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Skipping Over the Shooting at FRC
Floyd Corkins, a volunteer for the last six months at the D.C. Center for the LGBT Community, marched into the Family Research Center with a gun and serious ammunition, denounced FRC's policy positions and shot a security guard in the arm before being subdued. Another hate crime, but this time against, perhaps, the pre-eminent pro-family organization in America. CBS gave the story 20 seconds. NBC spent 17 seconds.
Imagine a volunteer for the Family Research Council marching into some gay group's headquarters with a gun, and after shouting his opposition to the homosexual agenda, opened fire and wounded a guard before being subdued. Never mind evening news. This would be breaking news! and for days there would be seemingly endless coverage of continued conservative hatred.
These networks are aiding and abetting liberal violence by refusing to identify it as liberal violence. Whether it's vandalism at Chick-fil-A or rapes in Occupy Wall Street camps, these networks simply cannot find "news" in liberal violence of any kind.
One can easily imagine how the national media elite justify their decision to spike the story. No one was killed or in danger of dying. There are dozens of shootings a day in the D.C. area; this is just one more. We have more important things to cover. Both CBS and NBC spent more than two minutes promoting team Obama's "DREAM Act" amnesty for students. NBC devoted two minutes and 45 seconds to a Chelsea Clinton story on orphaned baby elephants in Africa.
These same media outlets pounce on allegations of conservative hatred, even when there isn't a scintilla of evidence. The Oklahoma City bombing was caused by hatred from right-wing talk radio. The Aurora, Colo., killer was a member of the tea party. So, too, was the man who shot Gabby Giffords. On and on it goes; and over and over it turns out not to be true.
ABC led "World News" with the story on the FRC shooting and saluted the heroic security guard for saving the FRC from a mass shooting in their offices. They were the exception.
Our taxpayer-funded media were silent. The "PBS NewsHour" offered nothing. It did have time to announce, "About four million Bumbo baby seats are being recalled because infants can fall out of them." NPR offered no story on "All Things Considered" on Wednesday night but did find time to report on cheating at a national Scrabble tournament. NPR also skipped it on Thursday's "Morning Edition" but covered the riveting story of "inter-tribal cattle violence" in South Sudan.
MSNBC's primetime lineup, starting with Chris Matthews, said nothing about the shooting at FRC -- except for Rachel Maddow, who offered a slightly longer brief than Brian Williams. This is the same network that went over the top and around the bend that someone at a tea party rally was carrying a weapon at a rally. So why can't they produce one full story on an actual shooting at a conservative office?
On Thursday morning, the network pattern continued: ABC offered another full story (adding the LGBT volunteer connection). By contrast, NBC offered a tiny anchor-read update. CBS aired nothing but did find the time for a story on the 40th anniversary of the movie "Deliverance." Burt Reynolds in make-believe is somehow more newsworthy than a left-winger aiming to massacre up an office of conservative Christians.
CNN was the most offensive of all. Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage was interviewed on Thursday morning's "Early Start" and protested how the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate group" designation for several Christian conservative groups -- including FRC -- is obviously now causing real harm.
In reply, with zero sense of post-shooting decency, CNN anchor Zoraida Sambolin suggested the FRC absolutely deserved the SPLC's "hate group" label, reading from a 1999 FRC pamphlet on the National Man-Boy Love Association and gay activists. She berated Brown: "It is spewing hate, isn't it? ... So it's hate spewing hate."
Within 24 hours of a gay-left activist shooting at the FRC, the world-class jerks at CNN are still demeaning FRC and social conservatives as "hate groups" that should be drummed out of the public conversation.
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40 Comments
tod-the tool guy in brooklyn N.Y.
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 6:55 AM
That's why I'm here, at the patriot post, and not watching left-wing propaganda, Brent!
rab in jo, mo
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 8:00 AM
Joseph Goebbels would be proud of our MSM!
Fortunately, based on their ratings, not many people actually saw the tripe on CNN.
