Anybody else hear about that LGBT&c gunman in DC?

Now, why is a shooting at a political organization in the nation’s capitol not getting much MSM play?

Man, that’s a tough one.  I’m gonna have to think real hard about that. 

Ah yes, Leonard Pitts; the man without an unpublished thought.  I cancelled a newspaper subscription precisely because they ran every sentence this serial complainer has ever written.

Since the MSM’s sympathies are all with the shooter, it’s quite predictable that the story is given scant attention and the shooter’s race, politics, etc., are ignored.

If it were the other way around (a “right-wing nut” attacking the LGBT organization), you would see top-of-the-fold giant headlines on every newspaper and it would be the lead story on every news outlet decrying the epidemic of “right-wing hate.”

Sorry, but I think it’s simply inaccurate to say that this isn’t being covered by the mainstream media. 

It’s on the front page of the Washington Post print edition, above the fold, and is the #2 story on the WP web site.  ABCNews.com also has it in the headlines column on the landing page.  The LA Times, MSNBC, and Yahoo News are all covering their story on today’s front pages, national sections, or both. 

CBS News identifies the affiliation of the shooter in its headline on its main page: “LGBT volunteer charged in conservative group shooting.”

The New York Times does bury the story on page 15 of the front page section in today’s paper, to be fair. 

But it’s not as though only conservative news outlets are paying attention to the story.

Why is Family Research Council categorized as being a “hate group” for being pro-family,  and the Southern Poverty Law Center which motivated this shooter to attack, not a “hate group”?

I’m so confused.

Pigeon, yes, news organizations are obligingly covering it.  But my point again is that if it were the other way around, it would be wall-to-wall, non-stop coverage of the “hate” on the right.  You’re not seeing that kind of coverage with this incident. And, no, I’m not wishing for that kind of coverage either.  Unfortunately, the media are too quick to blame the “right”, “Christians”, etc., if it were the other way.  They even look for it when it’s not there (Arizona, Colorado Springs shootings, OK City bombing, Unabomber etc.).

I find the Leonard Pitts article deeply troubling because of another trend he fails to mention; the groups of young urban blacks who are increasingly beating non-black people and their increasing flash mob robberies of stores.  In many cases the police are choosing to not even try to charge anyone with the thefts, and the beatings have almost never been classified as “hate crimes,” unless protests by the public forced police to call them hate crimes.  Baltimore, Philadelphia, and I believe Chicago are cities where these crimes are taking place with alarming frequency.  So much for Obama’s post racial, “healing touch.”

Newsbusters does a nice job outing the MSM spin and fudge.

Ace of Spades with a roundup of the non- or mis-coverage.

As with the Marxist-Leninist/Soviet defector who blew a hole in President Kennedy’s head when he was sitting with his wife in a car, surrounded by hundreds of bystanders, a LGBT assassin doesn’t quite fit the preferred narrative of those who control the information flow.

Hey, the story (without any finger-pointing at the “cause” of the young man’s wrath—I think that the most that was written was that his motivation was not as yet known) made it to the #3 position after two relatively low-key stories on my home page news feed from NPR.

Frankly, I was impressed that they covered it at all.

I mean, nobody died.  And we don’t really know what was up with this poor, unassuming, quiet, and otherwise well behaved young man.

But the president spoke out about it.

I have seen ample coverage of this - and I have to say that one reason there may not be a huge hue and cry about it is that, thanks be to God, no one was killed.

I’m in DC (work about 3 blocks from FRC) and I have to go with the OP - if the MSM didn’t have to cover this at all, they wouldn’t.  Other than Fox News, I had to check in on the local news radio’s website for decent updates.  It was covered more like a local story (they did a good job - even DC’s police chief called the guard a hero).

Most of the coverage has been of the johnny-come-lately variety.  I especially love how CNN took nearly three hours to get in front of this “breaking story.”  Conveniently, Townhall compressed CNN’s coverage to just over two minutes here.

The shooting made the front page of yesterday’s Washington Post. Today it’s been relegated to the front page of the Metro, or B, section.

#14 thanks for the follow up on that.  The party line now seems to be “Hey, nobody died, so no big deal.”

Again, one must imagine how this would be covered if the politics were reversed.  What if a “conservative Christian” had brandished a gun at some LGBT&c establishment?  Even if there were no deaths - even if the gun were a toy - this would be top news, probably the topic of declarations from the Campaigner in Chief.

The PB of TEC would issue a pastoral letter, calling all churches to wail and grovel because of all the harm done to LGBT&c.

The MSM would not let the story go away if the politics were reversed.

Again, one must imagine how this would be covered if the politics were reversed.  What if a “conservative Christian” had brandished a gun at some LGBT&c establishment?

Or Planned Parenthood?

Yeah, even carrying a placard, Bible or rosary is as bad as bringing a gun to PP.

Saturday’s Post buried a story about the shooting inside the Metro section, although they did report that the shooter may have been also targeting the Traditional Values Coalition’s offices on Capitol Hill.

The Post’s website published a column by Becky Garrison titled, “Time to change the conversation from demonizing to finding common ground.” Not surprisingly, her idea of “common ground” is found on the gay rights side.

Yesterday the Washington Post published an editorial lauding the FRC security guard’s actions while condemning the FRC’s views on sexuality as “abhorrent.” The latter, while disappointing, is not surprising from a paper that once published a front-page article on homosexuals in the military which described conservative evangeliicals as “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.”

Yesterday’s Post also published an op-ed piece by liberal columnist Dana Milbank which criticized the FRC’s views on sexuality, yet also criticized the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Human Rights Campaigh for labeling the FRC and other pro-family organizations as “hate groups.” I was so surprised I almost fell out of my chair.

The shooter was indicted yesterday. Today’s Washington Post carried the story on the back page of the Metro section.

Thanks for that update.  How could they bury this heroic story of prophetic resistance to right wing hate?