Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman were both shot

[SocialDemocrat61]

Last edited Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:21 AM - Edit history (1)

on the same night. Both were Minnesota Democrats and elected officials who were targeted for political assassination. Hortman was killed. Compare the coverage her murder got to the coverage Charlie Kirk’s murder is getting. Then try to explain how the corporate corporate media is not completely biased to the right.

[malaise]

1. Not just the corporate media

The political elite on both sides - even Bush crawled out of his hole

[barbtries]

3. drives me apeshit.

Democrats should shut up already. it is not a foregone conclusion - until they've arrested the perpetrator and figured out just why he did it - that it was committed by someone on the left, or that it was even political.

maybe it was a personal vendetta. maybe the guy was infatuated with him. maybe he cheated on his wife with someone else's wife. maybe stephen miller felt threatened by him.

this is propaganda. we're drowning, drowning in it. i do not recognize my country.

[malaise]

4. They're falling over themselves

in their attempt to be politically correct. Sickening indeed.

[Torchlight]

8. Okay

[HariSeldon]

18. I disagree about "shutting up"

I think Democrats need to say: "Are you out of your mind?! We've been backing common-sense measures that might have kept this from happening!"

[barbtries]

30. actually I agree with you.

but if they won't do that ... then shut the fuck up at least.

[Cosmocat]

17. It gives me no pleasure to try to "defend" W

but how I took his statement was that more than anything he was trying to reign in the lunacy from the right - not that he has any sway with the current mutation.

[lastlib]

21. Yeah, but it's kinda hollow coming from him.....

considering some of his own rhetoric and dick Cheney's-- 2001 to 2008 they were practically rabid.

(P.S. "rein", not "reign"---"reign" is what he wanted to do when he was "the decider.&quot

[barbtries]

2. can't do it.

the thing with kirk is a gigantic propaganda campaign. the truth will always be the enemy in this context.

[malaise]

5. Heard he'll be lying in state in the Capitol

Why not - these ReTHUG scumbags still cheer on the Jan6 failed coup

[Ilsa]

7. I thought they just took him home to Phoenix.

Maybe what you heard is Russian or Chinese disinformation intended to cause trouble.

[snowybirdie]

29. Nancy Mace, of course

Proposed a bill to have him lie in state in the Capital. Probably not going anywhere.

[Hope22]

10. That would be insanity.

Vance and T steal piece after piece of our government and traditions. It this is true we have already lost the battle. I hope you are wrong about this. MTG wants a statue of the guy put in the Capitol building. What simple madness. We may as well take women, gays, trans and minorities out, line them up and do away with them. It certainly would save on the slow, fear filled future of nothing but threats, madness and degradation!

[barbtries]

16. they won't stop there.

Democrats, liberals, women, all fodder for the beast. or whatever that expression is

[barbtries]

15. he's a fucking nobody!

lying in state?! at the Capitol?!

i laughed. i really laughed. if I didn't I think I would have to cry.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. John Hoffman (and his wife Yvette) survived his attempted assassination

The two deaths were Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hoffman_%28Minnesota_politician%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Hortman

[SocialDemocrat61]

12. Thanks

Corrected the op.

[JI7]

11. Judge Salas attack which ending up killing her son

and injuring her husband. Some misogynist piece of shit with anti feminist agenda.

Michigan governor was also a target by a bunch of right wingers.

But the Minnesota attack you mention especially should have got more coverage.

instead it was reported like a local gun robbery .

[Takket]

13. Absolutely

By this point (3 days later) the media news cycle had already completely moved on from the Minnesota assassinations. And there were no calls for national mourning of any kind.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

31. At the time, the coverage was nothing like this.

Nothing like as damning of the RW/MAGA agenda & their calls for violence against their political "enemies." No listing of all the other victims of RW/MAGA. No mention of the J6 criminals & their violent crimes, nor of the pResident pardoning them.

Dems & Democratic supporters need to get that message out *now* to counter the narrative being sold hard by the MAGAts & media that all Democrats are to blame & must pay for Kirk's killing.

[MadameButterfly]

14. The corporate media is owned by conservatives

I'm surprised MSNBC still exists (though with new name). The money is apparently worth it to them. Trump will do his best to change that. Hold on to your hats.

[pazzyanne]

19. "Compare the coverage "Melissa Hortman" murder got to the coverage Charlie Kirk's murder is getting."

EXACTLY!!!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

20. SocialDemocrat61, this says

ALL we need to know about the total usurping of UNBIASED media who now bow ONLY to the Right and to carefully EDITED news.

Sickening.

[Johnny2X2X]

22. Right Wing billionaires own the media

People need to wake up, it's all owned by the right and even MSNBC has Right Wing influence on it now.

[Stargazer99]

23. Another reason why capitalism is evil and should never involved in control of people

[Wiz Imp]

24. Based on my research, I found only 1 sitting Republican Government official assassinated in the past 35+ years

That was a Borough Council Member in NJ. Eunice Dwumfour, a member of the borough council of Sayreville, New Jersey, was assassinated on February 1, 2023. The murderer was Rashid Ali Bynum, a resident of Portsmouth, Virginia, who was a former resident of Sayreville and had been a member of the Fire Congress Fellowship, a religious organization with offices near Sayreville that Dwumfour helped to lead. The murder seemed to revolve around the religious organization they were both members of.

During that same time frame, at least 5 sitting Democratic Government Officials have been assassinated.

Melissa Hortman, Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2025
James E. Davis, New York City Councilman in 2003
J. Christopher Stevens, Ambassador to Libya in 2012
Clementa C. Pinckney, Member of the South Carolina Senate in 2015
Bill Gwatney, Chair of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, Former member of the Arkansas Senate in 2008

In the 1960's there were 5 major political assassinations. All those assassinated were on the left side of the political spectrum: John F. Kennedy, Malcom X., Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy & Medger Evers.

Recent history as well longer term shows Democrats & the "Left" have been far more likely to be killed by political violence than Republicans.

[democrank]

25. Fair and balanced coverage is a joke

This Kirk circus is way beyond a frog-into-prince kind of thing. Way, way beyond.

[Johonny]

26. To be fair, Kirk was famous and the Hortmans

Weren't. Kirk means rating from people that usually don't watch the news. Kirk was more like John Lennon being shot. He was a generational icon, loved or hated, by the TicToc generation. Those under 30 probably know who he is better than who Bill Clinton was.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

32. The amount of coverage may be justified by his fame,

More and more honest coverage of Melissa Hortman's assassination was also justified, but not provided. The coverage of that hers and the related deaths was tepid and nothing like as damning of the RW/MAGA agenda & their calls for violence against their political "enemies" as it should have been.

No widespread, passionate listing of all the other recent victims of RW/MAGA attacks. No harping on the J6 criminals & their violent crimes, nor of the pResident pardoning them.

Dems & Democratic supporters need to get that message out *now* to counter the narrative being sold hard by the MAGAts & media that all Democrats are to blame & must pay for Kirk's killing. With Mad King Donald's rule, we may suffer official government sanctioned or government-carried-out punishment.

[hay rick]

27. Obsequious behavior from the media is expected and normal in America.

[BradBo]

28. It's sick. Kirk was a racist scumbag.