KN in Arkansas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 8:32 AM
It's not news, Brent, because it doesn't fit the Left's agenda. It all depends on whose ox is being gored.
Bill in Texas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 8:56 AM
I was it on the MSN webpage, and Verizon had it on their MyVerizon (I have FIOS internet) newsreel.
@Rab - CNN??? What CNN??? @KN - I agree about the Left agenda point, but I also think that since it wasn't a mass shooting/killing, it got little coverage as well. For them, they also got to think about ratings, and this wouldn't have stacked up the same way as Colorado or the Temple incident.
I am personally glad that this didn't turn into another incident like Aurora Colorado and the Temple.
KN in Arkansas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:13 PM
"I am personally glad that this didn't turn into another incident like Aurora Colorado and the Temple."
Amen!
Doktor Riktor Von Zhades in Western KY
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Last evening on a local access station, I did manage to see an interview with a representative of FRC. However, there did not seem to be any response from anyone else.
As noted in the above piece had this been the shooting of a security guard at a Planned Parenthood office it would have been headline news for days on end.
Likewise there'd be calls for more gun control, gun laws, and gun bans. Strange how the left suddenly supports the 2nd amendment, when the weapon is in the hands of one of their own. I am also wondering has any info been released as to how this man obtained his weapon? Certainly one can speculate that it was not obtained through normal channels.....
wjm in Colorado
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Yet again, another example of the double standards of the left, the ONLY standards they seem to have. And I'm still waiting for stories of the bloodbath known as Chicago, one of the most dangerous and deadly places on the planet, more deaths due to liberal gun violence than Afghanistan. Don't hold your breath.
Mike McGinn in People's Republic of Maryland
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Yep...Reminds me of the hue and cry from the liberal left during and after Operation Desert Storm in 1991. They were up in arms about the unnecessary waste of life because of the imperialist U.S. fighting a war for oil.
When it was over and done with my Dad, at that time a recently retired 30-year combat veteran Marine officer, put it in pespective. He said to me, "Son. Do you know that more people were killed in America due to violent crime during that same time span than were killed in the war itself? Do you know that more people died in automobile accidents during that time? You were probaby safer in Kuwait and Iraq than you were here on the streets of America. Do you hear any uproar about these unneccessary and wasteful deaths? You don't and you won't because it doesn't fit their agenda."
NK in Greenlawn, NY
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 9:50 AM
The best part is they don't understand why Fox News has higher ratings than MSNBC and CNN combined.
Gregory in Yakima Wa.
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM
The Family Research Council is to gays what the KKK is to people of color, Jews and Catholics. They got their hate group designation the old fashioned way: they earned it.
Even so, accelerating hatred into violence is not acceptable. What is acceptable is a closer look at the FRC. The FRC was founded by James Dobson, Armand Nichili Jr and George Rekers. Those are three gay hating, God loving people if ever there were any. But wait...
George Rekers made a career and a nice living as an anti-gay Neuro- Psychiatrist. "Rekers has a Ph.D from University of California, Los Angeles and has been a research fellow at Harvard University, a professor and psychologist for UCLA and the University of Florida, and department head at Kansas State University. In 1983 Rekers was on the founding board of the Family Research Council, a non-profit Christian lobbying organization,[4] and he is a former officer and scientific advisor of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH),[5][6][7] an organization offering conversion therapy intended to change homosexuals into heterosexuals. Rekers has testified in court that homosexuality is sinful and destructive, and against parenthood by gay and lesbian people in a number of court cases involving organizations and state agencies working with children.[2]
In May 2010 Rekers employed a male prostitute as a travel companion for a two-week vacation in Europe.[8][9][10] Rekers denied any inappropriate conduct and suggestions that he was gay. The male escort told CNN he had given Rekers "sexual massages" while traveling together in Europe.[11][12] Rekers subsequently resigned from the board of NARTH.[12][13]"
Mike McGinn in People's Republic of Maryland
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 10:47 AM
An interesting relationship (i.e., FRC = KKK), but completely wrong from logic standpoint, not that the liberal left lets something as petty as logic get in its way.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that being black, Jew, or Catholic is a sin whereas it does say that homosexuality is a sin. The KKK was true bigotry and hatred. The FRC is simply trying to live up to its religious moral standards, which have been in place for a few thousand years.
