Real Teen seems to have a real talent for making shit up out of thin air:
New riots have erupted in France, with the Muslim minority spear-heading the charge. While these riots haven’t reached the level of damage or violence seen before, FOX News just showed pictures of several cars burning. Is this the beginning of a new string of riots that will only escalate racial violence and Islamic radicalism in France?He cites a Reuters news article about the riots as his source. Guess what? Read the article, and you will find not one mention of Muslims. None. Go and check today’s Fox News article about the riots, and you’ll find it also does not mention Muslims at all.
Where’s the evidence that “the Muslim minority” is “spear-heading the charge”? Where’s the evidence that the riots will “escalate racial violence and Islamic radicalism in France”? If Real Teen has any, he is certainly keeping it well hidden. Frankly, I think this is just another example of the radical right’s tactic of demonizing all Muslims. But maybe Real Teen will surprise us and produce some real facts to support his claims about the riots.
Maybe. But I’m not holding my breath.
UPDATE 3/18/06 18:15: It seem that like many of his kind, Real Teen prefers to pretend he cannot be criticized. He’s deleted the trackback from this post to his. I’m waiting for him to invent an excuse, like my use of the word "shit". Heh.
UPDATE 3/18/06 22:24: Real Teen claimed in chat that he had not deleted the trackback — yet he almost immediately deleted a second one. Then he deleted the chat. He’s not much interested in owning up to his own actions, is he?
UPDATE 3/19/06 06:50: A new post at The Wide Awakes is headed More riots in France, but this time it isn’t the Muslim community rioting. I wonder if Real Teen will reconsider his claims in light of this.
UPDATE 3/20/06 08:20: And now RT backpedals, claiming that he “somewhat misreported this story”, and that “the Muslim minority only seems to be spear-heading the violence”. He provides no factual support for this new claim.
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March 19th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
RealTeen
You do realize that that post is in the news and views section, which is for other people’s news and views, right?
March 20th, 2006 at 8:11 am
meatbrain
Actually, RT, what I realize is that ‘The Smoke Eater’, who authored the recent News and Views post, mostly gives his/her own views in that post, with links to the stories s/he is referring to. There is absolutely nothing in the post to support your claim about it. Nor have you in any way supported your original claims about the recent French worker riots.
Making claims for which you provide no evidence seems to be a really bad habit with you. I suggest you work hard to break it.