This editor was finishing up a piece on the Atlanta shooter who killed one person and injured at least four others at a hospital when this tweet by Matthew Yglesias floated past:
Too many violent in the United States for each one to be a national news story but we don’t really have a clear or principled basis for deciding which ones get that coverage.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 3, 2023
It’s true that the media doesn’t have a principled basis for deciding which acts of violence become national news, but it’s crystal clear that the media has a clear basis for deciding which crimes make the news cycle. Plenty of Democrat politicians, especially The Squad, are making sure the death of Jodan Neely on a New York City subway stays at the top of the headlines. Curiously, the Washington Post’s headline made the races of the individuals involved perfectly clear without even having to skim the story.
As we’ve mentioned, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already declared the Marine veteran who held Neely in a chokehold guilty of murder. She went on to blame all of the things she could do something about were she a member of Congress representing New York: homelessness, hunger, rent, the militarization of the police at the expense of social services, and more. Sounds like a horrible place to live.
Which stories get national news coverage? Well, we all know the name Jordan Neely now (the Michael Jackson impersonator), but Matt Walsh wonders if AOC was as upset over the 11 people who were murdered on the subway last year:
Eleven people were murdered on the NYC subway last year. You do not know any of their names. Over 400 people were murdered citywide. You do not know any of their names. @AOC did not pretend to care about them. There were no protests of any kind. That's all you need to know.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 4, 2023
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It's so transparent
— Banana Republican (@KirkManIsHere) May 4, 2023
Because this case fits their narrative. They don't care about this man. They are just using him.
— MaryC (@MaryC_Love) May 4, 2023
If they cared about him, they wouldn’t have put him back on the streets after 44 arrests.
It's going to be a mostly peaceful weekend.
— Susie (@SoCalSister22) May 4, 2023
She is a race-baiting opportunist. Never be surprised by any of her actions. Call her out on anything and everything and be relentless – she is. Pay her in kind.
— Robert L. Ross (@rlross1765) May 4, 2023
"The homeless man just needed help!"
*Proceeds to not help the other thousands on the street right now*— Chief Hung Like Buffalo (@BanditoOfNalgas) May 4, 2023
I am so tired of AOC at this point. Whatever morons voted to give her a platform to voice her crap from need to have their voting rights revoked.
— Jason (@SensibleDad43) May 4, 2023
— Express (@TheOnlyExpress) May 4, 2023
Reasonable people realize these politicians are dividing us. But, what’s their endgame? And who’s lining their pockets to push this division?
— Laurel (@laurel_prolife) May 4, 2023
She is so slimy it makes snails jealous.
— Mack the Knife (@MackTheKnive) May 4, 2023
No one "says their names" but that is par for the course these days.
— J. Antonio Juarez (@gnarledcatholic) May 4, 2023
Crazy how that works
— Jay (@JayHuh6K) May 4, 2023
We haven’t heard much about the Atlanta shooting Thursday. The woman killed was Amy St. Pierre.
ONE DEAD, FOUR INJURED IN MIDTOWN ATLANTA MASS SHOOTING. Deion Patterson, 24, was taken into custody after he opened fire inside the 11th floor waiting room of Northside Medical Midtown just after 12 p.m. yesterday. He is now facing four counts of aggravated assault and is… pic.twitter.com/vdSOAgJAST
— Southern Man (@MagicBelle1) May 4, 2023
Unless we’ve missed it, the usual gun control activists haven’t been as loud about this shooting.
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How dare we criticize her! lol
AOC rages in frothy-mouthed thread angry over pushback to her race-baiting Jordan Neely lynch claimhttps://t.co/KTJlTjPIVv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 4, 2023
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