The murder of a politically conservative North Dakota teenager continues to be a talking point for conservative pundits, and radio host Mike Gallagher said the mainstream media has turned their attention away from the story.
“Jesse Watters did a great monologue yesterday pointing out the media looking the other way, and yes, the mainstream media has looked the other way and haven’t made a big deal over the man who was charged and released after running over an 18-year-old that the man driving the car called a Republican extremist,” Gallagher said.
He then added the phrase has been used to label conservatives and is now being used to draw harm on them.
“Does that sound familiar? The phrase Republican extremist? Because we’ve been hearing that phrase a lot lately. An awful lot. Coming from the President on down,” Gallagher said.
“And there I am, I’m watching TV yesterday and there’s my friend and colleague Hugh Hewitt, and he’s like ‘It was DUI, I don’t know that it was an attack’. Mark Davis in Dallas (said) ‘Let’s let the fact emerge and we wanna make sure we give the guy the benefit of the doubt’. Are you kidding? The police report was very specific over what the guy said. But now we suddenly don’t want to believe what the suspect himself said? Because we don’t wanna offend people in accusing somebody of a political crime? A political attack. Why would a Republican, why would a conservative, why would anybody be nervous about expecting accountability for a man who said he committed a political crime?”
