So everyone is talking about the man that carried a scary black rifle to the Dear Reader event in Arizona.  Sebastian has a great round-up of reactions.  Personally, I’m of 2 minds on this one.  On the one hand, if the press keeps reporting on all of these people carrying scary guns in public and no violence occurs, we gain ground in the image battle.  On the other hand, the last thing we want to do is get people excited about pushing gun control.  We have to be careful when pushing the fence sitters.  They may fall on the wrong side of the fence.  Don’t assume that I am saying we shouldn’t push, we should just be careful about how we do it.

And hey, I’d love the overwhelming reaction to the man with a gun stories to be something along the lines of, “And?  So what.”  It’s not the presence of a gun that causes crime; it’s the presence of a criminal.

But  found something else very interesting, the same press that is dislocating their arms patting themselves on the back for electing the first black president, didn’t mention the race of the gun-toting citizen in Arizona.  In fact, I was discussing this very story with my husband last night and he had not yet heard that it was a black man.  I find that an interesting omission when those of us opposed to Dear Reader and his intentions are painted as racists.

AP Photo

I suppose the race card only comes out of the deck when it supports the narrative.  And judging from the gun on his belt, he’s also a lefty.

It is interesting where the media does and does not feel that a person’s race is notable.  It’s almost like they want us to believe that all minorities march lock-step on the left side of the aisle.  It’s notable that our black president nominated a Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court.  Not notable when one of the ‘racists’ that is demonstrating in opposition to Dear Reader just so happens to be black.  Gotcha.

Update:  Sailorcurt noticed too

Breda too.

I’ll keep adding links as I see more posts

Traction Control

Sebastian

Tam

Sister Toldjah

Hot Air

Ace Complete with contact information for NBC.  Nice.

Says Uncle

Lissa

Stop the ACLU

War on Guns

Right Wing Nut House

Moonbattery

MSNBC’s actions are reprehensible.  They cut their footage to make it fit the racist narrative.  It’s blatant spin.  No, it’s worse than spin.  They didn’t spin it; they faked it.

Old media is officially dead.  The stink of the reanimated rotting corpse of journalism has reached the break point.