During an appearance on “The Alice Stewart Show” this morning to discuss his belief that the Obama Administration is “orchestrating” a lot of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Todd Starnes blamed the news media for supposedly making the situation on the ground appear a lot worse than it really is.
Radio host Alice Stewart kicked things off by likening the release of the video showing Michael Brown allegedly stealing cigars from a local convenience store before he was killed to Benghazi, saying that the Obama Administration is now trying to blame that video for the violence taking place in Ferguson just as it tried to blame an anti-Islam video for the attack in Libya.
“Now all of a sudden the administration is upset” about the release of the video, Stewart said, “once again blaming a video, like Benghazi, for what is going on in this situation.”
For his part, Starnes reserved most of his disdain for the media outlets that are on the scene covering the unrest, accusing them of essentially trying to produce a “reality television show” in which they “act like they are in some sort of a war-torn country – they’re in Ferguson, Missouri for crying out loud!”
“One of the things that really irritated me,” he continued, is “everybody’s attacking the police. The media, they’re not even attempting to hide their disdain for law enforcement,” which infuriates Starnes since the local authorities are simply trying to protect the journalists from violent protestors.
“Hey MSNBC, the reason that they don’t want you standing in the middle of the street is because you’re going to get hit by a brick, you moron!”
Given this attitude, it came is no surprise that Starnes was particularly unsympathetic to journalists who have been detained by the police.
“Everybody’s getting arrested, Alice,” he said, sarcastically. “Everybody’s getting arrested. And what really amazes me is that these people are still able to tweet with their hand behind their backs in handcuffs. There’s a difference between being detained and being asked to see your credentials and being thrown into jail and having a mugshot taken and your fingerprints. That hasn’t happened. That hasn’t happened”:
