Don't miss Glenn Greenwald today. He turns Charles "because-I-have-more gravitas-than-you" Krauthammer into a wad of shapeless gack lying in the road.
The flood of posts here and all over the blogosphere tut-tutting collective American and media curiosity with Cho have been exactly right, imo. In a just world, the sick bastard would have gained a bare mention and then quickly been forgotten. But he got his own morning show, instead. Enter Krauthammer, chief finger wagger.
His column in the Post opines:
What can be said about the Virginia Tech massacre? Very little. What should be said? Even less. The lives of 32 innocents, chosen randomly and without purpose, are extinguished most brutally by a deeply disturbed gunman. With an event such as this, consisting of nothing but suffering and tragedy, the only important questions are those of theodicy, of divine justice. Unfortunately, in today's supercharged political atmosphere, there is the inevitable rush to get ideological mileage out of the carnage.
It did not take long for the perennial debate about gun control to break out, preceded by the inevitable scolding and clucking abroad about America's lax gun laws.
Get off your pedestal, you self-important bastard! God, I can hear the self righteous swagger. It's insufferable. Glenn Greenwald reminds us that
[...]less than 48 hours after the shootings, the same Charles Krauthammer went on Fox News to explain why the Virginia Tech shootings and the killer's "manifesto" are connected to Al Jazeera, the Palestinians and other Muslim Enemies who dominate Krauthammer's political agenda:
KRAUTHAMMER: What you can say, just -- not as a psychiatrist, but as somebody who's lived through the a past seven or eight years, is that if you look at that picture, it draws its inspiration from the manifestos, the iconic photographs of the Islamic suicide bombers over the last half decade in Palestine, in Iraq and elsewhere.
Greenwald gets warmed up:
What can one even say about a person this dishonest? [...] Shouldn't the most minimal amounts of shame and basic self-awareness (if nothing else) prevent such transparent dishonesty? Then again, Krauthammer is one of our most revered pundits, with perches in the Post, Time Magazine, and Fox News. So why should he believe there is anything wrong with rank dishonesty of this sort? He has been lavishly rewarded for it.
Oh, how to choose what goes in the blockquotes? The whole piece is rich. Go, Glenn! Glad you're on our side. Now click on over, Kossacks, and read the whole thing.