Boulder Colorado Grocery Store Shooting, Media Narrative Discrepancies
A mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, results in ten fatalities. Media coverage from NPR and Fox News is contrasted, specifically regarding the speed at which a racial or religious motive was assigned compared to the Atlanta spa shootings. The suspect, 21-year-old Ahmad Al-Aliwi Al-Issa, is described by family as paranoid and antisocial, while reports indicate he purchased a Ruger AR-556 pistol shortly before the attack.
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00:00 Hello! Adam Curry, John C. DeVorek It's Thursday March 25th 2021 This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1332 This is no agenda Boosting and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin Texas Capital of the drone star state In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where all they're talking about is gun control I'm John C. DeVorek It's Black Bottom Buzzkill in the morning! Uh, it's so predictable isn't it? So predictable. Yeah And you knew that it would be... You knew how it would go down. You knew how it would go down. Um Big problem with this one big problem We can't be having no Muslims doing stuff that doesn't fit what we're supposed to be saying
00:59 Ah, but that's kind of back into the... Democrats are in power so the Muslims can get back into the picture. Oh yeah no it's like- We had nothing for four years we had no terrorism nothing but now- That's the good old days. Crazy guy! Here's how in the United States NPR reported Now I'm gonna play a short clip first of how NPR reported on the Atlanta shooting you'll recall this was the shooting that was immediately turned into a narrative of hate against AAPIs, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as if they're one damn group.
01:40 And of course it was a white guy and you know there was Asian women so this was the report on NPR then. Police in Georgia are investigating multiple deadly shootings that took place in the Atlanta area last night Eight people were killed, many of them reportedly women of Asian descent Authorities are still investigating a motive But we will note that advocacy organizations have recently released data that shows that reports of hate crimes against Asians have surged nearly 150% in 2020. Now we go to the Muslim killer in Colorado, and PR is a little more cautious The first thing to know and remember about a mass shooting in Colorado Is that it's early and not all the facts are in And that's enough That's all they did
02:29 Gee transparent, isn't it? Well they did have a couple of little more than that later I Have a couple of things that are kind of interest man You're not on the mic today John home or you got to turn something up because you just come not a real well Yeah, can't turn it up a little bit turn up your your microphone. That's test test test test test test test No, it's not doing anything make it louder make it louder Test test test there you go. There you go. No, that's better. I hope that's louder smacked out yeah Okay So I would suspect you should turn it up to ya well It's already maxed out here otherwise it wouldn't have asked some things a miss Yeah, I wouldn't have asked all right. Yes. I have some clips of this too Well, I had I want why first of all I have the Fox clip if you want to hear Sure the shooter one fox yeah
03:32 No intro? Play that. Good evening, Brett as we get more details from the arrest affidavit it is becoming more clear what a chaotic and terrifying scene it was that unfolded here yesterday witnesses say the gunman first shot someone in a vehicle and then went to shoot somebody else afterward walking over standing over this person shooting several times This has been a painful year and we sit here once again surrounded by seemingly incomprehensible senseless loss. A community, a state and nation in mourning after Monday's mass shooting in Boulder After working all night to identify the victims and inform their families the police chief read the names of those killed women and men ranging in age from 20-65 I cut out most what they had because it was mostly just people sobbing on screen
04:27 But let's play shooter 2 and finish this. 21 year old Ahmad Alisa of Arvada, Colorado wasn't just spraying bullets each shot was a specific target an image in sound that won't soon be forgotten Just seeing those shots is just gonna like bring it back It's not gonna go away. According to the arrest affidavit, Elisa purchased a Ruger AR-556 pistol a week ago and a family member said they had seen him playing with a gun that looked like a machine gun in recent days I know that there is an extensive investigation just getting underway into his back He's lived most of his life in the United States. In an interview with his brother, the suspect was said to be paranoid antisocial and had mental health issues Colorado home to a number of high-profile mass shootings once again in familiar territory This cannot be our new normal we should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores We should be able to feel safe in our schools in our movie theaters and in our communities We need to see you change okay two things about that
05:31 One, this is your new normal. Hello Obama administration is back! Muslim terror is your new normal so get used to it. And shootings. All the best shootings were during the Obama administration. Two, so they only have a handgun that they know of? What does all this talk about an AR-15? That's what I'm wondering by the way that hand gun if you've ever seen a pic...they had showed a picture of it That is one beautiful gun. It's really pretty What is it? Which one did you remember which one it is? It's a Ruger He said in this or it was a Ruger but it's good, it's really...it's all dolled up to look like the nastiest weapon You've ever seen Nice But I can see somebody just some idiot just saw oh AR-15 assault rifle
06:18 Because it has kind of a just a... It's like those people have the AR-15s that look like, you know some sort of weapon. You know an army weapon. Now does this handgun have a stock on it? Is that what is the idea? Yes got little bit like seems so I yeah maybe Yeah well not in ar 15 by any stretch of imagination Oh yeah! Its rimfire or center fire one of those. Yeah its pistol and you slide a whole thing onto it Mm-hmm. Very sexy, yeah it does look nasty It's very nasty okay I want to play just as an aside. I want to play a clip from the dispatcher Okay And this is the Colorado dispatcher and I want you to tell me who this sounds like Black vest short leaf shirt
07:13 Ted Cruz? What?! That's weird. Okay, yeah I know that was... Now just you're asking me who is speaking who the speaker sounds like or who the suspect sounds like Hold on, Zephyr. Oh one two three four five six seven eight Okay good ladies and gentlemen we have an 8 car zephyr that means it's the new normal Everything is stable go alert the guys over at CNBC Squawk Box We've got Bitcoin at fifty one thousand three hundred seventy experiencing max pain today OH MY GOD!
07:58 Listen to that horn! Alright, back to the dispatch. Now who... The question is who does she sound like? Okay let me listen again That is not Ted Cruz No I thought she was describing Ted Cruz If you listen it sounds like she's describing Ted Cruz but I'll listen to her voice now Looks like we have an active shooter To the? A white male middle-aged dark hair beard black vest short leaf shirt I don't know who does she sound like? Jen Psaki. Oh yeah, come on listen one more time and think of Jen Psaki Really you're putting me through this? Slight up talk. Okay I have to... Kind of blasé man kind of a she's got no emotions but she's up talking and she seems like a dingbat Looks like we have an active shooter
08:55 Yeah, I hear it. I think you're right It's there could you turn down three three bips? They're just a little hot now it was max pull my mics hot yeah Just a little bit little bit just just as I'm gonna turn it down one two three four five six perfect Now this would be going on all day no well. I'm sorry sometimes road and weather conditions vary This is so Mickey Mouse shit man Now, I do have a... you said NPR didn't have much to say about it. Yeah, bull! No no no no i said that was how they started when they first came out. They just spent their life in fact by the way just for information
