I’d ask if you remember the story of a Democrat governor being attacked last year, but chances are you’d say “no.” Last year when Missouri Governor – my governor – Jay Nixon had an attempt made on his life the local media said nothing – borderline concealed – the leanings of the attacker. The story of 22-year-old Casey Brezik didn’t go national (Brezik slashed the throat of a dean he mistook for Nixon) there were no calls for New Tone because the attacker was a far left-leaning, Che-loving, radical:
In his “About Me” box on Facebook, Brezik listed as his favorite quotation one from progressive poster boy, Che Guevara. The quote begins “Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism” and gets more belligerent from there.
On his wall postings, Brezik ranted, “How are we the radical(s) (left) to confront the NEW RIGHT, if we avoid confrontation all together?”
As good as his word, Brezik’s marched on Toronto in June 2010 to protest the G20 Summit, where he was arrested, charged, and deported. “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED,” he boasted.
Like many on the left, Brezik seemed to have found religion.
In reference to an article about Terry Jones and his proposed Quran burning, Brezik posted on the day before his planned assault, “This is now a Holy war. Scriptures have been desecrated. War U can’t handle. Make a choice and quick.”
In St. Louis, the alterna-weekly’s local blogger, who recklessly implied that the tea party was behind the firebombing of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s office (another act of violence carried out by … a Democrat. A disgruntled former Carnahan worker, to be exact; the same blogger also lied about about tea partiers leaving a coffin on Carnahan’s yard), took great care to only mention Brezik’s “anti-government” leanings and anarchist tattoo.
Justin Kendall of The Pitch was the lone standout in Missouri media, and identified Brezik’s “revolutionary rhetoric” and presented a well-documented post of Brezik’s past Facebook postings. A refreshing act of journalism.
The point? When such an act of tragic violence occurs, the media rushes to blame the tea party, conservatives. When they discover that the perpetrator is one who couldn’t be further from a tea partier they drop the story. I don’t want to see every crime become a political sensation but I do want the media to stop fabricating some conservative tie to every crime.
Knowing what we now know about Arizona two things become very clear. First if Governor Jay Nixon had been injured, the Mainstream media and Liberals alike would have jumped on the story lamenting the tea party movement and right winged rhetoric. Second, even if the injuries where as they were, but Casey Brezil listed himself as a Talk Radio listener or Sarah Palin fan on his Facebook wall the media would have covered it exactly the way Arizona was covered. Since, however, Brezik was a Progressive radical it apparently wasn’t news worthy enough.
Now tell me again how the Teaparty folks are the radical ones?
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