Journalists Making Secret Retractions

This is for people who don’t believe Trump is right about fake news.

Last night, a man shot up a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. The shooter, who killed himself at the scene, has not been named yet.

Many news stories said that a witness described the shooter as “Middle Eastern-looking.”

If you go to Google right now and search the news for “Middle Eastern” and “Thousand Oaks,” you will pull up snippets from a number of news sites, relaying the information about the suspect’s description. They include the phrase “Middle Eastern.”

If you click on the stories, you will find that many of them have been SCRUBBED of the phrase “Middle Eastern.” The phrase still appears in Google results that haven’t been updated yet, but it’s gone from the stories.

Here’s a tweet from a journalist named Jory Rand:

Just spoke with a man who was at the front door of the bar when the shooter began firing. Says he had a handgun, shot the guard at the door, threw several smoke bombs inside, and then continued firing. Described shooter as middle eastern looking with a beard.

We know liberal journalists are afraid of Muslims, and after mass shootings, leftists always swarm the web, trying to convince everyone the murderers are conservative white males.

The body will tell the story. Thank goodness the authorities have it. If this man is a Muslim or a dark-skinned individual who is not conservative, we will know the truth soon enough.

Interesting thing: he killed at least a dozen people with a .45 pistol. He didn’t feel the need for an AR-15. When you’re shooting unarmed people in a crowded room, it probably doesn’t matter what kind of weapon you use, as long as it has box magazines.

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Now websites are describing the suspect as a “white man,” and leftists are running with it. Problem: to the cops, all Caucasians are white, and that includes Arabs and Hispanics. The pastor from my last church is a dark-skinned Puerto Rican, and his criminal history lists him as white. George Zimmerman is a dark-skinned Hispanic who is part Indian and part black, and the police described him as white.

It’s amazing how people can believe what they want to believe, regardless of the facts.

I’m betting on Islam this time around, but the truth is that no one will know for sure until we get an ID.

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Looks like it WAS a white man. The killer was David Ian Long, a former Marine who suffered from PTSD. Grist for the left’s propaganda mill. Still, it doesn’t begin to justify censoring the news.