MrsSmith
06-12-2009, 07:53 PM
DAN GAINOR: Left Blames Holocaust Museum Attack on Conservatives
How does James von Brunn, a man who attacked the Federal Reserve’s Washington headquarters in 1981 when Ronald Reagan was president suddenly get tagged by the media as “a right winger?” When the mainstream media rely on left-wing sources for their information, that’s how.
In the aftermath of this week’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, a Nazi who may have targeted conservatives for attack as well, is suddenly singled out as part of a deadly trend. The left jumped on yesterday’s horrific incident as yet another example of so-called “right-wing extremism.” Liberals connected von Brunn — a career anti-Semite, neo-Nazi nutball — to conservative dissatisfaction with President Obama. And journalists were right there with them asking all of the expected questions about scary conservatives.
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It’s good to know that hate is now bad. This after the left spent eight spent years demonizing our soldiers in Iraq, President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, businessmen and virtually anyone connected to the GOP. Now, as Code Pinkers still harass Cheney and protest Bush’s new Texas home and lefty bloggers call for the execution of climate deniers, suddenly the issue they want to focus on is “right-wing hate.”
Sure.
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All of these breathless theories from left-wing quarters about Wednesday’s shooting fall apart when you look at one key point –- that von Brunn’s history makes it obvious he is no “right-wing” anything. Finding a right-winger who hated the government under Reagan is like trying to find an honest politician.
But to tell that story, the liberal media would also have to be honest. Too many in the mainstream media gave up on honesty as the best policy long ago.
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/11/gainor_holocaust_museum_shooting/
How does James von Brunn, a man who attacked the Federal Reserve’s Washington headquarters in 1981 when Ronald Reagan was president suddenly get tagged by the media as “a right winger?” When the mainstream media rely on left-wing sources for their information, that’s how.
In the aftermath of this week’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, a Nazi who may have targeted conservatives for attack as well, is suddenly singled out as part of a deadly trend. The left jumped on yesterday’s horrific incident as yet another example of so-called “right-wing extremism.” Liberals connected von Brunn — a career anti-Semite, neo-Nazi nutball — to conservative dissatisfaction with President Obama. And journalists were right there with them asking all of the expected questions about scary conservatives.
>>>
It’s good to know that hate is now bad. This after the left spent eight spent years demonizing our soldiers in Iraq, President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, businessmen and virtually anyone connected to the GOP. Now, as Code Pinkers still harass Cheney and protest Bush’s new Texas home and lefty bloggers call for the execution of climate deniers, suddenly the issue they want to focus on is “right-wing hate.”
Sure.
>>>
All of these breathless theories from left-wing quarters about Wednesday’s shooting fall apart when you look at one key point –- that von Brunn’s history makes it obvious he is no “right-wing” anything. Finding a right-winger who hated the government under Reagan is like trying to find an honest politician.
But to tell that story, the liberal media would also have to be honest. Too many in the mainstream media gave up on honesty as the best policy long ago.
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/11/gainor_holocaust_museum_shooting/