Oklahoma is too far for those Amish Youths to travel in a horse and buggy. Could have been one of then Utah Utes. Or an angry middle aged white man in a white panel van.
I confused by your headline. You are asking why something is not being reported while posting a UPI story about the very subject.
I confused by your headline. You are asking why something is not being reported while posting a UPI story about the very subject you say is not being reported.
Where on earth did this guy find pipe caps that big, or a 12" NPT threading die?
UPI, ABC, CNN, Fox, Reuters, among others, all covered it. Perhaps the fact that it did not get more press suggests that it was not huge news. In a rare exercise of restraint the media failed to paint an angry white man as an extremist.
He may turn out to be a garden-variety nutcase.
After Herriman’s arrest, his 73-year-old father told Reuters his son had been undergoing treatment for years for mental health problems, which had worsened recently.The last time the state-run media pinned their hopes on a whack-job and tried to make him into a member of the Palin-for-President team, they got egg all over themselves. They may not want to go there this time.“He said he’s been hearing voices for the last couple weeks,” Dan Herriman said. “He was trying to get back to the V.A. (Veteran’s Administration hospital).”
The suspect has been taking medication to treat his mental illness, Herriman said of his son.
“He goes up and down.”
Also, don’t forget the basic mission of the media these days: if the story doesn’t advance Obama or smear his opposition, it’s not news.
Probably not to give ideas to those idiots out there.... i.e the liberal youth.
If he had been a member of the Tea Party this would be front page New York Times for a week... as is? Crickets.
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