The Drive-By Media loves to make every story about themselves. Walk through any newsroom in the nation and you’ll find a pandemic of narcissism slathered in makeup.
That’s why the network news anchors always travel to the danger zones – strapped to telephone poles during hurricanes wearing tight t-shirts and form-fitting pants. Reporting in five feet of flood water when they should be on dry land.
These days, reporters make themselves the victims. And that brings me to CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane. This guy brings victimhood to an entirely new level.
So MacFarlane was on Chuck Todd’s podcast the other day — and he said he got PTSD from covering the attempted assassination of President Trump.
MacFarlane was on the ground that day in Butler County, Pennsylvania. He described the incredible horror that he witnessed. But he says it was not Trump getting shot in the head that caused him to suffer mental anguish.
“I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave. Not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you could — you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people,” MacFarlane whimpered on an episode of “The Chuck ToddCast” podcast.
MacFarlane claimed “dozens” of people in the audience that day turned on members of the media, calling out “You did this, this is your fault, you caused this, you killed him,” and speculating they were about to “beat us with their hands.”
“They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us,” he told Todd. And for the record, no reporters were injured or killed in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
So this pinhead had to what – see a therapist – because Trump fans were giving him the stink eye?
He had to go on trauma leave? What sort of chicken-hearted, yellow-bellied bottomed baloney is that? What’s going on over at CBS News?
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Edward R. Murrow anchored the news from London while the Nazis were dropping bombs on the city. Walter Cronkite covered the invasion of Normandy. The Nazis were literally shooting bullets at those guys. You think they went to therapy? You think those reporters took trauma leave?
President Trump literally took a bullet to the head — but it’s Scott MacFarlane that we’re supposed to have sympathy for – because he got his feelings hurt.
Syndicated with permission from ToddStarnes.com – founded by best-selling author and journalist Todd Starnes. Starnes is the recipient of an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award and the Associated Press Mark Twain Award for Storytelling.