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Prayer Shaming After a Mass Shooting in San Bernardino
The Atlantic ^ | 12/2/2015 | Emma Green

Posted on 12/02/2015 8:31:32 PM PST by presidio9

Directly after a mass shooting, in the minutes or hours or days between the first trickle of news and when police find a suspect or make arrests, it is very difficult to know what to do. Some people demand political action, like greater gun control; others call for prayer. In the aftermath of a violent shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, in which at least 14 victims are reported to have died, people with those differing reactions quickly turned against one another.

For example: Here’s the Washington editor at the liberal publication The Nation, George Zornick, on reactions from the 2016 presidential candidates:

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There’s a clear claim being made here, and one with an edge: Democrats care about doing something and taking action while Republicans waste time offering meaningless prayers. These two reactions, policy-making and praying, are portrayed as mutually exclusive, coming from totally contrasting worldviews. Elsewhere on Twitter, full-on prayer shaming set in: Anger about the shooting was turned not toward the perpetrator or perpetrators, whose identities are still unknown, but at those who offered their prayers.

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(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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1 posted on 12/02/2015 8:31:32 PM PST by presidio9
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It’s like there’s some kind of secret list which reporters use to coordinate what they are going to say.


2 posted on 12/02/2015 8:34:08 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: vbmoneyspender

All part of never letting a crisis go to waste. If people find comfort in (the real) God, they are far less likely to spend time being angry at whichever politician you tell them to blame.


3 posted on 12/02/2015 8:36:52 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Democrats advocate punishing those who were not involved (all of the rest of the gun owners and potential gun owners in America).


4 posted on 12/02/2015 8:37:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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5 posted on 12/02/2015 8:40:13 PM PST by kcvl
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George was Senior Reporter/Blogger for ThinkProgress.org(George Soros). He worked as a researcher for Michael Moore’s SiCKO.


6 posted on 12/02/2015 8:42:05 PM PST by kcvl
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To: vbmoneyspender
It's like there's some kind of secret list which reporters use to coordinate what they are going to say.

There is. Last decade it was called Journolist. They would coordinate who would ask what at the press conferences and discuss what the daily talking points and phrases would be. They got exposed and no doubt have re-established their circle jerk collusion someplace else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

The contributors discussed killing the Wright story, as it was reflecting negatively on Barack Obama. In a separate discussion, about an ABC News-sponsored debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton, Michael Tomasky, a writer for The Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of JournoList: "Listen folks - in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn't about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people"

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compare and contrast that media bias with the attacks on Trump, Carson, Cruz, et al.

7 posted on 12/02/2015 8:43:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: a fool in paradise
"Democrats advocate punishing those who were not involved (all of the rest of the gun owners and potential gun owners in America)."

Oh Yes! Let's disarm everyone so that they will be helpless when the hordes strike!

8 posted on 12/02/2015 8:44:51 PM PST by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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The pipe bombs the Islamonazis had were illegal. They weren’t going to follow the law and Obama knows it.

He was falsely claiming today that the same people who are on no fly lists can buy a gun at a store with no problems.

Sounds like an admission that Obama is not focused on homeland security since we have their names and do not bother to intervene as they arm up.


9 posted on 12/02/2015 8:48:43 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: presidio9

Liberals (a) are intolerant, (b) have no courtesy or manners, (c) try to politicize everything, (d) hate Christians, (e) hate God and (f) are hypocritical for having expressed “thoughts and prayers” after past crises.


10 posted on 12/02/2015 10:30:11 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: presidio9

Prayer will do a whole lot more good than more gun laws.

Dummies.


11 posted on 12/03/2015 12:28:42 AM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: a fool in paradise

Wow.

Thanks for posting that.


12 posted on 12/03/2015 12:29:56 AM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: vbmoneyspender
It’s like there’s some kind of secret list which reporters use to coordinate what they are going to say.

Yes, the JournoList reborn.

Well, let's find it, download it, and throw it in the streets with the names left in.

BTW, the New York Times sent a political writer, Adam Nagourney, not a crime writer, to cover San Bernardino.

They're pushing the "workplace violence" meme.

13 posted on 12/03/2015 2:46:34 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: presidio9
...Democrats care about doing something and taking action while Republicans waste time offering meaningless prayers.

Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

14 posted on 12/03/2015 3:01:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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"Democrats care about doing something and taking action..."

Like putting up really, really aggressive "gun free zone" stickers.

15 posted on 12/03/2015 3:08:15 AM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: a fool in paradise; vbmoneyspender; Califreak; lentulusgracchus
The new and improved private forum for liberal journalists has existed for several years now. It is called Gamechanger Salon.

I expect that at least a few of its members are contributing the liberal memes on Gun Control, Syrian Refugees, Income Inequality, Wage Disparity, Climate Change and a host of other topics that bombard your social media every time the current administration wants to change the subject from its latest failure.

Expect more of that on behalf of Hillary Clinton once we are into general election season.

16 posted on 12/03/2015 12:46:47 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


17 posted on 12/03/2015 12:51:29 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The Left doesn’t give a damn about the terrorism. It instead launched an attack against God and the faithful. It also launched additional attacks against the 2nd Amendment and our right to self defense.

The Left and terrorists share a common enemy — the average, liberty loving US citizen.


18 posted on 12/03/2015 12:59:29 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: presidio9

Thank you.


19 posted on 12/03/2015 1:24:36 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: presidio9; Old Sarge; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; freeangel; kalee; TWhiteBear; Salvation; ...

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Check out # 16 .

Thanks, anonymous.

20 posted on 12/03/2015 1:31:57 PM PST by LucyT
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