WMUR - the Class of the Show by making a horrendus murder / suicide a political event - Granite Grok

WMUR – the Class of the Show by making a horrendus murder / suicide a political event

Update and bumped:  9:53pm and a loyal reader emailed to let me know that, indeed, WMUR rewrote their post:

Savyon was known to the local community through his political activity. He unsuccessfully ran three times for state representative as a Republican, including a special-election loss in Feb. 2012. He was also active in Libertarian activities and events.

I still maintain that what KC did was wrong and that this is just barely different – only the FSP notation was dropped.

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Let’s all give WMUR’s KC Downey, their “Digital Media Manager” a great big Huzzah in helping to further politicize every nook and cranny of life.  Leave it to the MSM to make a story about a divorced man who killed his son and then himself a political hit job:

Savyon was active in Republican politics in New Hampshire and had a couple of unsuccessful bids for state representative, including a special-election loss in Feb. 2012. He was also active in the Free State and Libertarian movements.

Would you, KC, have done the exact same thing if the distraught man had been a Democrat and part of the Democrat Socialists of America?  Or a member of the reconstituted SDS / Weathmen radical groups?  Let me add in the Communist Party of America?  Or any other group to the left or far left of center?

Why the hell would you have brought politics into this at all – unless you were aiming to do a hit job??

Complete story after the jump because I’m betting this is going to get edited out.  Don’t bother – I’ve already screen scraped and saved the file.

KC Downey – is this just a case of “never wasting a crisis” – over the body of a dead eight year old boy?  Sure, Muni was a Republican – I’ve heard the name.  He may well be a Libertarian – I think I’ve heard that too.  Coming from Israel, I doubt he was a Free Stater (William Kostric is saying no in your comments).  But even if he WAS a Republican, WAS a Libertarian, WAS a Free Stater – how in your mind does that even play a role over what has to be a contested divorce, a custody battle, and two lost souls?  HOW does politics play a role in this unless you seem to agree with other Democrats that we Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians, or Free Staters are not just the political opposition but are EVIL people – that I’ve heard and read for sure.  Or, in the political vernacular of the day, are you trying to further push the Democrat mantra that we are all “extremists” and this was a great chance to pile on?  I ask, and ask seriously, because I can’t see any other reason for bringing politics into this.  The ONLY reason I can think of doing this is that you have to be some kind of partisan hack – OR the higher ups in WMUR are.  One or the other.

I dunno if KC is a guy or a gal, but either way: you are a BASTARD for dragging politics into this dreadful event and trying to pin it on an ideology. For my regular readers, I apologize for my ill-tempered words – you and my other friends know that my swearing can be counted on less than the fingers of my hands.  But this goes beyond the pale – and shows that the MSM is complicit in the political and culture wars.

“Comfort the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable” – and how, KC, does your notion of reporting the news with your politicization comport with one of Journalism’s mantras?  Please tell us, as I can’t worry out a clue from the post at all?

The post as of about 7pm Sunday:

According to the attorney general’s office, Muni Savyon, 54, killed his 9-year-old son, Joshua Savyon, during a one-hour supervised visit. Authorities said Savyon shot his son several times.

A counselor was in the room with Savyon and his son at the time of the shooting, but managed to escape the room unharmed. Savyon originally arrived for the visit at 9:30 a.m.

Savyon is originally from Israel and had recently mourned his brother’s death for 30 days while in that country, said Rabbi Levi Krinsky. He has been divorced twice, and one of his ex wives is the mother of his son, Joshua.

Savyon was active in Republican politics in New Hampshire and had a couple of unsuccessful bids for state representative, including a special-election loss in Feb. 2012. He was also active in the Free State and Libertarian movements.

Authorities originally responded to the YWCA at 10:11 a.m. for reports of a shooting. Officers and SWAT teams later surrounded the building with guns drawn. Victory Park was evacuated and several streets were closed in the area during the police response.

“I can tell you that there is no public safety threat at this time,” Chief David Mara of the Manchester Police Department told News 9.

Beyond the two fatalities, no other injuries were reported.

Again, I’ve saved off the entire page at WMUR.

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