The third dreadful assassination attempt against President Donald Trump was an opportunity to assess where we stand on the question of political violence. In this decade, the media has demonstrated a profound double standard.

The horrible riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a four-year obsession for the liberal media, and supposedly smart people compared it to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 – as in January 6 was "worse than" the other disasters. But the George Floyd riots in 2020 were presented dishonestly as peaceful protests. We all remember reporters standing in front of fires saying it was "peaceful," or "not unruly." The tens of people who died were barely mentioned.

When Trump was shot in the ear in 2024, CBS anchor Margaret Brennan complained that Trump didn't urge his supporters to calm down their commentary: "This was a traumatic event, no doubt for him, but I did notice there was no call for lowering the temperature,........

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