By Jack Cashill
WND Digital Edition
Product Description
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," President Barack Obama said in March 2012 about the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin four weeks earlier. In so saying, Obama gave the White House imprimatur to a politically irresistible campaign, one that both stoked the grievances of his racially sensitive base and energized his party's gun-control advocates.
That the shooting took place in Florida, the most highly contested state in that year's presidential election, made its politicization all the more inevitable. From the beginning, the major media worked overtime to convict shooter George Zimmerman in the court of public opinion. To promote their grudge against guns and their skewed view of race in America, the media ignored or denied the truth even after the truth had become obvious to those who followed the story closely.
In another time and place, the media might have succeeded, but in the age of social media, their carefully crafted narrative has been thoroughly picked apart. "If I Had a Son" tells the story of a blogging collective called the Conservative Treehouse that has done much of the picking. Indeed, the clever research work of these unpaid "Treepers," most of them female, may well be the defense's best weapon.
"If I Had a Son" is a thrill-packed David and Goliath story, the ending of which is still not known.
About the Author
Jack Cashill, a regular contributor to WND, is an Emmy award-winning independent writer and producer with a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue. He has also written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard and AmericanThinker.com. He is the author or co-author of numerous books including "First Strike," "Officer's Oath" "Hoodwinked," "Sucker Punch," "Deconstructing Obama," "What's the Matter With California?" and "If I Had a Son."
Product Details
- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: WND Books (Oct. 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9781938067334
