The strange tale of a violent attack by a mob of youthful assailants has right wing bloggers hyperventilating Thursday over the perennial American media football: Race.
Marty Marshall and family were reportedly taking in some fireworks at Firestone Stadium in Akron, Ohio, on June 27. Afterward, the troupe of five met up with two family friends at a home in South Akron, when they were suddenly swarmed by a group of kids nearly 50 strong.
What happened next, The Akron Beacon Journal can fill in:
They said it started when one teen, without any words or warning, blindsided and assaulted Marshall's friend as he stood outside with the others.
When Marshall, 39, jumped in, he found himself being attacked by the growing group of teens.
His daughter, Rachel, 15, who weighs about 90 pounds, tried to come to his rescue. The teens pushed her to the ground.
His wife, Yvonne, pushed their son, Donald, 14, into bushes to keep him protected.
Marshall reportedly spent five nights in critical care, but the others involved were not severely injured.
Here's where it gets difficult to discuss with any civility: During the assault, someone allegedly shouted, "This is a black world." The line was highlighted by conservative news blogger Matt Drudge on Thursday morning, striking off a wave of coverage.
"Of course if roles were reversed here Attorney General Eric Holder would already be on the ground in Ohio with an army of investigators," blogger JammieWearingFool sneeringly retorted in a July 9 post. "But since it a black mob attacking a white family, he won't be bothered."
Moonbattery's moon bats were not so delicate in their assessment, calling the mob incident reverse racism and even alleging that hate crimes legislation is "protection for Black on White crime."
"This is similar to what happened in the black political takeover of Zimbabwe and South Africa which allowed whites to be charged for defending themselves against black attackers," wrote moon bat Mark J. Connolly.
Another, "ac halle," actually wondered in public "how much more of this shit" it would take to start a "revolution."
Over at religious wonk-zone Belief.net, this ugly piece of story is supposedly of interest to a good, Christian readership because ... Well, just because. Blogger Rod Dreher tackles the issue with his own brand of crunchy analysis.
"I don't believe in the concept of hate crimes," he wrote. "I believe in crimes. But if you are a believer in hate crimes as a legitimate concept, then let's hear you call for the hate-crimes hammer to come down hard on this black mob in Ohio."
In his post's comments, some readers taunted that using a report of an attack as a "rhetorical weapon" to bludgeon political opponents is perhaps too adversarial.
"More specifically, he assumes liberal proponents of hate-crime laws are likewise insincere -- he assumes that they're only interested in those laws as long as they are used to convict white criminals, not black criminals," scolded commenter John E.
He added: "Rod knows this crowd well enough (or should) to realize the almost all the liberals and other folk who would be in favor of hate-crime laws would, in fact, be in favor of applying them evenhandedly and that this case, assuming the facts, would be a slam-dunk decision. It is almost like Rod had morphed into a Mallard Fillmore cartoon or something."
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