Compare media treatment of #BlackLivesMatter with media treatment of Tea Party

From the Washington Examiner via H/T at Instapundit:

Some newsrooms are pushing back hard on the notion that the recent spike in police officer deaths is tied somehow to the anti-cop rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter movement.

That's a sharp contrast from the press' more recent habit of tying Tea Party rhetoric to similarly deadly acts.

Because it doesn't fit the narrative.

For many in the press, the cop killings are tragic. But it's also reckless and unfair to suggest that these murders have anything to do with the Black Lives Matters movement.

The Huffington Post reported that, "The argument that the Black Lives Matter movement is driving individuals to kill cops is ridiculous."

The so-called "explainer" website Vox.com added in a headline of its own, "There's nothing linking Black Lives Matter to a Texas cop's death."

The killing of police officers are the depraved acts of evil people.

Since the Tea Party's informal launch in 2009 with an anti-bailout speech by CNBC's Rick Santelli, the press has blamed the right-wing movement for a number of vicious murders in which it played no role.

For example, on Jan. 8, 2011, when Jared Loughner opened fire on a crowd in Tucson, Ariz., killing six people and injuring 13, including former Rep. Gabby Giffords, some in the press jumped to blame conservative rhetoric.

"Arizona massacre: Should Sarah Palin share the blame?" read one Nation headline. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank blamed former Alaska gov. Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck for the shooting.

"Both are finally being held to account for recklessly playing with violent images in a way that is bound to incite the unstable," said Milbank during an appearance on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

Within hours of the shooting tragedy, the New York Times' Paul Krugman had already published a blog post blaming conservatives.

Because the Tea Party is the enemy, that's why they are so quickly blamed.