Noel Sheppard writes in a July 22 NewsBusters post:
As NewsBusters has been reporting, it’s been absolutely sick-making watching Obama-loving media members gush and fawn over the President’s speech Friday concerning race, the George Zimmerman verdict, and Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.
But will they report to the American people that as an Illinois state senator in 2004, Obama co-sponsored and voted for legislation strengthening his state’s Stand Your Ground law?
Just one problem: It’s not true.
As Slate’s Dave Weigel points out, Obama supported a change in Illinois’ “castle doctrine,” which is not analogous to Florida’s “stand your ground” law. Florida’s law “takes the concept of the castle doctrine and turns it into a traveling force field of sorts,” Weigel writes.
Sheppard concludes his post by writing, “I wouldn’t advise people holding their breath expecting the current iteration of so-called journalists to pounce on these revelations.” We also wouldn’t advise holding one’s breath waiting for the chronically wrong Sheppard to correct his post.