Just because a noisy minority has in the past decade or so deemed that these standards (which are standards against their behavior) are wrong does not make FRC the equivalent of the KKK or invalidate millennia of moral standards.
Jayve in ABQ, NM
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Belief in Judeo-Christian values = Anti queer. Clear understanding of the dangers of the Muslim culture = Islamophobe. Organizations to promote traditional marriage = Hate groups. Disagreement with the POS POTUS = Racist. Not conforming to liberal stupidity = All of the above. Nobody here buys in to your idiocy Greg. You are only wasting your time here. Make yourself productive and go back to posting on Huffpo and Kos where people may actually give two s**ts to what your opinion is.
Brian in Newport News
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:15 PM
I don't know anything about George Rekers; it appears you quoted this from Wikipedia.
I do know, however, James Dobson. You say he is "gay hating." I challenge you to fine one quote, just ONE, that indicates he "hates" gays.
Calling homosexuality a sin is not hateful. It is quoting God's word. The average Christian could care less what two consenting adults do in privacy. What is wrong is parading sin in the street and trying to force us to accept their sin as 'normal'. On the other hand, a true Christian will only show love and compassion for even homosexuals. Why? Because God tells us to (Jesus said "Inasmuch as you have done it to the least of these, my brethren, you have done it unto me.") and because you can't win people to Christ by demeaning them.
I suspect by your comments that you have observed some hypocrisy exhibited by a professed Christian at some point. It happens. We are only human like everyone else. People make mistakes. All born-again Christians have trouble living up to the Christ's standard, some more than others. But please don't use such a broad brush when painting your picture of conservatives.
Abu Nudnik in Toronto
Monday, August 20, 2012 at 4:40 PM
What is acceptable is to throw the would-be murderer in jail. To shoot someone for disagreeing with one's ideas is unacceptable.
You are blaming and then smearing the victim.
Fran B in Jericho, VT
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Would you support Rekers if he helped people change their genders rather than their sexual orientation? Why do LGBT activists support changing genders, even for young children, but they hate the idea of people changing from same-sex attraction to attraction to the complementary sex?
Tex Horn in Texas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 10:36 AM
This will be swept under the rug much like the case of Hasan, who murdered 14 people at Fort Hood here in Texas. Hasan was spewing Islamic trash as he mowed down these people and yet the FBI and this administration labeled it "work place violence." It was a terroristic act, pure and simple. Repeated letters to Senator John Cornyn, a Republican "conservative" and former Attorney General in Texas, have yielded no acceptable explanation as to why this trash named Hasan is alive today. Welcome to America, land of the Politically Correct.
Bob James in Virginia
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 11:29 AM
As Hasan is under the jurisdiction of the United States Army, I'm not sure what Sen. Cornyn could do, other than, perhaps, stage hearings on the matter. Or perhaps vote against a DOD funding bill. That ain't happening with our boys in theatre.
Your ire is better directed at Barack Hussein Soetoro and Eric Holder for the ridiculous classification of this terrorist attack as "work place violence."
