Posted on 03/05/2010 1:58:38 PM PST by UltraConservative
Cross-posted at BigJournalism.
Already, the media has jumped on the John Patrick Bedell story, claiming that he was a raving right winger with virulent antigovernment feelings, as the Christian Science Monitor puts it. And, just as they did with the Joseph Stack case, theyre ignoring the evidence in order to come to that conclusion.
John Patrick Bedell, whom authorities identified as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting on Thursday, appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings. If so, that would make the Pentagon shooting the second violent extremist attack on a federal building within the past month. On Feb. 18, Joseph Stack flew a small aircraft into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Mr. Stack left behind a disjointed screed in which, among other things, he expressed his hatred of the government.
If so Thats a pretty big if.
Lets start by noting that Bedell was a registered Democrat. The media has completely and conveniently ignored that little fact.
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No worries..I’m sure the most excellent Republican leadership will stick up for the right and call the media on this and ask for an apology (extreme sarcasm)
Not good.
IDK maybe that post was meant for #2...........
We have a new definition of right and left. You love big government, you are left wing. You don’t love government or some part of it, you are right wing.
Well...gee..I'm not sure, does all that fit the standard right wing tea party MO? *grin*
"Perp either: Crazy, anti-Bush Lib, with conspiracy theories in his cup overflowaing; in which case, The Liberal MSM will keep it VERY VERY hushed up. (Probably even try to blame it initially to a "Tea Partier" and then later never retract it when called out on it). .... Or.... Tea Party, anti-Guv type, Gun Nut freak in which case the LIBERAL MSM will never see the end of it and will beat that dead horse seven ways to Sunday. They will make it a shelf life of at least three months, tie it to Obamacare, the whole nine yards. I would watch the Maddows, the Olbermanns, the Matthews', the the Joy whats her face, in the next few hours and days very closely. What I am getting is he may well be a crazed, anti-George Bush, left leaning, conspiracy theory type Truther into computer geeking from leftist pockets of northern California. But that remains to be seen. 327 posted on 2010/3/4 10:43:00 by AmericanInTokyo "
One thing different is that the stories are not going unchallenged. The particular writer I quoted is getting a beating all over the net.
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