{"id":3163,"date":"2010-04-19T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T16:51:44","slug":"violence-done-to-democrats-now-thats-news-violence-done-to-republicans-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"Violence Done to Democrats; Now That&#8217;s News! (Violence Done to Republicans, Not So Much.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When windows are broken at the headquarters of a Democratic politician, it makes the news.&#160; Racial epithets allegedly yelled at Congressmen (for which no actual evidence exists currently) get days of coverage.&#160; But when Republican political operatives, leaving a Republican fundraiser, get beaten outside it and have bones broken, the MSM <a href=\"http:\/\/bigjournalism.com\/hfontova\/2010\/04\/18\/a-possible-political-beating-in-new-orleans-a-collective-shrug-from-the-msm\/\">heaves a sigh of boredom<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bigjournalism.com\/fross\/2010\/04\/18\/in-new-orleans-media-incuriosity-when-the-news-doesnt-fit-the-narrative\/\">virtually ignore it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Left wing blogs spring into action and report that the brutal attack was <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/04\/new-orleans-police-report-assailants-yelled-non-political-insults-at-jindal-staffer.php?ref=fpb\">not politically motivated<\/a>.&#160; So, that explains the (lack of) media coverage?<\/p>\n<p>To steal Limbaugh&#8217;s phrase, Andrew Breibart and company don&#8217;t need to be balanced by equal time.&#160; They <em>are<\/em> equal time.&#160; As Frank Ross says in his article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here we have a beautiful 26-year-old woman who has pins and screws keeping her leg together. We have her boyfriend with a broken jaw and nose. At what point does the media become a willing accomplice, through its silence and utter lack of curiosity, in these crimes?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When indeed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When windows are broken at the headquarters of a Democratic politician, it makes the news.&#160; Racial epithets allegedly yelled at Congressmen (for which no actual evidence exists currently) get days of coverage.&#160; But when Republican political operatives, leaving a Republican fundraiser, get beaten outside it and have bones broken, the MSM heaves a sigh of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-liberal","category-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}