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December 30, 2007
Media Ignores Vicious Attack on Pro-Life Demonstrator
A few days before Christmas, 69-year-old pro-life activist Ed Snell was knocked unconscious outside an abortion mill. His injuries included:
multiple trauma, right subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding in the area between the brain and the tissues that cover the brain), compression fractures of four vertebrae (T3, T4, T5 and T10), right scapula fracture and fracture of the fourth and fifth ribs.
Until they were finally able to stop the bleeding in his head, doctors thought he might die.
Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters set out to gauge the mainstream media's reaction — only to find there wasn't any:
And here, nearly 7 days out from this attack, there aren't any accounts of the attack in the MSM. As I searched for the story myself, I found two and only two Internet hits for it. Why the silence from the MSM? Can you imagine the MSM swarm that would have occurred if it had been a pro-lifer that attacked an abortion supporter? The cacophony would have been deafening if a pro-lifer had been the one to get violent.
Further spicing up the story, police initially let the assailant drive off, and even threatened to arrest Snell's friend for objecting to this. Also, a receptionist at the Hillcrest Abortion Clinic responded to a request for a statement by slamming down the phone after screaming:
He got what he deserved! He earned what he got!
Yet the media didn't consider the incident interesting enough to report. It makes you wonder about all the crazy things we never heard about, because they happened before the Internet destroyed the Left's monopoly on information.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 30, 2007 7:46 PM
Comments
First, it strains credulity that Harrisburg would have a facility called "The Hillcrest Abortion Clinic" (unless, of course, you bought into the "Baby Milk Factory" scam as well).
Secondly, sixty-nine is not quite yet old enough to be vulnerable to being "knocked unconscious" if he was spry enough to be running up and down on a picket line.
It IS, however, old enough to be sufficiently senile to participate in staging such a fake attack and not knowing when it was in his best interest to stop making the charade appear convincing enough....
"He got what he deserved! He earned what he got!"
Well, as a person of true faith, I'd have to agree with this receptionist's comment, for I understand the Lord works in mysterious ways.
Posted by: hashfanatic at December 30, 2007 8:45 PM
This story is suspect, to put it mildly. All sources boil down to one: Michael Whitcraft, of Tradition, Family and Property. Occam's Razor bids me suspect that the most likely reason for media not reporting the incident is that it didn't happen. It's either that or a conspiracy of the media and the police of almost Truther proportions.
Posted by: Dr.Dawg at December 31, 2007 12:12 AM
It's officially called the Hillcrest Women's Center, but it definitely exists:
http://yellowpages.superpages.com/profile~SRC_comwp~C_hillcrest+abortion+center~T_harrisburg~S_PA~STYPE_S~L_Harrisburg+PA~R_N~LID_H1AqeLZLEzTpbPmaM%2Fbz2g%3D%3D~lbp_1.htm
If you google "hillcrest abortion center", you will find references to it with a matching address.
I would be more skeptical if the media blackout wasn't 100% consistent with the way that the leftstream media operates. Politically-motivated selective reporting of news is utterly routine for them.
Posted by: ent at December 31, 2007 1:08 AM
hashfanatic
Yeah, you're right. This SIXTY NINE YEAR OLD man really sustained injuries while doing stunts for the X-Games.
"...running up and down on a picket line." Psh!
Posted by: KHarn at December 31, 2007 1:13 PM
