Sentiments like this are 100% absent from conservative blogs and publications. Gee, I wonder if that's because we don't try to leverage tragedy for political ends?
Posted on 09/18/2009 9:36:46 AM PDT by bs9021
Justifying Homicide?
by: Sarah Carlsruh, September 18, 2009
James Pouillon, an avid pro-life protestor, was killed last Friday, September 11th, while protesting outside Michigan’s Owosso High School. The media, when it covered the topic at all, tended to downplay the significance of the fact that a man was murdered for exercising his First Amendment rights and instead focused on Mr. Pouillon’s thirst for attention.
CBS failed to mention the killing. NBC did not acknowledge a link between Mr. Pouillon’s murder and his anti-abortion beliefs; NBC journalist John Yang said that, of the killer’s grudges against his victims, “none of them were specifically related to anti- or pro-abortion beliefs.” ABC reported the views of the murderer, saying that Mr. Pouillon’s alleged killer, Harlan Drake, did not agree with Pouillon’s use of graphic signs in places where kids could see them.
The New York Times entitled its article on the homicide, “Slain Abortion Opponent ‘Loved the Controversy’ His Protests Generated.” Rather than focusing on the tragedy of Jim Pouillon’s death, it harped on his “waving graphic signs and breaking the idyllic quiet with loud anti-abortion rants.”
According to the article, Jim’s nephew attributed the veracity of Jim’s protesting to Jim’s divorce, which triggered an increase in his protest activities. Acquaintance Tony Young, president of the car dealership outside of which Pouillon often protested, said that “he loved the attention, he loved the controversy.” Another acquaintance, Jimmy Carmody, was quoted by the New York Times as calling Pouillon “too in-your-face,” increasingly erratic, and cussing out grocery shoppers in the parking lot....
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
In the leftist “mind” some lives are worth more than others. Normal peoples’ lives are worth less than those of lefties.
Sentiments like this are 100% absent from conservative blogs and publications. Gee, I wonder if that's because we don't try to leverage tragedy for political ends?
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