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senseandsensibility

(25,515 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:16 PM Sep 2025

The lightbulb is starting to go off at CNN? Or am I too optimistic?

VERY hesitantly, Kasie Hunt said that it doesn't look like the suspect is transgender. John Miller, the law enforcement analyst, said that those reports were preliminary and seemed to pooh-pooh them.

Funny, I seem to remember LOTS of speculation that the shooter was trans both on CNN and MSNBC.

So I guess corporate media may grudgingly back off the trans rumor, but they are clinging tightly to the far left one as far as I can see.












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The lightbulb is starting to go off at CNN? Or am I too optimistic? (Original Post) senseandsensibility Sep 2025 OP
K&R spanone Sep 2025 #1
If anyone said the shooter was Trans Person even just once Eliot Rosewater Sep 2025 #2
CORRECT Skittles Sep 2025 #5
Even considering the question disqualifies a media outlet from legitimacy LearnedHand Sep 2025 #3
Yes, you're too optimistic. choie Sep 2025 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
2. If anyone said the shooter was Trans Person even just once
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:19 PM
Sep 2025

And of course incorrectly, that’s all it takes now 50 million MAGA believe it.

LearnedHand

(5,600 posts)
3. Even considering the question disqualifies a media outlet from legitimacy
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:39 PM
Sep 2025

From the very first moment, this was used as a vilifying factor, not an identifying factor. It’s completely bogus even to say it looks as if the killer is not trans.

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