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A Tale of Two Shootings: Why Is the Buffalo Narrative Being Driven, While the Laguna Woods Narrative Is Ignored?

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While peripherally studying the news coverage of both the Buffalo shooting at Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, and the Laguna Woods shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church, I was struck by the amount of news and analysis being given to the Buffalo shooting, while the Laguna Woods shooting, which is close to me, has been all but ignored.

From CBS News Los Angeles:

One man was killed and five others wounded when a gunman opened fire in a church in Laguna Woods Sunday afternoon.

The shooting occurred at Geneva Presbyterian Church, located in the 24000 block of El Toro Road, at around 1:25 p.m.

By the time Orange County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on scene, the suspect, later identified as 68-year-old David Chou of Las Vegas, was hogtied by an extension cord by churchgoers. The churchgoers had also confiscated at least two weapons, the sheriff’s department said.

Why is this not national news? Churchgoers chose not be statistics—Bravo! These congregants didn’t hide under their pews. They bravely took down the shooter, took away his weapons, hogtied him, and waited for the cops to arrive.

That’s a script for a Hollywood blockbuster in my eyes.

It’s an incredible story on a number of levels, and should be lauded, applauded, and reported from every major outlet. Yet, the Laguna Woods shooting is relegated to local news, and the Buffalo Shooting, which happened on Saturday, continues to dominate the national news and analysis cycle. Both shootings are tragedies about the shooter. Both men came from out of town in order to target a particular community where they did not belong.

But, the selective adoption of one narrative over another is quite startling.

My colleague Brad Slager wrote about this selective coverage on our sister site Townhall:

As most know, of all of these incidents, one is getting far more coverage – and one is getting far more “analysis.” A proper thinking individual might suggest these all warrant a level of introspection, yet the press in this country have shown that being proper is not a highly-listed priority. It does not take long to see why there is a very selective level of outrage with these incidents.

California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, who is under the delusion that he is running for the presidency, decided the world needed to know about his outrage over the Buffalo Shooting:

As usual, Hair Gel is talking out his hind parts. New York gun laws are probably stricter than California’s, so that “easy access to firearms” is quickly shot down as a falsehood.

But here’s the kicker. The Laguna Woods shooting happened at 1:25 p.m. on Sunday. It is past high noon Monday here in California, yet his Hairfulness has not posted one word of outrage about the targeting and shooting of Asians at a Presbyterian church in the state that he is supposed to be governing!

Just because the Laguna Woods shooter was the same race as the people he targeted doesn’t mean it isn’t racial hatred. The lazy politicians and media like to lump different races under the banner of “Asian,” but it doesn’t mean the people who occupy that group identify with each other or even like each other.

Says a lot about the way race is covered in America. The phrase “People of Color”? Dumber than a bag of rocks.

The Laguna Woods Shooting also happened at a church. In the supercharged atmosphere created by the leak of the SCOTUS draft opinion on Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health, The pro-death cabal are targeting churches because of their stand for life. As my colleague Brad Slager noted in the Townhall article mentioned above, this past week of destruction and tragedy included the firebombing of two pro-life resource centers in Madison, Wisconsin and Keizer, Oregon.

All three incidents are classic definitions of domestic terrorism. But our clueless California governor apparently only sees domestic terrorism when it involves a white person who also happens to be pro-life.

Let that sink in.

There have been a number of mass shootings that have come and gone in the news recently. One happened on the same day as the Laguna Woods Presbyterian Church shooting. A Flea Market in Houston, Texas, left two dead and three critically wounded. The news copy is fascinating in that it doesn’t bother to mention the races of the shooters or the victims. According to KHOU-TV in Houston, the injured men were also the men involved in the escalation and altercation. There were thousands of people at the flea market, but no innocent bystanders were harmed.

Guess that ruined the narrative meter, so it made barely a blip on the coverage.

The November 2021 Waukesha, Wisconsin Parade massacre where a Black supremacist used his SUV to mow down parade-goers and participants saw the media slathering over the coverage, until they found out the race of the alleged attacker. Coverage was reduced to the SUV being an animate force that killed people (imagine that), and then quickly divested for other bright, shiny objects.

