Posted on 11/27/2015 7:25:07 PM PST by markomalley
On CNN, a reporter played the "But if it is" game on whether or not the shooting at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs was the result of the shooter targeting the clinic over their abortion practices, calling it the "latest" such incident.
"If this was a targeting of Planned Parenthood it would be the latest in a string of attacks on abortion providing facilities or on doctors who work with them."
If it was, you see. But this is a very liberal (pun intended) use of the words "latest" and 'string", which imply an ongoing series of attacks. That impression is belied by the information he actually provides to back up his claim.
The most recent fatal attack was six and a half years ago, Dr. George Tiller, shot and killed inside his church in Wichita, Kanasas, on May 31, 2009.
If you think that is a reach on the implication of an ongoing pattern of attacks, his next one is even moreso.
Also in October of 1998 Dr. Barnett Slepian who worked at an abortion providing clinic in Buffalo, New York, he was shot through the window of his kitchen with a high-powered rifle.
There have also been bombings of abortion clinics in the United States. In January 1998 ....
Well, you get the picture. 18 years ago next month. The number of fatalities in attacks on abortionists & abortion clinics between January of 2000 and October 2015: One. As of the time of this article, that number has not increased.
This is not what you call a spate or "string" of attacks, of which today's is the "latest."
It is refreshing, though, to see the liberal media acknowledge at least the premise of related incidents. There is a long, long, long, long list of terror attacks from those shouting "Allahu Akbar" and citing the Koran as their motivation. Maybe we can finally get the media to recognize that those events are part of a pattern. They are certainly more abundant, frequent, and recent than this so-called string CNN reported on with a big "if" in front of it.
You can bet that the Democrats are dancing in the blood tonight! A bunch of happy camper Nazis. Sympathy for their baby butchers. Ammunition for their gun grabbing Nazi propaganda war.
Violent deaths occur at the Planned Hood on an everyday basis.
So whats the problem?
Insightful. My wife and I were musing that there has been too much negative media WRT the Democrats and that the administration needed to change the narrative.
I’m sure they are.
CNN is journalism at its worst. Milking every tragedy and breaking news event to fit narratives. They will blabb about this situation now ignoring the rest of the news.
One of the witness on the phone mentioned Chase Bank but couldn’t hear her clearly. Whether he ran out of the bank or what.
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