BUSTED! The Daily Beast tweets that the shooter is white, deletes tweet, then Breitbart claims black activist magically "assumed" shooter was white (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by flyawayhigh

Today, Breitbart posted a story accusing black rights activist Deray McKesson of assuming the shooter in yesterday's live TV incident was white. Breitbart did not say what may have caused Deray to believe this.

In fact, The Daily Beast and others reported and tweeted the headline "Police are hunting for the shooter, who is a white man dressed in all black." Deray took a screen shot of some of the tweets, and one of them included this link: thebea.st/1Va6RCI. Deray posted the screen shot in a popular tweet. Breitbart did not find this tweet by Deray worth covering, even though it could not be missed in a review of his tweets.

Today. this shortened link to The Daily Beast goes to a different story about the shooting. However, a search of the link at Google provided this cache, which clearly shows from The Daily Beast itself that such a story existed but was deleted or significantly altered.

To be sure that Brietbart knew exactly what it was doing in deceiving its readers:

Breitbart displayed a screen shot of the Deray tweet, which said "Some say 'disgruntled employee,' others say 'terrorist.' Whiteness will explain away nearly everything." However, Breitbart never mentioned the other tweets reporting a white shooter. It is curious that Brietbart would be investigating Deray's tweets and miss that one.

Stranger still, Breitbart never mentioned that the story in The Daily Beast was altered, and those related tweets were also deleted.

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FearActual ago

The shooter looks white from his first person video.

flyawayhigh ago

That's interesting. Can you find a link to the picture? :)

FearActual ago

http://sendvid.com/aeoob77w Here is the link I have. At best he has a slight summer tan.

flyawayhigh ago

Holy crap. That's even weirder. That looks like a white hand and it does not appear gloved. Now, it's looking like this issue belongs in v/conspiracy. A black man with what appears to be a naturally white hand?

Edit: I watched again. It looks white, but really, you can't tell for sure. So, apparently The Daily Beast looked and thought they were right, just like I did until I looked again.

That still doesn't explain my original point -- Breitbart left this detail out anyway.

FearActual ago

Here are the "victims" in SFX makeup.. https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1440611929330.jpg