To read the coverage of Cole Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association dinner gunman, you’d think he was a poster boy for the administration’s belief that the country is under siege from a left-wing insurgency (see: NSPM-7). The evidence, as you’ll see, says otherwise — but everyone from the White House to major media outlets are sticking to the script regardless.
It is precisely because the mainstream media desperately needs to portrays itself as in the center but cannot admit the center hates Democrats too so the media tries to astroturf a feeling that Lefty Radicals are such a disturbing threat to distract from the fact that the mainstream media clearly represents no one but themselves.