Midnight Meme Of The Day! The Media Should Call The Hortmans' Killer What He Is, A Terrorist

A Republican Terrorist

by Noah

How about Republican Jihadist. That works even better as far as I'm concerned. If the accused shooter was from Afghanistan or Pakistan, he'd be dead in the bombed to smithereens remains of his home by now. Hell, if he was an American black man, he would have just died in police choke hold or been shot dead in the street on sight but he's white so he got the courtesy arrest. White privilege. And a little extra benefit of the doubt. He's gonna get the best lawyers, too, no doubt secretly paid for with untraceable "contributions" from a scumbag billionaire or two. And like I said several days ago, get ready for his interviews with the usual FOX a-holes, ie. the kind of goons who inspired the suspects actions by treating Kyle Rittenhouse like a hero whether live on TV or at Republican Party get-togethers like Turning Point USA where he literally got a standing ovation.

Like you, I've been waiting in vain for a week. I've been waiting for the assorted korporate media hacks to look at the person who shot state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark to death on their doorstep, along with their dog, and seriously wounded state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette at theirs to tell it like it is. Fat chance of that. The Hortman's adult children are reported safe with relatives now. The Hoffmans are still in the hospital. Sen. Hoffman took 9 bullets and has had several surgeries. His wife took 8. Still, the media refers to the accused as "the alleged shooter." I get that. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.

But I also remember when Luigi Mangione was caught and charged with the killing of an insurance company CEO, he was immediately described by most of the media as a terrorist. I get that too. But in the korporate media, the Minnesota guy is a "suspect" and Luigi Mangione is a "terrorist." That's not an issue of semantics. It's an issue of agenda.

The difference, of course, lies in whose side the media hacks are on. The billionaires who own the korporate media feel more in common with a man who made a billion dollars on the preventable deaths of untold tens and tens of thousands. He's "their people." The person accused in the Minnesota shooting spree killed two people. He had a list to kill many more, all prominent Democrats. In the sick minds of way too many in the media, the Minnesota shooter has earned some sort of perverse leniency as the story continues to be told.