The New York Times reported late Sunday night on “a video depicting a macabre scene of a fake President Trump shooting, stabbing and brutally assaulting members of the news media and his political opponents” aired at a Doral, Florida conference hosted by the pro-Trump group American Priority over the weekend.

Pulled from a scene in the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service, the video has been thoroughly condemned by conservatives, journalists, liberals (but I repeat myself), White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, and even the NewsBusters Twitter account. At best, it was lame.

But like most hubbubs, the liberal media turn up the outrage meter to a 15 out of 10, warranting a closer examination.

Here were separate Sunday night statements from White House Correspondents Association President Jonathan Karl of ABC and the always pompous CNN (click “expand”):

KARL: The WHCA is horrified by a video reportedly shown over the weekend at a political conference organized by the President’s supporters at the Trump National Doral in Miami. All Americans should condemn this depiction of violence directed toward journalists and the President’s political opponents. We have previously told the President his rhetoric could incite violence. Now we call on him and everybody associated with this conference to denounce this video and affirm that violence has no place in our society. (....) CNN P.R.: Sadly, this is not the first time that supporters of the President have prompted violence against the media in a video they apparently find entertaining - but is by far and away the worst. The images depicted are vile and horrific. The President and his family, the White House, and the Trump campaign need to denounce it immediately in the strongest possible terms. Anything less equates to a tacit endorsement of violence and should not be tolerated by anyone.

Put another way, CNN pulled a Beto O’Rourke, demanding anyone who doesn’t offer a sufficient denunciation of the video be deemed supportive of violence against reporters. How unifiying!

But when it comes to threats of assassination and violence against the President, the broadcast networks resort to spin, which was the argument that both sides are wrought with issues.

In June 2017, Shakespeare in the Park performed a rendition of Julius Caesar in which Caesar bore a close semblance to Trump and, as the story goes, Caesar was stabbed to death. But when it came to the broadcast network flagship morning and evening newscasts, both shows on ABC (Good Morning America and World News Tonight) and NBC (Today and NBC Nightly News) ignored it.

ABC’s Nightline covered it on July 13, 2017, but correspondent David Wright lamented that a play depicting Trump’s murder was “targeted by Trump loyalists eager to make a scene.”

Between CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News, the network covered the Caesar matter six times, but some downplayed and even excused it as part of our political climate in which all sides bear responsibility. So for some at CBS, pretending to murder the President is a both sides issue.

NBC Nightly News was the lone network newscast to ignore the June 2017 story of Johnny Depp joking about someone assassinating the President. CBS’s Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell plus ABC’s Paula Faris flatly decried Depp, but others hurled similar excuses.

Going back further, CNN boasted in October 2006 of a Canadian film Death of a President based on an alternate reality in which George W. Bush was assassinated. Other cases involved Snoop Dogg and, more recently, a New York Times column wistfully thinking about a dead Trump.

These wrongs don’t make a right, but it’s instructional as to what the priorities are for the living, breathing fainting couches in the liberal press. Perhaps the liberal media should be looking to clean up its own act first, whether it be airing a fake news reel or deeming Ronan Farrow’s book a “conspiracy theory.”

Just a thought.

To see the transcript select quotes from the Caesar and Depp controversies, click “expand.”