It was a tragedy that struck the hearts of Americans across the country: Young children, praying in pews, became the victims of a mass shooting in Minneapolis. Two, aged 8 and 10, are dead, with 18 others injured.
The shooter, who took his own life, has been identified as Robin Westman, but was born Robert Paul Westman. The monster who premeditatively shot at children in a church was a biological male. But don’t tell that to CNN’s Jake Tapper and contributor Juliette Kayyem, who bent over backward not to offend the transgender late murderer (emphasis mine).
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“The Minneapolis Star Tribune says, according to court records, because there’s been some confusion about what the shooter’s name was,” Tapper explained after the shooting. “Robin Westman’s mother applied to change her child’s name in 2019. It was at one point ‘Robert Paul Westman.'”
“But since she identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification [and] was underage, it’s now Robin Westman,” he respectfully continued, as applying the “proper” pronouns here apparently are more important than the crime or the victims.
“It appears, based on our reporting, that he had ties, or that the assailant had ties to the school, both because she or they went there or because the mother went there,” Kayyem later carefully noted while nearly needing a chiropractor on set from all the politically correct twisting. “That now tells me that’s why they knew … what the school looked like.”
This is CNN.
But here’s the thing about this biological male: He wrote before the shooting that he regretted being transgender.
“I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself,” he said in a handwritten note before the shooting.
“I can’t cut my hair now, as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. It just always gets in my way. I will probably chop it on the day of the attack,” he added.
It was later reported that this sick individual used a photo of Jesus Christ for target practice.
If we had actual journalism anymore, ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Minnesota Star Tribune would do deep dives into just how many transgender individuals under the age of 20 regret making such a monumental decision without fully understanding the possible mental consequences of an irreversible, life-changing decision.
Instead, all of the aforementioned networks and publications referred to Westman as “she” or “her,” while their opinion sides all bemoaned so-called “right-wing media” for even broaching the fact that Westman was transgender and clearly mentally ill as a result of a gender transition. Both factors are entirely relevant, and to broach them isn’t being transphobic; it’s an honest attempt to analyze what led to this horrific tragedy.
And for what it’s worth, Westman’s mother, who fully supported her 19-year-old son to transition, is not cooperating with authorities to the point that she recently hired a criminal defense attorney. Why is that?
As for the Trump White House, it reportedly has ordered the NIH to study “regret” and “detransition” among children who have transitioned, according to an internal memo leaked to NPR back in April.
“This is very important to the President and the Secretary,” the memo says. “They would like us to have funding announcements within the next six months to get this moving.”
Good.
Meanwhile, former CNN reporter Oliver Darcy showed once again that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in his Media Matters-inspired newsletter while scolding some outlets for correctly labeling the shooter as transgender.
“AGAIN: TRANS SHOOTS UP MINNEAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL.” That was the banner splashed across Breitbart’s homepage Wednesday evening, a reflection of the anti-trans narrative flowing through right-wing media after a shooter opened fire on Catholic school children during mass,” Darcy begins in comments first flagged by the Media Research Center.
“Much of the coverage was fixated on the shooter’s gender identity, casting trans people as inherently dangerous. Indeed, the goal seemed to be to take the suspect’s heinous actions and weaponize them into an indictment of an entire community.”
The question ultimately is this: Should those who are transgender be eligible to purchase firearms? Because if someone is so unwilling to accept themselves for who they are (in this case, a young man) to the point they believe changing genders will cure their ills, should that be considered a mental disorder? And if so, does that therefore disqualify them from owning potentially deadly weapons?
In this case, Kash Patel’s FBI is classifying this as an anti-Catholic hate crime.
Patel said Westman left “multiple anti-Catholic, anti-religious references” written on guns and in notes, according to FBI investigators.
“Subject expressed hatred and violence toward Jewish people, writing Israel must fall, ‘Free Palestine,’ and using explicit language related to the Holocaust,” Patel added in a post on X, while also sharing that Westman also had called for President Donald Trump to be killed.
Speaking of the president, let’s explore the worst of the worst when it comes to coverage of this shooting. Not surprisingly, it comes from ABC News, a division run by Kamala Harris’s BFF Dana Walden.
Correspondent Adam Katersky appeared on the network shortly after the shooting to lamely attempt to connect the shooter with President Donald Trump in the most blatant example of the bias of omission seen in some time.
Katersky: “23-year-old Robin Westman was able to leave what police called a video manifesto that they’re now going through to try and establish motive. There are also photos of the weapons, and they include all sorts of writings: the names of past mass shooters, criticism of Israel, and the name of President Trump written on the guns.”
Wow. So Katersky is essentially saying that Westman was such a fan of Trump that he inscribed his name on his weapon the same way the United States military sometimes does on bombs before they’re dropped on an enemy? What a development!
Except, of course, Katersky is knowingly leaving out a very key part of the story that Westman had literally inscribed “Kill Donald Trump” on his rifle.
He decided not to mention that Westman also declared —
“Israel must fall.”
“Burn Israel.”
“Six million [Jews] wasn’t enough.”
Thankfully, we live in a world of social media that does not allow this gutter journalism to go unchecked.
“The name of President Trump written on the guns” without mentioning that the message was “k*ll Donald Trump,” wrote popular radio host and podcaster Vince Cogianese on X.
“WTF is wrong with these people!???” wrote Donald Trump Jr. to his 15 million followers on X.
“So irresponsible. An obvious lie,” said Fox News contributor Mary Katharine Ham to her large following on X.
Of course, Katersky was not reprimanded, nor has he apologized for the obvious omission. Without accountability, the Katerskys of the world will continue to push false or misleading narratives with no consequences, which is why trust in legacy media continues its descent into irrelevance.
Children praying in their pews were shot at in Minneapolis. Two were killed, and seventeen injured or wounded are expected to survive. Thank God.
The New York Times also beclowned itself with the following headline:
“Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery.”
“Her” target. Uh-huh. Motive is a mystery? Anti-Catholic hate driven to the point of taking out kids as young as eight years old while praying? Enough of this already.
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But legacy media decided to try to exploit yet another atrocious tragedy to separate the country between good and bad.
The irony is that the bad part includes the very entity that is journalism, which is supposed to be here to inform and not divide us as Americans.