The Conservative Cave

American media have certain templates for certain types of news stories. Any time a black person is found dead by hanging, the default assumption is that it was murder, it was racially motivated, the killer or killers were white men, and no one wants to talk about it… as they talk incessantly about it.

When a story like this breaks, leftists automatically jump into a time machine and, for all intents and purposes, transport themselves to a time and place where fellow Democrats wore white hoods and “lynched” black people for no other reason than that they were black. The only glitch in the leftists’ time machine is that for some reason it mistakenly changes the political affiliation of the Democrat killers to Republican.
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Not even two weeks ago, my colleague Benjamin Bartree reported on another viral story that once again proved to be based on unfounded assumptions that required leftists to ignore the actual facts involved.

“Squad member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass., she/her pronouns in bio) came out September 10 with a banger of an X post, weirdly lamenting the ‘strange fruit’ hanging from trees — presumably referencing black lynching victims based on the context — across the country and ‘demanding a federal investigation NOW so we can stop modern-day lynchings,’” Benjamin wrote.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) jumped on the bandwagon with her own take on X.

X users, through Community Notes, quickly corrected AOC and Pressley, simply by reading up on the actual deaths, something the esteemed congressional reps failed to do. What they found was that, “While the letter cites 10 hanging cases in 2026, local law enforcement and medical examiners have ruled the majority as suicides, including the cases of Juliana Nzita and Kyle Bassinga. Only one case is currently being investigated as a homicide.”
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So, what do you think will happen with this story out of Jackson, Miss.?

That's where law enforcement authorities say that a black woman, eventually identified as Tasia Fortune (29), was found hanging from a tree. The horrific scene was discovered behind an abandoned home on August 3. How do you think the news media and the left reacted at first?

Doesn’t this crime check all the boxes? Black woman, Mississippi, hanging.from.a.tree.
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Except none of that was true. The actual story — you know, the truth — is that Jackson police say that so far, they’ve arrested two of three suspects in the case and both of them are black men. On Sept. 22, they arrested Earnest Lloyd Jr. (25), after earlier apprehending Jarques Ratliff (51) on allegations that they committed the crime.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.

Jackson police said late Tuesday that they arrested 25-year-old Earnest Lloyd Jr. in the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, whose body was found hanging behind an abandoned home in the city on Aug. 3.

Like Fortune and the first man arrested, 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff, Lloyd is Black. He appeared at a brief hearing Wednesday in Jackson.

Fortune’s mother Christy Spivey, who attended the hearing, said afterward that she was ecstatic to see arrests made in her daughter’s death. She said that neither she nor several of her daughter’s friends knew Lloyd, and she cautioned that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. “My family is not the only family that this is affecting,” Spivey said of the defendants’ families. “I feel for them as well. The only difference is that mine can never come back. At least they can have telephone visits.” “I’ll never truly have peace,” she said

Walter Giardina — an FBI agent whistleblowers claim “openly stated his desire to investigate Trump, even if it meant false predication” — cited a Wikipedia article in support of launching yet another investigation of Donald Trump. That detail is but one of the crazier revelations buried in the latest cache of documents Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made public last week in conjunction with FBI Director Kash Patel’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As The Federalist previously reported, last week Patel testified before “the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide-range of topics.” He dropped in the middle of the four-hour-plus hearing news related to the ongoing investigation of the weaponization of the FBI: The FBI had “made up” the Round River “classification,” Patel told Grassley on Tuesday.

Shareholders, finally realizing that the New York Times is little more than an antisemitic propaganda rag, are taking the outlet to court.

The National Center for Public Policy Research announced on September 23 that it, in conjunction with the State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA) and on behalf of the Florida Retirement System Trust Fund (FRSTF), filed a lawsuit against The New York Times Company. The purpose of the suit is to obtain corporate records related to the media company’s “oversight of its journalistic standards and the systems it says are designed to ensure accurate and trustworthy reporting.” Because as any of us could have told them, the Times has no journalistic standards or trustworthy editing.

The shareholders in question have spent months trying to look at the records they asked for through a method other than a lawsuit, but have failed to do so. While the Times has been repeating Hamas propaganda for years (e.g., the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a supposedly starving Palestinian child that turned out to be a complete hoax), the particular trigger in this case was the infamous Nicholas Kristof piece that made extreme accusations against Israelis of sexually abusing Palestinians, while citing outright terrorist groups as sources.

As we all subsequently discovered, Israeli authorities had offered the Times their extensive report on Hamas and Palestinian sexual torture of October 7 victims and Israeli hostages not long before Kristof put up his “blood libel” piece. The Slimes — I mean, Times —  not only rejected the report on Hamas sexual atrocities, but also refused to publish Israel’s refutation of Kristof’s smears.

The National Center for Public Policy Research sees the Kristof scandal as part of a pattern, however, rather than an isolated incident.

I stopped by Chic-Fil-A this past Sunday and it too was empty!