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Trump Blamed for Death of Reporters...Did Media Blame Obama for Cop Killers?
Townhall.com ^ | July 5, 2018 | Larry Elder

Posted on 07/05/2018 12:12:53 PM PDT by Kaslin

A man with a long-standing beef against the Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper Capital Gazette entered the paper's headquarters with a shotgun and murdered five staffers. It represents the deadliest attack on U.S. reporters in modern history.

Before learning about the suspect's mental issues and his long-standing feud with the newspaper, some in the media blamed President Donald Trump. After all, critics said, Trump routinely denounces "fake news" as an existential threat to our republic. Connect the dots, they said. Blame Trump! CNN aired a montage of Trump's attacks on the media. Rob Cox, a Reuters editor, tweeted: "This is what happens when @RealDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President." Another reporter, who later resigned, even falsely tweeted that the shooter was wearing a MAGA cap. How do you get that wrong?

How dare the President call out the anti-Republican media for its decades of biased reporting? Pew Research, in 2013, found that only 7 percent of reporters called themselves Republican. How dare Trump attack The New York Times, which has not endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since 1956? How dare Trump go after The Washington Post, which has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate. And how dare Trump refer to CNN -- one of whose "news" anchors, Don Lemon, has called Trump "a racist" - as fake news.

Did the media hold President Barack Obama responsible for the murders of 10 cops in Dallas, Baton Rouge and New York City, all at the hands of black men apparently incited by their belief that cops murder blacks without consequence? After all, Obama frequently criticized the police and bemoaned America's racism as "part of our DNA."

President Obama's anti-cop rhetoric started right after he took office. Obama's friend, a black Harvard professor, was arrested in his home. Professor Henry Louis Gates, back from a trip, couldn't open his front door and reportedly asked his driver to help. A neighbor, observing two people trying to force open the front door of Gates' home, called 911. But when the cops arrived and asked Gates to exit the home so he could determine its ownership, Gates mouthed off and was briefly arrested. Obama said, "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." The Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association and the Cambridge Police commissioner insisted the officer followed protocol. Obama's statement infuriated officers all across the country and set up a template for the Obama administration: Cops engage in unlawful anti-black racial profiling.

President Obama's anti-cop rhetoric started right after he took office. Obama's friend, a black Harvard professor, was arrested in his home. Professor Henry Louis Gates, back from a trip, couldn't open his front door and reportedly asked his driver to help. A neighbor, observing two people trying to force open the front door of Gates' home, called 911. But when the cops arrived and asked Gates to exit the home so he could determine its ownership, Gates mouthed off and was briefly arrested. Obama said, "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." The Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association and the Cambridge Police commissioner insisted the officer followed protocol. Obama's statement infuriated officers all across the country and set up a template for the Obama administration: Cops engage in unlawful anti-black racial profiling.

When a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, shot and killed a black 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin, President Obama promptly sided with the deceased teen, saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." A jury found Zimmerman not guilty, and one juror later said that during the deliberations, race never came up.

Then there's Ferguson. A grim President Obama, at an address before the United Nations, said: "In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions."

When a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, shot and killed a black 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin, President Obama promptly sided with the deceased teen, saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." A jury found Zimmerman not guilty, and one juror later said that during the deliberations, race never came up.

Then there's Ferguson. A grim President Obama, at an address before the United Nations, said: "In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions."

But the Ferguson grand jury did not indict the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, and a Department of Justice report exonerated the cop. Contrary to the lies told by his friend who witnessed the shooting, Michael Brown did not have his hands up when the officer shot and killed him. Brown, did not say, "Hands up. Don't shoot." Yet before the investigation even began, Obama's BFF, Sharpton, took to the streets of Ferguson yelling, "No justice, no peace."

The DOJ's investigation of Ferguson's nearly all-white police department criticized its alleged "institutional racism." But its actual findings do not support that conclusion. Ferguson, the investigation noted, is 67 percent black, but 85 percent of its traffic stops involve black drivers. To the DOJ, this 18-point statistical imbalance equals systemic racism. But in New York City, where the department consists mostly officers of color, 55 percent of traffic stops involve a black driver in a city with a 25 percent black population. This is a 30-point statistical imbalance. Wouldn't this make the NYPD even more "institutionally racist" than the Ferguson PD?

Trump, say the media, has created an atmosphere that puts reporters in danger. Obama often unfairly criticized the police. But the media did not blame Obama for the murder of officers by angry black men consumed with the wrongheaded belief that blacks are victimized by the "institutional racism" of the criminal justice system.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: media; mediawingofthednc; msm; obama; partisanmediashills; police; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump

1 posted on 07/05/2018 12:12:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

This shooter had a 5+ year 100% fully documented beef with the newspaper, for having accurately reported that he had stalked a woman. All of which is public record. The incident has utterly zero to do with Trump. Correct reporting would be to both destroy that thesis in its entirety; to ridicule the very idea that Trump had any influence on it; and to show the misdirection involved as a clear example of how ridiculously biased our so-called press is.


2 posted on 07/05/2018 12:37:12 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Kaslin

leftist dont actually care about anyone dying except whgen they can use it as a tool to further their attempts to gain power.

You have to give up on any assumption of honesty and fairness and freedom when you think of these vile people and show your contempt for all the gullible liberals who side with their poison.


3 posted on 07/05/2018 12:41:39 PM PDT by elbook
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To: Kaslin

Did the media blame the media for the House softball game shooting?

I do.


4 posted on 07/05/2018 12:47:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Kaslin
I wonder if Larry Elders stutters.


I wonder if Larry Elders stutters.

5 posted on 07/05/2018 1:19:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Well said, and of course the media is corrupt and evil.


6 posted on 07/05/2018 1:21:05 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Elsie

I din’t realize someone stutters by talking. Obviously you did not bother to read the article or you could not have asked a more ridiculous question. I am sure you might to read the article in the link or go go the freerepublic site and check it out there

The article is post# six so it should not take to long to find it.


7 posted on 07/05/2018 4:24:44 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: Kaslin

Obviously you did not bother to read the article or you could not have asked a more ridiculous question.

I read what was posted clear thru; and that was what prompted my silly question..

 


A man with a long-standing beef against the Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper Capital Gazette entered the paper's headquarters with a shotgun and murdered five staffers. It represents the deadliest attack on U.S. reporters in modern history.

Before learning about the suspect's mental issues and his long-standing feud with the newspaper, some in the media blamed President Donald Trump. After all, critics said, Trump routinely denounces "fake news" as an existential threat to our republic. Connect the dots, they said. Blame Trump! CNN aired a montage of Trump's attacks on the media. Rob Cox, a Reuters editor, tweeted: "This is what happens when @RealDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President." Another reporter, who later resigned, even falsely tweeted that the shooter was wearing a MAGA cap. How do you get that wrong?

How dare the President call out the anti-Republican media for its decades of biased reporting? Pew Research, in 2013, found that only 7 percent of reporters called themselves Republican. How dare Trump attack The New York Times, which has not endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since 1956? How dare Trump go after The Washington Post, which has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate. And how dare Trump refer to CNN -- one of whose "news" anchors, Don Lemon, has called Trump "a racist" - as fake news.

Did the media hold President Barack Obama responsible for the murders of 10 cops in Dallas, Baton Rouge and New York City, all at the hands of black men apparently incited by their belief that cops murder blacks without consequence? After all, Obama frequently criticized the police and bemoaned America's racism as "part of our DNA."

President Obama's anti-cop rhetoric started right after he took office. Obama's friend, a black Harvard professor, was arrested in his home. Professor Henry Louis Gates, back from a trip, couldn't open his front door and reportedly asked his driver to help. A neighbor, observing two people trying to force open the front door of Gates' home, called 911. But when the cops arrived and asked Gates to exit the home so he could determine its ownership, Gates mouthed off and was briefly arrested. Obama said, "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." The Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association and the Cambridge Police commissioner insisted the officer followed protocol. Obama's statement infuriated officers all across the country and set up a template for the Obama administration: Cops engage in unlawful anti-black racial profiling.

President Obama's anti-cop rhetoric started right after he took office. Obama's friend, a black Harvard professor, was arrested in his home. Professor Henry Louis Gates, back from a trip, couldn't open his front door and reportedly asked his driver to help. A neighbor, observing two people trying to force open the front door of Gates' home, called 911. But when the cops arrived and asked Gates to exit the home so he could determine its ownership, Gates mouthed off and was briefly arrested. Obama said, "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." The Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association and the Cambridge Police commissioner insisted the officer followed protocol. Obama's statement infuriated officers all across the country and set up a template for the Obama administration: Cops engage in unlawful anti-black racial profiling.

When a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, shot and killed a black 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin, President Obama promptly sided with the deceased teen, saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." A jury found Zimmerman not guilty, and one juror later said that during the deliberations, race never came up. Then there's Ferguson. A grim President Obama, at an address before the United Nations, said: "In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions."

When a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, shot and killed a black 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin, President Obama promptly sided with the deceased teen, saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." A jury found Zimmerman not guilty, and one juror later said that during the deliberations, race never came up. Then there's Ferguson. A grim President Obama, at an address before the United Nations, said: "In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions."

But the Ferguson grand jury did not indict the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, and a Department of Justice report exonerated the cop. Contrary to the lies told by his friend who witnessed the shooting, Michael Brown did not have his hands up when the officer shot and killed him. Brown, did not say, "Hands up. Don't shoot." Yet before the investigation even began, Obama's BFF, Sharpton, took to the streets of Ferguson yelling, "No justice, no peace."

The DOJ's investigation of Ferguson's nearly all-white police department criticized its alleged "institutional racism." But its actual findings do not support that conclusion. Ferguson, the investigation noted, is 67 percent black, but 85 percent of its traffic stops involve black drivers. To the DOJ, this 18-point statistical imbalance equals systemic racism. But in New York City, where the department consists mostly officers of color, 55 percent of traffic stops involve a black driver in a city with a 25 percent black population. This is a 30-point statistical imbalance. Wouldn't this make the NYPD even more "institutionally racist" than the Ferguson PD?

Trump, say the media, has created an atmosphere that puts reporters in danger. Obama often unfairly criticized the police. But the media did not blame Obama for the murder of officers by angry black men consumed with the wrongheaded belief that blacks are victimized by the "institutional racism" of the criminal justice system.

8 posted on 07/05/2018 6:07:22 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: elbook

Didn’t they blame Trump for Democrats with ties to Durbin shooting GOP congressmen?


9 posted on 07/05/2018 7:21:29 PM PDT by Luke21 (The Hill sucks.)
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To: Kaslin

Kas, they were responding to the glitchiness where 2 lines were duplicated, not literally asking if Elders stutters. Sheesh. Lighten up a bit. Some people try to use humor, but often they come off like Dad jokes. You know, the ones where my son rolls his eyes and says “DAD!” and then walks off in the other room and laughs.


10 posted on 07/06/2018 7:04:04 AM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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To: Elsie

LOL!


11 posted on 07/06/2018 8:40:30 AM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Kaslin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Kaslin.

12 posted on 07/10/2018 4:18:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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