Liberals are cringing everywhere. Feelings of killers are being hurt right this second.
So sad.
Too freakin’ bad.
I couldn’t have said it better myself…
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Giuliani – 1. Politically-correct, bleeding heart liberals – 0.
Love.
I love when Charles Krauthammer gets snarky.
Charles does brilliant intellectualism with his eyes closed, but snark? You just don’t see it that often. My dad sent me CK’s latest column, and you guys, there is like SNARK GALORE in it. It’s kind of awesome. It’s all about how pathetic the MSM has been about the Fort Hood terror attack – and how absolutely unwilling they are to just call a spade a freaking spade already.
I’ve bolded my favorite tidbits, but the entire article is certainly worth the read!
What a surprise — that someone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” (the “God is great” jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. [Mock's Note: I would have said "miiiiiight" right there 
] It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre downplaying Nidal Hasan’s religious beliefs.
“I cringe that he’s a Muslim. … I think he’s probably just a nut case,” said Newsweek’s Evan Thomas. Some were more adamant. Time’s Joe Klein decried “odious attempts by Jewish extremists … to argue that the massacre perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was somehow a direct consequence of his Islamic beliefs.” While none could match Klein’s peculiar cherchez-le-juif motif, the popular story line was of an Army psychiatrist driven over the edge by terrible stories he had heard from soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
They suffered. He listened. He snapped.
Really? What about the doctors and nurses, the counselors and physical therapists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who every day hear and live with the pain and the suffering of returning soldiers? How many of them then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
And what about civilian psychiatrists — not the Upper West Side therapist treating Woody Allen neurotics, but the thousands of doctors working with hospitalized psychotics — who every day hear not just tales but cries of the most excruciating anguish, of the most unimaginable torment? How many of those doctors commit mass murder?
It’s been decades since I practiced psychiatry. Perhaps I missed the epidemic.
But, of course, if the shooter is named Nidal Hasan, whom National Public Radio reported had been trying to proselytize doctors and patients, then something must be found. Presto! Secondary post-traumatic stress disorder, a handy invention to allow one to ignore the obvious.
And the perfect moral finesse. Medicalizing mass murder not only exonerates. It turns the murderer into a victim, indeed a sympathetic one. After all, secondary PTSD, for those who believe in it (you won’t find it in DSM-IV-TR, psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual), is known as “compassion fatigue.” The poor man — pushed over the edge by an excess of sensitivity.
Have we totally lost our moral bearings? Nidal Hasan (allegedly) cold-bloodedly killed 13 innocent people. In such cases, political correctness is not just an abomination. It’s a danger, clear and present.
Consider the Army’s treatment of Hasan’s previous behavior. NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling interviewed a Hasan colleague at Walter Reed about a hair-raising Grand Rounds that Hasan had apparently given. Grand Rounds are the most serious academic event at a teaching hospital — attending physicians, residents and students gather for a lecture on an instructive case history or therapeutic finding.
I’ve been to dozens of these. In fact, I gave one myself on post-traumatic retrograde amnesia — as you can see, these lectures are fairly technical. Not Hasan’s. His was an hour-long disquisition on what he called the Koranic view of military service, jihad and war. It included an allegedly authoritative elaboration of the punishments visited upon nonbelievers — consignment to hell, decapitation, having hot oil poured down your throat. This “really freaked a lot of doctors out,” reported NPR.
Nor was this the only incident. “The psychiatrist,” reported Zwerdling, “said that he was the kind of guy who the staff actually stood around in the hallway saying: Do you think he’s a terrorist, or is he just weird?”
Was anything done about this potential danger? Of course not. Who wants to be accused of Islamophobia and prejudice against a colleague’s religion?
One must not speak of such things. Not even now. Not even after we know that Hasan was in communication with a notorious Yemen-based jihad propagandist. As late as Tuesday, The New York Times was running a story on how returning soldiers at Fort Hood had a high level of violence.
What does such violence have to do with Hasan? He was not a returning soldier. And the soldiers who returned home and shot their wives or fellow soldiers didn’t cry “Allahu Akbar” as they squeezed the trigger.
The delicacy about the religion in question — condescending, politically correct and deadly — is nothing new. A week after the first (1993) World Trade Center attack, the same New York Times ran the following front-page headline about the arrest of one Mohammed Salameh: “Jersey City Man Is Charged in Bombing of Trade Center.”
Ah yes, those Jersey men — so resentful of New York, so prone to violence.
See? Total snark city. I LOVE THIS.
Because God forbid we blame it on the actual terrorist piece of crap that did the crime.
Oh yeah – and the a$$clown du jour happens to be Chicago Mayor Daley. Because of COURSE it is.
Here’s a quote from Mayor McGenius: “Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group.”
