The ghost of Matthew Shepard should hover on his hands and knees and thank his lucky charms that he was treated as compassionately as he was.

Some might say that’s a little harsh of me. I could not agree more. But if it draws more attention to this story then I am thrilled to be bound and pistol-whipped to this (fence) post.

Having been through the trying experience of searching through family albums and trying to find a photo recent enough to attach to a “MISSING” poster and going to your local Kinko’s to print off as many color copies as you can afford. And suffering the morbid looks you get from the clerks and their shift supervisors when they see the seriousness that brings you to their business. So out of sort from the usual “help me find my ink-cartridge refills” request they receive dozens of times a week.

Blessed and unaware of the stirring riot every revolution of the copier brings with the impatience of another second lost and another second that you are not out wallpapering a neighborhood or combing through the human lice of the bus station. Accosting complete strangers to ask if they’ve seen anyone resembling your loved one. That the pain of not knowing is true enough. But the prospect of denouement can be so much worse.

You pull out your wallet and put all of the money in your pocket on the counter.

Who would dare to try and stop me from showing my poster to anyone?

I imagine that the application of such a cold calculus is what separates us hot-blooded types from the reptilian media.

Which brings us full circle.

We are suffering from a severe media energy drought in Tennessee. In fact, we would have to ramp up production on several more TVA dams to generate the justified amount of kilowatts to execute the publication of a story – much less the murderers of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian:

These two were out on a date minding their own business when they were car jacked and this is what happened to them.

The animals pictured below raped Christopher Newsom, cut off his penis, then set him on fire and fatally shot him several times while they forced his girlfriend, Channon Christian, to watch. An even more cruel fate awaited her!

Channon Christian, was beaten and gang-raped in many ways for four days by all of them, while they took turns urinating on her. Then they cut off her breast and put chemicals in her mouth … and then murdered her.

It would seem that the complicit media outlets, who have taken more time to bury this story than the murderers did with their victims’ bodies, need to be interrogated about why they have intentionally stuffed the body of this horrific crime into their trash cans. (hat tip to Lee @ Digital Nicotine)

It should go without saying that there is a racial aspect to this case. The two victims were white and all five of the perpetrators named in the 46-count indictment, coincidentally, were black. But does this story not stand on the callous brutality of the murders alone?

Is race only important to talk about when a radio personality calls someone a name? Or when a strung-out, junkie stripper wants to play Je$$e Jack$on to the lily white lacrosse team?

The public has a right to know and it’s the court of public opinion where every single news outlet needs to be judged.

Multiple murders have been committed in a Dahmer-esque fashion. The male victim was raped, sexually mutilated, shot, and burned. The female victim was raped, brutalized with chemicals, and stuffed in a trash can. These people were no less human than Matthew Shepard, James Byrd, or the Rutgers basketball team – though you could not tell by their treatment from the old media.

I am absolutely ashamed to have just found out about this today. And the only thing worse than knowing the muted fates of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian is that their murderer’s friends in the media will soon leap to their defense.

As we’ve seen with Mary Winkler murder case, it’s only a matter of liberal time before the gunshot slaying, drug-dealing, carjacking, anal-sodomizing, breast removing, conceivers of one of the most disturbing crimes ever to escape the bleary eye of the Rotten.com librarian are portrayed as meek, little lambs.

Put upon by abuse in their own past, probably at the hands of Whitey and His materialistic society that made them the way they are.

Wait! The way they aren’t – because they are innocent in the media until proven guilty. Just like the Duke Lacrosse team.

Speak of The Devil Update: Metropulse dances around the story. New working headline: “Two white kids murdered, poor black neighborhood hardest hit.”

Devil On The Details Update: 14 hours after initially reading this repulsive story and I can’t get it out of my head. I’ve poured through at least 40 blogs mentioning it and it’s like deja vu in the comments section of every one. Where is the media? Where is the media?

It’s a good question that demands an answer.

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