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Media Bias Outrage of the Week - A Politically Correct Sniper: Feel the Joy!
Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (CCRM) ^ | 10/14/2002 | Peacerose

Posted on 10/17/2002 11:14:46 AM PDT by Peacerose

A Politically Correct Sniper:
Feel the Joy!

10/14/2002
The residents of the Washington D.C. area have plenty to worry about here lately. The so-called "Beltway Sniper" has murdered citizens as they go about the most mundane errands. Yet there is one thing they don't have to worry about: at least this sniper is not motivated by racial prejudice.

This warm-fuzziness is brought to us by the Washington Post. On October 4, after the first five victims had been gunned down in Montgomery County, Maryland, the they ran a story with the following headline: "Arbitrary Victims, Identical Fate" with the subhead, "County's Growing Diversity Reflected in Those Gunned Down."

This front-page article celebrates the diversity of the sniper's victims. It almost seems as if, failing to find a racial-hate motivation, the author needed to bring this good news to the readers. 'Yippee skippee! At least it's not a hate crime!'

Join me in informing the Washington Post that the murder of any person for any reason is horrible. Below is the contact information.

The Washington Post
1150 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20071

(202) 334-6000

E-mail contact page

Read more here:

The Washington Post: Arbitrary Victims, Identical Fate

MRC CyberAlert, 10/07/2002


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Free Republic; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: ccrm; crazyheadlines; keywordsgohere; mediabias; pc; sniper; washingtonpost
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To: WaveThatFlag
I think were talking about the situation here in the US so what does China have to do with it?
21 posted on 10/17/2002 12:03:38 PM PDT by farmfriend
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To: farmfriend
I think were talking about the situation here in the US so what does China have to do with it?

We have a white majority in this country, therefore serial killers are proportionately white. The press was caught up in the idea that these attacks were perpetrated by a young male white loner from day one. But we have had hispanic, black, and female serial killers in this country. This never looked like a crime of passion, and it looks like less of one now. FWIW, I think there's a 50/50 chance this guy has made his point and will now look to blend in for a while. If he hasn't already caught the first camel back to Sandland, that is.

23 posted on 10/17/2002 12:25:48 PM PDT by WaveThatFlag
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To: Peacerose
Thanks for the ping about this surreal WP story, Peacerose.

See also:

Political Correctness Kills: The Beltway Sniper Case

24 posted on 10/17/2002 12:37:21 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: mrustow
Excellent article. Thank you.

25 posted on 10/17/2002 12:48:32 PM PDT by AnnaZ
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To: AnnaZ
Sure thing.
26 posted on 10/17/2002 1:13:33 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: Peacerose

This warm-fuzziness is brought to us by the Washington Post. On October 4, after the first five victims had been gunned down in Montgomery County, Maryland, the they ran a story with the following headline: "Arbitrary Victims, Identical Fate" with the subhead, "County's Growing Diversity Reflected in Those Gunned Down."

From another thread: Mark Steyn They want to kill us all

‘We would have preferred to hit a US frigate, but no problem because they are all infidels.’

That's just lunatic talk.

No problem. They are all infidels.

Unlike Mr Fisk, I don’t have decades of expertise in the finer points of Islamic culture, so when people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word.

Lethal to every person. It's lunatics following the Qur'an to the word of a lunatic that wrote it:

* “not to make friendships with Jews and Christians” [5:51]
* “kill the disbeliveers wherever we find them” [2:191]
* “fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie and wait for them in every stratagem” [9:5]
* “and fight them on until there is no more persecution, and religion becomes Allah’s in its entirety” [8:39]

What about the snipers profile? From: HEADS UP! IT'S TERRORISM TERROR IN THE BELTWAY

Finally the news is getting out, from eye-witnesses (who, by the way, the media informs us, are “usually wrong”—sure, that’s why eyewitness evidence carries such weigh in our courts), in this last case, a man driving a car who came face to face with the terrorists in the truck as he blocked their way with his vehicle preparing to make a turn. He said they were Middle Easterners. I believe him. The media even tried to tell us that the lighting at night made the “olive-skinned” be, in reality, white. As though we have never seen people in different lighting situations and are idiots.

The politically correct politicians and bureaucrats facilitated by a PC mainstream media, journalists, academics/professors and grade-school-curriculum indoctrination have been yanking people around, pushed and pulled here-and-there, by their emotional chains that when it comes to reality, of course many of the general public will act out of emotion rather than reason towards Middle Easterners.

The Internet out-competes the PC status quo:

And do not, I repeat, do not rely on the media to keep us informed past the minimal level. They are so busy repeating what they hear and suppressing the intelligence (white male, gun-nut) and ignore the majority of so-called experts who are telling us this is the work of some white kid who was abused by his dad and is “sick”. No kidding, they’re sick. They’re evil; they mean to destroy us and terror and violence are their trade. I don’t give a rat’s patoot about how they feel or what led them to do this.


27 posted on 10/17/2002 1:52:28 PM PDT by Zon
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I think Peter Falk was in it; it was hilarious!!

Anyway, I'm glad this killer cares enough about the great PC god called di-VER-sity. Everyone in the Beltway area can sleep much better, I'm sure.

28 posted on 10/17/2002 2:54:36 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: Peacerose
Just sent my two-cents worth to the Washington Post on this outrageous obsession with political correctness.
29 posted on 10/17/2002 3:08:22 PM PDT by newslady
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Peter Falk and Alan Arkin starring in "The Inlaws"?
30 posted on 10/17/2002 3:48:46 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: DLfromthedesert; 1FreeAmerican
Thanks! The Inlaws it is! I did a Google search and also came up with a reference to that wacky but murderous Latin American dictator with a talking hand named "Senor Pepe!"
31 posted on 10/17/2002 3:57:51 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: clintonh8r
Where have you been Teddy has been doing the zig-zag walk for years with the help of Mr.gin bottle.
32 posted on 10/17/2002 3:59:59 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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To: Peacerose
"Arbitrary Victims, Identical Fate" with the subhead, "County's Growing Diversity Reflected in Those Gunned Down."

BTW, if anybody else was wondering: Because of the byline strike by the paper's unionized staff, the story did not carry a byline.

From the ComPost; well, well. This isn't the first time these maggots have created something from whole cloth; it is after all their stock in trade. Creating issues where there are none belies their stated purpose of being a NEWSpaper. It does support the notion that at least someone there has an axe to grind........against who or what? Probably us, freedom loving Americans.

Rant sent.

FGS

33 posted on 10/17/2002 4:29:48 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
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To: clintonh8r
Obviously, these are "love crimes."
34 posted on 10/17/2002 5:40:57 PM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: Peacerose
Gawd I hate the media. Thank you Peacerose for all your hard work.
35 posted on 10/17/2002 6:45:06 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: WaveThatFlag
It's the white gene that causes serial killers. In countries with no natural caucasians, it is only the albinos of that culture who become serial killers.
36 posted on 10/17/2002 6:53:13 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell
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To: Peacerose
At least it's not a hate crime

Killing Americans because they're Americans is a hate crime. I think its Islamic Jihad.

38 posted on 10/17/2002 11:45:50 PM PDT by Fenris6
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