A great deal is known about Quintez Brown, who faces attempted murder charges after he shot at Louisville, Kentucky mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg. As PJM’s Rick Moran noted Tuesday, Brown is “a black activist who supports ‘Pan-Africanism.’” He has been interviewed on MSNBC by Joy Reid, has been (oddly enough) an anti-gun activist, and his $100,000 bail was paid by Black Lives Matter.

Despite all this, however, the Las Vegas Sun, a reliable cog in the huge Leftist propaganda machine known as the mainstream media, sees the palsied hand of “extremist Republicans” in Quintez Brown’s actions and is seizing the opportunity to denounce those unhinged right-wing extremists who are endangering us all.

Greenberg is a Democrat, which is about the only fact about this case that might lead anyone to think that Brown was a Republican, an impression that a few seconds of perusing Brown’s record would dispel. In an unsigned editorial, however, the Sun did its best to obscure that record, referring to Brown only as a “political activist” and adding: “While there’s been no indication yet that the activist had ties to any right-wing organizations, the shooting comes amid a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.”

Tom Bevan, the co-founder and president of Real Clear Politics, cried foul on Wednesday: “Holy f*ck, @LasVegasSun. This editorial was written after the alleged shooter, Quintez Brown, was identified as a left-wing BLM activist.” Did the Las Vegas Sun retract its editorial and issue a correction and an apology for smearing conservative Americans over the actions of a far-Left activist? Come on, man! This is the establishment media we’re talking about. The Sun adjusted its editorial to include a backhanded reference to the truth while perpetuating their original smear. The editorial now reads: “While it’s been reported that the activist was involved in the Black Lives Matter and gun-safety movements and there has been no indication yet that he had ties to any right-wing organizations, the shooting comes amid a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.”

“No indication yet.” Even with all the evidence of Quintez Brown’s hard-Left activism, the Sun is still hoping that it will all turn out to have been an elaborate ruse, and Brown will be unmasked as a white supremacist, MAGA-hat wearing Trump supporter. You never know what those crafty right-wingers, who are abject morons to a man, will do next, eh, Sun editors?