[American Thinker] The lovely and courageous Dana Loesch was absolutely correct when she commented that the left loves mass shootings ‐ not the tragedy aspect, but the ratings gold, of which they leap to take advantage.
Before the bodies are removed from the site, the left begins politicizing the event. The massacre in Florida was no exception. This time, the media really upped their game. They contacted the students who survived and encouraged them to appear on their "news" programs, which are not news, but calculated propaganda. If the student or the parents do not support the leftist version of gun control, they are given a script to stick by or disinvited. The ridiculous program staged on CNN and hosted by Jake Tapper was the most egregious example yet. Adults and teens were most likely directed to behave like animals in a zoo, screaming and jeering at Marco Rubio and Dana Loesch as if they had personally shot up that school. That they actually found that many people who agreed to behave so horribly is a tragedy in itself.
Ours is no longer a civil society. Every adult and teen in that room should be ashamed of himself. It was an appalling display of spewing venom for political purposes. The dead kids were reduced to fodder for Jake Tapper's personal crusade against the Second Amendment. This monstrous example of planned media deception most likely won the NRA thousands of new members.
Ms. Loesch, a representative of the NRA, was also correct to point out that the left media who are so obsessed with using the Florida catastrophe for their own ends never pay a moment of attention to the thousands of grieving mothers of the dead in Chicago. Not one bit. When someone points to this fact, he is generally called a racist. It is racist to point out that more people are killed in Chicago every weekend than died at that Florida high school. Go figure.
The purveyors of progressivism are having a really bad year. They were certain their concocted Trump-Russia hoax would ensure a Clinton victory, but that is backfiring. Their hatred of the president has made them all neurologically dysfunctional. Watching the White House press corps torment Sarah Sanders or Raj Shah with tiresome, repetitive questions day after day after day is excruciating. All they care about are the things Americans outside that room do not care about: Rob Porter's past crimes against his wives; the Mueller investigation, which the rest of us see is clearly an orchestrated witch hunt; their obsession with disarming law-abiding citizens, which in no way will stop murderous criminals from committing their evil deeds; any women Trump may have brushed up against at any time in his life; etc. |