30 Years Ago, Lib Media Cynically Blamed Conservatives for OK Bombing

Rich Noyes
April 20th, 2025 9:54 AM

Thirty years ago, Timothy McVeigh parked a truck packed with explosives next to Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. After the immediate shock of the bombing passed, liberal journalists began assigning blame to ordinary conservatives, hoping to blur the facts and discredit the competition.

 
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No ‘Equivalent’; CNN Says There’s Only Real ‘Extremism’ on the Right

Curtis Houck
April 11th, 2025 1:36 PM

CNN’s supposed extremism expert Donie O’Sullivan — whom one could think of as Irish Brian Stelter (and with hair) to get a sense of their worldview — joined Friday’s CNN News Central to preview his latest report for Sunday’s The Whole Story about political extremism and falsely claimed “the issue very much so is on the right” but no “equivalent on the left.”

 
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MSNBC: Mar-a-Lago Raid Will Trigger Terrorism Like OK City Bombing

Aidan Moorehouse
August 9th, 2022 7:00 PM

With news of Trump’s home of Mar-a-Lago being raided by the FBI dominating the news, substitute host Dr. Jason Johnson brought on Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank on Monday night's ReidOut to spread fear that news of the raid would inspire a latter-day Timothy McVeigh to commit an act of terrorism comparable in scale to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing that killed 168…

 
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Bozell NUKES Anti-American Media Who Blame Conservatives for Attacks

NB Staff
May 23rd, 2022 9:05 AM

Armed with reams of research, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell was firing on all cylinders Sunday night while speaking with conservative talk radio legend Mark Levin on the latter’s Fox News Channel show Life, Liberty, & Levin. Over two segments, Bozell slammed the liberal media’s repugnant penchant for blaming conservatives for mass shootings, torching…

 
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MSNBC's Hasan: Xenophobia, Islamophobia After 9/11 Led Haters To Trump

Alex Christy
August 21st, 2021 4:47 PM

On Saturday's installment of Velshi, guest host Mehdi Hasan claimed that the 9/11 terrorist attacks produced a xenophobic War on Terror that is responsible for the political raise of Donald Trump. In order to make this inflammatory stretch, Hasan repeated several far-left claims that simply aren't true.

 
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Geraldo Rivera Likens Vince Vaughn to Timothy McVeigh on Guns

Curtis Houck
June 2nd, 2015 8:46 PM
The co-hosts of Fox News Channel’s The Five began Tuesday’s show with discussion of actor Vince Vaughn’s comments in support of gun rights and grew rather heated when first-time co-host Geraldo Rivera compared Vaughn to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Rivera insisted “[t]he Second Amendment is most lavishly defended” amendment in “all the Constitution of the United States” and asked if…
 

Newsweek: McVeigh's 'Ideals' Now Mainstream GOP Politics

Ken Shepherd
June 1st, 2015 5:24 PM
Newsweek writer Nina "Kneepads" Burleigh would have her readers believe that today's Republican Party is ideological soulmates with Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber: "McVeigh was executed in 2001, but since then, some of his militia ideals have gone mainstream and even been introduced as laws in many states, including Oklahoma. Legislators in dozens of states have submitted proposals to…
 

On MSNBC, Salon's Walsh Invokes Timothy McVeigh While Trashing FNC's H

Brad Wilmouth
April 26th, 2014 11:28 PM
On the Friday, April 25, PoliticsNation on MSNBC, during a discussion of FNC host Sean Hannity's reaction to racist comments by Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, MSNBC host Al Sharpton went after Hannity's decision to reiterate some of his complaints about the Obama administration on his Hannity show after condemning Bundy's racism. Guest Joan Walsh of Salon magazine ended up comparing Hannity's anti…
 

Daily Beast's Goldberg Invokes Oklahoma City Bombing in Discussion of

Brad Wilmouth
April 21st, 2014 11:07 PM
Appearing as a guest on the Monday, April 21, All In with Chris Hayes, Daily Beast columnist Michelle Goldberg -- also of the far left The Nation magazine -- invoked the Oklahoma City Bombing during a discussion of the Cliven Bundy standoff, as she accused the Republican Party of "playing footsie" with militias during the Clinton administration, and suggested culpabilty by Republicans in…
 

AP Story on Ariz. Terrorist Bombing Attempt References 1995 OKC Bombin

Tom Blumer
December 3rd, 2012 11:43 PM
Well, it was only a matter of time before the Associated Press was going to have to write up something about a Friday bomb explosion just outside of a Social Security office in Casa Grande, Arizona. I guess the AP's Brian Skoloff needed time to work on maximizing the misdirection in his report. Instead of associating the attempted bombing by Abdullatif Ali Aldosary, described yesterday in a…
 

David Gregory Ties Clinton's Oklahoma City Bombing Speech About Limbau

Noel Sheppard
July 22nd, 2012 3:16 PM
There has yet to be any evidence circumstantial or otherwise to indicate that James Holmes had a political motivation or enticement to murder innocent people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, Friday. Despite this, in the middle of a panel discussion about this massacre Sunday, NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory brought up former President Bill Clinton's words following the 1995…
 

PBS’s Meacham Frets Over Anti-Obama ‘Hate’ from Right, Invokes M

Brad Wilmouth
May 27th, 2010 12:36 AM
On Friday’s Need to Know on PBS, co-host Jon Meacham – also of Newsweek – devoted the show’s regular "In Perspective" segment to highlighting "anger" and "hate" felt by some conservatives toward President Barack Obama, and included examples of protesters and anger expressed toward liberals. He began the segment by raising the possibility of violence resulting from "extremism": "Perhaps we should…
 

Shocking Report: Police Find TEA Parties More Peaceful Than Anti-war P

Candance Moore
April 21st, 2010 11:38 PM
On Monday, the Christian Science Monitor bucked its mainstream peers by reporting something truthful about the TEA party movement: police officials have begun to relax security requirements at conservative rallies because of the remarkable absence of violence. Yes, you read that right: despite nonstop media warnings about hateful protests, violence from TEA party attendants is so nonexistent…
 

Olbermann: Limbaugh ‘Hate Radio’ Has ‘Blood on Your Hands’ for

Brad Wilmouth
April 20th, 2010 8:40 AM
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann used his regular "Worst Person" segment to accuse Rush Limbaugh of having "blood on your hands" for the Oklahoma City Bombing in response to the conservative talk radio host pointing out that, while some liberals have tried to blame talk radio for inspiring Timothy McVeigh to commit mass murder, McVeigh himself actually admitted to being…