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MSNBC Quietly Pulls 'Absolutely Sickening' Headline About Laken Riley's Killer After Huge Backlash

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Establishment media outlets have so often beclowned themselves by exposing their own biases that nothing they do surprises us.

Moreover, sometimes those biases manifest in unconscious ways, and this appears to be one such case.

On Friday, amid substantial backlash against its unfathomable callousness, MSNBC quietly inserted a new headline for a story about Wednesday’s courtroom conviction of Jose Antonio Ibarra — the Venezuelan illegal immigrant who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in February — in place of the story’s original headline, which one social media user denounced as “absolutely sickening.”

MSNBC’s updated headline read: “The Guilt of Laken Riley’s Killer Was Never In Doubt.” No reasonable person could object to that statement.

Alas, MSNBC first ran the story under the following tone-deaf headline: “Laken Riley’s Killer Never Stood a Chance.”

On the social media platform X, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump reacted to that original headline with outrage. Trump, of course, has pledged to close the open border facilitated by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“You literally can’t make up this level of depravity. These people are sick,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, referring to the establishment shills at MSNBC.

Should Jose Ibarra have received the death penalty?

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk expressed similar sentiments.

“Dear MSNBC, Laken Riley never stood a chance, you despicable humans,” Kirk tweeted.

Other X users called the headline “absolutely disgusting,” “evil,” and accused MSNBC of “trying to stealth-edit their inhumanity.”

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Oddly enough, the actual story probably would strike most readers as unobjectionable.

MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos explained that defense attorneys likely chose a judge-only bench trial instead of a jury trial because they knew they had a “hopeless case” and therefore tried to secure the most favorable sentence possible from a judge who might appreciate that they decided to forego a more expensive and time-consuming jury trial and thereby spare Riley’s family unnecessary additional trauma.

In short, the story amounted to garden-variety legal analysis from a defense attorney’s perspective.

And that, in many ways, made the original headline all the more damning.

After all, whether consciously or otherwise, whoever wrote that headline conveyed in essence MSNBC’s editorial position on illegal immigration.

In other words, the headline’s author could not conceal the fact that establishment shills at outlets such as MSNBC, which operate as propaganda arms of the Democratic Party, seem to have more genuine feeling and concern for illegal immigrants — those they euphemistically call “undocumented” — than for American citizens, including those victimized by violent criminals like Ibarra.

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Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.
Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.




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