Vegas ‘News’ Outlet Behaves Badly After Tucker Carlson Blasts Their Lies About Louisville BLM Shooting – Opinion

We reported Friday on how the Las Vegas Sun, an online news outlet, tried to pull a fast one on readers earlier in the week by not only leaving out the fact that Quintez Brown, the suspect in the alleged assassination attempt of Democratic Louisville, Kentucky mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg, was a member of Black Lives Matter, but also by essentially blaming the shooting on “violent right-wing rhetoric.”

For those who missed it, the screengrab of what they originally wrote before adding a “clarification” is below. Note how they lead the editorial by highlighting how the shooting incident allegedly committed by a devoted BLM activist and gun control advocate “revealed the dangers of the talk coming from the right about civil war and political violence”:

Holy f*ck, @LasVegasSun. Quintez brown, the accused shooter was identified by BLM activists as left-leaning. This editorial was written shortly after Quintez was arrested. https://t.co/oZ2lEl71Lq pic.twitter.com/JG9Td1kQ5d

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) February 16, 2022

The editorial had been up nearly a full day before the Sun added in the suspect’s BLM affiliation in the piece. But even in adding that, they still held on to hope that he could somehow be tied to right-wing organizations so as to further justify (in their view) using the Louisville shooting involving an alleged radical leftist shooter to springboard into a lengthy diatribe against alleged “violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.”

Tucker Carlson, a Fox News host and popular Fox News commentator took notice of the editorial. He slammed the editors for being dishonest and refused to use the chance to discuss the recent rise in left-wing violence.

Okay, so when Barack Obama’s favorited BLM-affiliated gun activists tries to assassinate someone, you are looking to prove that conservatives are dangerous. “While there’s been no indication yet that the activist had ties to any right-wing organizations,” the paper conceded generously since Brown had already been identified as a progressive activist when this editorial ran in the paper.

“The shooting comes amid a rise at threats to politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.” So it was extremist Republicans, not that Quintez Brown technically is an extremist Republican, but extremist Republicans exist, the paper wants you to know. So as long as there is a shooting while there are extremist Republicans afoot it’s the fault of extremist Republicans.

Instead of taking the legitimate criticisms about their highly deceptive editorial to heart and admit they made a mistake, the Sun instead tried to play the victim in response, claiming that Carlson’s rant and that of others at Fox News had led to threats against them, which the Sun suggested was ironic considering the subject matter of their original editorial. They also doubled down, noting they didn’t call their update to the story a “correction” because in their view there was nothing to correct – even though they very much mislead readers after leaving out Quintez Brown’s BLM affiliation, which was well known at the time of publication of the original piece:

It’s unbelievable: The Las Vegas Sun editorial staff wrote 2,400+ words of follow-up, absolving themselves of any misrepresentation regarding Quintez Brown’s political affiliations. Instead they claim that they are the victims of the entire thing and blame others. @TuckerCarlson & @greggutfeld. pic.twitter.com/iP9s8TYN5f

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) February 21, 2022

This is a crucial point in an age where trust is low in media. NotWhat a media outlet needs to do when critics point out that an editorial or article is misleading. The proper response should have been “we promise to do better.” But it wasn’t, because like a lot of media organizations out there, the Sun would rather gaslight readers and make These are them think it’s them in the wrong than admit to errors/mistakes/falsehoods in their “reporting,” because of narratives and all that.

The Sun has an “about” page dedicated to bragging about their “firsts” in journalism, their awards, their “editorial excellence,” etc. But no one who knew the facts about the Louisville BLM shooting as well as the recent rise in violence against Asian-Americans and Jewish Americans by people who most definitely don’t fit the “right won’t extremist” profile