WND EXCLUSIVE
LIMBAUGH: MEDIA CONFLICTED SINCE TV SHOOTER IS BLACK
'Journalists lives matter. Hands up! I'm on the air!'
Radio host Rush Limbaugh said the national news media will be conflicted in their reporting on Wednesday’s slaughter of a Virginia news crew live on the air because the shooter was reportedly a black man, and his victims were white.
The shooter has been identified as Vester Flanagan, 41, who also went by the professional name of Bryce Williams. The victims are reporter Alison Parker, 24, and photographer Adam Ward, 27, who were gunned down during a live broadcast from the Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia.
“A reporter of color is the shooter. Now there’s a conflict. Now what do they (the media) do?” asked Limbaugh on his national broadcast Wednesday. “If you take out the color [of the individuals involved] … you might not even hear about it.”
Shooting victims Alison Parker and Adam Ward
Limbaugh, who called the slaying “horrible” and “a despicable thing,” said the incident may make some in the media rethink their opposition to carrying guns for their own protection.
“Journalists may want to consider arming themselves as they go out now,” he explained. “Journalists lives matter … “Hands up! I’m on the air!”
Limbaugh said because virtually everything in the news becomes politicized, this tragedy will be as well.
“I guarantee you there are probably investigative reporters trying to tie this to some political group with which they do not agree, like the tea party,” he said.
Rush Limbaugh
Limbaugh also noted the shooter “actually videotaped himself committing this crime. He had his cell-phone camera in one hand, his gun in the other.”
He then reportedly posted the video of the crime online.
“You want to talk about the ugly underbelly of social media,” said Limbaugh, “this is taking it to a level that nobody has ever dreamed of.”
“I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this. It may be an all-time first.”
Flanagan is reportedly injured with life-threatening injuries after shooting himself.
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