Right-wing radio host, commentator, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump–obsessed sycophant Wayne Allyn Root complained on his radio show last night that while yesterday's deadly mass shooting at a high school in Florida was tragic, the media was spending too much time covering it and ignoring the much more important story of a New York real estate developer who was fined millions of dollars for destroying graffiti on his property.
"Here is my other complaint, and it is a big one," Root said. "What's the biggest news story of the day? See, the media thinks it's this shooting and they will blanket it. Of the 30 minutes on the news tonight, I'll bet you 20-plus will be the shooting, maybe 25 of them will be the shooting and then maybe they'll put five minutes at the end in other news today. And none of them will even mention the story I am about to give you, which I think is the biggest news story in America by far."
"This shooting is horrible, horrific, and if you're the parents, I'm crying for you," he said, "but it's a one-time event and tomorrow we're on to something else, but this is representative of what is going on in America."
Fuming that a jury had awarded graffiti artists more than $6 million after murals they had painted were destroyed by a real estate developer, Root ranted that "this is what is wrong with America."
"Liberals see a school shooting one time—how many kids are there in America? There is 330 million people, so maybe there is like 40 million kids in school, 25 million kids in school," he said. "Let's say there are 25 to 40 million kids in school right now; God forbid anyone's child is ever killed, any child that is killed is a nightmare and a tragedy beyond belief—I'm not trying to make light of it—but 5 kids killed, 10 kids killed, 20 kids killed, horrific, but that doesn't affect society forever more. But when you've got judges awarding $6.7 million to punk thug graffiti lowlifes because a good man, a developer, covered up their art, that affects the entire country forever."
