And more importantly, was Fox News in on this conspiracy of silence?!
Four months after the bloody event took place, right-wing bloggers, along with Glenn Beck, have embraced the sad story of the Missouri dean at Penn Valley Community College who was senselessly slashed by a crazed attacker who thought he was stabbing Missouri's Democratic governor, Jay Nixon, who was scheduled to appear on the campus that same day.
Why is the right-wing blogosphere eagerly retelling the tale nearly half a year later? Because they want to play politics with the story even after they demanded nobody play politics with the Tucson gun massacre. So yeah, there's a massive amount of hypocrisy involved.
But here's where the right-wingers' handling of the story goes from crass to predictably dumb: They claim that the Missouri story was hushed up in real time last year because the liberal media wasn't interested in writing about the attacker because he appeared to have a radical-left background, and because the liberal media only writes about attackers who have radical-right backgrounds.
Or something.
But the bottom line was clear: The liberal press hushed this story up. Big time!
Do I really have to point out the gaping large hole in this very dumb meme? Okay, I will. You know who else hushed up the Missouri story last year? Fox News. And the New York Post. And the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner, and The Weekly Standard and National Review and the Drudge Report.
You get the idea. I can't find a single 2010 reference from any conservative media outlet that reported on, or paid attention to, the Missouri attack last year while highlighting the politics of the attacker. Bloggers this week have whipped themselves into a frenzy about a supposed conspiracy of silence being perpetrated by the liberal media. But oops, first they forgot to see if Fox News ignored the story, too.
It did. And virtually so did every national news outlet last year. So I'd sure love to hear right-wing bloggers explain how Fox News was in on the big cover-up. And The Weekly Standard and National Review, etc.
Oh yeah, the punch line: Guess who else ignored the Missouri story last year? Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism, which is now condemning the press for ignoring the same story.
Brilliant.