On July 8, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th) stood with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and families of Charleston victims and pushed for the very background checks alleged gunman Dylann Roof passed.
On June 10, USA Today quoted FBI director James Comey saying an FBI “mistake” allowed Dylann Roof to pass a background check for the .45 caliber handgun he allegedly used to attack innocents at Charleston’s Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The New York Times excused this “mistake,” positing instead that Roof passed the background check because of a system “flaw.”
On July 10, the FBI reported that background checks did not stop Dylann Roof from acquiring the gun he allegedly used to kill nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17.
The national media largely ignored a statement that condemned hatred, racism and violence with passionate clarity, issued by the Sons of Confederate Veterans – a group that bans members with racist view or connections.
On June 17, reports emerged that Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Roof obtained his gun “legally,” so calls for gun control have largely fallen on deaf ears. But a photo of Roof posing with a Confederate battle flag has managed to become the impetus for a cause célèbre to banish the Confederate battle flag from public view.
John Schneider, the actor behind Bo Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard, is speaking out after TV Land announced Wednesday it had pulled his former show from its lineup.
According to a Tuesday Suffolk University/USA Today survey, 70 percent of respondents said they do not want the federal government imposing a ban on the sale or manufacture of the Confederate flag.
On Friday, The Washington Post ran a column asking readers to “look away from the Confederate flag” and look instead at the gun alleged Charleston attacker Dylann Roof held in his hand.
On Saturday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told supporters in Las Vegas that Obama’s gun control proposals would not have stopped any of the attacks “that have taken place in the last couple of years.”
In an article discussing a South Carolina police officer fired on Facebook photo showing him wearing Confederate Flag underwear, liberal warhorse, the Washington Post added fuel to the media’s racism hype by comparing the officer to two accused murderers.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher questioned whether the victims’ families forgiving Dylann Roof was good for society on Friday. After author and Hotair.com Editor-at-Large Mary Katharine Ham argued that “One of the reasons that Charleston was able to give
A radical leader of an anti-American, racist, paramilitary organization told an enthusiastic crowd that they can “strap up” with weapons “for only a couple of hundred dollars” and received applause when she said she planned to establish a Charleston chapter of the group.
For those without faith, Michael Wear acknowledges, this may make little sense, especially for those who have never personally experienced the forgiveness of God. “But that does not grant us the right to whitewash the motivation for the forgiveness we witnessed in Charleston,” he said. We need to “take the family members seriously when they say it is a sincere, thought-out expression of their faith,” he wrote.
The left’s crusade on American history continues as New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls for the removal of a monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee that has stood since 1884.
Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was slain in the massacre at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where Dylann Roof killed nine black worshipers, voted for the Confederate flag’s display at the Statehouse on May 3, 2000, when he was a state senator.
As lawmakers squabble and major retailers pull the Confederate flag from store shelves and websites, Warner Bros. has essentially announced the death of a cultural icon.
There is great power in symbols, especially in an era when so many people have been taught to emote rather than thinking. The quick surge of emotion people feel upon viewing a potent symbol can be bottled and used in politics. It’s excessively charitable to call the current flag battle a “debate,” because it mostly consists of one side screaming that anyone who hesitates to dump that flag into the wood chipper of historical oblivion is either a racist, or an accessory to racism in the first degree. There isn’t much in the way of measured reason involved here.
On Monday evening, President Obama spoke at the White House annual Iftar dinner, where he continued the promulgate the unifying theme of his presidency: America is deeply racist and evil.
Wal-Mart said Monday it is removing any items from its store shelves and website that feature the Confederate flag.
Malik Zulu Shabazz, the national President of the New Black Panther Party, has announced two rallies in Charleston, South Carolina in the wake of shooting deaths of nine black Christians that prosecutors say was committed by America-hating white racist Dylann Roof.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco penned a lengthy three-part open letter addressed to “White Supremacy” over the weekend in response to the horrific killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina last week.
On June 20, The Fresno Bee editorial board ran an editorial showing that gun control is not working, yet calling for more gun control to prevent an attack like the heinous one in Charleston, South Carolina, from ever happening again.
What’s the difference between Bill Ayers and Dylann Roof? Dylann Roof isn’t a friend and colleague of an American president who enjoyed a cushy life in academia before retiring to life as the kind of author who’s invited on-the-air by the mainstream media to hawk his books.
An 83-year-old monument to the Confederate soldiers who came to the defense of Charleston during the Civil War was defaced by “Black Lives Matter” protesters sometime late on Saturday evening.
On Friday, a Democrat South Carolina state legislator appeared on CNN insisting that the 21-year-old man who killed nine churchgoers in Charleston last week was driven to his act because he watches Fox News. This is despite the fact that no one seems to know what media habits the killer possessed.
