{"id":29643,"date":"2012-08-16T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29643"},"modified":"2012-08-16T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T14:58:44","slug":"compare-and-contrast-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29643","title":{"rendered":"Compare And Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to get into the politics of the shooting at the Family Research Council headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Neither are the leftymedia. \u00a0In stark contrast to&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Aurora shooting, where NBC&#8217;s Brian Ross falsely identified shooter Holmes as a Tea Party organizer<\/li>\n<li>the Tucson massacre, where the blood hadn&#8217;t dried before the leftymedia gravely blamed it all on Sarah Palin&#8217;s rhetoric<\/li>\n<li>The Discovery Network incident, in which a nutcase with a gun and a bomb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2010\/09\/01\/129580666\/discovery-channel-gunman-hostage-situation\">took over the network&#8217;s lobby<\/a>. \u00a0It was blamed on conservatives, until it turned out James Jay Lee was a Zero Population Growth advocate inspired by Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Science Czar&#8221; John Holgren\u00a0(at which point the story disappeared)<\/li>\n<li>the Pentagon Subway shooting, which the left and media (ptr) blamed on the Tea Party until it turned out John Patrick Bedell was a lefty (at which point the story disappeared)<\/li>\n<li>the Austin, TX airplane crash, in which a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/02\/18\/pilot-crashes-texas-building-apparent-anti-irs-suicide\/\">lone pilot crashed a light plane into the skyscraper housing the Austin, Texas IRS office<\/a>. \u00a0Blamed, naturally, on the Tea Party, until it got out that Joseph Stack was an anti-Bush zealot\u00a0(at which point the story disappeared)<\/li>\n<li>The death of Bill Sparkman, which the media hurried to pin on Michele Bachmann, until it turned out he was a lefty too\u00a0(at which point the story disappeared)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;the media are being very circumspect about politicizing the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Why, maybe they&#8217;ve learned their lesson!<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they are, as always, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/08\/15\/cops-suspect-in-frc-shooting-volunteered-at-washington-lgbt-center\/\">serving the narrative<\/a>, if they <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/08\/16\/video-cnn-takes-almost-3-hours-to-report-family-research-council-shooting\/\">bothered to note the incident<\/a> at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to get into the politics of the shooting at the Family Research Council headquarters. Neither are the leftymedia. \u00a0In stark contrast to&#8230; the Aurora shooting, where NBC&#8217;s Brian Ross falsely identified shooter Holmes as a Tea Party organizer the Tucson massacre, where the blood hadn&#8217;t dried before the leftymedia gravely blamed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29645,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29643\/revisions\/29645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}