In the post below we observed that the Daily Caller, based on Journalistish Integritudinal Principles, published Trayvon Martin's last Twitter posts.
As to whyever the hell they decided to do this, you can Twitter-ask this fellow, a Daily Caller High Lord Executioner Editor, who is sticking to this line: "It's a window into who he was and what he was like. Our readers want to know. End of story."
Okay.
See, now, that's a bit curious.
Because Martin's Twitter account has been circulating throughout Greater Wingnuttia for days. Here is Colonel Mustard, shaking his head and tut-tutting at the Sad Revelation of what this Damaged Youth was Really Like:
And, readers have been posting similar links over the past few days, and I really, really wanted it not to be him, but The Daily Caller says it is, so I’ll finally link.
Gosh! Why, what is so terrifying in those Twitter posts, that if it were him, which it was, that it is Totally Shocking?
Probably that his Twitter handle was NO_LIMIT_NIGGA, and that one of his posts reads like an attempt at pretty generic rap lyrics. (Or, indeed, metal lyrics. Maybe Martin was a Metallica fan. Could be.)
Looking through the Daily Caller's "window," we are treated to the shocking revelation that Martin was a typical American adolescent male.
That's not quite the conclusion of the Intrepid Citizen Journalists who are Responding Sensibly to this Vital Information, however...
...and you know where this link is going to, don't you? For you are cute, and upon you is a spectacular absence of flies...
It's to the Free Republic comments section.
Where the hell else? (Your soul will feel better for reading those comments. Mine did. Promise. No, this isn''t a trick to make you suffer like I did. Honest.)
So, yeah.
Adding to the fun, the Daily Caller account of how they got this Scoop is rather comical:
The Daily Caller has obtained a compilation of the late Trayvon Martin’s tweets.
The social media scan, executed on PeopleBrowsr and supplied to TheDC by the individual who performed the search, contains tweets from the last month of Martin’s life, dating to the beginning of 2012.
So, some operative sent you dirt and you flung it up there, in other words. Why this "individual" cannot be named is rather a mystery. "Whistleblowers" who provide Key Scoops usually do other things besides just run a fucking Internet Search that anyone playing along at home can duplicate. But but by all means, Daily Caller, Protect Your Source! Freedom and Responsible Journalism Demand No Less of You.
Incidentally, I have asked the Daily Caller Lord High Executioner Editor whether or not they were planning on looking into Zimmerman's social media accounts. The exchange is entertaining, and maybe even enlightening.
That's some hard-workin' shoe-leather journalistic enterprise they have going on over there -- "No, but if you would like to do our reporting for us, that'd be swell!"
For some reason, he's not responding to further inquiries as to whether or not the Daily Caller "reporters" ever tried to discover George Zimmerman's social media interactions -- you know, in the interests of "balance."
He's also not answering questions as to whether or not he was aware that Martin's tweets have been circulating around Wingnuttia since right after the story broke.
I'm darn curious as to whether or not David Martosko is willing to answer the question of whether or not the Daily Caller ever went looking for Zimmerman's social media presence -- like, to give us a window into his personality that this site's readers would value, and, perhaps quietly cherish -- or if he's just happy publishing irrelevant crap furnished by anonymous operatives that furthers a rather nasty point of view.
You can ask him here! Please do!
Kindly, be polite. (I actually mean it this time, redsnouts. I'm darn curious as to how he'll reply.)
BTW, he's already ignored our VS, who was indeed polite.
The key question is whether or not the Daily Caller ever went looking for Zimmerman's social media profiles. Let's see if he answers.
Bets? I bet he tries to ignore.
MAS. Totally irrelevant, but I just realized that my dentist looks exactly like frickin' Perry Farrell. He's a good dentist (my dentist, not Perry Farrell, who I'm sure sucks at dentistry), but I'm not sure I can hack this.
FURTHER MAS. Martosko says the DC did in fact look for Zimmerman's social media posts -- though it's kind of odd that they were sent Martin's, and then went, uh, like, let's look for the other guy's.
More later.