Posted on 01/13/2011 1:56:02 PM PST by Crush
On Nov. 5, 2009, a US Army officer opened fire in a Fort Hood (Texas) medical facility, killing 13 and wounding 30. On Jan. 8, 2010, a man opened fire at a townhall-style event at a Tucson, Ariz. grocery store, killing 6 and wounding 20. Both events appear similar, but media reaction and impact are drastically different.
The sole suspect in the Fort Hood shooting is Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist. Eyewitness reports state that Hassan shouted “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is great) before opening fire on soldiers preparing to depart for Afghanistan.
The sole suspect in the Tucson shooting is Jared Lee Loughner, a 22-year-old who lived at home with his parents after being suspended from college. Loughner opened fire on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and constituents at a townhall-style event at a grocery store.
Both shooters used automatic pistols with high capacity (20- or 30-round) magazines. Loughner used a common 9mm Glock pistol, and Hasan used a 5.7mm FN Five-Seven, which fires bullets that can penetrate the body armor used by law enforcement. While the Tucson shooting has resulted in a surge forward on the gun control issue, there was virtually no push after the Fort Hood shooting, despite Hasan’s use of the so-called “cop killer” gun.
Americans were advised “not to jump to conclusions” on Hasan and his motivations. But in the immediate wake of the Loughner shooting, media parroted shameless politicians and activists who said that the shooter may have been a member of the U.S. military, or that the “anti-government” Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and other conservative radio hosts provided the motivation for the Loughner killings.
Meanwhile, the media made virtually no effort at all to bring attention to...
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Excellently written. Concise and right on TARGET!!!!!!
My own impression (after a poll kinda hinted it this week) is that barely a third of adults in America believe the ‘blame’ episode. More than fifty percent do not, and the remainder simply don’t believe much of anything said by anybody.
So as each day goes by with this strategy...the smaller one-third group is not increasing. In fact...if anything, with all the info on the kid’s personality coming out and friends telling stories...this blame-story has peaked. By Monday, they will dump it entirely and move on.
I’m also of the opinion that people would like to get onto simple facts within the news services...which would trim out a massive amount of what they are trying to convey. If you simply took a cover page on the Washington Post and removed anything that wasn’t of a factual nature....you’d barely cover 10 percent of the front page.
Looks like Obama’s fellow Muslim’s slaughter of 13 and wounding of 30 at Ft. Hood has been all but swept under the carpet.
When is this guy going to trial- or or they just going to forget about it?
ditto with the Valentine’s Day massacre in 2007 at the mall in Utah by the Bosnian JIHADIST
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