how words shape ideas: "politically motivated shootings"

MaryAnn Johanson

on June 11, 2009 8:18 PM | permalink | comments (5)

A promo on MSNBC during Keith Olbermann's show last night tried to tease viewers into watching another program on the network because it would be discusssing the "politically motivated shootings" that occurred at that Kansas abortion clinic and the Holocaust museum in Washington DC.

I guess 9/11 was merely a series of politically motivated plane crashes, then.

So much for the "liberal" media: it can't even call terrorism "terrorism."

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by Count Shrimpula on June 12, 2009 1:44 AM

Oh, silly MaryAnn. Of course they aren't terrorists, they're white! White people can't be terrorists, unless they also happen to hold liberal views and/or are friends with a liberal politician. Duh.

by Mark on June 12, 2009 2:48 AM

Well, I think it's a little unfair to tar all of the liberal media because of one promo ... especially given that Olbermann and Maddow have been very clear about calling the Tiller shooting an act of terrorism and repeatedly calling for it to be investigated as such.

by MaryAnn Johanson

on June 12, 2009 9:09 AM

The media tars itself. Two outliers of progressivism do not a liberal media make.

by David on June 14, 2009 1:03 PM

"White people can't be terrorists, unless they also happen to hold liberal views and/or are friends with a liberal politician." Actually the guy who shot up the Holocaust Museum was a socialist, fervently anti-capitalist, and not only anti-jewish but also anti-christian. And for the record, Bill O'Reilly refered to the Tillman shooter as a terrorist.

by David on June 14, 2009 1:10 PM

"I guess 9/11 was merely a series of politically motivated plane crashes, then." Actually, they were "Man-caused disasters".

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