Bill Clinton told a journalist that the Oklahoma City bombing in April of 1995, guaranteed his re-election. After the bombing, Clinton immediately started saying that conservatives had created an atmosphere of hatred towards the federal government that caused Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Murrah Federal Building. Clinton specifically named Rush Limbaugh as someone who was fanning the flames of hatred and creating an atmosphere of violence.
Ever since the bombing in Oklahoma City, the left has desperately been trying to portray conservatives as potentially violent. We saw this in the media's reaction to the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Arizona. The press immediately announced that the shooter was a right winger. They had to drop that story line; but the immediate response was to portray him as a right wing nut.
The news media knows that the initial impression created by a false story is never completely negated by the retraction. That's why ABC news was perfectly willing to engage in rumor mongering, instead of news coverage, in the Colorado killings. By trying to connect the mass murder in Colorado, to the Tea Party, based on essentially nothing, ABC News has demonstrated that they are nothing but left wing political hacks masquerading as journalists. They should be ashamed.
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