Yeah, you don’t blame a group. And you certainly don’t blame a person who may or may not BELONG to a particular group. Because, let’s face it, it’s easier to blame an inanimate object that doesn’t vote.
You know what this stupid quote reminds me of? One of my favorite bumper stickers of all time:
The video is not embeddable (yet), but you guys have GOT to watch how Obama justifies/rationalizes Nidal Hasan’s shooting spree. Here’s the transcript:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: “Well, look, we — we have seen, in the past, rampages of this sort. And in a country of 300 million people, there are going to be acts of violence that are inexplicable. Even within the extraordinary military that we have — and I think everybody understands how outstanding the young men and women in uniform are under the most severe stress — there are going to be instances in which an individual cracks. I think the questions that we’re asking now and we don’t have yet complete answers to is, is this an individual who’s acting in this way or is it some larger set of actors? You know, what are the motivations? Those are all questions that I think we have to ask ourselves. Until we have these answers buttoned down, I’d rather not comment on it.”
Here’s the thing, Barry. This isn’t an “inexplicable” act of violence. It’s a premeditated, carefully planned and executed act of violence based on utterly psychotic terrorist beliefs in radical Islam. JUST FREAKING ADMIT IT already.
GAWD.
This video (audio, really) makes me want to vomit. It’s BBC’s Gavin Lee interviewing a guy named ‘Duane’ at the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen the day after the killings at Fort Hood. Let me just emphasize again that this is in KILLEEN, TEXAS (that’s in the United States of America, in case you didn’t know) – talking about how basically the soldiers who died deserved it. You know, because they were going to be deployed to kill Muslims and all.
Here’s the ‘transcript’:
Duane : I’m not going to condemn him for what he did. I don’t know why he did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done though. If he had done it for selfish reasons I still will not condemn him. He’s my brother in the end. I will never condemn him.
Gavin Lee : There might be a lot of people shocked to hear you say that.
Duane: Well, that’s the way it is. I don’t speak for the community here but me personally I will not condemn him.
Gavin Lee : What are your thoughts towards those that were victims in this?
Duane : They were, in the end, they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them. It’s just like the majority of the people that will hear this, after five or six minutes they’ll be shocked, after that they’ll forget about them and go on their day.
But sure, all you politically-correct police on the left (and Janet Napolitano!) – we should really watch ourselves so we don’t hurt someone like Duane’s feelings.
BEHOLD: Yousef Al-Khattab (born Joseph Cohen). This assclown is hailing Nidal Hasan as a hero for slaying the soldiers at Fort Hood.
Yousef lives in New York and works as a bicyle cabbie. He got a nice laugh out of the Daniel Pearl beheading and spends his spare time on the internet calling for the murder of Jews. He also runs RevolutionMuslim.com, and says that the soldiers killed at Fort Hood deserved their fates.
Yousef was born a Jew, but converted to Islam in 2004. And, he enjoys reminding everyone that his hateful speech is protected by the First Amendment. He is also a perfect example of why I am a fan of racial profiling. I’d like to think that our intelligence agencies have their eyes and ears all over this jerk, but wouldn’t be surprised if the ACLU and liberal Democrats decide it’s too invasive to monitor him too closely.
This is the kind of person who isn’t content to just SPEAK hatred. He won’t rest, because his radical beliefs prevent him from doing so, until he ACTS on his hatred.
But, you know, it’s far more important to develop hate crime legislation for gay people and attach it to defense spending bills than it is to deal with THIS kind of hate. Priorities, people. Priorities.
Plus, we’ve always got Obama’s preferred line of defense for terror:
I don’t know if you guys have been watching the C-Span coverage of the House floor debate today, but it’s been pretty depressing. There are so many Democratic congresspeople who are waaaaay more concerned with a chance to “make history” than they are with the Actual Content of the bill they’re voting on, that it just makes me want to punch them all in the face.
Yep – they’re going to make history, all right. If this crap passes, and you guys – it’s practically a certainty that it will – then this day will forever be known as the day that our government did our country one of the biggest disservices of all time. It’s so totally depressing.
Meantime, we’ve got a President who’s lecturing us all about “not rushing to judgment” or “jumping to conclusions” about the motive of the psychopath who shot at innocent people at Fort Hood, despite the fact that this same president quickly said Sgt Crowley acted stupidly in that whole Professor Gates incident. I have to wonder when, assuming Hasan comes out of his coma, he’ll be invited over for beer at the White House to discuss religious equality. GAWD.
Anyway, I’m kinda bitter today. Can ya tell? The latest reports indicate that the final healthcare vote will take place at 11pm tonight. So when we all wake up tomorrow, our country will likely be a little less recognizable than it is today.
Thanks a lot, Democrats. You suck.
