WaPo Waits 3 Paragraphs to Report NATO Protesters Facing Terrorism Charges Are Occupy Activists
Three NATO protesters were in court Saturday facing terrorism charges for allegedly planning to bomb Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house.
The Washington Post published an article about this Saturday and mysteriously waited until the third paragraph to inform readers the trio were Occupy activists:
As NATO protesters marched by the hundreds to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house, three others were in court Saturday facing terrorism charges for allegedly planning to bomb the mayor’s residence, police stations and Obama’s campaign headquarters during the upcoming summit.
While the delegates from the treaty organization began to arrive and security tightened around the city for Sunday’s kickoff, three men who had been arrested in a raid Wednesday appeared before a Cook County judge, charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, possession of an explosive device and providing material support for terrorism.
The men — Occupy activists Brian Church, 20, of Fort Lauderdale; Jared Chase, 24, of Keene, N.H.; and Brent Vincent Betterly, 24, of Oakland Park, Fla. — are being held on $1.5 million bond.
Prosecutors alleged they had made Molotov cocktails and had discussed using other weapons, including swords and knives.
Imagine for a moment these were Tea Party members facing terrorism charges.
Do you think the Post would have waited until the third paragraph to divulge their affiliation, or would that have not only been in the first sentence but also the headline?
Let's be honest. If these were Tea Party members, this would have led all the television newscasts, been addressed every hour on the hour by CNN and MSNBC, and would have been headlines in every newspaper in the country.
But because these are Occupy activists, not a chance.
I have to confess it's becoming harder and harder to be a media analyst these days.
What I witness on a daily basis from news outlets I used to admire sickens me to the point of violent nausea.
I continue to be amazed that this is happening in my beloved America, and that what I once revered as a "free press" are now totally in bed with forces they should be aggressively exposing rather than sheltering from scrutiny.
Potentially even worse, folks on the left who supposedly are for a "free press" are not only complicit, but have the gall to rage against news outlets reporting what they refuse to.
Does America even exist anymore?
(HT Tammy Bruce)
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Odd??
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:47pm.
Wouldn't we have heard about the political affiliation of these three idiots earlier if they had been, oh I don't know, maybe Republicans??
Why is WaPo (and seemingly everyone else) hesitant to mention that these terrorists are adherents of the Left?? Are they ashamed of what they have spawned?
Samaritan, I assume that your questions are of the
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:54pm.
rhetorical nature? Everyone knows that the Dead Tree Media helped spawn this affliction on our nation. They have lied for them, printed fawning interviews with some of the "organizers" of this alleged spontaneous outbreak of Occutardism, and covered for them.
UpNorth
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 12:42am.
Ya' know, you'd be much more supportive of the Left if you wrote for MSNBC.....and, once again, nice tagline!!
The "Press:
Submitted by mmilesll on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:53pm.
First of all we have to remember that WaPo has far more important events to cover-Romney's hair cutting episode, for example. I mean which is really more important-these are great "journalist" at WaPo and they certainly know more than us about what is important. Besides, we can have the democrats and the union leaders embarrassed can we, they do support ows. I don't know if anybody knows this or not, but Bill Ayers is defending them. He is very upset that they weren't able to finish their job. Might as well laugh about it, the LSM isn't going to change, even though they are losing readers and viewers.
Its important to remember that
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 12:30am.
the same ideology that fueled the OWS movement had fueled the anarchist movement in the past and the 60's anti-war movement before that- communism. The only difference is that the participants in each of the these movements believe(d) the movement was about something else. It
wasn'tisn't. It's always been about bringing down democracy (or more accurately, our Constitutional Republic) in favor of central planning/Communism.Look up A.N.S.W.E.R.