Posted on 06/25/2016 7:56:31 AM PDT by Starman417
Ah Washington Post, you've done it again. Here you have a legitimate, under-reported story, and you manage to find a way to drop in some good old fashioned radical left wing bias. From your 6/21 edition:
The No. 1 trending question related to Donald Trump on Google right now is "Who tried to shoot Trump?" Which means a lot of people don't know the answer. Which is probably because the assassination attempt on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee hasn't been covered as a major news story.So far, so good. Just the facts. Then they do a good job of bringing up an element of the story that I had not realized, since we got rid of cable at Chateau d' Bob some time ago:The answer, authorities say, is Michael Steven Sandford, a 20-year-old British citizen who was in the United States illegally after overstaying his visa. Sandford allegedly tried to pull a gun from the holster of a police officer at a Trump rally in Las Vegas on Saturday. He was arrested and later told the Secret Service that he had driven to the event from California and had been planning to kill the candidate for a year, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nevada.
News outlets have certainly reported on the incident, but it hasn't gotten anything resembling wall-to-wall coverage.
Cable news shows devoted little time to Sandford Tuesday morning and afternoon. Trump's dismal fundraising report from May and his recent firing of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski received far more attention. Trump called in to the Trump-friendly "Fox & Friends" morning show and wasn't even asked about the attempt on his life.And why would this be? Our friends at WaPo have the answers! The article starts well enough, citing that the assailant didn't even come close to succeeding, and cites several other instances of would-be assassins who did not become darlings of the news cycle. But being the WaPo it's only a matter of time before they go off the rails.It's worth noting that the real estate magnate didn't bring it up, either. Trump hasn't so much as tweeted about it, which suggests he doesn't consider it a huge deal or doesn't want to talk about it.
From Trump's perspective, Sandford doesn't fit neatly into his campaign narrative. The billionaire has positioned himself as a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, so he certainly won't use the failed assassination attempt to push for gun control. Sandford is an illegal immigrant — and Trump is all about deporting illegal aliens — but the candidate's focus is on building a wall to keep out Mexicans and barring foreign Muslims from entering the United States. A Briton who overstayed his visa isn't a very good poster boy for the cause."Doesn't fit the narrative". I'll grant them that point, even if it is a shaky one. Overstaying one's visa drops you firmly in the category of illegal immigrant, There's no good reason for Trump to have not made this into a bigger story. The Post even posts a counter point from Hot Air:
Can you imagine the coverage we'd be seeing if someone had attempted to shoot Hillary Clinton? The same could be said if it had happened with Barack Obama in the summer of 2008. Questions would be debated on air for weeks on end about the evil lurking in the hearts of men and why someone would be so desperate to prevent the election of the first black or female president. But when someone plots for more than a year to kill Trump, travels across the country to find an opportunity and then launches his attempt, it creates barely a ripple in the media pond.The next logical step for a journalist would be to follow up on this obvious point, no? If you guessed "no", you were correct! The article closes by making a bizarre leap straight to pointing out that some Trump supporters on social media are blaming Glenn Beck & Brad Thor's friendly-fire anti-Trump rhetoric and using that as the closing argument in the post.
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My guess is that the main reason they don’t report it is because they are so very disappointed it didn’t succeed.
And Trump himself isn’t making a big deal abut it, forcing them to cover it.
My neighbor knows the officer that would have had his gun taken away. The officer is a five tour Iraq military policeman who is big and all muscle. The would be assassin messed with a bad ass dude.
“Can you imagine the coverage we’d be seeing if someone had attempted to shoot Hillary Clinton?”
Well, I wrote about that on this site maybe 8 years ago and not even in the context of someone really trying to shoot Hillary, but more fictional about a screaming leftwing loony not seeing Hillary as far enough to the left.
On his show, O’Reilly condemned us as right wing nuts and how FR is a radicalized website. I called O’Reilly’s show for 3 months trying to get him to acknowledge he was off base, but neither him or his staff had the courage or integrity to take the call.
That rag isn’t fit for a bird cage.
The media is the enemy of the people. They are pathetically without integrity.
The likeliness of this brat killing Trump was probably nil. But if he had gotten ahold of that gun he could have killed the cop or killed someone at the rally. Also, the media has made up all sorts of stories about this would-be murderer.
If it was Hillary, it would be Trumps fault and 7x24 nonstop MSM coverage telling us its Trumps fault,
The problem this election cycle for the NWO cabal is that many people are waking up to the managed news and we still have other outlets to go to besides the MSM for unbiased information,
They probably realize now that they should have clamped down on internet rights (internet IDs, fairness doctrine, NSA profiling etc.,) much sooner than planned, so yeah its coming,
Yes.
If they publicize anyone being stopped and or caught, it might discourage the next one.
You got that right.
Thank God Trump had great protection at that rally.
Trump cannot rely solely on the Secret Service which is spread very thin. Some of those agents are primarily paper pushers or investigators not warriors in any sense of the word.
Because the MSM is hoping plus a couple of moonbat bobble heads were suggesting it.
Because there will be so many. Dog bites man, not usually a story.
Now if he shoots back...
ditto.
That is why they are called the fifth-column leftist media.
The guy who took the cops gun at Trump rally, trained with Orlando shooter and another
Maybe this officer could see that the would be assassin was a frail, mentally ill young man, and could be controlled without breaking his little jaw.
The young man’s parents should never have given him the money to move to follow his girlfriend to the united states.
Did they ever think that just maybe, the girl wanted to get away from their son, with all his many problems?
SHOCK!!! This link of Sanford to Marteen, I knew nothing about. It’s being underreported.
I know, I have sent it to Drudge and a few others, and it’s out on twitter now, don’t have face book anymore, don’t know about there...we need to get this out, media twits won’t do it...
So I should keep praying for God to keep the Donald safe, then.
I would be content to see a mug shot. It seems there isn’t one.
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