{"id":5751,"date":"2013-04-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2013-04-17T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-boston-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5751","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Blame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smoke from the bombing at the Boston Marathon on April 15<sup>th<\/sup> had hardly had a chance to clear when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpnn.com\/it-begins-the-leftist-media-starts-to-blame-the-right-for-boston-marathon-bombings\">the media began speculating about right-wing extremists<\/a>. Folks, please, let\u2019s take care of the wounded and bury our dead before breaking out the knee-jerk reactions, OK? It seems like after every single act like this, the media just has to have a race to see who can blame conservatives first.<\/p>\n<p>After the Aurora shooting, for example, Brian Ross apparently did a Google search for the shooter\u2019s name, Jim Holmes, and may have hit the \u201cI\u2019m feeling lucky\u201d button, before reporting that he was a Tea Party member. Turned out, of course, that some guy with the same name did belong to the Tea Party, but he wasn\u2019t the shooter. Still, it was too good to check, it fit the narrative, and Ross reported it. <\/p>\n<p>But did they learn their lesson? Why, of course not. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Esquire\u2019s Charles Pierce suggested conservatives when he wrote, \u201cObviously, nobody knows anything yet, but I would caution folks jumping to conclusions about foreign terrorism to remember that this is the official Patriots Day holiday in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord, and that the actual date (April 19) was of some significance to, among other people, Tim McVeigh, because he fancied himself a waterer of the tree of liberty and the like.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>MSNBC\u2019s \u201cjournalist\u201d Chris Matthews got in on the disgraceful speculation and claimed, \u201cNormally domestic terrorists, people, tend to be on the far right.\u201d <\/li>\n<li>CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen told host Jake Tapper shortly after the bombings that they could be the work of \u201cright-wing extremists\u201d just as easily as they could be the work of Al Qaeda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, just like the Unabomber, Gabby Gifford\u2019s shooter, the aforementioned Jim Holmes, and Adam Lanza. Not that they\u2019re all far <i>Left<\/i>, mind you, but they certainly aren\u2019t or weren\u2019t far <i>Right<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>To try to make it seem like this sort of unhelpful speculation was happening equally on both sides, the left-wing FreakOutNation website posted that <a href=\"http:\/\/freakoutnation.com\/2013\/04\/15\/fox-news-contributor-responds-to-boston-marathon-explosions-kill-all-muslims\/\">a Fox News contributor was immediately blaming Muslims<\/a>. See? Exactly the same thing, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, except that <a href=\"http:\/\/erikrush.com\/bio.htm\">Erik Rush has contributed to CNN as well as Fox<\/a>. No mention of that. Oh, and that his was an ugly, but personal, tweet, rather than being broadcast nationally by, well, anyone. Oh yeah, exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, both sides have their nuts. However, when it comes to jerking their knees around, the left-wing, <i>mainstream<\/i> media have the blame game down to a science, and they make sure you heard it here first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smoke from the bombing at the Boston Marathon on April 15th had hardly had a chance to clear when the media began speculating about right-wing extremists. Folks, please, let\u2019s take care of the wounded and bury our dead before breaking out the knee-jerk reactions, OK? 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