Bush Survives Assassination Attempt
Dean
I was stunned this morning to read that the President survived an assassination attempt in the nation of Georgia. A grenade was thrown at him and went off about 25 feet from where he was standing.
...back in May. And the press here in America had no interest in the story.
Wow. Just... wow.
* Update * Check the comments for several corrections. It appears that the Powerline guys are blowing smoke. I missed the story, but plenty of others saw it. The fact that the grenade didn't go off probably explains why it wasn't a big news event more than anything else.
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If the newspapers ignored it, that is a problem. However, I wouldn't know about that because I stopped reading newspapers a long time ago. They either make my blood boil because of blatant bias, or they make my blood boil because of various truths they tell.
Newspapers are only good for smalltown local stories. Even then, most writers/editors in my personal experience (Ventura, California; Riverside, California) can not resist the the chance to color even obituaries or cat-up-a-tree stories with their personal political bias. It is absolutely pitiful.
Holy shit. I hadn't heard a single word about this. Someone lobs a grenade at the president and it's not news?
That isn't just sad, it's sickening.
More recently--say over the past 10 days--there have also been reports (TV, internet, and I think the Wash Post) that the grenade was not a dud, but that the perp had overly wrapped it in tape (for whatever reason he had to wrap it in the first place). It was a live, real grenade, but incompetence prevented injuries.
In the media's defense I'd prefer that assassination attempts generally be underplayed rather than overplayed. (Particularly given that element of the MSM that seems to fantasize about it while alone in bed late at night.) There's no need to give anyone ideas for a repeat performance. I'm sure there have been attempts on Presidents' lives that neither we nor the media ever hear anything about.
Okay, a quick check later: I found six stories on this on CNN. I don't think this qualifies as a news blackout.
Say it ain't so!!!
Actually, that's what their blog is - collective smoke. I'm surprised you read it at all.
(When life hands you a lemon....)
It appears upon closer reading of the story I linked that their complaint is that this should have been a bigger deal. I'm not sure they're right about that.
I honestly just can't see how that's possible. It was covered extensively on FOX the day it happened and the day after, and they've reported on it several times since. I also saw it on CNN and my local news channels. It got enough coverage, IMO. As someone else noted, making a big deal about it would only encourage copycats. Plus it would just give the "look how much the whole world hates us" crowd something else to carp about, and they're annoying enough already.