- Anti – religious terrorist . . . deranged nut-case to be sure
There has been a lot wrong with the reporting regarding the massacre in Texas. The two items below, first a video commentary from Bill Whittle which includes testimony on how the media should not contribute to the “celebrity” of such evil. A written commentary by Gary Bauer follows that with what is un or under reported about the shooter in the dominant media’s effort to spin the story.
From Gary Bauer writing at American Values
Media Bias
If you need an explanation for why there is such division in America, blame the liberal media. Unfortunately, most Americans aren’t listening to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. They aren’t watching Fox News or reading these daily reports.
As a result, they are getting distorted and biased information that often neglects to report key details and fails to provide the full story.
For example, virtually no one in the mainstream media is talking about the radical atheistic worldview of Devin Kelley, the Sutherland Springs church shooter. It is striking how his hatred of Christianity is largely ignored by big media.
If anything, most Americans are likely to hear liberal reports mentioning that he once “did some work as a Bible teacher.” In other words, big media are trying to put the opposite spin on the truth.
We’ve seen this time and time again. The media will take any crime by a radical Muslim and whitewash it, insisting that it had nothing to do with Islam. The only thing that complicates their efforts is when surviving victims insist the jihadist was shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
Now we are seeing that the media will whitewash crimes by radical leftists and atheists. All the media outlets had to do was cursory journalism — go to Kelley’s social media posts and talk to his friends. And yet all these big media empires won’t report what is so obvious.
By the way, have you heard about Koigate? It’s a perfect example of big media’s left-wing bias. In Japan Sunday, President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fed some fish.
According to progressive journalists and media outlets, Trump carelessly dumped all the fish food into the koi pond. We’re lucky his blundering didn’t trigger an international incident!
There’s only one problem with Koigate. Numerous media outlets deliberately manipulated the event to portray Donald Trump as an ignorant buffoon who is unqualified to be president. Prime Minister Abe dumped his container of food into the pond moments before President Trump did.
But if you’re only watching CNN, you’re only getting fake news.
More Media Manipulation
Law enforcement authorities in Sutherland Texas are reporting that the body of church shooter Devin Kelley had three gunshot wounds. Two were the result of a brave barefoot plumber, Stephen Willeford.
When Willeford heard about the shooting at the church across the street, he grabbed his rifle and ran out of his house with no shoes on. “He saw me and I saw him,” Willeford said. He fired two shots, one hit Kelley in the torso and one hit him in the leg.
As Kelley drove off, Willeford jumped into Johnnie Langendorff’s truck and told him what happened. “Let’s go,” Langendorff said. He later told reporters, “There was no thinking about it. There was just doing. . . Act now. Ask questions later.”
What you may not know from the media coverage is that Willeford is a former NRA instructor. I’m going to make a wild guess that you won’t see this headline anytime soon: “NRA Instructor Stops Church Shooting.”
By the way, not one mass shooter in modern American history has been a member of the NRA. So the only involvement of NRA “gun nuts” in mass shootings has been to stop them.
But if the church killer had attended classes at Focus on the Family or the Christian Coalition, I guarantee that would be “news.”
A barefoot plumber and a truck driver — a couple of real “deplorables” — saved many lives Sunday. “I think my God, my Lord protected me and gave me the skills to do what needed to be done,” Willeford said. Amen to that!
Air Force Dropped The Ball
Unfortunately, we are also learning that the Air Force dropped the ball when it failed to report that Kelley was convicted of a serious domestic assault against his wife and child. That conviction should have prevented him from purchasing firearms.
Keep in mind that Kelley served in the Air Force from 2010 to 2014. It was the Obama Air Force that neglected to transmit the relevant information.
Here’s the bottom line: This situation is not evidence of the need for more laws and limits on our constitutional rights. It is evidence of the need to enforce existing laws.
