By now we’re all sick of stories about how biased the media are. But once in a while such a story provides a target so tempting that it’s hard to pass up.
The Sherlock Holmes story “Silver Blaze” has given us a famous phrase that always comes to mind when I think of our corrupt, partisan media: “the dog that didn’t bark.” The story is about the disappearance of a race horse and the murder of its trainer, and Holmes recognizes that there is evidence in something that did not happen. A dog was in the barn when the crime took place, and Holmes deduces that the dog knew the killer, since it didn’t bark as it would have if a stranger had shown up.
Fortunately, our MSM is much less clever than a criminal in an Arthur Conan Doyle story, and we don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to see through their predictable efforts to hide their partisan dishonesty.
For example, since the legacy media are always trying to insert racial narratives into every story, if you ever read any crime story that doesn’t mention the race of those involved, that lack of information is the dog that didn’t bark. And you know what that hound’s silence means.
When a mob of young people flood into a specific area and go on a sustained, violent rampage, and a 10-paragraph story on the mayhem calls the incident a “teen takeover” and makes no mention of race at all…you know that there was not a significant Scandinavian-American presence in that mob.
Conversely, when non-criminal white guy Daniel Penny stopped violent black recidivist Jordan Neely from hurting commuters on a subway train by restraining him in a hold that inadvertently killed him, a typical MSM headline said, “White Man Kills Black Michael Jackson Impersonator on Train.”
And the first few sentences of a typical story sounded like this: “When Daniel Penny, a white former Marine saw Jordan Neely, a Black MJ enthusiast on the subway, he thought Neely was a threat. Using training he’d learned from white drill instructors, Penny – who is white – put Neely — who was black – in a chokehold that is especially dangerous for people of color – which Neely was – and killed him.”
The same QCS (Quiet Canine Syndrome) is constantly at play in political stories.
If a Republican politician gets caught cheating on his wife, the story will begin, “Republican Tad Wellington, R-Ohio, was caught betraying his wife – and his Republican voters, in his Republican congressional district – by using his patriarchal Republican privilege to seduce an age-inappropriate young woman. Republican-ly.”
The same story about a 10-term Democrat congressman caught in the same situation? “Local man caught up in mostly peaceful and totally consensual misunderstanding in local motel.”
When a story combines both politics AND crime, every dog in the MSM kennel develops intermittent laryngitis. Thus, when two transgenders killed Christian kids in school shootings in Tennessee and Minnesota, their manifestoes and social media were studiously overlooked, and stories took a, “we may never know what motivated the killer” approach.
Similarly, when Charlie Kirk was murdered by a creepy, violent leftist male who was banging a boy who thought he was a girl who thought she was a human-sized squirrel, MSM accounts wouldn’t include the words “leftist” or “furry.” Instead, their stories led with, “The son of conservative Republican parents allegedly killed fascist provocateur Charlie Kirk…”
By contrast, the media pack was in full, yapping fury when on May 27th, somebody opened fire at a Muslim festival in Shakopee, MN, killing a 26-year-old Muslim man named Khalid Ibrahim Abdi.
FINALLY, thought the media pitbulls! After years and years of tiptoeing around hundreds of attacks on Jews and synagogues, and Christians and churches, we’ve finally got a story we can sink our teeth into! Bark! Muslims attacked, and a Muslim man dead? Woof! We don’t have any facts yet, but it’s probably a Jewish attacker. Or at least a Christian one. Where was Ben Shapiro when the shooting happened? Does Netanyahu have an alibi?!
AROOOOOOOOO!
Please let the killer be a Trump supporter named Itzhak Rubenstein, or Schlomo Hershberg. Or even Jebediah “Cotton” Mather!
Amy Klobuchar and Tim Walz put out immediate statements, hammering the “attacks on religious events are especially abhorrent” theme. Widely reported calls from the Muslim community demanded “accountability.”
But that was only a week ago, and I’ll bet you haven’t heard anything about the story since. In fact, a quick search shows that a total of zero stories on CNN, ABC or NBC newscasts reported the arrest of the killer on May 28th, or his name. A local Minnesota CBS station mentioned the name, and MSN had a link to a local Fox channel who reported the killer’s name. Hmm.
Let me put on my Sherlockian Deerstalker hat and light my pipe. What could account for all of these media dogs quietly slinking back into their kennels?
It is, dare I say it, elementary.
Because the killer’s name is… wait for it… Mohamed Abdirizak Rage.
I’m not making that up. Mohamed Rage! (Rumors that “Abdirizak” is Arabic for “Death to the Infidels” have not been confirmed.)
Not since a Muslim named “Jihad al-Shamie” murdered two Jews in England last October has a “nomen est omen” situation been so on the nose.
So naturally, the legacy media immediately pivoted away from the story. Because they run in neutered packs, and the few alphas among them are the enforcers who make sure that they slavishly follow the party line, and tell only the ideologically approved narratives.
Am I saying that they’re a bunch of feckless little b*tches?
That’s exactly what I’m saying.
Have a good weekend, everybody!
Que Mala/Crockett, 2028!
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