Shelby Talcott on August 6, 2019
Some journalists are complaining after outlets such as CNN reported on what appeared to be the Dayton, Ohio, shooter’s now-suspended Twitter account, which contained far-left and pro-Antifa rhetoric.
Nine people died and 26 were injured following a shooting in downtown Dayton Sunday.
“Journalists are literally throwing hissy fits over the factual reporting of Dayton shooters social media account,” blogger Stephen Miller tweeted.
The Dayton shooter appears to have had a Twitter where he called himself a “leftist,” tweeted out against gun control, hailed Satan and retweeted pro-Antifa content. News outlets reported on the account, which is suspended. Journalists from NBC News, The Daily Beast and more condemned the reporting on Twitter, alleging that outlets were claiming this shooter was “politically motivated.”
“It’s beyond irresponsible to use the Dayton shooter’s lefty Twitter to assign a political motive,” Brandy Zadrozny, an NBC News reporter, tweeted. “The far right would like to equate Dayton to El Paso. Don’t let them.”
A mass shooting left 22 people dead and injured over two dozen others at an El Paso, Texas, shopping area Saturday. The alleged El Paso shooter is believed to have published a manifesto against immigration.
Justin Miller, national editor for The Daily Beast, wrote that “CNN recklessly speculates the Dayton shooter may have been politically motivated,” linking to a CNN article about the shooting. The article reads that Dayton shooter Connor Betts’s motives are not known:
Still, contrary to the explicit anti-immigrant purpose of the El Paso shooting, police do not know what motivated Betts to open fire early Sunday morning in a popular nightlife district in downtown Dayton.
Miller also tweeted that “right-wing ghouls” had “seized” on the Twitter account and harassed journalists who the shooter followed.
https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1158692216946270208
Jeff Blehar, co-host of “Political Beats” at National Review, said the Dayton killer had “political beliefs like everyone else.” He also wrote that it is “logically incorrect” to compare the El Paso and Dayton shooters.
I'm sorry but it's true: there IS a distinguishable diff btw someone who kills out of an explicit political motive (complete w/manifesto) versus someone who just happens to have political beliefs like everyone else who kills.
On the other hand, the dead remain dead regardless.
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) August 6, 2019
I get the desire to make equivalences btw El Paso+Dayton: "the right-wing mass murderer is balanced out by the left-wing mass murderer! It's a draw!"
But not only is that logically incorrect, the fact is this: the only true equivalence here is that these poor ppl are all dead.
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) August 6, 2019
Other outlets reporting on the Twitter account included Forbes, The Associated Press, Newsweek and more. The outlets included that there is no current knowledge of a reason behind the Dayton shooting.
Well, I have been reading all this shyt on this rag about Antifa and their rhetoric about attacking the border, border patrol agents, burning government property killing and crazy shyt and I believe this asshole that killed all these people was involved with this Soros funded hate group!! Stop blaming this shyt of President Trump. It’s the crazies .
These journalists who cannot report the news accurately need to be weeded out and ignored in everything the say and write. They are propaganda slingers.
It was also reported that Patrick Crusius’ mother is Hispanic American according to her mylife file:
https://www.mylife.com/lori-crusius/e78532957056
You are right, they have no clue they are being ridiculed and laughed at. They believe the American people just love them. But when CNN got CNN sucks at a Trump rally they have not been back to one. That should have been a red flag to CNN but they are so stupid they believe they are good because what the heck it was only a Trump rally and it was coming from his supporters.
I live in the Dayton area. Our locale news reports are as accurate as they can be. we really don’t want CNN, MSNBC, and the others really reporting this tragedy we are going thru, because we know they won’t get it right. They can just keep reporting on the nothing they report on since they can’t even get that right.
Journalists? Don’t you mean fake news reporters?
It is very bad but our media is completely loosing reality. Thanks to media our Country is divided and it is full of hate. And they are not planing to stop the hate. Media poisoned this Country.Media’s free speech is roten characters of the people who call them selves a journalist. This free speech is not free speech any more it is hate speech and it should be punishable by the law. Think very hard and look what media is teaching our children and brain wash people. Hate, hate and hate and they are enemy of the people. When I listen to the CNN,NBC, and other news channel what do you hear? Hate and they are destroying this country day by day,
until we will have a civil war. Media should be punish to use free speech for evil talk and wishest news.
But how many simpletons will believe them ?
They don’t even realize they’re spinning their wheels and everyone’s just laughing at them now waitin’ for the tire pops. Pedal to the metal boys, I usually pay for entertainment this good.
El Paso shooter was also a democrat until tech went in and changed his political affiliation and added a mention of Q/Anons on 8chan. They ‘manufactured,’ (a word dems understand but consistently lie about), their reason to shut down that site along with the free speech represented.
The Leftist media also very conveniently left out that the El Paso shooter’s manifesto also shows that he was an environmental whack job and anti-corporation. More oversight of the Leftist media is that the shooter clearly states that President Trump had absolutely nothing to do with his views, that they pre-date Trump. Their motto is “All the news that fit our agenda – even if we have to fake it.”