Wednesday, August 19, 2009

That Blasted 2nd Amendment, or yet another attempt to demonize anti-Obamacare protesters « NewsReal Blog

That Blasted 2nd Amendment, or yet another attempt to demonize anti-Obamacare protesters « NewsReal Blog

You can tell the media think they’ve got it. The smoking gun. The story that will tar anti-Obamacare protesters as crazy. The story that will—finally!—reverse the current trends in health-care-reform public opinion.

You can tell, because this guy:protester_1464203c

is everywhere. Last night, he was the center of a smear piece by CNN’s Campbell Brown. He showed up on Anderson Cooper 360 as well. At that time, we thought it was just a cable-news story, one more in a seemingly endless series of breathless stories about those angry, rabid right-wingers (who actually represent the majority of Americans, but never mind that!) who are ruining health care reform.

But this morning, we couldn’t get away from him. There he was, top story on Yahoo.com. There he was, front and center on CNN’s homepage. MSNBC, too. All the reliably left-wing media sources trumpeted this story as loudly as they could. Because in Leftwingistan, “gun” automatically equals “crazy,” don’t you know?

Last night on Campbell Brown’s program, the host was beside herself that someone would dare to exercise his Constitutional rights in such a manner:

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