Because of the Buffalo full-court press, stories are filtering out that the alleged Buffalo shooter had a white victim of the Waukesha massacre written on his rifle. Now the legacy media has to pay more attention to the tragedy of Waukesha while they try to milk analysis of “replacement theory” and ignore that a Rachel Maddow-loving, mentally ill man took 10 lives.

The Sacramento shooting in April left the news cycle faster than you can say, “Brylcreem,” because the investigation found that it was gang-related. You know, Black-on-Black crime? The Left loves to ignore it (see: Illinois, Chicago) The right loves to use it as a statistic on how horrible the Left is and how pro-law enforcement they are. Who is disserviced? Black people in particular, and the communities—no matter what the race demographic—where these incidents happen, in general. Sacramento’s demographic of over 500 thousand people are majority White and Hispanic, with a sprinkling of Black, Asian, Native Islander, and even Native American lumped in. Bottom line: This shooting didn’t fit Governor Hair Gel’s gun control, white terrorism narrative, so he looked toward the next national tragedy he could be outraged over.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

The selective outrage is mind-numbing, especially through the lens of one who reports and analyses the news. When it comes to the legacy media and their partnership with the leftist agenda, all narratives do not matter, only the ones that serve their ends.

Justice Clarence Thomas Cements 'Legend' Status With One Very On-Point Quip About the MSM

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Along with his legal brilliance, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has gifted us with some classic quotes during his decades of public service, with one in particular that stands out to me being what I call his “Never bend the knee” moment during his highly contentious (thanks to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden) 1991 confirmation hearings.

At one point during the hearing, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asked Thomas about the rumors that he planned on backing out of the process, and asked what he was going to do. Thomas’ answer (seen on page 260 of the transcript here) was a prescient blueprint for conservatives as to how they should respond to similar baseless smear attacks from Democrats in the future:

Hatch: “Judge, you’re here, though. Some people have been spreading the rumor that perhaps you’re going to withdraw. What’s Clarence Thomas going to do?”

Thomas: “I’d rather die than withdraw. If they’re gonna kill me they’re gonna kill me.”

Hatch: “So you’d still like to serve on the Supreme Court?”

Thomas: “I’d rather die than withdraw from the process. Not for the purpose of serving on the Supreme Court, but for the purpose of not being driven out of this process. I will not be scared. I don’t like bullies. I’ve never run from bullies. I never cry uncle and I’m not going to cry uncle today, whether I want to be on the Supreme Court or not.”

Here we are nearly 31 years since his confirmation and Thomas, who is the longest-serving Justice of those who are currently on the court, is still providing us with some gems, including one from the Old Parkland Conference last Friday, where he spoke about, among other things, how badly the draft majority opinion Supreme Court leak that happened earlier this month had hurt the Supreme Court and also how the protests that were being held outside the conservative Justices’ homes – including his – were beyond the pale.

While I urge people to watch his full remarks from the conference here, at one point during his back and forth with former Bush Deputy Assistant AG for the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo, Thomas quipped about comments he’d made to the media early on during his time as a Supreme Court Justice when some in the MSM suggested he resign from his position. Thomas’ response, as you’ll read and hear below, was priceless and absolutely spot-on:

In other words, it’ll be a cold day in hell before he leaves the Supreme Court as a direct result of media criticism in his direction.

That’s the thing the far left will never understand about the right. As recently as a decade or so ago, you had about a 50-50 chance a Republican was going to back down after getting hammered by the left/media. These days, those chances have decreased significantly – and not to the left’s advantage.

Related: Things Get Tense After Woke House Dem Demands Proof – and Gets It – That Leftists Hate Clarence Thomas

Joe Cunningham Dishes Up Reality to CNN's S.E. Cupp on Buffalo Shooting and Leftist Rhetoric

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As I noted on Saturday, the talking points immediately went out among the left to blame the Buffalo mass shooting on Tucker Carlson and people on the right.

CNN’s S.E. Cupp continued that on Sunday with a bad take on the shooting.

This is slanderous to millions of people — Fox and MAGA aren’t pushing shooting people or white supremacism. And I think people on the left see Q in their sleep and are far more obsessed with it than anyone on the right. So, let’s not even pretend that Cupp or CNN is objective journalism here.

