Another day, another act of left-wing violence. Another act of left-wing violence, another media cover-up for their left-wing terrorist foot soldiers.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the corporate media put an enormous amount of effort into a psy-op to make Americans believe the assassin was actually a Trump supporter.
While they did that, three more acts of left-wing violence took place: An attempted firebombing of a Fox News van, a shooting at an ABC News affiliate after Jimmy Kimmel’s well-deserved suspension, and, most recently, a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas.
That is all just in a two-week timeframe, and does not take into account school shootings, other attacks on ICE, assassinations or assassination attempts, and other instances of left-wing violence Americans have seen increase dramatically for the past several years.
The media are running the same playbook for the ICE attack.
On Wednesday, an apparently left-wing, “anti-ICE” shooter tried to kill ICE agents, and the media is already churning to psy-op people into believing this person was actually on the right.
While no ICE agents were killed, one detainee was killed and two others were injured, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That fact has given the propaganda press a pretext for suggesting that the shooter was actually trying to kill the detainees out of hatred for illegal immigrants.
An analyst on CNN suggested that “We don’t know whether this was an anti-migrant shooting because of the victimology — who was struck — or whether this is an anti-ICE shooting.”
Well, we do know. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Kash Patel, the bullets were inscribed with anti-ICE messaging.
“These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. We are only miles from Prarieland, Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers,” Patel said. “It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice.”
With that knowledge, MSNBC decided to run with the idea that it is “strange” that the shooter would inscribe bullet casings with left-wing messaging because one shooter in New Zealand deemed to be “right wing” did the same.
“So to see this coming from, you know, potentially the other side of the political spectrum is a little strange,” former FBI official Christopher O’Leary said on MSNBC. “If you are trying to carry out some kind of message countering, you know, more extreme right-wing stuff, I don’t know why you would, you know, use a tactic that a famous white supremacist … why you would do that.”
Kirk’s assassin inscribed leftist messages on his bullet casings. The “transgender”-identified shooter at Annunciation Catholic School two weeks prior to that inscribed messages on his gun and magazines, including “Kill Donald Trump.” All of these terrorists have obvious, left-wing motivations.
The pattern is not difficult to see.
But the media and left-wing politicians are not just complicit, they are active participants in the violence: They are the radicalizers of the left-wing terrorist movement.
“For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday. “These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences. Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night.”
A shrieking Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., last month called ICE agents “the SS” and “the gestapo.” Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., likened the United States to “Nazi Germany” because of ICE agents doing their jobs. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said ICE agents are “slave patrols.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called for the doxing of ICE agents. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., has suggested the same. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said, “We are going to require them to show their faces.” Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., who was nearly the vice president, called ICE agents “Donald Trump’s modern-day gestapo.” Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., has said the same. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said ICE is “acting like a terrorist force,” adding that “people … are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men.” Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., called ICE enforcement a “terror campaign.” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has said the same.
Pundits on MSNBC have consistently called ICE the “gestapo.”
That is the kind of rhetoric from elected officials and media that encourages assassinations, shootings, and other left-wing political violence because it pre-justifies them.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE agents were already facing a 500 percent increase in assaults by the end of June.
Every act of left-wing violence, including the attacks on ICE agents, can be placed at the feet of Democrats and their friends in the media encouraging it.
As The Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis put it, “How many more people need to die before the entire federal government starts taking left-wing terrorism seriously? Hunt them down, dismantle their financial networks, and crush them into dust. We don’t have the luxury of just sitting around and hoping they’ll stop.”
Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
