{"id":11161,"date":"2009-06-02T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2009-06-02T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:16:55","slug":"the-blogosphere-crickets-are-deafening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11161","title":{"rendered":"The blogosphere crickets are deafening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last twenty four hours, I&#8217;ve been monitoring Technorati for blog posts on the shooting in Little Rock yesterday. Unsurprisingly, I&#8217;ve found countless center-right blogs reporting and commenting on it, but the Left not so much. Most of them just toss up a news story and few comments. One blog I read last night cautioned his readers that the shooting yesterday and the other on Sunday were both terrible. I wonder why he thought he had to write five paragraphs explaining that? <\/p>\n<p>So this morning, I began my foraging again and I was relieved to see that the Huffington Post had something up &#8211; alas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/06\/01\/abdulhakim-mujahid-muhamm_n_210087.html\">it was just another reposted<\/a> news story. However the HuffPo commenters can always be trusted to satisfy my evil wingnut lust for hyperbole;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/huffpo-arkansas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/huffpo-arkansas.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"huffpo-arkansas\" width=\"500\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/huffpo-arkansas.jpg 523w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/huffpo-arkansas-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the most important thing is that Obama not give political ammunition to his opponents &#8211; that&#8217;s more important than the lives of two young Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But, ya know, a guy trained in Yemen who guns down American soldiers in the streets of our cities should be reported by the actual media, ya know? Fox News usually shuts down broadcasting any real news for hours of video of police tape fluttering in the wind &#8211; not this time. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/01\/AR2009060103655.html\">Washington Post <\/a>puts the story in a column on page 16, and then just the AP blurb. But even that is better than the Washington Times which avoids the story. The New York Times ran one article yesterday and nothing today. As far as I can tell the article they wrote yesterday didn&#8217;t make it to print this morning.<\/p>\n<p>So why is the Left so scared of admitting that there is a real threat that has existed since 9-11 and that George Bush&#8217;s Administration kept us safe? I&#8217;m not saying Obama isn&#8217;t keeping us safe, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s his intention to do so. But isn&#8217;t it a bit disingenuous to ignore the problem and not give it the same measure of attention as the shooting of one single man who was killed because of his behavior? Do they truly think that the problem will go away if they bury their faces in their hands?<\/p>\n<p>And what does it say about the Left that they have to explain to each other why the senseless death of one man is the same as the senseless death of another. What does that say about their whole ideology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last twenty four hours, I&#8217;ve been monitoring Technorati for blog posts on the shooting &hellip; <a title=\"The blogosphere crickets are deafening\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11161\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The blogosphere crickets are deafening<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-media","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}