Selective Outrage: Media Covers LGBTQ Nightclub Shooting, but Ignores Attempted Murder of 25 Sheriff’s Recruits

At least five people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs Saturday night; thankfully, he was stopped by brave patrons who subdued the attacker until police arrived.

It was another horrible mass shooting, and it’s deeply sad to think about the lives lost and the broken hearts of their loved ones.

The media has been covering the story extensively, with the top four articles on the Washington Post website as of this writing discussing different aspects of the attack.

Over at the New York Times, the top three stories all revolve around the tragedy.

The Wall Street Journal doesn’t have as many articles but does have its story prominently displayed near the top of the front page.

No one can possibly have a problem with that. What happened in Colorado Springs was a horrific event and deserves to be covered.

However, what is a problem is the astonishing lack of interest by most media outlets in another tragic story: The deliberate mowing down of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s recruits by a deranged driver which injured 25 enlistees, several of them severely.

There were broken bones, head trauma, and loss of limbs.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said:

We’re just facing some life-altering injuries for some most severely injured recruits.

“You’d assume there would also be wall-to-wall coverage of this story, wouldn’t you?”

And yet…not a single article regarding the attack is in the Washington Post and only one in the Wall Street Journal. And only two in the New York Times—but one was written by the Associated Press.

“[T]he driver who attempted mass murder…unbelievably freed…no charges yet filed.”

You wouldn’t find this bit of information in any of these publications either.

Meanwhile, horrible shootings like the one in Colorado Springs always bring out that lowest form of humanity, those who wish to politicize tragedy.

RedState’s Streiff wrote Sunday about how the Twitterverse is already humming with people throwing around blame at politicians like Lauren Boebert and claiming right-wing “stochastic terrorism” is the real problem here.

Although we don’t yet know what the motive of the Colorado Springs shooter was, Joe-Joe Biden was quick to jump in:

Does he have a similar message for the Sheriff’s recruits, some of whom are at home or in the hospital recovering from devastating injuries that will forever change their lives? No.

Has Governor Gavin Newsom delivered a moving speech about the sacrifices law enforcement officers make, about the dangers they must face? No.

“The double standard of the media and politicians is appalling.”

While the Colorado mass murder is awful and should be investigated and written about, so too should the despicable car attack on LA County Sheriff’s recruits.

“That the attack on LA County Sheriff’s recruits hasn’t been a national top story speaks volumes.”

Our American sense of right and wrong has been turned upside down. Eight years of Clinton and so far ten years of Obama have turned our morals inside out and left us as a culture bereft of feeling for the wellbeing of others around us. And the mass propaganda media under the influence of globalist financiers are carrying the water for the enemy force.

Among all its other immediate tasks necessary to save the America we love, Conservatism must also destroy the mass propaganda media as we now know it to be.