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North Carolina State Senator Who Blamed Trump for JCC Threats Goes Silent
NewsBusters ^ | March 5, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/05/2017 4:50:39 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Rolling Stone published a February 28 story which featured North Carolina state senator Jeff Jackson (D) who vociferously blamed President Trump for the Jewish community center bomb threats around the nation. Bad timing for him because just three days later, on Friday, a suspect was arrested for the JCC threats. Very inconveniently for Jackson and many liberals the suspect, Juan Thompson, turned out to be an anti-Trump leftist. So what was the reaction of Jackson and the Rolling Stone? Contrition? An apology? Naw. Complete silence. 

Like much of the rest of the mainstream media as pointed out by Newsbusters' Brad Wilmouth, Rolling Stone has avoided the topic of Thompson's politics by simply not even mentioning him despite the fact that they featured a story on the JCC threats just days earlier. Fortunately that publication did preserve Jackson's sick allegations against Trump in their earlier story upon which they have yet to offer a followup: 

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: jccthreats; jeffjackson; juanthompson; northcarolina; rollingstone
Juan Thompson has pretty much been tossed down the MSM memory hole.
1 posted on 03/05/2017 4:50:39 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

If we had a non biased media he would be asked and asked about this.


2 posted on 03/05/2017 4:52:26 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Oh dear. Reality steps in, thereby inconveniencing one of our idealistic Democrats. So sad.


3 posted on 03/05/2017 5:10:26 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: manc

But we don’t.


4 posted on 03/05/2017 5:11:01 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (We Arizonans need to get rid of McCain as all of us pray for Trump.)
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To: Steely Tom

LIBs/DIMS are such fools...and complete cancers infecting civil society.


5 posted on 03/05/2017 5:12:38 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: PJ-Comix
Jeff "Snowflake" Jackson


6 posted on 03/05/2017 5:13:26 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
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Is Jeff Jackson a friend/supporter of Juan Thompson?


7 posted on 03/05/2017 8:06:47 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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