John Nolte
Big Journalism
11/16/2011
Suspected Shooter Ortega-Hernandez. Click on the image to enlarge.
In a nearly thousand-word article written about the arrest and capture of 21-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a man suspected of shooting at the White House, you’ll have to read through at least six paragraphs before you get to what should be the most explosive part:
Late on Friday, the police had searched the Occupy DC protest camp, on McPherson Square just blocks from the White House, after reports that the suspect might have spent time there. Protesters there said on Wednesday that the police had been through their encampment several times since then, showing around a photograph of Mr. Ortega.
Yes, that’s right, our suspected shooter apparently spent time with Occupy.
But the memo has obviously gone out throughout the entire journOlist community that this connection must be played down to where it hardly registers at all.
Jared Loughner never once attended a Tea Party, nor did he read Tea Party literature, or subscribe to Tea Party ideas.
Nevertheless, within 24 hours the media elected him to be Chairman Emeritus of the Tea Party movement.
A guy shoots at the White House, and guess what? He’s with the Occupy movement…
The article continues at Big Journalism.
