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What is the AP trying to do by making “Veteran” the first word in the headline?
1 posted on 07/09/2016 7:27:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

There will be no linkage to BLM or the NBP or any other such organization.


2 posted on 07/09/2016 7:28:36 AM PDT by ealgeone
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>>What is the AP trying to do by making “Veteran” the first word in the headline?

Spinning the narrative. This will be a “veteran with access to military-grade gear” story.


3 posted on 07/09/2016 7:29:58 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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black Army veteran who killed five Dallas police officers donned a protective vest and used a military-style semi-automatic rifle in the sniper slayings

Spin, recycle, Spin again.


4 posted on 07/09/2016 7:30:01 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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Yes, a “vet.” In 6 years he rocketed all the way up to E-3.


5 posted on 07/09/2016 7:31:16 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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Exactly. Same line of BS that we’ve been hearing about those dangerous Veterans. You just never know when they’re gonna go nutz on ya. Maybe they should just go ahead and put all veterans on the no buy list. Military service? No sale. You can’t be trusted.


6 posted on 07/09/2016 7:31:38 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Veteran = white people with guns

This clown was in construction and not Infantry or any type of combat role. Some reports have him sent home early for sexual harassment.

They are trying to claim the SKS is a military-style rifle? It’s also not a sniper rifle. The 7.62x39mm can barely hit anything over 200m unless you have good optics and a proficient shooter, which his Army buddies says the shooter was not (unlike the guys at AKOU who can shoot).


7 posted on 07/09/2016 7:33:23 AM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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My thoughts exactly.

A subtle and sublime anti-Trump spinning. They didn’t lead with New Black Panther member, or African-American. Or a Muslim. What was important to them was that he was American as apple pie.


8 posted on 07/09/2016 7:35:32 AM PDT by Fhios (The U.S needs Hillary like a fish needs a bicycle.)
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“What is the AP trying to do by making “Veteran” the first word in the headline?”

Trying to blame it on Bush.


9 posted on 07/09/2016 7:35:44 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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Ricky Vaughn ‏@Ricky_Vaughn99 10 minutes ago

REPOST from last night: A follower has submitted this anti-cop threat from a black marine. Ferals!


10 posted on 07/09/2016 7:35:59 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (BLM = Obama's Mau Mau)
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The Left, and by definition our government, will be trying to demonize veterans and push to disbar them from owning guns.


11 posted on 07/09/2016 7:36:41 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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It was most likely NOT a protective vest, but a simple tactical vest with pockets for magazines.

“Military-style” means it looked scary.

What makes a weapon deadly is its operator. My bolt action scout would have been even more effective in the hands of a competent operator—IER Scope, effective cartridge, fast reloading.

Oh, almost forgot—the operator can hold 2 MOA with it out to any likely range in an urban environment.


14 posted on 07/09/2016 7:39:30 AM PDT by nonsporting
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Black supremacist micah johnson needs to be repeated often. Libtards were praying for white supremacists to be behind dallas. Well they need to be reminded about the pre-meditated cop killing of black supremacist groups.


15 posted on 07/09/2016 7:39:34 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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Johnson was a private first class with a specialty in carpentry and masonry. He served in the Army Reserve for six years starting in 2009 and did one tour in Afghanistan from November 2013 to July 2014, the military said.

When Johnson was accused of sexual harassment by a female soldier in Afghanistan, he was sent back to the U.S. with the recommendation he receive an "other than honorable" discharge, but he later got an honorable discharge, said Bradford Glendening, a military lawyer.

Hadn't heard about the harassment.

19 posted on 07/09/2016 7:41:23 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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a nation already divided about guns and how police treat African-Americans.

The nation is not divided about guns. And how about how "African-Americans" treat police? And everyone else, for that matter, including other "African-Americans?"

24 posted on 07/09/2016 7:46:03 AM PDT by IronJack
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They are attempting to destroy the respect a majority of Americans have for those who have served.

I loathe these people.


26 posted on 07/09/2016 7:47:38 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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We have now had 24+ hours of the government and the government propaganda outlets telling us, the Dallas assassinations were perpetrated by the usual “Lone Wolf”. This seems to be the current descriptor of any attack by Islamist or Black Nationalist. In their narrative, the killer(s) is radicalized by the internet and social media and never by ISIS or BLM or NBPP or the local mosque or by any of the governments favored groups. According to government and the government propaganda outlets these attacks are NEVER a conspiracy, regardless how obvious the conspiracy is.

I wonder how long, before this ball of crap comes unraveled.

27 posted on 07/09/2016 7:48:17 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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His military service did not drive him to kill police. It was his black liberation/panther hatred for whitey and the blm terrorist/marxist hatred for whitey.


29 posted on 07/09/2016 7:55:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Reminds me of an old Bill Mauldin cartoon of Willie and Joe BACK HOME.
Willie is reading the paper whose headlines screams SOLDIER SLAPS AUNT!!!
He says to his wife...”Here is an article about a triple axe murder on page six. No GIs involved.”

On another web page it says the shooter in Dallas used an SKS, not an evil “A-s-s-sault Rifle”. I can’t find an “Official” statement for that though.


42 posted on 07/09/2016 8:22:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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It is part of the description of someone. Just as a lead is often mother of 3, or father. The press likes to lead like that instead of black male shoots, or white male shoots.


46 posted on 07/09/2016 8:29:31 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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Yeah.
Races are only mentioned in headlines as it fits the narrative.

Oh, and race determines whether the media says “don’t jump to conclusions” or “jump to conclusions”.


52 posted on 07/09/2016 8:38:17 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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