Why is the Gwatney shooting no longer in the headlines?

[stranger81]

Especially now that more concrete details concerning his motive are beginning to surface:

"People who knew Timothy Johnson are speaking out about the man who shot and killed Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney. "He could be the type of person that could do something like this," says Johnson's former classmate Reggie Tucker. Tucker graduated from ASU Beebe in White County, but during the 2007 spring semester Tucker had two or three computer technology classes with 50-year-old Timothy Dale Johnson, the man who murdered Bill Gwatney."



"Tucker says he and other classmates do recall Johnson being vocal about his views.

"I would always remember going to class and I would see that he had a Bill Clinton anti-campaign sticker that says I don't miss Bill. "He would surf the internet and he would see that a Democrat had died and he would laugh about it."

Possible clues, Tucker says, about why Johnson targeted Bill Gwatney, Arkansas Democratic party chairman."

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/special/story.aspx?storyid=70912&catid=194

[Cooley Hurd]

1. They seem to be omitting such news/views about Johnson...

Recommended!:thumbsup::kick:

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

2. because the media elites do not want to look at themselves

honestly.

I am absolutely shocked and saddened that this had dropped off the radar so quickly.

[kestrel91316]

3. Nothing to see here. Just another political assassination. Move along now.

[HughBeaumont]

4. Democrat.

It'd be a cause celebre if the tables were turned.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Because the National Enquirer doesn't have a political reporter in Arkansas. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

6. I am thinking the media is trying to protect liberal public from deranged anti liberal psychos

Before it was the nut that murdered a couple of people in that Unitarian church in Tennessee and now this guy assasinates the head of the Democratic party in Little Rock. Maybe, just maybe, they don't want to dwell what is really happening that way there won't be more copycat murders. I know it's a long shot but maybe that's the case.

[Celebration]

8. I think you are right

As soon as they start focusing on these guys and talking about their motives they are enabling a whole new set of them. I hate to say it, because I don't trust the media, for sure. But I think they are trying to be responsible.

[barbtries]

7. glad you asked

i was wondering the same thing. i really wonder about that whole damn episode in spite of myself. i wish i hadn't gone and watched "the parallax view" again just a couple weeks ago.

my best guess is it's just a democrat so msm yawns.

[deaniac21]

9. The republicans are totally entrenched in power in Arkansas.

They can tightly control the media and will make sure this story is killed. They may have even funded this jerk.

[Seeking Serenity]

10. That's nuts.

The GOP is hardly recognisable as a party here in Arkansas.

I'm sorry, but that's just nuts.

[Seeking Serenity]

11. Answer: Because it happened in Arkansas

That's not a state that the national media considers important.

[Supersedeas]

12. when democrats are targets the GoP Media can ignore it--and will--and do

[spanone]

13. because he was a democrat

[ccharles000]

14. Kick

[lonestarnot]

15. Because no one wants to read about the 8 steps to genocide.

:shrug: