And a year later the media is still complying.
A year ago today, Omar Mateen murdered 49 innocent men and women at Pulse Nightclub, armed with an assault rifle and semi-automatic pistol before pledging allegiance to the Islamic State during a phone call with police negotiators and then killing himself.
A superlative of horrors, the attack was both the worst single-shooter massacre in the country and the worst domestic terror-attack since Sept. 11.
It was also the worst episode of forced ignorance imposed by political correctness.
Rather than tell the truth, Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Orlando’s gay community that the FBI didn’t know Mateen’s real motivation. And when she told grieving families that “we stand with you,” Lynch didn’t tell them that the Obama administration didn’t trust them with the facts about the terrorist that just killed their loved ones.
At Lynch’s direction, the FBI edited a partial 28-minute transcript of a 911 call, redacting all references to the Islamic State. As a result, grieving families played a tasteless and tragic fill-in-the-blank to learn about the killer. The most poignant moment of that text reads:
Mateen: I pledge allegiance to [omitted] may God protect him [in Arabic], on behalf of [omitted].
The redacted terrorist leader’s name was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the redacted organization was the Islamic State. Lynch only released that information after lawmakers led by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., raised holy hell, slamming the Obama administration for whitewashing evil.
“We know he intentionally targeted the LGBT community,” Ryan wrote. “The administration should release the full, un-redacted transcript so the public is clear-eyed about who did this, and why.”