Why Trump's Raised Fist After Surviving Assassination Attempt Is Triggering the Liberal Media

Townhall ^ | 07/17/2024 | Matt Vespa

[SeekAndFind]

On July 13, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. It led to an iconic image of the former president, who had just escaped death from a would-be assassin, perched less than 200 yards from the stage, raising his fist in defiance, face bloody, telling his supporters to “fight.” It’s become a viral sensation. It’s also made some media photographers and editors queasy because—get this—it could hurt Biden and give “free PR” to Trump.

You can’t make this up. They’re afraid to do their jobs because it could hurt the Democrats. This is precisely what’s wrong with the industry and what the late Andrew Breitbart referred to as the “Democrat-media complex” (via Axios): 

30 of the top 50 local news websites featured the historic photo, or a very similar shot, from AP's Evan Vucci of a defiant Trump raising his fist in the air on their homepage Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, national outlets like the Washington Post and the New York Times featured pictures from their own photographers, Jabin Botsford and Doug Mills, on their homepages. The NYT's Mills took the incredible photo of a bullet whizzing by Trump's ear that's gone viral online.

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The big picture: With only a limited number of outlets attending the rally, many national newsrooms also had to rely on reporting, video and photography on the ground from a few major outlets. 

Yes, but: The overuse of the same photos, eyewitness videos and reporting from the ground can also pose risks. 

Multiple photographers worried privately in conversations with Axios' Aïda Amer that the viral images from the rally could turn into a kind of "photoganda," with the Trump campaign using them to further their agenda despite the photographers' intent of capturing a news event. 

A photo editor and photographer from a major news outlet said the "amount that publications have been using Evan's photo is kind of free PR for Trump in a way, and it's dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing that photo despite how good it is." 

“Photoganda” Are these people serious? Not that it needs to be rehashed, but this attitude is why you guys got thrashed for not doing your job when it came to reporting on Joe Biden’s rapidly deteriorating condition. You didn’t want to hurt the Democrats, which was the primary motivator. No one believes the Biden staff guardrails or fear of losing access reasons. Losing access is a concern, but it’s also not an excuse not to do your job. Nothing is kept secret for long in Washington, so anyone with cognitive function roundly rejected this veil of impenetrable secrecy excuse the media doled out concerning their coverage of the Biden White House.

Axios: a "photo editor" at a "major news outlet" suggests media should bury the photo of Trump raising his fist because it's "kind of free PR for Trump in a way, and it's dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing that photo despite how good it is."

pic.twitter.com/pLcrLi6mnH— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) July 16, 2024

Journalists trying to convince other journalists to stop spreading photos from a major news event because it would hurt Biden politically, nbd. https://t.co/6fPQx8I3Ic— Sunny (@sunnyright) July 16, 2024

The photos we took can hurt Biden and the Democrats, so we shouldn’t use them. Yes, let’s smother history to feed our political bias. Such a corrupt and sad group of people.

[taxcontrol]

The left wanted Trump dead. If they could not get that, at least wounded enough to cower him. They didn’t get either and are pissed.

[teeman8r]

there is always someone with more secrets to keep and the means to keep them, when one is involved in a criminal exercise...

i hope they don’t sleep well from now on.

[bray]

The good news is nobody is watching anymore.

[hemogoblin]

The assassin was on a roof straight ahead of Trump

Not true; the shooter fired from Trump's right side

[Jim Noble]

“Soldiers of the Fifth! Do you recognize me? Well, if you want to kill your emperor - Here I am”

[Cowgirl of Justice]

If he hadn’t stood and raised his fist, showing he was still alive, what was to stop someone from administering another shot in the car and saying he died????????

Thank GOD he stood.

And another thing - Cheatle is obviously owned by the Bidens. And she knows it.

[txeagle]

For furure reference, When it comes to the current VP the proper term is “Fellatio-Augmwnted Career Progression’.

[Vaduz]

It could hurt Biden

Translation: Erase all dots and suspicions

[wardaddy]

If he’d died who knows what would have happened in America

I’m unsure

[wardaddy]

We have absolute high ground now

And full sails

Hopefully no lone wolf on our side effs that up

[hanamizu]

On a completely different track, is AP’s Evan Vucci, who took the picture, getting royalties or has it become de facto public domain?

[Jumper]

In Korea, people habitually do the raised fist pump and say, “Fighting” as encouragement.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[ridesthemiles]

SOOOOOOOOOOo—was the pic of Marines raising the US FLAG at IWO JIMA-—PHOTOGANDA????

THe pics of Pearl Harbor ???

We certainly have ALOT of ACTIVE SNOWFLAKES for such a hot summer.

[ridesthemiles]

HELL of a LEGACY-—being owned by the BIDENS.......

[Jumper]

Bad news for Ukraine. Trump is going to LIFT ALL SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA!

[Cen-Tejas]

They live in a perpetual state of fear, anger, and hate.

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Add “self loathing” to your list and I will totally agree with you.

[jughandle]

Ah, missed that one. Thank you.

[Ahithophel]

This

[gas_dr]

It took me a long time to work through and there was a thread yesterday that had multiple side by side videos all time synched. The building was I believe stage right at 200 yards or so. I am about 90% sure if this. If incorrect than it was stage left same distance.

There is also generated 3D video showing that when Trump turned his head ever so slightly it keep the bullet from entering or exiting from the right eye.

If it came from stage left and not for the the change in head position the exit wound would have been enormous and from the right orbit. TV would havr recorded the most gruesome thing ever transmitted live. The “red mist”.

If from stage right the exit wound would have been occipital (the penetration wound would have been small) and less gory but you would have literally seen his brains being blown out behind him.

I was impressed in the time synch video at the enormous distance the back stands were from the podium. Three dimensions shown in a 2d screen sacrifices spatial relationships. I had to spend a lot of time looking at a lot of photos as they have been posted to stitch into 3D all the spatial relationships.

As I have a little doubt I certainly defer to others stronger in spatial reasoning to correct this analysis. I can definitively say this shot did bit come from 90 degree off which would have resulted in either a direct frontal shot or based on his head position a temporal shot both of which would have been fatal. Also if a 90 degree rotation as you postulate, it would have required a shot to pass through cameras or the stands and that would have been far further than the 140 yards that has been confirmed. It has to either come left or right for all the data to fit.