thus unable to stay abreast of the latest developments in the wake of the only honest verdict George Zimmerman could have received given the facts in evidence, here’s several headlines which move be of interest.

First, courtesy of Jeff Foutch and CNSNews.com, four deaths the race hustlers and the MSM just don’t seem to care as much about:

Records show four children gunned down in Chicago during Zimmerman trial

Next, a forward from G. Trevor and The American Spectator detailing another aspect of the Martin-Zimmerman encounter you likely never caught from the MSM:

How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin’s Death

Then there’s this from Bill Meisen and the Baltimore Sun:

Witness claims youths yelled ‘this is for Trayvon’ in beating

Note the 911 call referenced young Blacks chasing an “Hispanic” male; Baltimorons evidently didn’t get the word Zimmerman was a “White Hispanic”.

Lastly, there’s the icing on the cake, as it’s been announced…

Stevie Wonder Boycotting Florida Following Zimmerman Verdict

The singer refuses to perform in the state until its Stand Your Ground law is “abolished.”

So much for Ebony and Ivory!

Wow; Stevie really knows how to hit Floridians where it hurts!  His boycott might have been more effective had anyone cared…or he’d perhaps been Lawrence Welk.  Besides, does Stevie ever really know where’s he’s performing to begin with?!?

On the Lighter Side…

Then there’s this assessment of the futility of the Left’s ongoing effort to overturn the 2nd Amendment:

And in the “What’s In A Name?” segment, we learn of…

Vintage Girls Names You Don’t Hear Anymore

Perhaps because they’ve been replaced by…

…more…”contemporary”…alternatives!

Next up, another sordid story ripped from the pages of the Crime Blotter:

Pittsburgh police: Boy, 6, went for officer’s gun

Pittsburgh police say a 6-year-old boy went for an officer’s gun and then bit the officer before being sent for psychiatric treatment. The Associated Press is not identifying the boy because he is too young to be charged with a crime in Pennsylvania.

Police on Monday revealed the incident happened Friday evening when Officer Paul Abel encountered the boy and several other children accused of stealing bicycles. Police say the officer held the boy away from his body to control him, but the boy tried to kick out the windows of a squad car and was briefly handcuffed for his own safety.

Cmdr. RaShall Brackney says the officer is upset because he “had to use force on a 6-year-old” whose face was bruised during the incident. The boy tells WPXI-TV: “I tried to take the cop’s gun.”

Rumors the larcenous little angel was screaming, “‘Dis fo’ YOU, Trayvon!” as he went for the cop’s weapon remain unconfirmed.

Finally, we’ll call it a day with the “California Dreamin'” segment,…

Florida Man Awakens in California Hotel With Amnesia, Speaking Only Swedish

…and an exclusive Daily Gouge interview with the subject of the story:

Magoo