Further, let’s address the alleged manifesto of the Buffalo shooter. The manifesto said that he identified himself previously as a communist, but now sees himself more as “mild-moderate authoritarian left.”

According to PJ Media, later in the manifesto, it says:

“I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.” He also repeatedly attacks capitalists, and rejected the conservative label because, he wrote, “conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

As we previously noted, the manifesto also included an anti-Semitic meme attacking Fox News.

So, not what S.E. Cupp is suggesting. But, let not S.E. Cupp be confused by facts. She works for CNN, the home of fake news.

But where has Cupp been when dealing with inflammatory rhetoric from the left? Or other attacks that might not fit her narrative? Our own Joe Cunningham pointed out that she’s predictably silent.

How about when it came to a Bernie bro targeting the GOP baseball practice? Crickets.

Floyd Corkins attacking the Family Research Council? Nothing.

Thanks, Joe. Let’s carry that a little further.

How about where was she on Waukesha? Her one tweet about that was something that wasn’t true, ignoring the racial animus that the defendant had posted in that case.

How about something very recent and pertinent to the leftist pushing pro-abortion rage — the firebombing of a pro-life group? I checked various search options for anything related to that and found nothing from Cupp, who claims to be pro-life. I scrolled through her timeline and didn’t see any posts about the left trying to intimidate SCOTUS into doing their will in regard to Roe. Indeed, the only post I found that even referenced the protests was a post she retweeted that claimed that reports about Justice Alito having to leave his home were wrong.

As we reported, it was true that Alito had to leave his home. Chalk up another one for Cupp.

Can we ever forget how CNN and some of the other liberal media described the leftist riots in 2020 as “mostly peaceful” — even as flames were shooting out of the building behind them?

So please, leftists and fake conservatives. Take it somewhere else. Because no one is buying this schtick.

OK Governor Rejects 'Immoral' Leftist Narrative on Poverty and Abortion

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Ever since news broke about the leaked draft opinion of the United States Supreme Court that appears to be moving toward striking down some or all of Roe v. Wade, Democrats have been scrambling to codify the murder of children in the womb into federal law. We saw the abject failure of one attempt at this in the Senate last week, when legislation known as the Women’s Health Protection Act came up for a vote, which Chuck Schumer demanded take place for political purposes. As we reported, it went down in flames, 51-49, with one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia voting with Republicans.

At the same time, states and their executive branches are looking toward what should be in place when the rescinding of the abortion law happens.

One such state lawmaker is Republican Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, who spoke about his state’s plans during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

Host Shannon Bream asked him about a new measure Stitt signed into law in Oklahoma, similar to the one in Texas, that would make criminally liable “anyone who attempts, completes or facilitates an abortion. This could be including someone who pays for one after a heartbeat is detected, roughly six weeks.”

She also pointed out that the law has no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, and wondered how he might address the situation of “a victim [who] may not know at six weeks that she is pregnant.”

Gov. Stitt put it this way:

Well, first off, super compassionate about that. I have daughters, cannot even imagine what that would be like and that hardship.

But you have to choose — that is a human being inside the womb. And we’re going to — we’re going to do everything we can to protect life and love both the mother and the child. And we don’t think that killing one to protect another is the right thing to do either.

And our heart is super compassionate about that. We want the churches, we want all the services, the state, the nonprofits to come around with adoption services and that is — that’s super, super hard. And we’re going to do everything we can to help them.

But aborting that child, we don’t think, is the right thing to do.

One false narrative that many pro-abortion advocates and their media cohorts try to spread is that Republicans only care about babies before they’re born — but couldn’t care less about any of the potential financial straits of raising a child, when a woman chooses not to have an abortion.

On Sunday, Bream rattled off some statistics about Oklahoma, as a preface to a question on that narrative.

So, in Oklahoma, to look at the stats of what a woman is facing there with a child, 21.3 percent of children live below the poverty line, 71 percent of SNAP participants are in families with children, and Oklahoma ranked 42nd overall in child wellbeing.

She then asked him about a Washington Post op-ed article titled, “The GOP Roars About Abortion, Then They Abandon the Children,” and solicited what Oklahoma might do to help women who they’re “advising to carry through on these pregnancies, when they are up against some real challenges.”

