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News Avoidance Syndrome – THE INDEPENDENTS

January 6 was a five-year news story for this guy, but an assassination attempt? Meh…!

January 6 was a five-year news story for this guy, but an assassination attempt? Meh…!

Scott MacFarlane has long been a favorite media hack of ours here at RFTH. Let’s recall that the man landed in our Top 10 in the Townhall 50 ranking of the worst journalists from last year. Since then, Scott has divested himself of his CBS News career and proven his hackery by latching on with the hyper-Left crowd of Meidas Touch.

A reminder that MacFarlane was such an obsessive about the Capitol riot that he had been bringing up that topic perpetually in his reporting, all the way up to his final report filed when he left CBS last month. We bring that detail up to show you this “reporter” is not concerned with political violence, but is only concerned when he can wield that as a weapon against Republicans. For proof?

Behold, as he is commenting on the assassination attempt made at the WHCA gala Saturday night, he not only manages to avoid showing concern, but he reduces the attempt on the president’s life to nothing more than a “dinner incident.”

Cole Allen, who was arrested in White House reporters dinner incident, argues for pretrial release. Defense argues no crim history, high level of education and adds, “The government, after essentially asserting that Mr. Allen shot a Secret Service Officer.. has apparently…........

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