This stuff just keeps happening, and aside from stray headlines, local coverage, and scrutiny from right-leaning outlets, this spree of political violence and crime is hardly generating any national attention. Political violence is a right-wing problem, you see, and examples contrary to that approved narrative are to be ignored, downplayed, or mis-categorized. Here is the latest of many recent instances:
The Seattle field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said Friday it was helping authorities in Oregon investigate a fire that was "suspicious in nature" at a pregnancy center run by a Christian organization. The fire at the Gresham, Oregon facility came after a similar anti-abortion facility in Eggertsville, New York, was damaged in an alleged arson attack earlier this week. That incident is also currently under investigation, according to the Buffalo News. The U.S. government is preparing for a potential surge in political violence from the Supreme Court's ultimate ruling on abortion rights in the coming weeks...First Image, the anti-abortion organization that runs the Gresham Pregnancy Resource Center, said in a post on its website that a fire broke out at the facility at about 3 a.m. on Friday. Extensive fire damage was mostly contained to one room but there was additional water and smoke damage in other parts of the building, the organization said. No one was injured in the incident.
A man actively tried to murder a sitting SCOTUS Justice last week and the NYT and several other orgs barely covered it.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 12, 2022
Why do you think the House has gotten away with sitting on additional security bill for over a month? The press refuses to cover this issue objectively.
Imagine being so pro-abortion, a fringe that goes well beyond 'pro-choice', that you terrorize and assault organizations that help women choose not to have abortions. A left-wing group has taken responsibility for some of these attacks. It is not a rebuttal to the point about under-coverage to cite some news stories about it. 'See, the media isn't ignoring this, stop lying!' The press is doing the bare minimum here because they don't want to make a big deal out of political intimidation and criminal activity by their allies on an issue about which journalists are particularly biased. Incidents like these are inconvenient and uncomfortable for them, so they get buried. It's undeniable, just as it's undeniable that if these were attacks carried out by anti-abortion zealots against clinics, it would be heavily and breathlessly covered as a major epidemic, which would be used to tar mainstream pro-lifers. It's similarly undeniable that if a heavily-armed right-winger had traveled across the country to murder, say, Justice Sotomayor because he was angry about her jurisprudence, the reaction of the legacy media would not resemble this:
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The news that’s barely fit to print pic.twitter.com/QksrwZQJdK
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 9, 2022
How the Sunday shows covered the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh via TVEyes.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 12, 2022
# of mentions of "Kavanaugh":
ABC's This Week: 0 mentions
NBC's Meet The Press: 0 mentions
CBS's Face The Nation: 0 mentions
CNN SOTU: 0 mentions
Fox News Sunday covered
I realize the media is profoundly biased, but this is still astonishing. A Supreme Court justice was targeted for assassination and attempted murder charges have been filed against the fanatic who showed up at that justice's home (the address was doxxed and published by left-wing radicals who have not even been condemned by the White House) with an arsenal of weapons -- and the non-Fox networks devoted zero minutes to it on their signature, DC-centric Sunday morning political shows. These psychos have gotten more aggressive since the attempted assassination arrest. The press response is muted or nonexistent. This is why many conservatives view journalism as irredeemable. For what it's worth, as of yesterday, the President of the United States had not bothered to comment on the assassination plot. Amazing, disturbing stuff. We don't have to guess or deal in hypotheticals about how things would go if the ideological shoe were on the other foot. We've seen it before. Democrats with press badges simply have different rules for threats and violence against conservatives (remember this?) versus liberals. It's a disgraceful fact of life in modern America. And even some honest liberals aren't even trying to deny it (language warning):
Bill Maher:
— Bobby Burack (@burackbobby_) June 11, 2022
“If this had been a liberal Supreme Court justice that someone came to kill, it would've been on the front page. And that's what so disappointing about a paper like The New York Times. Because they wear their bias on their sleeves.”
Correct.
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"If it's not something that feeds our narrative, f*** it, we bury it." I'll leave you with this. Arrest them all, any and every time they attempt this:
The group “Shut Down DC” plans to “blockade the streets around the Supreme Court” on Monday, according to its website, as part of a protest that aims to “shut down” the Supreme Court as it prepares to hand down a ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/CRuZThYPnd
— The New York Sun (@NewYorkSun) June 11, 2022
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