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WHY PEOPLE HATE THE MEDIA, CHAPTER MDCXIII:

 

“The Washington Post built an entire story around this — a story that blames right-wing talk radio for a left-wing crackpot opening fire on a baseball field full of Republicans, because they are Republicans.

 

Let that sink in:

 

the Washington Post blames right-wing talk radio for a left-winger’s assassination attempt on Republican politicians

 

These people are so lost in their anti-conservative bigotry that they can’t tell up from down or right from wrong.”

 

 

As Michael Dougherty of National Review tweets in response to the Post’s fiction, “Alexandria as the new Dallas. So filled with right wing hate it makes socialists kill.”

 

Hey, that strategy worked remarkably well as a deflection point for the left in 1963; less so in 2011 – but hey, might as well break out the old playbook one more time, huh?

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I'm sure they're admission that their blatant lie was an "honest" mistake has absolutely nothing to do with them being sued by Palin for publishing an actual lie (knowingly lying being the standard for defamation/libel suits involving public figures.)

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JOURNALISM AS NARRATIVE CONTROL: James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

 

We’ve been hearing a lot about “right-wing violence” lately. If we’re to believe our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters, there’s a Klansman on every street corner and a Nazi under every bed. There’s nothing more terrifying than a “white nationalist” who lives in his mom’s basement, which is
why it’s okay for feral Antifa children to beat these guys up and drench them with balloons filled with piss. It’s “self-defense.”

 

But what happens when an act of violence is irrefutably motivated by left-wing ideology? What happens if, for example, a Bernie Bro named James T. Hodgkinson shoots at a bunch of congressmen for the explicit reason that he hates Republicans and wants them dead? How do we fit that into the preferred narrative?

 

We can’t. There’s no way. So we just leave it out entirely.

 

 

 

Well, for certain values of “we.” But it’s sad to see this even from the WSJ. Plus:

If James T. Hodgkinson had been a Trump supporter who shot and almost killed a Democratic congressman for political reasons, he’d be the most infamous man in America. But now, just two months after his attempt to murder a group of Republican lawmakers, he’s not even worth mentioning.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think the press is sad that Hodgkinson didn’t succeed.

 

 

 

Think of them as Democratic Party operatives with bylines and you won’t go far wrong.

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