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    Default NBC, ABC silent, pivot Colorado shooting coverage after new details emerge on shooter

    Got egg on your face and you're the MSM? Just move on to another story

    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 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-ab...emerge-shooter
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    Got egg on your face and you're the MSM? Just move on to another story

    Looking at the shooter's pic, it looks a LOT like he "fell" a time or two on his way to jail

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-ab...emerge-shooter
    I think the shooter was beaten by one of the night club patrons after he took his gun away. Beat him with the gun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SassyLady View Post
    I think the shooter was beaten by one of the night club patrons after he took his gun away. Beat him with the gun.
    I'm sure there's no having to guess what I think about the QRTXYZ community. However, there is just no call for this crap.

    Worse, IMO, is the MSM presenting it as some right-wing, redneck hate crime against the lost in the sauce crowd when it turns it's one of their own 'tards. Think any thoughtful discussion will be had by the left regarding that choice of lifestyle being the culprit? Not a second.

    It must have been hard for them to let go of his whiteness in lieu of his f-d up lifestyle and give him a media pass. Presents a problem for the MSM. The latest round of shooting that coincidentally cropped up before midterms were not dome by whites. This being obvious by leaving out any and all mention of race in the stories. When the shooter is white, it's every other sentence and a condemnation of the entire race, conservatives, etc.

    So obvious I can't understand those that cannot see the MSM's game.
    “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke

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