The governor didn’t mince words about the immorality and sheer dishonesty of the leftist tactic.

Well, I mean, here’s the deal. Is the answer to the socialist Democrat left to abort poor kids? I mean, that’s just ridiculous to even kind of quote those types of stats.

We have a free market in Oklahoma. We believe that God has a special plan for every single life and every single child, and we want everybody to have the same opportunities in Oklahoma. And aborting a child is not the right answer.

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As we reported earlier on Sunday, like Pres. Joe Biden, who made remarks at the White House, and governors across the country, Gov. Stitt set aside today in honor of the fallen law enforcement officers of our nation on Peace Officers Memorial Day.

Today, I’ve ordered all flags on State property lowered to half-staff for Peace Officers Memorial Day.

May those who made the ultimate sacrifice never be forgotten.

As Governor, I will always stand with those who protect and hold that thin blue line.

Bill Maher Takes Apart Jen Psaki and the WH Over Abortion Protest Response

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One of the reasons it’s interesting to look at the evolution of “Real Time” host Bill Maher is that he’s someone who defines himself as a liberal, but he’s seen the Democrats go so far to the left, that it’s left him more in the center and agreeing with Republicans on a lot of issues.

It’s the people in the center who Democrats are going to lose come November, because they look at what Democrats are embracing now and just refuse to sign on board the crazy. Part of that crazy is how Joe Biden and the Democrats are approaching the protests against the Supreme Court justices in the wake of the leak of the draft opinion in the case that might overturn Roe v. Wade.

During a panel discussion about abortion on Friday, Bill Maher took White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki apart for being cool with the protests against the justices. Psaki said that the Administration didn’t have “an official position” (which is taking a position of not being supportive of the law that forbids such action).

“But we do [have an official position],” Maher exclaimed. “It’s wrong! It’s intimidation! It’s against the law!” Good for him for holding up the rule of law there, despite being pro-choice. Too few Democrats are upholding that and supporting the justices not facing this kind of intimidation.

Former California Representative Jane Harman referenced the 1950 law 18 U.S.C section 1507 and confirmed that yes, it prohibits protesting outside a residence or a courthouse to influence a judge. But Harman said, it would be much better not to do that, noting that there was going to be a major rally not at justices’ home and she might go to that. She still seemed to think the decision might change, “Let’s wait a month.”

Ian Bremmer suggested that this issue might hurt Republicans in their quest for the Senate in November.

But initial polling suggests that might not be the case. As we reported, while the enthusiasm did go up a little, the Republican enthusiasm went up more. Now it might change with a final decision, but it doesn’t appear to have helped them much at this point.

Not only that, Americans are not at all happy with the protests marching on the justices’ homes that Democratic leaders have endorsed. Seventy-five percent of Americans were against that and the doxxing of their homes. In that poll, that’s 67 percent of Democrats who don’t approve. That’s not going to be helpful for the Democrats when people are deciding how to vote.

The other thing is that most Americans don’t want–the radical position that Democrats just presented in their abortion bill that was just blocked and went down in flames in the Senate. The bill would have allowed abortion up to the moment of birth and done away with all kinds of state laws passed by the people, including things such as partial-birth abortion.

Maher pointed out how the Democratic politicians’ position on this has radically changed. It isn’t in line with the thought of most of the American people anymore.

Maher cited the Clinton-era abortion mantra “safe, legal and rare,” arguing “that’s not where the Democrats are now” and that they “don’t say that anymore.” He went on to slam the pro-choice caucus in the House for sharing terminology changes, which included changing “choice” into “decision” and using “pro-abortion.”

“No one should be pro-abortion!” Maher exclaimed.

Political scientist Ian Bremmer agreed, pointing to this week’s show vote in the Senate that failed to get the support of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V. because “the progressives wanted to be able to drive more of a spike on this issue.”

“So much of what we’re seeing right now is unprecedented compared to the days of 1992,” Bremmer said. “You didn’t have opinions leak. You didn’t have people- masses demonstrated outside of the houses of Supreme Court justices!”

That’s what the voters are going to be thinking when they go into the booth — just how extreme Democrats have become. Centrists or independents who believe in the rule of law are not going to be happy with that.