Is the Coverage CFRC Shooting Biased?

[Joe Cocker]

Is the Coverage of the Family Research Council Shooting Biased?

The conservative group is accusing the "liberal" media for not properly covering the shooting because a right wing group was victimized.

Here you go: 1 day ago – Herndon, Va., resident Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28, a part-time volunteer for D.C.’s LGBT community center, The FBI arrest affidavit says Corkins lived with his parents in Herndon.

When the judge asked if the 28-year-old could afford a private attorney, Corkins responded that he only had $300 to his name. The judge assigned a public defender.

Leo Johnson, an unarmed building operations manager, is being lauded by D.C. police as a hero for stopping and disarming Corkins before he could get into the building.

Surveillance video shows Johnson interacting with Corkins before he allegedly opened fire, striking Johnson in the arm. The security guard managed to wrestle Corkins to the ground and disarm him before he could get inside the group's offices.

He was never a security guard as he worked as an unarmed security person that worked as a maintenance person just a person with a little authority.

As I understand he had two clips of 15 bullets each.

Perkins gave his first interview to Fox News' "America Live." He made it clear that he blamed the suspect for the shooting, but said he was "given a license" by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, which labeled the Family Research Council as a hate group.

"I think it's time for people to realize what the Southern Poverty Law Center is doing with their reckless labeling of organizations that they disagree with," he said.

The Southern Poverty Law Center declined an interview request from the program.

Suspected shooter Floyd Lee Corkins II "has strong opinions with respect to those he believes do not treat homosexuals in a fair manner," according to his parents, and Corkins is said to have yelled that he did not like FRC's politics before opening fire. He was also found with a backpack that contained more than a dozen Chick-Fil-a sandwiches, which could be a reference to the chicken chain president's very public opposition to gay marriage.

Read more: www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/16/alleged-gunman-in-family-research-council-shooting-expected-in-court-thursday/#ixzz23r8wWib3

[Joe Cocker]

Before a gunman shot a security guard at the FRC, the Southern Poverty Law Center had posted the FRC on its "hate map."

[danceswithdogs]

Remember how the Left Stream Media tried to connect non-existent dots to Conservatives for all violence lately? Gabby Giffords (they tried to make it a hate crime by a Conservative, when the evil deed was done by a Left Wing Kook), the killing of Tiller the Baby Killer abortionist was attempted to be twisted to place blame on Bill O'Reilly, the recent shooter in Colorado was painted as a "Tea Party Member" by Lame stream pundits until it was proven false....yeah, the Left really obeys their Dear Leader when he "spoke" of civility. I guess they follow his lead rather than he words. Typical.

[Joe Cocker]

So the 28 year old living at his parents is not a problem, he has 300 hundred dollars in the bank, why would he keep money in a bank collecting no interest? This points out the problem of redistribution of wealth.

With his 30 bullets and fifth teen Chick-fil-A lunches looks like he was going to give his victims a free hand out.

[Joe Cocker]

In FRC shooting, press shows ignorance on covering tragedy

By Tucker Keene


Published: Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Updated: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 00:08

PLEASE DON'T SHOT ME!

Last week, a real case of attempted political terrorism occurred when the conservative Christian group the Family Research Council (FRC) was shot up by a man openly hostile to their message, and media coverage was largely dismissive of it.

Floyd Lee Corkins II, a 28- year-old supporter of gay rights and native of Virginia, walked into the headquarters of the FRC with a bag full of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and ammunition. He entered under the guise of an intern (surely thinking that Chick-fil-A sandwiches would make him appear supportive of their cause), announced something to the effect of “I don’t like your politics” and began shooting. Luckily he was a terrible shot, and managed only to wound one security guard. No one was killed.

Further reinforcing that his actions were motivated by his disgust for the Christian values of the FRC, Corkins told the guard who took away his gun, “Don’t shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for.”

This is not a man whose actions were the result of his being mentally disturbed. Unlike Jared Loughner, Giffords’ shooter, he didn’t ask politicians “What is government if words have no meaning?” He didn’t dabble in conspiracy theory. This was a man with a mainstream political ideology who attempted to kill those he disagreed with.

