Jump back in time to 2006, when George W. Bush was president. The Washington Post ran an article entitled The Left, Online and Outraged. It was all about how leftist bloggers (remember, blogging was really getting going not long before this) were Outraged at Bush, how they would wake up, grab a non-alcoholic beer and a cigarette, and think about how they could attack Bush and his associates. It really paints them in a deranged light.
Sounds like what the Washington Post Editorial Board is doing these days
Trump sends the wrong message on New Zealand. World leaders must denounce the attack.
THE UNSPEAKABLE carnage in New Zealand must be called out by its proper name: a terrorist attack by a white-nationalist bigot consumed by Islamophobia and impelled by the fervid extremism that suffuses the Internet’s darkest crevices.
The alleged gunman’s garden-variety racism — his rantings about the peril posed to whites faced with “replacement†by Muslims — is of a piece with other hatreds espoused by other racist killers in other places and times. That he spent his days slinking through online cesspools and communing with like-minded social networks gives his crime a postmodern gloss.
Not mentioned are his rantings about the wonders of socialism, government paying for everything, and loves China’s political system of communism. This wackjob was really all over the place.
Still, it’s critical that world leaders clearly and precisely denounce this ghoulish act. An attack on mosques, as on any place of worship, is especially sinister and dangerous. Online racists lionized the murderer as a hero and cheered his killing spree as he streamed it live. In fact, he is a monster who slaughtered innocent people — parents and children, the old and the young.
President Trump is not to blame for the tragedy, despite his own history of Islamophobic statements and a travel ban that targets predominantly Muslim nations. Still, he should go further than he has; for starters, by condemning the alleged killer, whose nativist rhetoric — he called immigrants “invaders,†attacked “mass immigration†and wrote that he hoped to “directly reduce immigration rates†— overlaps with the president’s own. On Friday, Mr. Trump cited an “invasion†of immigrants to justify his national emergency declaration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
First, here’s what Trump tweeted out
My warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of New Zealand after the horrible massacre in the Mosques. 49 innocent people have so senselessly died, with so many more seriously injured. The U.S. stands by New Zealand for anything we can do. God bless all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019
There’s also a tweet about speaking with New Zealand’s president and offering America’s help. He was sympathetic, instead of offering the anger the TDS infused WPEB wants, but, let’s be real, had Trump come out angry and denounced the killer, the WPEB would have found a way to have an issue with that.
Second, it’s cute the way they manage to drag in protecting our borders and nation from uninvited people who cross our borders/overstay their visas. Remember, liberals aren’t for Open Borders, though!
Third, let’s also remember that liberals, including at the Washington Post, tend to protect radical Islam after each Islamic terrorist attack. They freak out when Muslims are asked to denounce the attacks. They say that the attacks have nothing to do with Islam, despite the jihadis stating this has everything to do with Islam. They run articles about Muslims being afraid of the backlash, and for people to not engage in Islamophobia. It’s an interesting standard, eh?
