Charleston: the blame game begins

Media Equalizer ^

[GulliverSwift]

Remember the days when there was time to mourn the victims of unspeakable atrocities? In today’s lightning-fast media environment, finger-pointing blame games emerge almost immediately, well before the facts are in.

That’s no accident: facts have a high likelihood of getting in the way of whatever agenda is being promoted. The race is to define events based on one’s own belief system before actual details emerge that might get in the way. Social media makes that possible.

Sound sinister? Welcome to politics.

[chris37]

The blame lies with Storm Roof.

/game

[Rodentking]

Anyone remember the White Middle Aged Angry Beltway shooters, whose media presence disappeared when they turned out to be black muslims?

[Sopater]

...facts have a high likelihood of getting in the way of whatever agenda is being promoted.

Truer words may have never been spoken.

[Sarah Barracuda]

The left waited a total of two seconds(That’s a record) before blaming Republicans for what a monster did..gee its kind of ironic that the left blames white people, I thought after the whole Rachel Dolezal thing that we are all black we can pretty much be whatever race we want to be, maybe this killer identifies himself as black as well

[envisio]

It will be funny to see how the media plays whites and conservatives into the actions of an insane individual as opposed to any other story where the races are swapped and race issue is swept under the rug.

Actually no, it is very predictable how they will respond.

[fatnotlazy]

Ted Cruz offered prayers and condolences.

Obama offered blame.

Oh, to have a real leader in the White House again!

[envisio]

But let a Muslim cut off the head of a white person while screaming ‘Alah Akbar’ and the narrative is that we “should not be quick to judge”.

[Sopater]

Anyone remember the White Middle Aged Angry Beltway shooters, whose media presence disappeared when they turned out to be black muslims?

Yep...

The experts were neither misogynists nor racists. They all agreed with Van Zandt that "this is something white males do." Fox and Van Zandt, along with most others, estimated his age to be in the 20s to early 30s. Ressler thought there were two men, "a strong leader and a driver, and the leader is the shooter." He anticipated that "at least one of them may be in trouble with the law." "They see the end of the tunnel coming. They're going to go out in a blaze of glory." - Facing the Beltway snipers, profilers were dead wrong

[umgud]

The left will go after guns, but who will be targeted by protests? The shooter? All whites? Cops?

[Alberta's Child]

I also remember that the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore ended quickly when it was revealed that the Baltimore cop facing the most serious charge in his death was black.

Now Baltimore is just a regular urban sh!t-hole instead of a riot-torn sh!t-hole.

[Cementjungle]

The shooter? All whites? Cops?

B and C above. The cops because they didn't shoot the guy, and all whites because this happens every day throughout the county. At least that's how the narrative is shaping up.

[Sarah Barracuda]

No No silly that is just workplace violence nothing to see here moving on

[rfreedom4u]

What if he was motivated by the church’s lack of diversity?

[Old Sarge]

I most certainly do - and the deafening silence when the two Muslims were fingered...

[alloysteel]

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

HATE CRIME! BAN GUNS!

Sure, that’ll work. Until the next time when it does not.

[annieokie]

I remember the days when we read the news.......and believed everything they printed.........

We now know they are blatant liars FASTER, and nothing changed.

[Exton1]

Look up the numbers of Black on Black murder. In 35 years there have been 547 people killed in mass shooting. In the same period, 324,000 blacks were killed. Or to put it another way, mass killing = 22 days of Black on Black crime.

[tallyhoe]

Maybe it starts in the WH!!

[grania]

The blame lies with Storm Roof

The guy seems to be truly insane. Makes me wonder if he'd been given any mind-altering legal meds at some point.

For most of these lunatics, that seems to be the case.