billy396 in ohio
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 10:38 AM
@Gregory in Yakima. You're exactly what the MSM represents. You don't like the FRC, therefore, in your mind, they deserve hate crimes towards their agenda. On the other hand, as mentioned in the article, had this been an attack on some leftist, commie group, the MSM would have made up their own "facts" and spewed them from the highest mountaintop for weeks on end. Killing people is wrong, period. There is no such thing as a "hate" crime. If you shoot at people trying to kill them, it's a crime no matter who you are or who you're shooting at. The MSM in this country has become an almost picture-perfect reflection of Joseph Goebbels' NAZI propaganda machine. Ignore any stories that don't support the leftist agenda, and distort and sensationalize every crime that reflects badly, or that can be twisted to reflect badly on a conservative. All hail the great 2% to 3% homosexuals in America. Yet let's try our best to destroy our founders and our way of life, namely, the rule of law and property rights. Income redistribution at the point of a gun is exactly what the Oblunder administration is doing and exactly what Al Capone (another great Chicago hero) practiced. At least real gansters are honest. These commies in office today are so far from honest that they can't even recognize the truth. Their reality filters are so far out of whack to the left that they actually believe their own lies, and think that corruption is just fine if it results in a liberal "victory". Mr. Zimmerman in Florida is a victim of the Obama/Holder cabal. The Sanford, Florida police were the first responders and you can read all of their reports and eyewitness testimony online. The U.S, "Justice Dept." had exactly ZERO right to go to Florida and force the arrest of a man that had already been investigated. But, there again, anything to split this country, anything that might result in more votes for the great pretender, is perfectly OK. The politics of division that Oblunder bloviated against at length during his first campaign have been the hallmark of his administration.
Gregory in Yakima Wa.
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Pointing out that one group has harmed another is not excusing another group that does the same. We're in need of tolerance and to remember that while we disagree on some issues we're still linked in common cause on others.
There's something about some of the commentors here that I've wanted to comment on but haven't. So many comments here are noteworthy for over the top hatefulness, name calling and etc.
It's quite obvious your frustrations are high but calling people names is so..juvenile to be polite. But more important is that uncivil behavior and rudeness undermines your cause. Many here seem to promote hate and intolerance, as if those are virtues, they're not.
Bob James in Virginia
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 11:30 AM
It would help if what you were "pointing out" had any basis in fact. It does not. Move along, catamite.
Army Officer (Ret) in Kansas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:39 PM
You are correct to point this out. Gregory began his rant by calling a group that works tirelessly AGAINST abortion violence a "hate group" on par with the KKK, then got all butt-hurt when some responders were less than perfectly polite in response (although ALL of them were less bombastic than he was himself). Not to mention that the SPLC is a well-known and well-financed hate group in its own right.
Every day I am more convinced that there is not a liberal on the planet who has the slightest ability to detect irony.
wjm in Colorado
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 11:58 AM
Applying the appropriate labels to your abberant lifestyle is not name calling. Your Queer agenda is to try and make us percieve a distinct mental abnormality as Normal. That will never happen with those who have an ideology and belief in a rule of law based on the Bible and christian values. You can practice your abberant behavior as you wish, just don't try and force your opinions on those who find your activities abhorent. There is no hate, but yes I am very intollerant of anyone who would get in my face and try to force their agenda on me. That will be met with resistance that might tempt an intollerant such as your self to cry "hate". Be warned, if pressed I will push back HARD! Sodomites have no place forcing an abberant perversion on society. It is not, nor has it ever been NORMAL. You have no clue what Virtue is.
Peterill in New York, NY
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM
Oh Gregory - you will never change the minds of many of these folk. You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are the people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know...morons. And on top of that, wjm has alot of repressed homosexuality he is dealing with that hinders his critical thinking abilities.
Army Officer (Ret) in Kansas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:43 PM
How about you and I take an I.Q. test and compare the results? The guy with the lower score has to wear a dunce cap and a sandwich board that says, "I am a moron." The number of weeks you have to wear it will be determined by how many standard deviations separate our scores.
You'll be wearing that thing for a month.
Peterill in New York, NY
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM
HA HA HA HA - I love this stupid little right wing blog! You guys are fantastic!! Here I am, a liberal t r o l l, and you are all like fish just coming at me. I have lured you away from the subject of the original opinion article written by some bearded faggity guy who works for Fox. Now I am sure that even as the General Patton you fantasize yourself to be, that you have to be feeling pretty stupid by now. HA HA HA HA HA
Army Officer (Ret) in Kansas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 1:12 PM
...and you responded to me. Who's trolling whom now?
