Watching the media tiptoe around the obvious was fascinating and depressing.
Geraldo Rivera’s early news-cycle tweet crystallizes the postmodern liberal—aka radical left—world view. We could sense the media’s hunger for so-called right-wing terrorists as the guilty barbarians.
What’s shocking about Rivera’s painfully stupid tweet is that his daughter was present at the Paris massacre… which just goes to show that leftists are impervious to historical patterns and simple facts.
Of course, gun control is the default setting for the postmodern bumper-sticker mind. But apparently the gun-control nuts did not notice that the massacre took place in a gun-free zone. I suppose Democrats are shocked, just shocked that the pious Muslims who committed the San Bernardino atrocity actually entered the gun free zone with, get this, guns.
Simple logic dictates that terrorists are irresistibly drawn to gun-free zones under the correct assumption that they are target-rich environments.
Which is why we have never seen, and never will see, a terrorist attack at, say, a gun show or a shooting range.
Weird how that works, huh?
Mr. Hope-and-Change just mentioned workplace violence.
Of course, nothing says workplace violence like an IED factory in a $400,000 home, tactical gear, selfie Go-Pro cameras, and “Hey, Mom, take care of the kid while we go and kill a whole bunch of infidels!”
Since California has been in the grip of a drought—hey, try building some dams!—for the past few years, Seraphic Secret has no doubt that so-called global warming/global freezing/climate change will be cited as a “contributing factor” of the San Bernardino Massacre. After all, if the tribal/sectarian barbarism that is taking place in the late state of Syria—savagery that has been going on since the seventh century—can be blamed on the weather, why not the killing spree in San Bernardino?
You have to appreciate Gerald (his real name) for his consistent entertainment factor…
Well said 🙂
The LA Times is now working on the narrative.
“police have also said that Farook was involved in a dispute at the party for employees of the San Bernardino County Health Department shortly before gunfire broke out.”
Workplace violence has not been “ruled out” and effort are under way to rule it in.
Others have said that “he looked nervous” as he was leaving the party 40 minutes before returning in body armor.
I was thinking about this recently and for awhile now we’ve had this great divide with regards to the perception of the MSM. In one camp, you have those who can clearly see the leftist agenda being spewed by the usual suspects (NYT, LAT, CNN, MSNBC …etc). The other camp looks at the MSM as the champions of their cause; neither camp is budging anytime soon.
“There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” (Prov. 14:12)
A Q asked out of ignorance: What does it mean to live in a $400k home in San B.? In the midwest, where I live, houses in that price range are for doctors, lawyers, and successful businessmen. But isn’t that a modest price in SoCal?
400K puts you in the upper middle class in that neighborhood. The point being that this pious Muslim couple were not impoverished and oppressed. Like most Muslim terrorists they were well educated and middle class monsters.
Redlands is a fairly quiet bedroom community. If the address I found is accurate the house is in an older part of town and is probably below the median for the town as a whole. However, some of the best the town has to offer, culturally, is not more than a ten minute walk away. However, to put in mildly, appears they did not appreciate outdoor concerts and plays or much else of what they were given.
San Bernardino is pretty depressed and has declared bankruptcy. Redlands is a step above SB. The house in Redlands was rented.
Someone mentioned yesterday that if the perp’s name was, say, Robert Smith, we would have heard it almost instantly. But the mass media has an urge to protect that which is “politically correct”
I watched (briefly, before switching back to a real channel) CNN last night. There was a woman commentator arguing that “something new” that “has never been tried” should be done. To wit, having the government issue gun permits only to people who had been subjected to training and background checks.
The next speaker on that panel was a retired police chief, who pointed out that in his 20 years on the force he had never, not once, arrested a person with a legally owned gun.
I did not hear another obvious retort to this lady, namely that California has used exactly her proposed scheme for many years now. It’s called “may issue” (which often means “won’t issue”) and is found consistently in high crime areas.
Just made the mistake of checking out Geraldo’s Twitter feed … big mistake.
The NYPost headline was “MUSLIM KILLERS”–which phrase, if it had been written by Reuters/BBC/CNN/DailyMail/SkyeNews etc, would refer to people who killed muslims, you know, after those provocative oppressive Israelis had jumped in front of their defenseless cars.
Shocked, just shocked!
Indeed.
My simple thesis bears repeating.
The same disease infects Islamists; Arab despots; the Left; Obama; “Black Lives Matter;” “Occupy Wall Street” and even our own dear Mr. Trump.
It is the disease of Victimhood. These children have been inculcated for the last 50 years to believe that their is NO “Higher Authority (ie: G-d) other then themselves and that their opinions; wants; needs; and other aspects of narcissistic Self Love, are all that matters.
None of these people believe that they bear any responsibility whatsoever for their own unhappiness or the current destruction of the world as we knew it.
They don’t even believe that THEY bear any responsibility for their own pet insanity’s such as “The Climate Global Weather Change Warming Thing.”
Some of these Whiners of Feckless Absurdity lead people over the Cliff into oblivion – others murder people while taking themselves into oblivion.
We are, indeed, in trouble.
Right on, Moishe! The lust for power is something to behold. It trumps everything, belief in G-d, morality, kindness, family, friendship, and finally and most importantly any shred of sanity.
Leave Trump out of the equation. He is not at fault on anything, although no points from me for style.
I have no objection to Trump’s “style.”
I have an objection to his morality of he, himself, Donald John Trump, considering himself a “Victim” of all of his complaints.
Any man who had said, several times, “I have to be treated fairly,” is part and parcel of the vast Left Wing Islamist Victimhood Conspiracy.
No, Mr. Trump, not only do you NOT “have to” be treated fairly, you will Never be treated fairly. Get over it. Be responsible for your own freaking life. People will treat you exactly as you deserve to be treated….
Although, maybe if I said that I have to be treated fairly as a Jew, Islamist Arabs would stop hating me and trying to kill me…
Hmmm….
Just shaking my head at all the harrumphs.