TV journalist Lisa Bloom has just written a book about the Trayvon Martin case. Curious to find out more, I watched her interview with Cenk Uygur of “The Young Turks.” She started out by explaining that she wrote the book to demonstrate Zimmerman’s guilt, and show that the jury got it wrong. Instead of presenting new evidence, or a more compelling interpretation, she ignored exculpatory evidence, mangled the facts, made bogus inferences, and omitted much.. I would have preferred never to have written another thing about the Zimmerman trial. The case is depressing and tragic, nobody can be happy that Trayvon Martin died. But the truth matters more than people’s feelings. If nobody combats this garbage, it becomes conventional wisdom, and millions of people will believe a sham. The truth is that the jury system worked, despite all of the outside pressure the jury reached a lawful verdict. Bloom starts by claiming that Rachel Jeantel’s testimony...(Read Full Post)