Erik Jimenez/Staff Writer
Journalists and other left-wing pundits have recently been upset by a meme video showing President Donald Trump “killing” the media.
Considering how the media has treated the President and his supporters in the past, this is quite a hypocritical position to take.
The video is set to an infamous action scene from the 2015 spy film “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” where actor Colin Firth fights a group similar to the Westboro Baptist Church to the death.
The meme was made over a year ago by Twitter user Carpe Donktum, a self-described “Eternally Sarcastic Memesmith specializing in the creation of memes to support President Donald J. Trump.” Trump’s face is superimposed onto Firth, and those he kills bear the logos and faces of everyone, from CNN to Nancy Pelosi to Rachel Maddow to The Young Turks to even Black Lives Matter.
Even Republicans aren’t spared. The video references the clashes and animosity the President gets from within his own party from the likes of Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the late John McCain, the Bushes and more for taking the party further to the right wing of the political spectrum.
During a Miami rally, Trump supporters played the video as they waited for the president to arrive. This is where the media became aware of the meme and reported on it, worried that it would inspire attacks by right wingers.
This is the same media that didn’t blame the church scene in “Kingsman” for the Dylan Roof Charleston Shooting a mere four months after the film was released.
This is the same media that said that the new “Joker” movie would inspire incels to shoot up movie theaters opening weekend. There were no shootings, mainly because the film is not about incels at all. In fact, the film has more ideologically in line with members of antifa than anything else.
Back in 2017, Shakespeare in the Park, an independent New York acting company that performs Shakespeare plays in Central Park, did a version of Julius Caesar where the title character was portrayed as Donald Trump. That character also gets stabbed to death by the Senate in the play. But the media said it wouldn’t incite violence.
Also, in 2017, rapper Snoop Dogg released a music video where he shoots Donald Trump. But the media said that wouldn’t incite violence.
One of the people who demonized the meme was CNN contributor Kathy Griffin, who was aghast that it showed Trump killing her. This is the same Kathy Griffin who posted a picture of herself holding Trump’s bloodied, decapitated head on social media n 2017. And the media said it would not incite violence.
Sorry Kathy, the internet doesn’t work that way. If you get to fake kill Trump without any consequences, Trump gets to fake kill you without any consequences.
After the uproar, the White House released a statement saying that President Trump condemned the video and had not seen it. This is wrong of him to do, but the main reason he did so was because he’s being nice.
The mainstream media doesn’t deserve nice. He knows that. I know that. Everyone who voted for him and supports him knows that.
When the media focuses on the Right’s metaphorical violence instead of the Left’s actual violence, there’s only one word to describe them: hypocrites.
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