-By Warner Todd Huston
All during the George Zimmerman trial, HLN host Nancy Grace has indulged some pretty profane rhetoric–at least shocking for a supposedly serious news program. In one outrageous case, the “news” person complained that Zimmerman was “out on bond, driving through Taco Bell every night, having a churro.”
This wasn’t the case, of course, but let’s not let truth get in the way of Nancy Grace’s good racist, anti-Hispanic rant, shall we? (Maybe we call her “Graceless” from here on out?)
I am amused how Britain’s Daily Mail reported the incident, though. Note how the Mail characterized Grace’s show:
“But during a little-watched and little-noted broadcast on Friday, Grace used her own racial stereotype to refer to Zimmerman during her reaction to the closing statement from Zimmerman attorney Mark O’Mara.”
“Little-watched and little-noted broadcast”! OUCH!
The “little-watched” Nancy Grace was responding to what was spoken at the trial that the Florida jury should find Zimmerman “not guilty” and should let the man “get back to his life.”
“Give George Zimmerman back his life?” Grace retorted.
“Give Zimmerman back his life? He’s [been] out on bond, driving through Taco Bell every night, having a churro,” she said.
“You know, long story short: He’s got his life. Who is going to give life back to Trayvon Martin? I find that, at the very least, a very poor choice of words.”
Not too racist and stereotypical, eh? And since when is Taco Bell to be considered real Mexican food, anyway?
My guess is, I have more readers than Nancy Grace has viewers!
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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