Dance, Puppet. Dance.
Namvet-68 in Pennsylvania
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 9:28 PM
I was going to reply to this do-bag but then I read the disclaimer about keeping comments civil and Obscene, profane and abusive comments will be deleted. Oh Well. I better keep quiet.
Diane in Tx
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:51 PM
I think someone who lives 100s of miles from a farm - ought to think twice before he calls farmers "morons". You might remember who feeds you, and not bite them.
Peterill in New York, NY
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Well, in all honesty, all credit is given to Gene Wilder (look it up).
Peterill in Kansas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM
Look! Now I live in Kansas, so by definition I am a farmer and now think like a right wing teabagger. I better learn the new language. By golly guber, weze gots areself uh moozlim in the whyt howse. Kiwck! Weze nead too due sumthin abowt that. Hee iz a marksist!! LOL LOL LOL
Diane in Tx
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 1:08 PM
When I use a quote to illustrate a point, it's for one of two reasons. Highlight the statement I am responding to, or to use others words to explain how I understand a topic. Since it appears to me you used Mr. Wilder's quote as part of an explanation, you think that farmers are morons. Farmers built this country, and I am proud of them.
Mike McGinn in People's Republic of Maryland
Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Diane - Everyone knows that food doesn't come from farmers. It comes from Safeway in little cans, boxes, and cellophane-wrapped meat trays. But those who are truly in the know, they fully understand that food doesn't really come from Safeway. It comes from that big 18-wheeler that backs up to the loading dock in the wee hours of the morning. ;-)
Bruce R Pierce in Owensboro, Ky
Monday, August 20, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Peterill, you owe the Farmers of this Country an appoligy. Comparing them like that is just WRONG.Peterill, you owe the Farmers of this Country an apology. Comparing them like that is just WRONG.
Capt. Call in New Mexico
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 8:28 PM
Who are you to define disagreement as "hate?" Who or what gives you the authority to re-define words? Just because you think disagreement with a public policy position is "hate" doesn't make it so. Just remember that when you point your finger at someone else, three fingers are pointing back to you!
Anton D Rehling in Olympia, WA
Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM
I hate stupidity, I hate ignorant people, I hate getting up to early on a Saturday, I hate eggplant I guess I must be a Neanderthal member of a hate group! I hate crimes such as rape, murder and theft, add to that fatal car accidents, pedophiles, and jerks that feel like it is their business to define what is correct thinking. I especially hate liberals who have a holier than thou attitude because they feel they are so much more evolved than the rest of humanity and to prove it they promote gender disorientation syndrome as just another normal like style and the list goes on. Gregory in Yakima, I am no more linked to you and your so called common causes than that our feet rest on the North American continent. That is more it takes a village BS. Go spout your crap in the Huffington Post or maybe get on Rachel Maddow Show where you can join with the other OMG individuals for a circle jerk.
Tex Horn in Texas
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 11:52 AM
@ Bob James: good points, Bob, and I certainly am directing my ire towards the Obamanation and Holder. Initially, after the shooting, Cornyn made a small scene about it, but like the rest of the 10% favorability Congress, he has let the administration have it's way. What Cornyn could do, and what I've repeatedly asked him to do is to keep it forefront in Congress and the news (albeit the news is the ultra-liberal fourth estate). He could do that. He isn't, therefore, my letters to him.
enemaofthestatistquo in GA
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 1:28 PM
"No one was killed or in danger of dying. There are dozens of shootings a day in the D.C. area; this is just one more." And D. C. is a Gun-Free Zone. @Peterill- "bearded faggity guy" so only Giblets may use the F-word.
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Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 10:32 PM
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Ruth in OKC, OK
Monday, August 20, 2012 at 12:42 PM
Exactly! Thank you!