The media wouldn’t be focused on Waukesha if Darrell Brooks was a white male who drove into a group of black people.
The name Darrell Brooks hasn’t been uttered a single time on CNN since last Thursday, November 25. Since last Wednesday (November 24), Brooks was not mentioned by MSNBC. This marked Brooks’ first name-dropping on MSNBC. The scant coverage came in the form of a hasty (34 seconds) news brief that ran once each on the network’s two morning programs, Jonathan Lemire: Way Too Soon Morning Joe
Brooks may be the most famous of all. a felonWho has expressed hate for Jews and white peoples? Oder the fact that witnesses have reported that he seemed to be His vehicle was swervedSo that he could hit as many pedestrians possible? Nope, those facts apparently aren’t important enough to make it onto CNN or MSNBC. None of these facts have been discussed on any network.
Why?
You know why – everybody knows why. It’s because the media are peddling a nasty portrait of America in which countless violent white supremacists and racist police officers run rampant, carrying out calculated attacks on people of color with alarming frequency.
This narrative is too simplistic to allow anyone of color to hate white people. These people aren’t racist, even though they exist.
If that’s not how our esteemed fourth estate are thinking about this story, then why are they suddenly so disinterested in it? What is the point of deliberately skimping over details? What’s with the obfuscatory headlines verging on parody, like This one from CNN claiming that the attack was perpetrated by “a car?”
That’s not a rhetorical question this time – let’s see somebody from CNN or MSNBC try to explain why their network is dishonestly framing Waukesha as some sort of freak car accident, when they can be bothered to talk about it at all.
Let’s hear an explanation from CNN’s sniveling media reporter, Brian Stelter. Let’s hear from MSNBC’s hatred-peddling Democratic loyalist, Joy Reid. Until they offer a convincing alternative, it’s hard not to conclude that they and their colleagues are intentionally forcing this story down the memory hole because (1) Brooks is black, and (2) his victims are predominantly white.
You can have the entire story covered if you want them to prove me right. It’s the whole story.
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