Posted August 5, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

In the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting, there are a lot of things we should be doing. For example, we should talk about the victims, their families, the survivors and what they’re enduring, any number of things.

However, if there’s one thing we’ve seen with the American media, it’s that they’ll never miss a chance to throw a punch at their ideological opponents.

That’s what CNN’s Jack Tapper tried to pull on El Paso Mayor Dee Margo recently. Unfortunately for the TV host, Margo presented a master class in how elected officials should reply to such efforts:

Margo batted away Tapper’s efforts to corner him by correctly pointing out that he didn’t feel qualified to speak on certain topics.

Of course, he probably is just as qualified as anyone to give his opinion on any number of topics. However, what Margo didn’t say was that right then, his opinions weren’t relevant. Frankly, in the aftermath of something like this, remarkably few opinions are. In Margo’s city, 20 people had just been murdered in cold blood by a maniac who appears to have been motivated by hate.

The fact that Tapper was trying to push this is just indicative of how the modern mainstream media …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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