On Tuesday, BizPac Review reported that Stacy Washington, a black conservative columnist formerly with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was suspended after writing an article defending the National Rifle Association from comparisons to ISIS.
My column on the @NRA being nothing like ISIS got me suspended from @stltoday….
#SOTR pic.twitter.com/bg8ZvAAswJ— Stacy Washington (@StacyOnTheRight) May 1, 2017
In an article titled, “Guns and the Media,” Washington points to what she called “the homogeneity of America’s newsrooms” when it comes to gun owners and called out Missouri School of Journalism professor emeritus George Kennedy for speaking of NRA members in the same breath as ISIS terrorists in an op-ed piece, Tom Tillison said.
She wrote:
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Amusing. NRA members committed none of the gun crimes that he mentioned in his article. When inner-city residents complain of crime in their neighborhoods or decry the lack of adequate policing, the NRA or its membership are never mentioned. The NRA does not advocate for felons to own guns, nor is it NRA policy to seek to lower the legal age to own a firearm. To describe their activities in this manner is to slander the organization. Would the Missourian open its op-ed section for an NRA response?
To further illustrate the ridiculous nature of Kennedy’s comparison, when has a member of the NRA ever decapitated, set on fire, tossed from a rooftop or otherwise terrorized another American? The linkage is not only rife with improper context; it is false on its face. Yet the Missourian saw fit to publish it without question, I believe, because it suits the ideological bent of the opinion editor.
For that, she was accused of being a “shill” for the NRA with an “unacceptable” conflict of interest.
Post-Dispatch will no longer publish @StacyOnTheRight column, suspended over NRA conflict of interest claim. https://t.co/rWgnOshi3M pic.twitter.com/FLFv3PolWH
— Staci D Kramer (@sdkstl) May 2, 2017
.@stltoday published a letter to the editor calling me a paid @NRA shill. I informed Tod Robberson on Saturday that I am not paid by the NRA
— Stacy Washington (@StacyOnTheRight) May 1, 2017
Quite a few, however, didn’t buy the paper’s explanation.
https://twitter.com/morejava/status/859594744250466304
https://twitter.com/EJ_Atwood/status/859572872809000960
https://twitter.com/The_Virg_/status/859559184362242049
https://twitter.com/MonteleoneUSA1/status/859604909523689472
On Monday, Washington noted:
I'm not ashamed to support the NRA. The fact that @stltoday thinks I am shows how skewed their view of conservatives is.
— Stacy Washington (@StacyOnTheRight) May 1, 2017
I'm not black enough for them. If my views don't match they won't defend!
— Stacy Washington (@StacyOnTheRight) May 3, 2017
This incident, by the way, illustrates the bigotry of the left. Liberals are perfectly okay with columnists comparing law-abiding gun owners to terrorists and they’re just fine with nutjobs like this guy who said he was okay with the extermination of five million NRA members. And they remain silent as violent liberals advocate murdering the president and his supporters. But they’re not okay with conservatives who dare let their views be known.
This is why I call it the “Democrat-media complex.”
Washington, however, has a fix for that:
We need more conservatives in news rooms across America. The imbalance harms us all. #NRAAM2017 #nraam #2A #sotr https://t.co/uAMtHkbj6K
— Stacy Washington (@StacyOnTheRight) April 28, 2017
We agree.
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- Virginia Democrat says he’s okay with extermination of five million Americans
- Portland restaurateur bans gun owners, cries over backlash
- Journalism professor: NRA more dangerous than ISIS
- Idiots on Twitter blame NRA for terrorist shooting in Orlando
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