Governor Palin Statement on William Long
"The stories of two very different lives with similar fates crossed through the media's hands yesterday - both equally important but one lacked the proper attention. The death of 67-year old George Tiller was unacceptable, but equally disgusting was another death that police believe was politically and religiously motivated as well.
William Long died yesterday. The 23-year old Army Recruiter was gunned down by a fanatic; another fellow soldier was wounded in the ambush. The soldiers had just completed their basic training and were talking to potential recruits, just as my son, Track, once did.
Whatever titles we give these murderers, both deserve our attention. Violence like that is no way to solve a political dispute nor a religious one. And the fanatics on all sides do great disservice when they confuse dissention with rage and death."
Governor Sarah Palin
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Glad someone's paying attention
You betcha, Governor.
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In her Wednesday (June 3, 2009) column, Michelle Malkin points out the usual disparity in reporting (and in WH reaction) to these two events. Michelle says:
ReplyDeleteWhen a right-wing Christian vigilante kills, millions of fingers pull the trigger. When a left-wing Muslim vigilante kills, he kills alone. These are the instantly ossifying narratives in the Sunday shooting death of late-term abortion provider George Tiller of Kansas versus the Monday shootings of two Arkansas military recruiters.
There were one or two exceptions, but for the most part, everyone and everything conservative is blamed for Tiller's death, whereas those same voices, joined by the Arkansas Chief of Police investigating the military shootings, would have you believe that the shooter in the recruiting station event was a lone, deranged mad man... not representative of the peace-loving Muslim community.