Tony Katz on Arizona Gay Bar Shooting

0:00Have you all heard about this shooting at a gay bar in Tucson, Arizona? No. Yeah. There are reasons as there always are because in any other situation, you would have heard about a shooting at a gay bar in Tucson, Arizona where two people were killed. You certainly would have heard of it if it was dubbed a hate crime. Tony Katz, Tony Katz, today, guys good to be with you. This story is days old. The story goes that police there in Tucson, I say a shooting at this bar that was known as a gay bar left three people dead including the shooter. So two people were killed shot in the parking lot. And then there's a suspect. The suspect's name is Usman now normally I never bring up names. I don't bring up names because I don't believe that we should

1:07be taking these people and giving them any type of prestige. I say to you in 99% of cases, I don't use the name. I did today. It might be the only time I do because this is someone we should know everything about. This should be front page at CNN, front page at MS now, front page everywhere. They've got the Lindsey Clancy trial, of course. They don't have this. They don't have this story. There's a story at CNN about how Jeffrey Epstein used celebrity hairstylist to make his victims look younger. All right, super creepy. Not saying it shouldn't be a story. I'm saying it's the only it they can talk about that still, which is fine. But no mention of this. Maria Bartiromo being fired at Fox, which is a certainly a fascinating story. It's going to become a massive

2:09story. Two gay men were killed. Where's the coverage? Why is it that we don't know anything about this? We know from local reports that this was as being viewed as a hate crime. This guy was new to the Tucson area, did not know the victims. That's according to the latest reporting. And we know that in a search of of this dude's home, they found the note that quote, indicated he acted alone and that this shooting was a target attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA plus community. What else do we know about this dude? What else do we know? How is it possible in today's America to gay men can be killed for being gay? And it is not a national story that demands attention from the press corps and from the Democratic Party. I would say that it should demand

3:14attention from everybody when two people are killed walking into any bar. Why did it happen? Certainly is it a question that the follow up is who did this and why? And we barely have a story. We barely have a story. We know this guy was carrying a note listing other LGBTQIA plus is the way ABC News wrote it. Businesses in the region. He was targeting people who were gay. Now we should stop for a moment. So you understand me that I do not believe in the concept of hate crimes. That is not to say that people don't do things because they hate a person, a characteristic, etc. But a crime is not more of a crime because of the hate. If someone hates me because of my religion or you because of the color of your skin, etc. Because they shoot you and kill you. Or me doesn't make it more of a crime because they shoot somebody else and kill them.

4:15So it's very important, I think, to eliminate this concept of hate crimes. The crime is the crime. The hate is the hate regardless of some statement or manifesto. But certainly it is acceptable to note a motivation and say they were targeting. And this guy seems to have been from the initial reporting targeting. And there's no national story here. Why not? I've been looking for a photo of this guy. Can't find it. Why can't I find a photo of this guy? We've got pictures of everybody. We've got every bit of information. This guy we don't have anything. It took real searching to find that he was born in Gambia. Been living in Oklahoma City and recently moved to Tucson. No

5:17prior connection to the victims. No criminal record. A speeding ticket in Oklahoma in 2012 and some small claims debt complaints. Briefly employed by Uber and Lyft. He was married briefly. They filed for bankruptcy. That's what we know. No. This is what we know about the guy. I ask the question that you're asking. Why don't I have a picture? Why I took me a while to find this information that they got evicted. They didn't pay rent. They had accumulated $76,000 in debt. Unpaid state taxes, medical bills, various loan obligations. I found out through the reporting that he was a

6:18registered Democrat. Why isn't this story on the front of every single news outlet in America? This is a story about narrative. And isn't that horrible? Two people are dead who did absolutely nothing wrong. I don't know them. I don't know their politics. I don't know their family. I don't know a single thing about them. They went to a bar. Their gay, the bar catered to gay customers. Fine by me. They went to a bar. They didn't do anything wrong at all. They got killed. No, sorry. I apologize. They were murdered in cold blood. Where's the press? Narrative is about, is not about journalism. You understand narrative is never actually about journalism. Narrative is about stories that are told to move ideals,

7:19to move ideology, not to engage. That means the murder of two gay Americans, as I know them, to be Americans, the murder of two gay Americans somehow no longer fits the narrative need. Isn't anybody else going to say, huh, that's interesting. I will bet you cash that I am amongst five percent of radio talk show hosts in the country that have brought up this story. I can't guarantee that I'm the only one. I can guarantee that I would be in very small company. You have to search for this. You have to want this. Now I happen to have done what you did

8:20and fall it into it. That's how I found the story. I do a lot of research. I do a lot of study to make sure I'm ready for things that are going on, especially with stories like this, where you have, I do have some reporting from ABC News. This is a story that was put out in the afternoon that it was confirmed to hate crime. But I still have no photo of the suspect. Why don't I have a photo of the suspect? It would be right there easy to see. Easy to see no question, but I don't have it. You can argue. They didn't have the information. You can argue that they didn't have all the facts yet before they got to the story, but they knew the basics of the story based on police reports and they got it out there. Or you can argue what I would argue that I do not believe at all that any of these things done by the mainstream media are done just because they have

9:21earned our suspicion of them. As the kids would say, the news media be sus. Now, I don't know if they would say be sus, but I said it that way and people can mock me later. This didn't make front pages. This didn't make massive headlines. This isn't being talked about in the ether. You know how much of this I saw on social media? Zero. I pay attention to a lot of stuff. I follow a lot of people. Zero. Because it didn't fit narrative. It did not provide what was needed because if someone is going to kill gay Americans at a gay bar, they better be a white Christian nationalist. Isn't that right? Isn't that right? Because we can ask the question this way, if it had been a white Christian nationalist,

10:24would you have heard about the story the day that it happened? Would the cameras have descended? Would they have had the live shots from the gay bar for three days talking about how traumatized the community is? They would have added a trans angle. Nothing. Nothing. Zero. Zero. And there has to be a reason. I'm giving you mine, which I will bet you all the money in my pocket against all the money in your pocket is your reason too. You know, it should be a story about, do your Lord have terrible? How awful. And it is terrible. And it is awful. And these people didn't deserve it. I don't, again, we know nothing about them, but as human beings, what did they deserve? They didn't do anything wrong. As a story about where our media is and why they cannot be trusted. Well, there it is. You trust these people at your own peril because it is so obvious that they will

11:30not share a story that they believe impedes their ability to attack, denigrate and destroy whom you. Anybody that might disagree with anybody who doesn't fit their desires, they are not about news. They are about narrative and not covering a story is the equivalent in the narrative game of covering the stories they choose. This is Tony Katz today. Find everything at TonyKatz.com. Grocery recalls again. Bring peace of mind home with garden. Garden is an indoor garden that grows fresh produce at home year round. No pesticides, no chemicals, and no green thumb required. Garden makes it easy to grow food you can trust right in your home. More than 100,000 households already grow with garden. When grocery recalls keep coming. Bring produce home with garden. Visit my g-a-r-d-y-n dot com. Garden, the produce you eat should never be a question mark.