We've now entered the exciting "place blame on people you don't like" phase of the coverage of the shootings in Isla Vista last Friday, where bloggers, teevee news panelists, and other luminaries present their instant diagnoses of the culture-war issues truly to blame for the actions of a disturbed person with a several guns and a carload of ammunition. Here are just a few of the stupidest explanations of What It All Means (and yes, we have a feeling this will be Part One of many).
And then there's the comment about the father of one of the victims not mentioning that three were killed with knives. For some reason.
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The Daily Caller offers this however:<i> What Is Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s Biggest Accomplishment? Don&rsquo;t ask her core supporters. All they can talk about are her genitals. Yeah. Benghazi. That was definitely Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s biggest accomplishment. Just ask Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Here, let me help out these children. Here is a comprehensive list of Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s accomplishments, only one of which they mentioned: Marrying a lecherous reprobate whose political ambition is almost as insatiable as his need to rut Riding the aforementioned satyr&rsquo;s coattails all the way to the White House Enabling his philandering because she needed him more than he needed her Parlaying her name recognition into two undistinguished terms in the Senate Parlaying that into an unsuccessful run for president in 2008 Parlaying that into a disastrous tenure as Secretary of State Being a Democrat Being a woman That about covers it. She&rsquo;s also an inveterate liar, but that&rsquo;s not so much an accomplishment as a character trait. </i>
&quot;....he seems pretty sure that sex and fun and pleasure are in most schools&rsquo; mission statements.&quot;
&quot;The job of a university president is to provide football for the alumni, parking for the faculty, and sex for the students.&quot; ~ Clark Kerr
He was a (physically only) attractive kid; if only some older gay man had taken it upon himself to give the lad a much-needed BJ, all this could have been avoided.
Once again, the &quot;blame anybody else but us [entitled white males]&quot; trope. Because, you know, a simple, heartfelt expression of sorrow or empathy is just not possible for these trolls.
I had to suffer through the fucking trailer for that eleventy-billion times as the penance for watching Jon and Stephen online. Fuuuuuuuck.
Whistling gypsy libel !!!1!!
By saying it.
IT&#039;S THAT EASY AS A CONSERVATIVE! WHY WOULDN&#039;T EVERYONE BE?!
Or Dr. Pangloss.
And then there&#039;s the comment about the father of one of the victims not mentioning that three were killed with knives. For some reason.
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The Daily Caller offers this however:<i> What Is Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s Biggest Accomplishment? Don&rsquo;t ask her core supporters. All they can talk about are her genitals. Yeah. Benghazi. That was definitely Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s biggest accomplishment. Just ask Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Here, let me help out these children. Here is a comprehensive list of Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s accomplishments, only one of which they mentioned: Marrying a lecherous reprobate whose political ambition is almost as insatiable as his need to rut Riding the aforementioned satyr&rsquo;s coattails all the way to the White House Enabling his philandering because she needed him more than he needed her Parlaying her name recognition into two undistinguished terms in the Senate Parlaying that into an unsuccessful run for president in 2008 Parlaying that into a disastrous tenure as Secretary of State Being a Democrat Being a woman That about covers it. She&rsquo;s also an inveterate liar, but that&rsquo;s not so much an accomplishment as a character trait. </i>
Also, I&#039;m very unhappy that I can&#039;t walk away from being steamrollered like the coyote in that cartoon with the roadrunner.
&quot;....he seems pretty sure that sex and fun and pleasure are in most schools&rsquo; mission statements.&quot;
&quot;The job of a university president is to provide football for the alumni, parking for the faculty, and sex for the students.&quot; ~ Clark Kerr
&quot;What is, &#039;None of them, Katie?&#039;&quot;
So they offered to give him a hand?
He was a (physically only) attractive kid; if only some older gay man had taken it upon himself to give the lad a much-needed BJ, all this could have been avoided.
They&#039;re politicizing the tragedy only because those nerdy libs could be relied upon to do it.
Blame it on the boogie.
Once again, the &quot;blame anybody else but us [entitled white males]&quot; trope. Because, you know, a simple, heartfelt expression of sorrow or empathy is just not possible for these trolls.