Sarah Palin: Where's the Outrage Over the Army Recruiter Shooting?

Ben Smith has a details:

Sarah Palin today picked up a widely heard theme on the right, using the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller to call attention to the murder of an army recruiter in Arkansas, allegedly by a self-styled Islamic militant:

The stories of two very different lives with similar fates crossed through the media's hands yesterday — both equally important but one lacked the proper attention. The death of 67-year old George Tiller was unacceptable, but equally disgusting was another death that police believe was politically and religiously motivated as well.

William Long died yesterday. The 23-year old Army Recruiter was gunned down by a fanatic; another fellow soldier was wounded in the ambush. The soldiers had just completed their basic training and were talking to potential recruits, just as my son, Track, once did.

Whatever titles we give these murderers, both deserve our attention. Violence like that is no way to solve a political dispute nor a religious one. And the fanatics on all sides do great disservice when they confuse dissention with rage and death.

As I write this on Tuesday afternoon there still has been no statement from the White House regarding the Army member murdered by a convert to radical Islam. They hadn't even thrown a blanket over George Tiller yet when the White House issued a statement condemning that shooting.

And to my knowledge none of the left-wing media that's been trying to blame the Tiller shooting on Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, or anybody in the pro-life movement, has said a thing about the Little Rock tragedy.

Simple reason: One story promotes their agenda, one doesn't.