Wisconsin Dem Assemblyman Tells GOP Assemblywoman ‘You Are F–king Dead,’ Media Mum
A Wisconsin Democrat Assemblyman turned to a Republican Assemblywoman in the middle of a legislative session Friday and said, “You are f–king dead.” Despite the following report from the Northwestern at 12:53 PM Monday, no major media outlet other than Fox News has covered this disgusting story: Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, called Rep. Michelle Litjens, R-Winneconne, Monday morning to apologize for his comments that Litjens described as containing an obscenity and the words “you’re dead.” Last week, he accepted responsibility for being issued an ordinance violation for visiting a massage parlor in Appleton that was the subject of a prostitution sting. The Daily Caller's Jeff Poor on Monday linked to the website of Wisconsin's Newsradio 620 WTMJ which judging by the first comment reported as early as 10:43 AM: Last Friday…. after the Assembly voted to engross the Budget Repair Bill, Hintz turned to a female colleague, Rep. Michelle Litjens and said: “You are F***king dead!” In this post-Gabrielle Giffords world, with calls for a new civility, a man that was just busted in the middle of a prostitution sting says “You are f–king dead” to a woman on the floor of the Wisconsin assembly, and America's media couldn't care less. Despite this being reported no later than 10:43 AM, a Google news search identified that apart from Wisconsin outlets, only Fox and conservative websites thought this was at all newsworthy. As of 12:30 AM Tuesday, according to LexisNexis, no major news outlets reported this event. Closed-caption records for ABC's “World News,” CBS's “Evening News,” and NBC's “Night News” also found no coverage of this issue. Imagine for a moment Hintz was a Republican and Litjens a Democrat. This likely would have been the lead story for all three broadcast evening news programs as well as the focus of every hour of reporting on CNN and MSNBC with calls for Hintz's resignation. But much like what happened at ABC's town hall meeting when a survivor of the Giffords shootings said “You are dead” to a Tea Party leader in the audience, our media clearly don't care when liberals publicly threaten conservatives. Now this standard extends to a male Democrat elected official vulgarly assaulting a female Republican on an Assembly floor. Makes one think it's journalism that's bleeping dead! (H/T Weasel Zippers )
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Wisconsin Dem Assemblyman Tells GOP Assemblywoman ‘You Are F–king Dead,’ Media Mum
A Wisconsin Democrat Assemblyman turned to a Republican Assemblywoman in the middle of a legislative session Friday and said, “You are f–king dead.” Despite the following report from the Northwestern at 12:53 PM Monday, no major media outlet other than Fox News has covered this disgusting story: Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, called Rep. Michelle Litjens, R-Winneconne, Monday morning to apologize for his comments that Litjens described as containing an obscenity and the words “you’re dead.” Last week, he accepted responsibility for being issued an ordinance violation for visiting a massage parlor in Appleton that was the subject of a prostitution sting. The Daily Caller's Jeff Poor on Monday linked to the website of Wisconsin's Newsradio 620 WTMJ which judging by the first comment reported as early as 10:43 AM: Last Friday…. after the Assembly voted to engross the Budget Repair Bill, Hintz turned to a female colleague, Rep. Michelle Litjens and said: “You are F***king dead!” In this post-Gabrielle Giffords world, with calls for a new civility, a man that was just busted in the middle of a prostitution sting says “You are f–king dead” to a woman on the floor of the Wisconsin assembly, and America's media couldn't care less. Despite this being reported no later than 10:43 AM, a Google news search identified that apart from Wisconsin outlets, only Fox and conservative websites thought this was at all newsworthy. As of 12:30 AM Tuesday, according to LexisNexis, no major news outlets reported this event. Closed-caption records for ABC's “World News,” CBS's “Evening News,” and NBC's “Night News” also found no coverage of this issue. Imagine for a moment Hintz was a Republican and Litjens a Democrat. This likely would have been the lead story for all three broadcast evening news programs as well as the focus of every hour of reporting on CNN and MSNBC with calls for Hintz's resignation. But much like what happened at ABC's town hall meeting when a survivor of the Giffords shootings said “You are dead” to a Tea Party leader in the audience, our media clearly don't care when liberals publicly threaten conservatives. Now this standard extends to a male Democrat elected official vulgarly assaulting a female Republican on an Assembly floor. Makes one think it's journalism that's bleeping dead! (H/T Weasel Zippers )
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