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I think we all have a sense of doom about the prospects of justice in the case of the murder of Michael Brown.
And when/if the day comes that we’re told the police officer who murdered this unarmed teenager will face no charges, it will burn in to the soul.
So, so, so deeply.
It won’t surprise us, but it will leave us in despair.
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Emotions are, then, raw enough, so to see self-promoting opportunists try to feed off this pain is just a little too much.
Opportunists who don’t give a **** about Michael Brown or his family and friends left behind, just attention-seeking whores using this outrage to gain themselves a profile.
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I’ll trust that Shaun King doesn’t fall in to that category, I’ll trust that his passion is sincere.
I have no clue whether or not his investigative work on this murder is reliable, but I’ll take it that it is.
And if it is accurate, it’s been brilliant.
Many of you would have read his series of tweets debunking claims about Michael Brown being a ‘threat’ to Darren Wilson by analyzing the distances between them at every stage of their ‘confrontation’. It was a mesmerizing analysis, one that utterly exposed Team Wilson’s lies.
And he’s been relentless on this case, and deserves credit for that.
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But?
See this:
President Obama, in my opinion, is close to Ferguson becoming his Katrina if it hasn’t already. He must be there very soon.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) August 18, 2014
That’s a real tweet. Honest.
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Although, he seemed to suffer from memory loss….
.@ShaunKing blocked me after denying he said #Ferguson = Obama’s Katrina. Could someone tweet him this: https://t.co/om6HN9wf2H
— PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) October 4, 2014
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And then he linked to, of all people, Ezra Klein – who would understand as much about racism and life in Ferguson as Sarah Palin knows about Syria:
@ShaunKing @ezraklein how is it “helpful” to blame Obama for the racial hate against him?
— BWD (@theonlyadult) August 19, 2014
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And this:
This honestly goes all the way to President Obama, the Democratic Party, presidential aspirations, and much more.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) October 3, 2014
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So, forgive me if I sniff an agenda.
(That he’s just been signed up by Daily Kos, the site dedicated to deflating Dem voter turnout, says a bunch)
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So, what’s the story Shaun King?
Why are you using the murder of Michael Brown to attack the President and his party ahead of the 2014 elections?
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There are, most certainly, Democrats in Ferguson, not least Jay Nixon, who need to be held to account on this, and ****ed out of office, but really Shaun King, really?
President Obama, his administration, and the Democratic Party as a whole are your chief culprits in all of this?
You are having a ****ing laugh.
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Time and again King concludes a session of tweets on Michael Brown by suggesting the President is the one at whom you should direct your rage.
Not the man who murdered Michael.
Not those who have enabled and shielded Wilson.
Not members of the media who have pushed Team Wilson’s lies (has Jake Tapper apologized for ‘Josie’ yet?).
Not Wilson’s dollar-donating cheerleaders.
The President.
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The same President who has done everything he could possibly and reasonably do without interfering, as he cannot do, in the legal process, by sending the DoJ, FBI and AG Holder to Ferguson, and having them all do what they can to ensure a proper investigation.
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And if that’s not enough to ensure justice, it won’t be PBO’s fault – it will be down to a Grand Jury that is not willing to make a white police officer accountable for murdering an unarmed African American teenager.
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So Shaun, get yourself a clue.
We see you.
If the President had visited Ferguson after Michael’s murder, you would have been the first to accuse him of a pre-election photo op.
‘Obama tries to fix his Katrina!1!1!’
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No one responded better to these fools than @Only4RM
In which @Only4RM wins the day: pic.twitter.com/nfxh7XtCAG
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) August 23, 2014
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Twitter is full of the usual morons who reckon the President should have marched in to Ferguson and personally arrested Wilson, but just laugh at their ignorance, they couldn’t even spell ‘law’.
Shaun King should be better than that, but…..
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One last thing, Shaun King.
Don’t ever lecture this President, or his family, on racism.
If you lived forever, you wouldn’t experience a 100th of what they have endured.
The Obama Diary 
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