Nightfall At The Museum
Massachusetts kids, 400 of them being in the building at the time, describe the murder at the Holocaust Museum. Boston Herald.
Washington Post with the news, a security guard killed by an 88-year-old Holocaust-denying white supremacist. Includes the president’s earnest call for vigiliance against anti-Semitism.
In these dark times a lunatic’s action immediately takes on broader political significance. The irony of Obama’s somewhat vapid remarks, given his recent overtures to assorted Holocaust-denying anti-Semites and past unprotesting pewship,* has been noted elsewhere. It’s a fair point, if a bizarre sort of Moebius association, though I don’t think anyone is suggesting Obama is somehow responsible for white supremacist violence. Maybe just that he’s being a bit hypocritical. Again.
Kos, on the other hand, likes the broad Department of Homeland Security definition of Right Wing Extremism threat in this one. The grassroots voice of the left tweets that everyone he doesn’t like is to blame for this:
Right wingers went to bat for neo-Nazis and extremists in DHS report, and now they reap the rewards.
Actually, right wingers and combat veterans went to bat for themselves when lumped with neo-Nazis and extremists by DHS, as I recall, but whatever. The same game was played when a lunatic murdered the abortion doc. By that logic, Kos etal have a lot to answer for, from Peshawar to Arkansas, seeing how they keep going to bat for Islamic terrorists. Sure, I see how that works. It’s a weird and infantile game, in which the player gets all over himself what he tries to smear on others, but that is how it’s played. Maybe infantile isn’t the right word, because it is malicious and willful. It’s a sort of ugly darkness that spreads out from something terrible. There has been a lot of it going on lately.
Case in point. Here’s a Hardballista who thinks you need to apologize because Janet Napolitano lumped you with extremists, and deranged nutjobs are your fault. Even the one who appears to hate stuff lefties hate, too. At least, I think that’s what Joan Walsh is trying to say.
Malkin: Forget right, left, try loonie.
Here’s another wrinkle. Debbie Schussel, with a pox on several other houses, wants to blame Muslim anti-Semites for von Brunn, because of the 9/11 Trutherism that he shares with large parts of the Mulism world, and because rampant institutionalized Muslim anti-Semitism gave him some level of comfort. Maybe, but I kind of doubt it. Reports suggest he was comfortable hating broadly all on his own. I’m going with parallel hate on that one. Though given that von Brunn apparently hates neo-cons and George W. Bush almost as much as Kos and large parts of the Muslim world do, maybe there’s something to what Schussel is saying. In any case, it’s a bit of an ass-bite on Kos.
* Speaking of malicious anti-Semitism and unwelcome associations, guess who’s back in the news.
Topics: Holodenial, crime
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:05 pm on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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I know you’re not responsible for everything that is printed in the Herald, but your own paper does a hatchet job article, quoting the never right Jack Levin from Northeastern Univ. about “right wing” domestic terrorists. For the sake of full disclosure, you should link to that article as well.