In an article at Salon.com (“The real message of Loughner’s book list“), Laura Miller does an admirable job of exposing the absurdity of attributing political significance to the favorite books list of Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner: “Loughner is almost certainly insane and… his ideas would have been ignored as incoherent and irrelevant if he…
Category: Blood Libel
Politically Exploiting a Tragedy
I can’t even begin to express my contempt for those who have been trying to exploit the Arizona shooting for purposes of political propaganda. The shooter was clearly mentally ill, and the hodgepodge of random comments and influences we’re hearing about him reflect no coherent theme beyond that. To try to spin that into an…