Robert Stacy McCain and the Silence of the Media

Look­ing at the com­men­tary con­cern­ing Stacy McCain’s not so excel­lent adven­ture as his fam­ily con­tin­ues to live on the run in fear of Con­victed bomber, sup­ported by lib­eral foun­da­tions, the most inter­est­ing thing about this story has been the great divide as men­tioned by the title of this post at Gold­fish and Clowns:

Silence Screams Louder Than Words

and notes some inter­est­ing omis­sions from those writ­ing about this subject:

I men­tion this to dis­cuss the stun­ning silence in which Brietbart’s min­ions and oth­ers have engaged in regard to this.

He has a large list of “Call outs” Includ­ing Bre­it­bart, Hotair , Pow­er­line, Right Wing News, The Daily Caller and Red­State. Their silence it’s like watch­ing the rel­a­tives at the start of the movie The Devi’s Dis­ci­ple scurry away when their cousin is taken by the Brits.

One name that was on his list, Michelle Malkin, has come out in a big way this morn­ing:

Over the past year, Aaron Walker (who blogged as “Aaron Wor­thing”), Pat­terico, Lib­erty Chick, and now Stacy McCain have been tar­geted by con­victed Speed­way bomber Brett Kim­ber­lin because they dared to men­tion his crim­i­nal past or assisted oth­ers who did. The late Andrew Bre­it­bart warned about Kim­ber­lin and company.

I have spo­ken directly with both Pat­terico and Aaron about their ongo­ing battles.

The main­stream press, not just the con­ser­v­a­tive blo­gos­phere, needs to hear and report their sto­ries. empha­sis mine

That last sen­tence is the big bot­tom line. Robert Stacy McCain is not just a blog­ger he is a reporter, he has cho­sen to cover a story and because he has and his fam­ily are in hid­ing for their own safety.

Run that through your head MSM. This is an Amer­i­can JOUR­NAL­IST forced into hid­ing IN AMER­ICA for cov­er­ing a story and you don’t find that newsworthy?

I’d like to say I’m sur­prised at this but remem­ber­ing Molly Nor­ris (who is STILL in hid­ing) but the MSM’s silence doesn’t sur­prise me.

I’m much more sur­prised at the silence of other con­ser­v­a­tive blog­gers but most of all Bre​it​bart​.com.

Does any­one doubt that Andrew would be scream­ing at the top of his lungs push­ing this if he were alive?

Yeah there are a lot of other issues to write about, yeah the elec­tion IS the issue this year, but who would have thought that the site that bears Andrew’s name would be the least wor­thy of the words “Bre­it­bart is here” upon them?

This doesn’t of course apply to Lee Stran­han who has gone ALL in with this video

Mean­while Stacy McCain still car­ries on post­ing away, Smitty no stranger to dan­ger con­tin­ues to write

As I’ve said before, courage is the first virtue, with­out it, noth­ing else is possible.

Exit ques­tion. If we cringe before this loser, what will we do when Holder and DOJ decide to try to shut us up later?

Update: Day by Day gets it:

Update 2: It is worth not­ing that Back in Novem­ber of 2010 Lib­erty Chick at Bre​it​bart​.com wrote a long piece of Kim­ber­lin and his con­nec­tions to the left:

Update 3: Leave it to a Film Direc­tor to find the right way to put it:

Jour­nal­ist Forced to Flee Home by Streisand-​Funded Domes­tic Ter­ror­ist Bomber!

Juicy head­line, eh? Guar­an­teed to bring in the page views. I can’t imag­ine I’m the only one who’s thought of this angle to the story.

There was a time when this kind of head­line would have had reporters run­ning for their type­writ­ers, but noth­ing trumps the need for the MSM to fight for those who pro­tect Obama.

Update 4: Hotair is now on board. Cap­tain Ed:

Stacy has had to take his fam­ily out of their house in order to pro­tect them, at least for a while. It’s no blo­gos­pheric secret that Stacy and I have had our dif­fer­ences, but I still count Stacy as a friend and hope he does the same, and no one should have to leave their home in fear sim­ply for engag­ing in polit­i­cal debate. I hit his tip jar yes­ter­day to help in some small way to defray his travel expenses, and I’d encour­age every­one else to do the same.

What else can we do? First, read all of Michelle’s post to get a sense of what the story and its impact actu­ally is. Write about it or don’t, depend­ing on how much focus you believe the story deserves, but try to post some­thing about what these blog­gers are endur­ing — if not on a blog, then on Twit­ter, Face­book, or other social media chan­nels. At some point, we all need our friends to have our backs. I’ve already been there, and believe me, it’s a lonely place until they arrive.

How long with the MSM con­tinue to ignore this?

Update 5: Yid with Lid is on it along with Pope­Hat and Ace invokes Kitty Gen­ovese.