…between Fort Hood and Tucson:
Shootings, beheadings, stonings, you name it. No big deal. Nearly a month after the Fort Hood massacre, the NYT’s Thomas Friedman finally worked out that Hasan was “just another angry jihadist”. Which was what Hasan tried to tell us from the very beginning.
Now to Tucson, Arizona, where six people are dead and Democrat congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is seriously injured following another gun rampage. Attacker Jared Lee Loughner has thus far offered no clue at all about why he did it. Apparently the fellow is a drug-using gamer whom one former classmate recalls as “left wing”, a “political radical”, “reclusive”, a “pot head” and “quite liberal”. He’d met Giffords four years ago and thought her “stupid & unintelligent”. Besides that background and Loughner’s MySpace and YouTube rantings, that’s all we have. There’s no “Allahu Akbar” here. Yet – incredibly – many clearly heard a cry of “Allahu Palin”.
They apparently have no sense of irony. I know whose souls should be searched here, and it isn’t Sarah Palin’s or the Tea Partiers.
“I know whose souls should be searched here, and it isn’t Sarah Palin’s or the Tea Partiers.”
You’re assuming they even have souls to search, Rand.
Silly you.
zombies don’t have souls.
The only logical conclusion is that they sold their souls to Satan for a taste of power. Well, The Prince of Darkness during the last two years delivered just that, a taste, and now He’s collecting what they owe Him.
No, they didn’t hear “Allahu Palin.” That would be insensitive toward Muslims. They heard “Palin macht frei.”
Folks can cry foul until their lungs give out and it won’t make a damn bit of difference. Tu quoque is certainly one of the weaker modes of rhetorical outrage against such gross libel, and after the 1995 attack on Oklahoma City you’d think we’d know better.
Instead, the Right should embrace unapologetic, furious defiance. When the President arrives in Tucson on Wednesday, he should be met with the same vigor seen in town hall after town hall.
In many cases, I’d say Satan got gypped.
Where’s that “souls for clunkers” program now that Satan needs it?