CNN’s Stelter Blames ‘Right-Wing Message Boards’ for Synagogue Shooting

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 28, 2019
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What makes tragic shootings like the one at Chabad of Poway on Saturday even worse was how predictable the liberal media were when it came to politicizing it. During Sunday’s so-called Reliable Sources on CNN, host Brian Stelter teased his coverage of the attack by wondering if it was “another case of a killer radicalized on right-wing message boards”. Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik went so far as to claim President Trump had opened “the Gates of Hell”.

When Stelter finally got around to talking about the attack, he never explained how the website “8chan” was anything more than a den of anonymous trolls. He never described their political beliefs or how the website fit in on the right. He only talked about what the attacker posted there.

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