The Truth Ministers at the Comrade Broadcasting System (CBS) have issued a media fatwa. Thou shalt not use the word ‘transgender’ when reporting on the carbon-based life form that shuffled off the mortal coils of six (including three children) at a Christian School.
Call Aiden (Audrey) Hale what you like, just not transgender. It makes no difference that Audrey was proud to be trans or that this may be relevant to the shooting (as in, it’s one of those hate crime things).
Hale left behind a “manifesto” and had studied the school and its entrance points, according to police. Hale was getting treatment for an unspecified “emotional disorder,” said Metro Police Chief John Drake. The shooter’s parents thought Hale had recently sold his only gun, but Hale had in fact legally purchased seven firearms from five different local gun shops, Drake said.
Was Hale a bit unhinged? Is this where the red flag folks say, “see, protective orders!”? Except that the same lot would probably call it a hate crime to request one on a guy who thinks he’s a woman. Discrimination! Bigot!
I’m not sure if CBS has any thoughts on that, but according to the NY Post, staffers had unhappy thoughts about the Fatwa passed down by their Media Mullahs.
“This is absurd because the police identified Hale as transgender,” a CBS insider said. “If the cops didn’t address it, maybe you could avoid it, but withholding information is not journalism.” …
The Tuesday call with the CBS News execs left the network’s roughly 150 staffers stunned into awkward silence, according to a source who was on the call.
The source noted that the two CBS News execs appeared to be “twisting themselves in knots” by censoring the reporting over their own “liberal bias,” which is ultimately a “disservice” to the network’s audience.
Well, that opens up some possibilities.
- Were you all opposed to CBS News airing footage from a crowded Italian Hospital (during COVID) as if it were an overwhelmed New York City Hospital (while anecdotal evidence suggested they were not even busy)?
- You’re good with all the years of breathless fainting spells over every lie Democrats fed you about Donald Trump that was reported as fact without batting an eye or doing any actual research?
- Are there any past selective-editing controversies you’d like to revisit?
- No takebacks on Covington kid Nick Sandmann or Christine Blasey Ford’s false testimony (or any of the Judge Kavanaugh smear)?
- Michale Brown never said, “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
- Trayvon Martin (not a child) assaulted George Zimmerman (who was not a light-skinned Hispanic).
- Then there were the mostly peaceful protests (arson, assault, theft, murder), and since it was the same season, just about everything regarding COVID, you aped without blinking.
- Declaring war on and then occupying Law Enforcement and federal buildings was not an insurrection, but people touring the US Capitol is?
- Is Anyone rethinking the coverage of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando and registered Democrat Omar Mateen?
- Kyle Rittenhouse.
- What about all the attacks you and your media pals tried to blame on the Tea Party or some faction of the political right that were committed by lefties, Islamists, or undeclared with liberal leanings?
Don’t get me wrong. I like the idea that there are staffers barfed out of progressive modern J Schools inside CBS that think omitting “Transgender” from the reporting on “Audrey’s” mass murder is unethical. I don’t buy it.
There’s also this unpleasant fact. Transgenders and their political and media advocates get winded complaining about how the trans community needs to be accepted by the culture. Disregarding that we are talking about people incapable of accepting themselves for who they are, where’s the pride? These brave trendsetting glass-ceiling breakers get a special mention until one of them shoots up a Christian School. Then they are just a shooter.
Does anyone recall the attempted mass shooting by Floyd Corkins II?
And – most importantly – do they plan to apply this new policy to adjectives that would have described other shooters or just those that might lean left politically?
