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You may not have heard all the pertinent information about Mohamed Soliman’s firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday on people quietly demonstrating for the return of the remaining Gaza hostages. Most notably, many media outlets failed to include the fact that the people at whom Soliman lobbed his Molotov cocktails were predominantly Jewish, as well as the fact that Soliman was in the United States illegally, as he overstayed a visa. Why did many of the legacy media outlets fail to include these two basic facts in their reporting? Rich Lowry is the editor-in-chief of the National Review; he appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to address the mainstream media’s inability to acknowledge all of the basic facts of the attack.
Lowry explained to host Larry Mendte how news reports of the Boulder attack resembled reports of car attacks in Europe: “The headlines are usually, ‘Car attacks Christmas-goers’ or ‘Car rampages out of control’, never focusing on the driver. Same thing here- this is an attack against Jews by an illegal immigrant, and those are highly relevant-the most highly relevant- facts about it, and you had a media, because that’s politically inconvenient, resort to euphemism to try to avoid saying that.”
Lowry also took a minute to try and ease listener worries about A.I., saying we should embrace it, not fear it: “It’s probably going to be like other waves of technology- it does destroy jobs, but it also creates other jobs; that’s been the history of this.”
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