[NYPOST] A freelancer for NBC News was blasted over a since-deleted tweet in which he appears to link the mass shooting at a Christian school in Nashville with the conservative media outlet the Daily Wire and its star commentators Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh.
Benjamin Ryan, a health and science news hound whose bylines also have appeared in the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, Rooters, the Washington Post and other outlets, posted a tweet on Monday in the aftermath of the shooting that left six people dead, among them three children, at the Covenant School in Nashville.
The shooter, who was identified as transgender
...mutton, dressed up as pork...
woman Audrey Elizabeth Hale,
...previously identified simply as Audrey Hale... was killed by responding officers.
Ryan appears to imply in his tweet that Hale, a Nashville resident, was motivated to carry out the mass shooting due to the fact that the city is also where the Daily Wire is headquartered.
"NBC has ID’d the Nashville school shooter as Audrey Hale, 28, who identifies as transgender and had no previous criminal record," Ryan tweeted on Monday.
Ryan continued: "Nashville is home to the Daily Wire, a hub of anti-trans activity by @MattWalshBlog, @BenShapiro and @MichaelJKnowles."
Ryan then deleted the tweet in response to the backlash.
One Twitter user wrote: "6 dead plus the shooter. But this is how they cover it. Their agenda is so freakin’ transparent."
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