Shaming the shameless: Ace of Spades destroys media over union violence, Crowder attack embargo

NBC would have invented it, and then provided wall-to-wall coverage. But, once again, lapdogs are burying bones for the Left and its union goons. As Twitchy reported, violent thugs destroyed tents (with women and children inside) and a business during protests in Lansing, Mich. A union goon also physically attacked Steven Crowder, punching him in the face.

The media? Silent. Except to say that the “demonstrations” were “mostly peaceful.”

Media Matters "has gone deafeningly silent in the wake of Tuesday's union violence." http://t.co/fWIf5k4U

— Tim Groseclose (@Tim_Groseclose) December 13, 2012

@alimhaider yes. I keep thinking at some point they'll be embarrassed. Turns out, they have no shame.

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 12, 2012

They truly are shameless. And shameful. How does one shame the shameless? The always awesome Ace of Spades is up for the task, and an epic drubbing results. First, he, and other happy warriors, attempt to have the lapdogs respond personally.

Your network should just make it explicit (rather than obvious but implicit) that political violence is permissible against cons. @kellyo

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 12, 2012

@AceofSpadesHQ @kellyo we'd be seeing nothing but 24 hour coverage.and endless interviews.

— Jack Rackim (@JackRackim) December 12, 2012

@AceofSpadesHQ Not only would they cover it, they would have broke into Days of Our Lives to tell us about it. @KellyO

— Dan (@Dan_the_A) December 12, 2012

Though you may begin to find that such attitudes begin to grow on the right as well. @KellyO

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 12, 2012

Yet if folks are truly scandalized by the lack of generalized media outrage about Crowder’s treatment, they should take a second look at Crowder’s actions. Though he appears to have carried himself nobly while under attack, he’s gone buffoonish since then. He said on Twitter yesterday that this is “getting fun.” He challenged his assailant to a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight. And he has generally sounded as if he’s enjoying this boost to his career prospects, in a way that his Halloween-candy-exposes-the-fraud-of-income-redistribution stunt did not.

Given how Crowder has carried on, I, too, may well pass on the story of his beating, were I a network executive producer.

Read that again, and disregard the clear case of envy (waah, Crowder has a career!).

Know your place, Steven! Shaddup and just say you fell down the stairs. That’s Wemple’s argument. Ace, once again, utterly wallops Wemple.

hey @erikwemple remember when @sandrafluke engaged in self-promotion and hired a PR firm to get word of her Ordeal out to the public?

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

and @erikwemple remember when the media completely froze her out of coverage because of that? Because I don't.

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

Remember @erikwemple when the media claimed it *wanted* to cover Benghazi but couldn't because Mitt Romney was making it an issue?

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

then remember @erikwemple that Mitt Romney entirely dropped any mention of Benghazi, and the media stopped reporting on it too?

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

Media's new reason for liberal bias: We of course can't cover a newsworthy story if a conservative wants us too. @erikwemple

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

oddly enough, if a liberal pushes a story, the media has no problems giving it the flood-the-zone treatment. @erikwemple

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

.@erikwemple are you claiming that if @scrowder remained silent about being beaten you would have in burn beat a path to his door?

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

.@erikwemple how would you have even known it happened? God knows you guys don't read anything but leftwing blogs.

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

Yes, just ask special snowflake Soledad O’Brien.

And Ace, as ever, puts it all in a brilliant nutshell.

It's almost as if stories are promoted or embargoed according to their exact potential to help or embarrass the progressive cause.

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 12, 2012

Yeah. Weird, huh?

Update: The drubbing continues.

@DLoesch the NYT claimed @scrowder started it without bothering to even contact the union guy and get him to claim that.

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

@DLoesch @scrowder they quoted a leftwing blogger for this proposition.

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

Part of the extremism comes from their reliance on florid leftwing blogs to defend them. They are hand and glove with them @JohnLivReynolds

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

the New York Times, for example, just cited a leftwing blog for the proposition that @scrowder started it @JohnLivReynolds

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

no actual NYT reporing — they didn't interview @scrowder or the thug. They just quoted a leftwing blog. @JohnLivReynolds

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012

@iowahawkblog @scrowder @JohnLivReynolds well yeah. But they pretend they're not, even as their content comes from leftwing blogs.

— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012