Yesterday Hadiya Pendleton was gunned down in Chicago, IL. Hadiya was a 15-year-old honor student and one of the privileged students who preformed at the Presidents inauguration earlier this month. She was gunned down, after taking an exam, in a park known for gang violence.
This story, heart-achingly sad, is ignored or only a by-line on mainstream media news outlets. Why, because there would be no political advantages in reporting the rising gun violence in Obama’s Windy City. Chicago is run by the Democratic Party, the mayor being Rahm Emanuel, and Unions (it also sports the toughest gun control laws we have in the United States) has already had 41 gun related murders; A ten- year record high.
It is obvious that the media has already made its choice on the gun control issue. While exploiting the Sandy Hook Massacre we are bombarded with anti-gun sentiments in news line-ups and commercials. Yet, none of the laws that are being passed (by executive order or otherwise) would have, or will, stop a mentally-ill armed man with an agenda. The NRA and responsible gun owners are now likened to sex offenders and their names and numbers are being broadcasted in newspapers and on TV alike.
The cases like Miss Pendleton are lost in the white noise of media gun bias. You see, Democrats in senate and congress (and their media lap dogs) are not at all concerned with the hundreds of crimes and deaths that happen to mainly minority gun violence victims in Chicago. To make this a head liner story the media would have to explain why the democratic run city, with its strict gun laws, has a record high murder rate and is financially going bankrupt. That doesn’t sound at all helpful to their cause does it?
To the Hadiya Pendleton family: our thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of need. God Bless you.
January 31st, 2013 at 4:37 pm
The story was on the top of the MSN page this morning and is still just below the revolving pictures at the top of the home page. In the parlance of newspapers it is “just below the fold”.
It is also a lead story on U.S. News by NBC.
In other words, it is “front and center” and is in no way obscured.
Will it garner the same attention as Sandy Hook? Of course not, but for obvious reasons.
January 31st, 2013 at 4:38 pm
Wait, did you say the city with the toughest gun control laws have already produced 41 murders? Come forth, ye commenters, and explain it.
January 31st, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Just let some White Nut Job wade into Gangsta Park and Pop 20 or 30 of the Eternally Disenfranchised with an AR he stole from his mother and see if the MSM has any interest.
Will it garner the same attention as Sandy Hook ? Of course ! But Fo obvious reasoning.
January 31st, 2013 at 7:54 pm
They’re still arguing about assault weapons and high capacity clips.
Lets put in away that maybe liberals can understand.
Who killed the baby ?
The abortion or the mother ?
January 31st, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Sorry, re-do
“Lets put it in a way that maybe liberals can understand.”
January 31st, 2013 at 9:37 pm
I made a comment in the preceding thread that “RightPundits writers seem to share a consistent pattern. There’s a 1 or 2 paragraph presentation of the argument or theme, a photo or caption in the middle, then an all out screeching howl-at-the-moon diatribe below”.
I see Mr. Dean is true to form.
February 1st, 2013 at 12:16 am
form over substance, always the liberal revealed.
February 1st, 2013 at 7:19 am
Good story! Definitely proves the folly of piling up ridiculous gun laws and then not being able to enforce them.