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Why Can’t The Media Properly ID a Radical-Left Killer?

The brazen murder of two young Israeli Embassy staffers in DC was committed by a man on the radical left, but other than Jake Tapper, none of TV network stars could identify the shooter as “left,” let along “radical left.” MRCTV’s Justine Brooke Murray helps break it down.

Violence is the first defining stance of an extremist. But the TV networks didn’t just fail to say “far left,” they didn’t even say “left” or God forbid, “Progressive,” since murdering innocent people  isn’t progress.

NewsBusters senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino found that in the first 24 hours after the attack, across their live-streaming and flagship morning and evening news programs, all of these networks, as well as MSNBC, stubbornly concealed both the shooter’s political leanings — including his membership with the radical left-wing Party for Socialism…

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