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February 14, 2024. A gunman opens fire at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade. One woman k!lled. Twenty-two others shot, half of them children. Chaos on live television watched by millions.
By February 16th — two days later — no names, no photos, no charges. Bill Maher pressed Ann Coulter on his show that Friday night. Her response: 𝘐𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘦'𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗴𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗲.
Suspects weren't named publicly until February 20th — six days after the shooting. She was right. The shooters were not white.
This isn't a new pattern. Coulter pointed to San Bernardino in 2015 — where media hedged for hours before acknowledging Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were Islamic terrorists. She pointed to the Covenant School shooting in Nashville — where authorities sat on the transgender shooter's manifesto for over a year.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁: when the shooter fits the media's preferred narrative, you know everything within the hour — name, photo, manifesto, childhood trauma, the works. When the shooter doesn't fit the narrative, suddenly the investigation requires patience and sensitivity.
The American public isn't stupid. They've noticed. And the trust that legacy media has burned chasing that narrative is never coming back.
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