September 9, 2025

GHOULISH: Media Turn Charlotte Stabbing into Another ‘Republicans Pounce’ Story.

The corporate media have finally been shamed into covering the brutal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zaruska by a mentally ill black man in Charlotte, and predictably, they’ve turned it into a “Republicans pounce!” story. In between gasps of horror that the Trump administration has “seized on” the story, print outlets and TV talking heads have been hard at work identifying the real culprit of the gruesome murder: insufficient public health funding.

First, let’s address this idiotic comment by CNN’s Abby Phillip on Monday: “People are murdered every single day…but this particular one, I’m trying to understand why this has become such a flashpoint on the right.”

Curiously, one of her colleagues at CNN has the same take:

Did they really think a story like this could be memory holed into oblivion?

Apparently, yes they did:

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll