Following Wednesday’s horrific mass shooting at a holiday office party in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 people dead, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz proclaimed:
"This is yet another manifestation of terrorism, radical Islamic terrorism here at home."
And yet last week, after a horrific mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where three people were killed by a man who muttered “no more baby parts” when he was apprehended, Cruz sobbed:
"The media promptly wants to blame him on the pro-life movement when at this point there’s very little evidence to indicate that," Cruz said. [...]
“We don’t know ... what those motives were ...”
So, what’s the difference? Besides the Planned Parenthood killer being a white, Christian fellow named Robert Dear, who peddled Republican-inspired, anti-choice talking points after his arrest? It’s simple: The killers at the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health office party were not white, were not Christians and were named Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. So obviously they were radical Islamic terrorists.
Wasn’t that easy?