Howard Kurtz is one media personality who wasn’t name-checked in alleged killer Christopher Dorner’s lengthy manifesto, so perhaps he has the perspective to ask if we should even care that Dorner praised Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad Obrien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley and Anderson Cooper. Should we care that he even sent Cooper a hand-labeled DVD and an LAPD coin shot through with bullets?
@HowardKurtz Jealous much? Keep the faith, Howie. Maybe the next serial killer will give you a nice blurb too.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 8, 2013
“Should we” and “do we” are two entirely different things, though, and if we’re going to be consistent, then yes, we do care about Dorner’s love affair with Left-leaning cable news.
@HowardKurtz NORMALLY? NOPE. But since liberals seem to blame every bad thing on Tea party WITH NO CONNECTIONS! now? YEP
— Behind Enemy Lines (@BushwackCA) February 8, 2013
https://twitter.com/MoonbatCatnip/status/299996487851593728
No, @HowardKurtz, but as a media critic, you should notice that the media tends to care when an alleged killer mentions conservatives.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) February 8, 2013
https://twitter.com/DefendoLibertas/status/299995343637065728
@go_galt @HowardKurtz Yes. You KNOW if he were a fan of the tea party, Fox News or any other liberal "hate groups" that would be the story!
— Zedediah Grimm, Undead Esq. (@Undead_Zed) February 8, 2013
@HowardKurtz Well, yes, since press itself makes a POINT of trying to determine what other crazed killers think about politics and media.
— TheAnchoress (@TheAnchoress) February 8, 2013
Wait, when has the Left ever tried to tie violence to conservative talkers?
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Update: We wondered who would be the first to point out that Joe Scarborough is a Republican — a Republican who can happily hang with the ladies of “The View” on their big couch, but a Republican nonetheless. But a conservative?
The accused cop killer likes Scarborough too. Getting a lot of tweets re diff treatment if he praised conservatives. Manifesto is just weird
— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) February 9, 2013
@HowardKurtz You…think @JoeNBC is a standard-issue right-winger?
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/300047425865916417
Also by the way, was linking to a colleague's story on the manifesto, not mine. Maybe reading before tweeting is a good idea.
— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) February 9, 2013
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