Yeah, you win.
Trying to decide the single worst thing to happen in May was a bit of a puzzle. If you remember, the year started (in January, for those of you keeping track) with a congressman insisting that he would not quit his job despite being arrested for, of all things, buying cocaine. He was forced out, but by May his fellow congressman Michael Grimm, who had been indicted on far more serious charges, was belligerently declaring that support for
him was "overwhelming" and that he wasn't going to let a 20-count federal indictment
interfere with his re-election. It worked, too. He may still face jail time, but the voters re-elected him just fine. This seems to prove the point that we're getting less and less choosy about keeping our crooks and our politicians separate.
March also saw the NRA declare the family of a murdered Sandy Hook Elementary School student a mere "prop." If I'm God, I'd probably send a few extra tornadoes through the midwest just for that comment alone.
Then there's Sean Hannity, who pushed contrarianism to the extreme with his on-air defense—yes, you read that right—of a homeowner who shot two teenage burglers execution-style.
After more labored breathing and another dragging sound, Smith calls her “bitch” again. He told authorities that after he moved her, he noticed she was still gasping and didn’t want her to suffer, so he fired under her chin with a 22.-caliber handgun, according to a report in the Pioneer Press. The Star Tribune reported Smith told investigators the last time he fired was “a good clean finishing shot” and “she gave out the death twitch.”
Hannity was dismayed that the jury found the murder premeditated.
While Hannity said he didn't like the fact that Smith had called the slain teens "vermin," he nonetheless questioned the verdict because "they broke into the guy's house." [...] When Fox's Geraldo Rivera expressed disgust at the "coup de grace" shot that killed Kifer, Hannity responded, "You know what, it's easy to say after the fact, 'I wouldn't.'"
That makes Hannity the worst person to have his own television show, no question. But our question is what the one true sign of the upcoming brimstone-and-hellfire apocalypse might be, and for that I'm going with the Open Carry Texas crowd. It was a movement formed
to demand more guns in more public places. You last heard of them when one of the "good" people with guns posing in some of their pictures late this year
murdered two family members.
If you're looking for a symbol of all the worst America has to offer, the Open Carry Texas crowd has to be in the top twelve. Yes, I'd say those two up there are as much harbingers of America's demise as anything that Sean Hannity can burp up.