In recent years, Americans have been forced to deal with a rash of senseless, inexplicable school shootings such as that which occurred at Northern Illinois University last week leaving five innocents dead.
Part of the unhappy search for explanations in the wake of these gruesome events has invariably included inane pronouncements from the media.
After Virginia Tech, Lisa Ling used her platform on the Oprah Winfrey Show to openly worry about a backlash against “anyone who looked Asian”. Of course, this did not happen. Ling, you see, was unable to wrap her mind around the concept that the rest of America did, which is that it was a single, deranged person who happened to be South Korean who was responsible for the carnage, not the Asian community.
Group responsibility is no responsibility. Thank goodness regular Americans have the common sense that seems to regularly evade so many of our media drones.
But Ling’s politically correct pabulum paled in comparison to the offered explanation for the NIU shooting by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell.
Read More of Is Rhetoric a Life Saver? off-site...Dan Kelley says:
It is good to see anyone call Mary Mitchell out. Her column is unbelievably bad, so much so that it borders upon self parody. No progress can possibly be made in terms of promoting racial harmony when militants like Mitchell can twist any act or event into bigotry without a scintilla of evidence, reason or logic. Jesse Jackson's predictably liberal columns are seldom as bad as Mitchell's.
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Dan Proft has a sense of humor: his political consulting firm is named after the fictitious Tory PM Francis Urquhart (played so memorably by the late Ian Richardson).
Pat Hickey says:
GD's murdered two Leo graduates (2004 Valedictorian/Golden Gloves Champ & the Thomposn Gold Medal Winner) within a week of one another. Urbanly translated - Gangster Disciples (GDs).
Mary Mitchell's paeon to Hope must have been on the back burner.