Gunny
12-02-2022, 06:13 PM
Got egg on your face and you're the MSM? Just move on to another story :rolleyes:
Looking at the shooter's pic, it looks a LOT like he "fell" a time or two on his way to jail :)
In the wake of the Colorado Springs mass shooting (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/co-gov-jared-polis-visits-gay-club-shooting-site-5-people-killed) that left five patrons of an LGBTQ nightclub dead, numerous liberal journalists and pundits blamed Republican rhetoric for the killing spree—but have since gone quiet on the motive as new information trickles out, including his claim to be "non-binary."
While early reporting on the massacre was filled with headlines tying Christian conservatives, right-wing media outlets, and members of the Republican Party to the attack, recent reports instead focus primarily on victims of the attack, the patrons that intervened to stop the shooter, as well as concerns about gun laws.
In the days following the shooting, ABC's "The View" aired a segment about the shooting, appearing to blame Republican leadership, with co-host Whoopi Goldberg specifically calling out Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, Colo.
NBC News reporter Ben Collins, during a Nov. 22 appearance on "Morning Joe," hoped that journalists would have a "come to Jesus moment" regarding politically divisive rhetoric, naming right-wing media outlet Breitbart in his comments. He read out his own stories' headlines about previous rhetoric about trans individuals and also claimed that the victims all felt they were only safe in that bar.
"Because there are five dead people in a strip mall, because that was the only place they felt safe as gay or trans people, in this town, in Colorado Springs," he claimed.
Collins' speech drew derision from media critics, including Substack writer Jesse Singal.
"Ben Collins is putting words into their mouths and thoughts into their heads. He is, in effect, speaking over recent murder victims solely to make a political point and to inflate the importance of his own particular beat. That’s the only way to describe this," Singal wrote.
Collins also brought up a story, published by NBC News’ Maura Barrett, of one of the survivors of the shooting, who was ridiculed by their parents for being gay after coming home from the club. He said that the parents responded this way because such a perspective was viewed as an "acceptable response" by the Republican Party.
NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny asserted there was a "one-to-one correlation" between recent Republican rhetoric surrounding transgender rights, criticism of LGBTQ-focused books in schools, "gender-affirming care" for adolescents, and attacks on LGBTQ Americans.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-abc-silent-pivot-colorado-shooting-coverage-new-details-emerge-shooter
Looking at the shooter's pic, it looks a LOT like he "fell" a time or two on his way to jail :)
In the wake of the Colorado Springs mass shooting (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/co-gov-jared-polis-visits-gay-club-shooting-site-5-people-killed) that left five patrons of an LGBTQ nightclub dead, numerous liberal journalists and pundits blamed Republican rhetoric for the killing spree—but have since gone quiet on the motive as new information trickles out, including his claim to be "non-binary."
While early reporting on the massacre was filled with headlines tying Christian conservatives, right-wing media outlets, and members of the Republican Party to the attack, recent reports instead focus primarily on victims of the attack, the patrons that intervened to stop the shooter, as well as concerns about gun laws.
In the days following the shooting, ABC's "The View" aired a segment about the shooting, appearing to blame Republican leadership, with co-host Whoopi Goldberg specifically calling out Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, Colo.
NBC News reporter Ben Collins, during a Nov. 22 appearance on "Morning Joe," hoped that journalists would have a "come to Jesus moment" regarding politically divisive rhetoric, naming right-wing media outlet Breitbart in his comments. He read out his own stories' headlines about previous rhetoric about trans individuals and also claimed that the victims all felt they were only safe in that bar.
"Because there are five dead people in a strip mall, because that was the only place they felt safe as gay or trans people, in this town, in Colorado Springs," he claimed.
Collins' speech drew derision from media critics, including Substack writer Jesse Singal.
"Ben Collins is putting words into their mouths and thoughts into their heads. He is, in effect, speaking over recent murder victims solely to make a political point and to inflate the importance of his own particular beat. That’s the only way to describe this," Singal wrote.
Collins also brought up a story, published by NBC News’ Maura Barrett, of one of the survivors of the shooting, who was ridiculed by their parents for being gay after coming home from the club. He said that the parents responded this way because such a perspective was viewed as an "acceptable response" by the Republican Party.
NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny asserted there was a "one-to-one correlation" between recent Republican rhetoric surrounding transgender rights, criticism of LGBTQ-focused books in schools, "gender-affirming care" for adolescents, and attacks on LGBTQ Americans.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-abc-silent-pivot-colorado-shooting-coverage-new-details-emerge-shooter