Running through all the examples of the media’s knee-jerk blaming of the right over the last 5 years. —> @gabrielmalor
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) December 14, 2013
As Twitchy noted, the Denver Post published a profile of Arapahoe High School shooter Karl Pierson, describing the 18-year-old as having “very strong beliefs about gun laws and stuff” and holding political beliefs “outside the mainstream.” Ah, a Tea Partyer, huh? Oh, and a classmate also described Pierson as “a very opinionated socialist” — at least that’s how the Denver Post’s account read, until a stealth edit changed the sentence to read simply, “very opinionated.”
Why scrub the word “socialist”? Attorney and Ace of Spades HQ co-blogger Gabriel Malor has compiled a list of shootings, stabbings, terrorist plots and other attacks, along with the ideologies of the perpetrators, and the picture they paint is certainly not one of a Tea Partyer — not that the media would report that.
Sept 2009: census-taker Bill Sparkman found hanged in rural Kentucky. Media speculated it was Tea Party. (He killed himself.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
Feb 2010: Joe Stack flies small plane into an IRS building. Anti-tax TP rhetoric blamed. (He quoted from the Communist Manifesto.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
Feb 2010: Amy Bishop shoots colleagues at University of Alabama faculty meeting. Gun-loving Tea Party suspected. (She was an Obama voter.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
March 2010: John Patrick Bedell shot two Pentagon security. A right-wing extremist, media asked? (A registered Democrat and 9/11 Truther.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
BTW, to this day, if you type "John Patrick Bedell" into Google, the first autofill "suggestion" is "John Patrick Bedell tea party."
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
May 2010: massive Times Square car bomb found. Bloomberg speculates it's someone upset about ACA. (Actually, plain vanilla jihadist scum.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
August 2010: Amid GZM debate, Muslim cabbie stabbed in NYC. Media speculates: a RWNJ? (Actually, a Lefty art student off his meds.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
Sept 2010: James Lee takes hostages at Discovery Chan HQ. Media speculates: climate change denier? (An environmentalist who hates humans.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
Jan 2011: Jared Lee Loughner shoots up campaign event of Rep. Giffords. Media: TP rhetoric is to blame. (An apolitical conspiracy theorist.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
July 2012: James Holmes shoots up theater in Aurora, CO. Brian Ross suggests he's a TPer on live TV. (Just another unmedicated nutter.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
April 2013: Tsarnaev bros bomb Boston Marathon. Media suggests RWNJ commemorating "Patriot's Day." (Actually, just more jihadist scum.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
Oct. 2013: Media retroactively blames right wing for JFK assassination. (Actually, LHO was a communist defector.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
Aug 2012: Floyd Lee Corkins shoots up @FRCdc based on @SPLCenter's "target list." Media: [crickets]. h/t @JammieWF
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
Dec 2013: student shoots up CO high school w/ shotgun. Denver Post scrubs his self-described "socialist" beliefs. (We're on to you, media.)
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
@gabrielmalor I didn't realize there were so many of those.
— Underdog (@rdbrewer4) December 14, 2013
@rdbrewer4 Happens every time there's violence where the motive is not immediately known. The media speculates and inevitably suggests RWNJ.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 14, 2013
There are plenty more examples of unhinged acts at MichelleMalkin.com.
@stephenkruiser @TwitchyTeam @gabrielmalor See also Blame Righty: A Condensed History ==> http://t.co/Jbm8RAvqwZ
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) December 14, 2013
Fortunately, some are willing to do the job the mainstream media won’t do.
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Brian Ross, media malpractice consequences: Falsely accused Tea Party member receiving threats
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