Reminder: The press blamed Christian conservatives for the Pulse nightclub shooting. It was a vicious smear.

Reminder: The press blamed Christian conservatives for the Pulse nightclub shooting. It was a vicious smear.:
"The June 12, 2016, Pulse nightclub shooting is, among other things, a searing indictment of the national press’ eagerness to believe the absolute worst about the Right and about Christians in particular.
It was casually assumed that the gunman, Omar Mateen, targeted Pulse specifically because it was a gay bar.
But even more than that, his avowed Islamic State affiliation was overlooked so that certain reporters, pundits, and editorial boards (ahem, New York Times) could claim that the shooting was motivated by conservative U.S. politics and "an effort to approve discrimination against gay and transgender people nationwide under the guise of religious freedom."
So, this is how an Islamic terror attack was blamed on American conservatives and Christians.
...However, putting aside for a moment the obvious flaws in arguing that any evangelical conservative is somehow to blame for the actions of a Muslim man with whom he has never met or spoken, there is no evidence showing Mateen targeted Pulse because it was a gay bar.
And in fact, there never was any evidence of this, as the now-concluded trial of his wife demonstrated...
...“But if you want to know why American Christians sometimes feel as if they’re under siege, realize this — at the highest levels of media and in the complete absence of evidence, influential people tried to make the case that Christian and Republican ‘hate’ was partially responsible for the worst jihadist massacre since 9/11,” he added..."
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