The media did not do a great job of reporting this. It took CNN nearly three hours after the shooting took place to report it. Others made excuses for Corkins, citing that the Southern Poverty Law Center considers the FRC a hate group, placing them in the same category as the Ku Klux Klan, Stormfront and the Westboro Baptist Church. This is an absurd charge, but even if it weren’t it shouldn’t be seen as justification for Corkins’ actions as some media outlets appear to think.

A contributor to the website Mediaite, which focuses coverage on the media and politics, wrote an article comparing the situation to previous shootings, and specifically the calls to not “politicize” those tragedies.

When commenting on a video of FRC President Tony Perkins discussing the tragedy and the reasons why it happened, Mediaite contributor Jon Bershad rejected Perkins’ assertion that the FRC being classified as a hate group contributed to the shooting. He said this was just another attempt to politicize a tragedy.

But Bershad forgets that a tragedy that is inherently political doesn’t need to be politicized by the media. Corkins did that for them when he called the political positions of the FRC the primary reason for his actions.

This simply can’t be compared to the Sarah Palin “crosshairs” controversy following the Gabby Giffords shooting, because Jared Loughner was not motivated by mainstream political thought, or anything remotely resembling coherent thoughts of any kind.

I don’t personally think that the SPLC was responsible for the crime because they listed the FRC as a hate group. Whether FRC deserves to be ranked alongside the Ku Klux Klan and the Westboro Baptist Church is a totally different question than why Floyd Corkins decided to shoot at people he disagreed with.

Not every tragedy is political. The media needs to understand this so that when a tragedy that is explicitly political occurs, they cover it properly, and this is not what happened in the case of the shooting last week.

Tucker is a junior majoring in political science, economics, and public policy.

In FRC shooting, press shows ignorance on covering tragedy
The Daily Campus‎ - 2 days ago

[Joe Cocker]

Anyone want to look and find how much money Southern Poverty Law Center has in banks how much money their leaders make? I understand they have a third of a billion dollars, please prove me wrong I won't say how much grant money they get look it up! Your tax dollars at work!

Last week’s near-massacre at the Family Research Council (FRC) put into sharp relief a curious fact: The people most aggressively denouncing others for their “hatemongering” sure are engaging in a lot of it themselves – with dangerous, and potentially lethal, repercussions.

Take, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Back in the heyday of the civil rights movement, the SPLC helped counter the Ku Klux Klan and other racists and anti-Semites. At the moment, though, the SPLC is hanging out with today’s counterpart to the KKK and the preeminent threat to civil rights – especially those of women – in America: Islamists bent on insinuating here their anti-constitutional, misogynistic and supremacist doctrine known as shariah.

A case in point occurred last Wednesday night, just hours after a gunman named Floyd Lee Corkins entered the headquarters of the FRC. Corkins apparently was bent on killing as many of the Center’s employees as possible, perhaps because of the social conservative group’s listing (along with this columnist and a number of others) earlier this year by the SPLC as among the worst hate groups and bigots in America.

It turns out that, as with the Family Research Council, what seems to qualify one for smearing by the Southern Poverty Law Center is disagreement with its political agenda. If you lawfully object to, say, the erosion of traditional marriage or open borders, you stand to be condemned by the SPLC as a hater. It seems that if you are militantly in favor of the radical homosexual agenda or racist groups like La Raza, however, you get a pass from that organization.

Particularly striking in this regard is the utter blindness of the SPLC to the hatemongering in which Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist organizations in this country regularly engage. If you warn, on the basis of abundant evidence – including such Islamist groups’ own statements – that they are seeking to subvert our freedoms and form of government by insinuating shariah into this country then, boom, the self-appointed arbiters of hate will brand you a monger of it. But those whose Islamic creed promotes hatred of other religions, man-made laws and people who embrace them are never mentioned as a problem.

On Wednesday, August 15th, the director of the SPLC’s “intelligence project,” Heidi Beirich, participated in an open conference call organized by one such Islamist group, the Muslim Public Affairs Council. She used the occasion to inveigh against anti-Muslim hate groups and to declare that her group was “very, very concerned” about their proliferation.

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