The religion reporter for Fox News is seemingly angry that President Obama sent condolences to the family of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year old student shot dead by a police officer — but no condolences for the police officer who killed him.
Todd Starnes is Fox News’ religion reporter. He has his own Fox News Radio show, and regular appears on various Fox News programs, including “Fox & Friends” and “Hannity.”Â
On Saturday, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed an unarmed 18-year old college-bound student named Michael Brown. According to Brown’s friend, who was standing closely by when the officer unloaded multiple rounds into the young man’s body, Brown had his hands in the air and was not, despite what the police insist, attempting to grab the officer’s gun.
Tuesday afternoon, President Barack Obama released a statement on the tragic shooting, in both an attempt to honor the victim and to quell the riots in Ferguson, a town whose population is largely Black, but whose police force and local government is almost totally white.
“The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family and his community at this very difficult time,” the President said in his statement. “As Attorney General Holder has indicated, the Department of Justice is investigating the situation along with local officials, and they will continue to direct resources to the case as needed. I know the events of the past few days have prompted strong passions, but as details unfold, I urge everyone in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country, to remember this young man through reflection and understanding. We should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. Along with our prayers, that’s what Michael and his family, and our broader American community, deserve.”
Apparently, not what Michael and his family, and our broader American community, deserve, according to Todd Starnes, who sent up these tweets:
Obama sends “deep condolences” to family of MO teen killed after allegedly attacking police officer. No condolences for the cop.
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) August 12, 2014
First Obama speaks out for the Harvard professor – then Trayvon – and now Michael Brown. I’m sensing a pattern…
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) August 12, 2014
Why didn’t Obama release a statement offering support to the business owners whose stores were looted?
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) August 12, 2014
Why didn’t Obama release a statement supporting the journalists who were attacked by the angry mob?
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) August 12, 2014
Last year, after Trayvon Martin was shot and killed, Starnes uttered this accusation: “President Obama is now our Race-Baiter in Chief.”
Last month, when President Obama signed executive orders banning anti-LGBT discrimination by federal contractors, Todd Starnes wrote that Obama’s new executive orders amount to “the federal government bullying religious groups that hold viewpoints it deems inappropriate.” Â
In January, when the Grammys featured a mass wedding that included a few same-sex couples, Starnes went ballistic. His tweets included comments like,
I’ve never seen such a display of intolerance, bigotry and hatred. #Grammys #antichristian
Haven’t heard anyone giving thanks to their Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama tonight. #grammys
Here it comes – the Grammys are mocking marriage.
Macklemore launches a hate-filled, bigoted, intolerant diatribe against Christians. #Grammys
This was not about marriage. This was about bashing God and the church. #grammys
Starnes was also infuriated, in 2012, because President Obama’s 9/11 proclamation did not specifically include the word “God” — despite asking Americans to “remember what remains the same: our character as a nation, our faith in one another, and our legacy as a country strengthened by service and selflessness.” It also “invite[d]” Americans to consider “volunteering with a faith-based organization, as a way of honoring those we lost.”
Starnes is the author of God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values.
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Hat tip: TBogg at Raw Story and Joe Jervis
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