This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features exactly the type of squeal Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican presidential candidate, likely expected when he used a semi-automatic rifle to cook bacon.
In a report on how the senator cooked bacon on the barrel of a AR-15 style rifle heated during target practice, CNN’s Carol Costello blasted Cruz’s timing coming at a time of mass shooting headlines.
She calls Cruz’s machine gun bacon spoof “so unsettling,” followed by a clip of the Cruz video, and then said:
CAROL COSTELLO: So, I wrote an op-ed about America’s cavalier attitude towards guns. I know my op-ed made an impression. 225,000 users checked it out. I argued we no longer respect our weapons. We forget that guns can actually kill. If you want the facts to back that up, 100 children were killed in unintentional shootings between December 2012 and 2013, the year after the Newtown shootings, by the way. And there have been 1,104 accidental shootings so far this year. It’s great Senator Cruz loves guns. Nothing wrong with that. But seriously, while a jury in Colorado decides whether James Holmes gets life or death for killing 12 people, should you fry bacon on your machine gun?
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “A perfect example of the cultural divide between the coasts, where liberals and journalists, but I repeat myself, are appalled by guns, and the nation in between which laughed along with Cruz and enjoyed his creativity. He combined two of America’s favorite things: bacon and guns.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
