The typical collusion of media bias following a school shooting was on full display after 18-year old Karl Halverson Pierson critically wounded one student before taking his own life at Arapahoe High School. But KTLA-TV in Los Angeles topped Piers Morgan and others for dishonest, media bias when they omitted reports Pierson was outspoken about holding communist beliefs and instead, chose to throw in an unsubstantiated report that he frequently attended Bible study with his family.
David Mecham of KTLA-TV in Los Angeles states on the video that neighbors in suburban Denver described Karl Pierson as “a nice young man whose family attended Bible study meetings.” He also reported that people described Pierson as “smart, likable, and a member of the track and debate club.”
The totality of reports and interviews with neighbors or classmates paints a very different picture than the one painted by David Mecham at KTLA-TV. While the KTLA-TV report interviews one girl who supports the narrative, calling Pierson “sweet,” thus far the characterizations of Pierson from others have depicted him as somewhat of a socialist agitator who wasn’t persecuted for his beliefs, at all.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Davis said Pierson once wore a shirt that read the letters U.S.S.R., but no one sent him home for the shirt, which by the way, would’ve been done had he been wearing a shirt depicting Jesus. As far as anyone knows, no one mocked Pierson for his communist beliefs.
“He would speak for himself. He would not be afraid to tell someone how he feels,” Zach Runberg, 18 and a fellow senior who had an English class with Pierson, told ABC News. “People would talk to him, nice conversations,” Runberg said.
Karl Pierson on left; debate team coach Tracy Murphy on right. (Credit: KTLA-TV)So if, as David Mecham at KTLA-TV said, Pierson was “a nice young man” who “routinely won contests” in the debate club, why was he thrown off the team and why did he decide to take revenge and kill the debate coach?
ABC News also reported that he had previously been disciplined in September for inappropriately expressing disagreement, as a result of his “strong political views.” but was not kicked off of the debate team at that time. The school did threaten further discipline if the incident was repeated.
Perhaps, the incident was repeated, forcing the debate coach to make good on the school’s promise.
Challon Winer, who lives across the street from Pierson’s home, said he often would see the teen mowing the lawn or shoveling snow from the driveway.
“I noticed that he didn’t look extremely happy, but he was a teenager,” subject to the normal moods of that age group. Funny how the media takes a neighbor’s statement and runs with it as if he is a board certified psychiatrist, isn’t it?
Steve Miles, an English teacher who taught Pierson as a freshman, says the school librarian who ran the speech team cut Pierson from the team, but he didn’t know why.
Mecham misleadingly used the term “family” when reporting Pierson’s attendance at Bible study, but the shooters parents were divorced. Maybe, just maybe, Pierson wasn’t keen on people disagreeing with him on his views, and was just like the other 84 percent of all children from divorced parents, angry.
Unfortunately, the liberal media never wants to talk about issues of the family, because of the family-destroying liberal policies they support, opting instead to mock families who find faith to be an effective weapon against societal irregularities and a stabilizing influence on mental health.
Guess it was the evil gun or the Bible that talked him into getting revenge on a teacher or students who persecuted Pierson, since as Mecham at KTLA-TV reported, he “routinely won contests” in the debate club.
Pierson lived at least part of the time with his mother in a well-off neighborhood in suburban Highlands Ranch, and not surprisingly, the sheriff said Pierson’s mother was out-of-town at the time of the shooting.
Yet issues of family are off-limits, and David Mecham and KTLA-TV sound suspiciously like collaborators in the renewed Obama administration push for stricter gun control laws coinciding with the 1-year anniversary of the Newtown shooting, which was recently detailed on PeoplesPunditDaily.com.
Media bias attacking the faithful is second nature for the liberal media, but the fact this was done during the Christmas season, is disgraceful.
