This is worse than fake news. The WaPo tries to shift blame for James Hodgkinson’s attempt to murder Republican congressmen on conservative talk radio.
It is established fact that Hodgkinson was a Bernie-loving, anti-Trump, Rachel Maddow “super fan.”
Wouldn’t it make more sense to blame MSNBC and CNN’s rhetoric?
Jake Domino on Twitter
@washingtonpost The shooter’s Facebook page was full of MSNBC. Why are you trying so desperately to falsely tie this to the right?
Razor on Twitter
The Alexandria attacker was a Bernie backer who watched Maddow, but the real culprit is right-wing radio. https://t.co/dvKQnMWZiq
In Alexandria shooter’s hometown, rage-filled radio host channels middle America’s inner frustration
BELLEVILLE, Ill. – It’s not yet 11 a.m., and Bob Romanik, sitting behind the microphone at his radio station in a rundown strip mall in the middle of America, already has said the “n-word” out loud – and on air – at least a dozen times. Romanik is a surly 68-year-old former East St.
Peter Holley writes:
In Alexandria shooter’s hometown, rage-filled radio host channels middle America’s inner frustration
It’s not yet 11 a.m., and Bob Romanik, sitting behind the microphone at his radio station in a rundown strip mall in the middle of America, already has said the “n-word” out loud — and on air — at least a dozen times.
Romanik is a surly 68-year-old former East St. Louis street cop. He hates Black Lives Matter and talks proudly about his Caucasian heritage to anyone who will listen. And do they listen. His controversy-courting radio program — he’s the self-styled “Grim Reaper of Radio” on KQQZ 1190 AM — reaches across this region, in and around Belleville, Ill.
The suburban community about 20 miles east of St. Louis drew attention in recent weeks because it was the hometown of James T. Hodgkinson, the out-of-work politically frustrated home inspector who up and left, drove a van to the Washington area, and then shot four people at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria.
The nation was shocked, but Romanik — who seems to delight in launching savage attacks on local politicians and stoking his listeners’ many frustrations about race, crime and government — certainly wasn’t. Despite being a die-hard supporter of President Trump who has perfected the art of the dire populist message, many of Romanik’s biggest fans in southern Illinois are disgruntled Democrats like Hodgkinson.
Raven on Twitter
@washingtonpost The shooter was a leftist who campaigned for Bernie and had a list of GOP targets. Try again. https://t.co/t6wE1p7Bdj
Stephen Miller on Twitter
Devoted Bernie supporter shoots up baseball field of Republicans. Washington Post blames pro Trump talk radio in his hometown for it
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