Jeff Lord put forward
an eloquent assessment of the evil which was visited upon a
movie theater in Aurora, Colorado this morning resulting in the
deaths of a dozen moviegoers viewing a midnight screening of
The Dark Knight Rises. Amongst other things, Jeff
noted:
The left will seek to make an issue of this, as they did most
recently with the shooting by a disturbed loner of then-Arizona
Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. There will be the usual shrieking
about gun control. There will be mind-numbing discussions of
whatever violence is in the Batman movie and isn’t our
culture all ot blame. Some conservative somewhere will be targeted
for doing something if this guy has ever watched Fox, belonged to
the NRA, listened to talk radio or picked up a book by Ayn
Rand.
Or belongs to the Tea Party. As Ross Kaminsky
told us, once James Holmes had been identified as the alleged
shooter, Brian Ross of ABC News told viewers there was a
Jim Holmes who is a member of the Colorado Tea Party. Only
Jim Holmes the Tea Partier is a 52-year old Hispanic male
while James Holmes the alleged shooter is a 24-year old Caucasian
ex-medical student. ABC News issued an apology but I
second Ross’ motion: “Go screw yourself.”
What this tells me is that the moment ABC News found out who the
shooter was, a researcher did a Google search “James Holmes
Colorado Tea Party” and hit paydirt. Or so they thought. But what
is it in the mindset of ABC News, other mainstream media
outlets and liberals at large that they would immediately connect
mass murder to a member of the local Tea Party?
I’ll tell you what it is. It’s hatred and ignorance. Not
surprisingly the two go hand in hand. Too many liberals and
progressives in this country hate conservatives and this hatred
causes them to attribute the worst possible deeds upon our
doorstep. Consider what I said in my speech to Tea
Party activists in Worcester, Massachusetts back in April:
Of course, the facts seldom deter liberals and progressives. But
when the race card doesn’t work liberals and progressives shift the
narrative. They say the Tea Party is violent. Thomas Friedman of
The New York Times once compared the Tea Party to
Hezbollah, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews likens the Tea Party to Wahhabis
and Vice-President Biden says the Tea Party acts like terrorists.
How dare they. How dare they compare peaceful, law-abiding
Americans to those who murdered our soldiers in Beirut, Baghad and
Bagram. How dare they compare peaceful, law-abiding Americans to
those who murdered innocent civilians in New York, Washington, D.C.
and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. And for what? Simplay because we
dare to publicly express a point of view that is contrary to their
own.
Scarcely three months after making those remarks, the Tea Party
finds itself vilified for this act of evil. Sadly, there are too
many liberals and progressives in this country who have a) either
abandoned reason or b) have never utilized it in the first place.
It goes a long way in explaining liberalism’s intellectual
bankruptcy. This isn’t to say that liberals aren’t entitled to
their opinions. As such I don’t expect liberals to agree with the
aims and objectives of the Tea Party. But if liberals are going to
insist that the Tea Party is responsible for evil then the least
they could do is to name a single Tea Party activist who has been
arrested either for harming another person or causing damage to
property during a Tea Party event. The problem is they can’t
because it has never happened and probably never will. None of
which, however, prevents liberals from believing the worst about
the Tea Party. With regard to ABC News, some of their
employees want to believe a Tea Partier was responsible
for this carnage.
But at this point, all we know about the man who is alleged to
have shot and killed twelve people is a) his name b) that he was a
former student and c) that he was dressed up as the villain in the
Batman movie which suggests some premeditation. Apart from
that, the only other thing we know is that twelve people who went
to see a movie are never coming home.
