Why Doesn't the Media Share a Current Photo Of Trayvon Martin?

If you look at the articles on the Trayvon Martin case, they all seem to show the photo of a kid who looks 12 years old. Martin was actually 17 and played on his high school football team. (Of course, if he was a wide receiver he probably wasn't as hulking as if he were a defensive back).

RUSH: In Sanford, Florida, the leader of the New Black Panther Party called for a $10,000 bounty for the man who allegedly shot and killed Trayvon Martin. A $10,000 bounty. When I first heard of this story, the first thing I thought of was the Duke lacrosse case. Everything here lined up perfectly just as the Duke lacrosse case did for a stereotypical situation or cliche to be fulfilled. And before anyone knew the facts, look indeed what happened: That stereotypical was filled in, all the blanks were filled in, and everybody got into gear just as they did during the Duke lacrosse case. Now others are coming forward. The New York Times referred to the alleged shooter here, the shooter George Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic."

That's what I mean by reminding me of the Duke lacrosse case.

We looked it up, and it was the fifth time in the history of the New York Times they'd referred to an Hispanic as "white." A white Hispanic. You have to fill in the blank circumstance here, gotta fill in the blanks the right way just as the Duke lacrosse case was. So the bounty, New Black Panther Party offered is $10,000 for George Zimmerman. Why did they decide on $10,000? Why not 20? Why not five? How did they decide on $10,000? How would the death of Trayvon Martin be viewed if the accused party was a female or gay or white or Hispanic Jew? So the situation continues to unfold. By the way, the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the New Black Panther Party as "a virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews, and law enforcement officers."

So that's who the New Black Panther Party is, according to a left-wing group. Mark Potok, P-o-t-o-k, is the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center. (interruption) How can you do a bounty with no warrant for his arrest? How can the New Black Panthers offer a bounty? Well, if nobody stops them. (interruption) You think the New Black Panther Party should be in trouble for putting a bounty out? Well, you know, the New Orleans Saints head coach has just been suspended a year for having bounties in the National Football League, and the defensive coordinator of the Saints at the time, Greg Williams, been suspended indefinitely. And the general manager of the saints Mickey Loomis been spent for eight games. All this starts on April 1st. (interruption)

Yeah. I'm just reporting what's going on out there: The New Black Panther Party with a $10,000 bounty on a man who hasn't been charged. I think that's why there's the bounty. They're upset, Dawn, that the legal system is not being fair with them here. Still, it is a... I have to admit, I was shocked when I saw that. I was shocked that... See, I was shocked that there hasn't been anybody stand up and say, "Whoa, can we cool this down a little bit?" Everybody's speaking on this... Well, not everybody, but the people making hay out of this are inflaming it and making it bigger -- I mean, from the White House on down -- rather than try to cool this thing off and slow it down and wait 'til we found out exactly what happened here.

But a $10,000 bounty. And the New Black Panther Party, don't forget, is the group that intimidated voters in 2008 in Philadelphia and a number of other places, and lawsuits were filed against them for voter intimidation and the Obama Justice Department (the attorney general, Eric Holder) just threw the investigation out. He just brought it to screeching halt. And the assistant attorney general, J. Christian Adams -- who was prosecuting the case against the New Black Panthers -- quit. He resigned and wrote a book, and we interviewed him. His book was about what was going on in the Obama Justice Department, miscarriages of justice, justice not being blind or colorblind or anything of the sort.

By the way, is not just the New York Times referring to George Zimmerman as a white racist. I think the whole media is doing this now. All of the mainstream media are now calling him a "white Hispanic." As I say, I had never heard that before. And we checked, and we could only find five previous such references to Hispanic as being white in the New York Times. So the New Black Panther Party with their bounty are calling for this guy to be kidnapped, or rounded up and brought to them for justice.

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RUSH: So I'm getting e-mails. People want to know what the bounty is for. Here's what I've got:

"The leader of the New Black Panther Party called for a $10,000 bounty for the man who shot and killed black Florida teen Trayvon Martin, a case that continues spark explosive emotions and strain the country’s racial tensions. 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,' New Black Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad said Saturday when he announced the reward at a protest in Sanford, the Orlando suburb where the killing took place. Members of the New Black Panther party called for the mobilization of 10,000 black men to capture George Zimmerman, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Zimmerman has gone into hiding due to death threats and the offer of the $10,000 reward, his legal advisor Craig Sonner said, according to Reuters.

"'He should be fearful for his life,' Muhammad said."

The New Black Panther leader who issued the bounty said, "He should be fearful for his life." Now, this is a bounty. Uh, where is the president on this? Where is the attorney general on this? I would think that somebody in authority would try to do something to calm this down, to quell this, until we find out what really happened. There are too many competing stories. Nobody really is sure of what happened here, but we've got a stereotype that people are eager to fulfill that's the same stereotype that existed in the Duke lacrosse case. But I've been expecting the president all weekend long to stand up and put this bounty issue in perspective, to say, "We can't have this."