Completely Unnecessary
In the wake of today's horrible Virginia Tech shooting, Dan Rodricks predictably found it necessary to be a jerk:
I cannot understand why Rodricks felt it necessary to be such a jerk after such a horrific incident.
I can't wait to hear the gun nuts today on talk radio: If the professors and teachers had guns, this wouldn't happen. If America's universities were not so heavily influenced by liberal intellectuals, this would never happen. All students would be armed and able to defend themselves. It's all so predictable -- all so tragically predictable.Yes, politicizing a tragedy like this one clearly shows that one has the moral higher ground. Neither side should be trying to make political hay right now.
I cannot understand why Rodricks felt it necessary to be such a jerk after such a horrific incident.
Labels: Media, Sun follies
posted by Brian Griffiths at 10:59 PM
2 Comments:
What an unfortunate farbissina comment on the part of Mr. Rodricks. This is not the observation of the class practitioner of socio-political commentary.
But, equally unfortunate is the fact that his politicalization of a horrific tragedy to further a political ideology is so predictable.
When one looks up “incivility” and the “ever-increasing coarsening of public dialogue,” one may find a picture of Mr. Rodricks in the second definition.
"Qoud nihil sit tam infirmum aut instabile quam fama potentiae noon sua vi nixae." Niccolo di Bernardo Machiavelli - 1513
Rodrick's would be the one on his knees begging for his family's lives if someone broke in his house during the middle of the night.
As for my family, we're protected by our body guards, Smith and Wesson.
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