Posted on 01/09/2011 10:24:16 AM PST by Bigtigermike
Yesterday’s horrific and senseless shooting of more than a dozen people in Tucson, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, provided a look into the biases of much of the American media — and it was not just an ugly sight, but a shamefully hypocritical peek as well, as Byron York points out. In the last public mass-murder shooting fourteen months ago at Fort Hood, the media spent the first few hours scolding anyone who suggested that it might be an act of terror or that Major Nidal Hasan’s religious beliefs might be relevant before every last fact was exposed:
“We cannot jump to conclusions,” said CNN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell that same evening. “We have to make sure that we do not jump to any conclusions whatsoever.”
The next day, President Obama underscored the rapidly-forming conventional wisdom when he told the country, “I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.” In the days that followed, CNN jouralists and guests repeatedly echoed the president’s remarks.
The next day, political analyst Mark Halperin urged a “transparent” investigation into the shootings “so the American people don’t jump to conclusions.” And when Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra, then the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, suggested that the Ft. Hood attack was terrorism, CNN’s John Roberts was quick to intervene. “Now, President Obama has asked people to be very cautious here and to not jump to conclusions,” Roberts said to Hoekstra.
But in this instance, as York notes, the same people who insisted in November 2009 that people should not rush to judgment about the potential connection of radical Islam to the Fort Hood shooting practically broke legs trying to tie an apparent paranoid schizophrenic who hailed Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto to Sarah Palin:
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Here’s a good one showing targets on the map.
NEVER let an opportunity for a manufactured Reichstag crisis against conservatives go to waste!
I was just watching State of the Nation, where Candy Crowley and BOTH of her guests said they didn’t know the motive and warned against guessing about motives.
While they were saying this, her producers had Tea Party footage on the left side of the screen.
Go figure.
Uh, Howie..."Campaign" is a military term.
As more ACTUAL evidence comes out on Loughner, the truth of his profound mental illness, coupled with his far left ideology (Mein Kempf; the Communist Manifesto) damage control by media must occur.
That is what Crowley, et al, are doing. The LEAPT to the Tea Party/Palinite narrative because they WANTED it to be so. Their bias and total lack of credibility have been proven by their own words/actions.
Murrow must be spinning in his grave.
All these Rat outlets of hate/Bold faced lies and vile need Sued for Billions ,Sarah could use a couple networks.
What would you expect? Too big a political opportunity to pass up.
All these Rat outlets of hate/Bold faced lies and vile need Sued for Billions ,Sarah could use a couple networks.
One can’t be shamed if one has no shame. Such is the case with CNN.
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