James Boulware Was "Courageous & Brave"?

by JASmius



But, but, but, Miss Whitfield, how can you say that?  James Boulware was....white:

CNN weekend anchor Fredricka Whitfield, who called the suspect in a violent shootout at the Dallas Police headquarters "courageous and brave." was under fire Sunday for her "outrageous" words, the host of another show on the same network said Sunday morning.

"Courageous?" said Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter. "The comment was shocking particularly among people who already think channels like CNN take an anti-police tone sometimes."

No, no, you misunderstand, Brian; Miss Whitfield is obviously using CNN to audition for a hosting gig on MSNBC.

Early Saturday, James Boulware, a lone gunman, was killed after attacking Dallas police with an assault rifle. Later in the day, Whitfield, during a discussion with CNN legal analyst Philip Holloway, about the Dallas violence, Whitfield commented that it was "very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters. Now you have this scene, this standoff. So you believe these are the hallmarks of more than one person's involvement?"

I'll say it again: James Boulware was white.  Looked like a skinhead straight out of the Aryan Nations.  Or a "militia nut".  I'm ticking down the list of every derogatory label a CNN anchor is supposed to apply in a story like this.  Heck, she appears to have not even mentioned gun control.  Think of the anti-NRA rant opportunity she blew.

Just that Mr. Boulware was "courageous and brave" for trying to promote the upcoming Terminator V: Genesys by reprising the police station massacre scene from the original.



So does this mean that Fredricka Whitfield hates cops even more than she does whites and more than she wants the Second Amendment pumped full of holes?  We don't know, because she ain't saying.

In fact, she practically denies she ever said it:

But on Sunday, Whitfield didn't apologize but said she merely "misspoke".

"Yesterday during a segment I used the words courageous and brave when discussing the gunman. I misspoke," she said. "And in no way believe the gunman was courageous nor brave. And I'll be right back."

But that's exactly what she said.  "[I]t was very courageous and brave....to open fire on the police headquarters".  She meant to say that, it obviously is what she believes, and clearly she didn't think it would become anything controversial.  Where she "misspoke" was in not confirming that James Boulware wasn't black.  Because a heavily armed black man slaughtering an entire police station full of cops is "social justice".  When a white guy does it, it's supposed to be "mass murder".

All in all, I'd say Miss Whitfield's MSNBC audition went pretty well, wouldn't you?

Exit question: Why is the Fort Worth Police Officers Association bothering to "demand" an apology" when they could never take the mealty-mouthed faux contrition she'd be offering up seriously?  Coerced apologies are always phony.  They should stop wasting their time and just (verbally) blast her.