After an article titled John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting? Christian Science Monitor whines about blaming “the other side”

Isn’t it amazing what happens to some left wing publications when actual facts come out about something they purposely mislead people about? You may have heard about or even read the Christian Science Monitor’s story on March 5th entitled:

John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?

Under the story title, they wrote this:

Authorities have identified John Patrick Bedell as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting. He appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent anti government feelings.

All this of course was news came out that Bedell was a registered Democrat, left behind rants about George W. Bush, the U.S. military, and was a 9/11 truther.

Today, the same Christian Science Monitor posted a new article entitled:

Political extremism: Not so easy to categorize

Then they go on to write in the article:

Both sides in the political debate have tried to label the IRS suicide pilot and the Pentagon shooter. But the truth here is way beyond such facile political analysis.

That has not stopped the politically-minded from attributing blame to the “other side.” If IRS attacker Joseph Andrew Stack was against taxes, then he must be a tea party fellow traveler, right? Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell was an anti-Bush registered Democrat who believed 9/11 was planned and carried out by the US government, so he must be left-wing, right?

The truth here is way beyond such facile political analysis.

“We’ve always had individuals who strike out at the giant ‘system’ when they’re feeling a sense of powerlessness and insignificance,” Jerrold Post, a professor of political psychology at George Washington University and author of “Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred,” told the Washington Post. “Now we see an alarming tendency in which these same individuals can find substantiation online for almost any point of view.”

Hypocrisy much CSM?

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March 7, 2010 · Filed Under Liberal Media Bias


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  • http://bereapundit.com Mike Murray

    There was a time — a time when I listened to the Christian Science Monitor via short wave radio — that I considered CSM to be relatively even-handed in its political coverage.

    But that time has long passed.