from Alison Ryan
Michelle Malkin, a member of the print, broadcast and internet media for the past 30 years, says: “I cannot emphasize enough how complicit so-called mainstream journalists are in perpetuating such double standards and stoking hatred of dissidents. The Fourth Estate will spare no one — not even the dead — in its ruthless pursuit of absolute power over political narratives.”
“If nothing else, the past two years have demonstrated with blazing clarity how the ruling elites live by one set of rules and impose an entirely separate set of rules on the unfavored, ostracized, dispossessed and deplatformed.”
“Let us consider a widely disseminated hit piece by Associated Press investigative reporter Michael Biesecker published on Jan. 3. Here’s the bias-laden title that reads more like an MSNBC op-ed whine than a straight news headline:
‘Ashli Babbitt a Martyr? Her Past Tells a More Complex Story.’
“Ashli Babbitt, as you may know, is the 35-year-old Air Force veteran and Trump supporter shot and killed by a Capitol police officer one year ago this week during the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C.”
“The fetid article under the fetid headline is victim-blaming at its rock-bottom lowest.”
“The AP makes a grand performative show of its commitment to fighting bias. ‘We must be fair,’ its online statement on ‘news values and principles’ asserts. ‘Whenever we portray someone in a negative light, we must make a real effort to obtain a response from that person.’
“Just to reiterate: Ashli Babbitt is dead. She is unable to defend herself against the clearly calculated and anniversary-timed sliming and smearing by “investigative reporter” Biesecker. That doesn’t seem to have bothered the AP ethics gurus one bit. Biesecker’s bio touts his status as a “2019 Pulitzer finalist,” but his trashy piece of trash trashing Ashli Babbitt doesn’t even rise to the level of People magazine or TMZ. It’s pure manure.”
(excerpts)
https://www.creators.com/read/michelle-malkin/01/22/associated-press-associated-propaganda
va121: When our boat was almost set alight by school students across the road from where we used to live, a sergeant who attended asked, [quote] “If you own a firearm, and I’m not asking if you do, but if you do, shoot any would-be intruder in the knee-cap, that stops them, then fire another shot into the ceiling. Forensics cannot determine which shot was fired first. All you have to say is that you fired a warning shot, but he/she kept coming at me and I feared for my life & that of my family”. [end quote]
I thought that was pretty good advice. Cheers 🙂
@davddd2
Totally agree
Its not acceptable here, In Australia, even as a LAFO (Law Abiding Firearms Owner, call it just another level of subjugation if you will) to use any of my legally acquired, licensed firearms as a commensurate defence against a potentially lethal attack.
The LAW says, I must attempt to de-escalate the attack and wait for police to arrive.
So If i defend the people I love and myself – using a firearm, which I legally own – I potentially stand to go to prison whereas the offender will be portrayed as the victim.
Best I don’t use a firearm but a bat or a knife instead, much more brutal, messy and opens me up to potential injury, but best we save that perpetrator from suffering a – or several – fatal gunshot wounds.
That might impinge on HIS human rights.
Right.
How does shooting the woman dead qualify as “reasonable” force under the circumstances? Try shooting a burglar dead as he is entering your house in the middle of the night and see how many years you get for that.
Interesting to see how past events keep coming back into view..Lt Michael Byrd will not be forgotten . The video shown here is very misleading. There was another one that I saw just over a week ago if I recall correctly..
Ashli Babbitt was speaking to police just minutes before she was shot. They were on her side of the door., they had a pleasant conversation . She did not break the glass., she made the mistake of starting to climb through the window, Lt Bryd shot her. She was no threat to him and she was not violent. I recall seeing and listening to him at his hearing, he made himself out to be almost a saint. I found his attitude quite revolting.. She had no weapon he was a distance from her, he took careful aim and fired deliberately..
But she has gone and he lives on.If I was on a jury, the story would be different.
R,I,P, Ashlie Babbitt.
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The relentless vilification and slandering (‘stoking hatred’), which is being perpetrated upon any/all dissidents (including the dead), is their only real weapon against us. As Donald Trump so succinctly and dryly stated in reference to the Deep State enemy…”They’re not trying to get at me, they’re trying to get at you and I’m just standing in the way”.
Its best to get some new facts and update our brain box. Neither being shot while “allegedly” breaking into the Capital nor being shot while committing a “so called” crime, make her a heroine. New video released last week shows a different story. She was trying to stop the embedded CIA, FBI and other “planted” cabal members from breaking windows and attempting to enter the building.
Its appears quite clear she was being bullied by those cabal members and tried to escape their clutches. In doing so, there was only one way out, and she got shot (murdered) in the process. It appears clear in the video that she was trying to stop the destruction. It appears clear that a brain box update is needed.
I agree with that: “The AP rules for reporting BLM lootings are indeed unworthy of a news
organization. What was written about Babbitt qualifies more as gossip than investigative reporting.”