Radicals and How the Media Doesn't Get It

The Washington Post has up a lengthy piece on a leftist radical who killed an officer and is calling for revolution. Overall, it's not a bad piece but there are several moments that reflect just how biased the MSM is and how little they get it. Consider what is said after spending several paragraphs detailing his actions.

It is as if Mickel, in his thinking, had gone so far to the fringe left that he started to look a lot like the fringe right.

So, in other words, if you're a violent leftist, then you're basically just a right wing nutjob in disguise. Consider what the writer is arguing here. Only right wing crazies would do this, so the fact that a leftist murdered someone means that he's actually thinking like a militia nut. It's impossible to conceive that a left wing wacko could be capable of this. And we don't have to wait long before the writer unloads it either.

The angry rhetoric -- the applause for cop-killing -- harks back to the days when anti-government militias and McVeigh arose from the far-right fringe. Some of Mickel's friends suspect he entered an echo chamber of anti-government talk and that it served as an outlet for some kind of violent urge growing inside him.

A young man murders a cop and it's obviously because he became involved in some right wing anti-government movement. But now keep in mind that it couldn't have possibly had anything to do with the kind of people he associated with...

Mickel went to the West Bank and Colombia with human rights groups. He became interested in the Palestinian cause and the U.S. role in Latin America. He joined rallies against the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund.

Wait a minute! You mean he hung around with the most radical, and violent, leftists known on earth? But surely, that had NOTHING to do with forming his anti-government, anti-American hate. No, I'm sure it had much more to do with his reading of anti-government right wing websites. And certainly, it was one of these right wing nut sites that he was a contributor towards, right?

That is, until a confession appeared on the Internet. Six days after the shooting, a manifesto appeared on more than a dozen Web sites operated by the left-leaning Independent Media Center.

I guess not. Yet again, the media refuses to see the danger inherent in the radical leftist ideologies. Instead we're given the picture that only right wing sociopaths would ever seek to harm our nation and our citizens. Yet again, the media just don't get it.