If there’s one thing that the Media Research Center reliably does in the face of a shooting tragedy, it’s complaining that others are politicizing said tragedy by discussing gun control — and it did just that after yesterday’s shooting of a congressman and others in Virginia. “Shameful: Journalists Immediately Politicize Congressional Shooting With Gun Control Calls” read the headline of a post from Scott Whitlock, i which he huffed, “Apparently, it’s never too soon for liberal journalists to politicize a tragedy.”
Madeleine Post followed with a post headlined “Celebs Brazenly Politicize Scalise Shooting, Declare ‘Too Many Guns’,” complaining that “celebrities were more concerned with the politics of gun control than the fact that a U.S. congressman was shot.”
Of course, the MRC has its own ways of politicizing tragedies, and it did so here as well.
MRC researcher Nicholas Fondacaro rushed to blame the media in a tweet complaining, “Meanwhile, @CBSNews recently complimented a play depicting the assassination of Trump,” with the added hashtag #MediaPlayedARole.
Yes, Fondacaro is apparently blaming the shooting on a production of “Julius Caesar” that portrays a Trump-esque titular character.And the last time we checked, Fondacaro’s attempt to make #MediaPlayedARole a thing utterly failed — even his fellow MRC employees weren’t picking it up.
Fondacaro was silent — as was the rest of the MRC — about a 2012 production of “Julius Caesar” that assassinated an Obama-esque titular character.
But, hey, why let double standards get in the way of a good attack line?