Today’s idiot
I don’t think I’ve ever featured a blogger for Today’s Idiot before, but there’s a first for everything. James F., who I can agree with about hating DC, is today’s idiot:
A public service announcement for mobs of angry parents looking for revenge
Here’s how to get from Red Lake High School to the NRA’s headquarters in Fairfax.
Yes, yes, I know. Sure, their school got shot up by a crazy kid, but it’s a small price to pay so that Philip Van Cleave can double carry while walking around his subdivision at night. Why do I hate freedom, etc.
While dancing in the blood of dead children to score political points, he links to a map to the NRA HQ to advocate revenge on a party in no way responsible for the incident. If you’re going to be an anti-gun bed-wetter afraid those evil guns for all the violence they do, wouldn’t it be hypocritical of you to advocate violence against someone else?
In an update to the post, Mr. F. then (no doubt disappointed that dancing in the blood of dead children was unwarranted) admits the NRA was off the hook since the kid was using a gun from a relative who was a policeman.
March 23rd, 2005 at 1:12 pm
Enough with the “dancing in the blood of dead children” meme, already. When you’re pointing out that somebody else is an idiot, it’s best not to use such an idiotic phrase yourself.
March 23rd, 2005 at 1:14 pm
It’s not an idiotic phrase but an apt description of this person’s intent.
March 23rd, 2005 at 2:39 pm
Mr. Van Cleave is the president of VCDL, not the NRA.
March 23rd, 2005 at 3:37 pm
An apt description that equally as cold to anyone who may have been personally touched by this as the person you’re attacking. What’s wrong with saying he’s “using a tragedy to score cheap political points?”
I actually agree with you that this guy’s being an insenstive prick. But in using the language you choose to use, so are you. When Bush hijacked 9/11 to make the case for invading Iraq, you didn’t see me accusing him of “dancing in the blood of the fallen,” now did you?
March 24th, 2005 at 6:47 am
You might not, but others likely would, tgirsch. Yes, it’s a very vivid and horrible turn of phrase, it’s one that makes you recoil back from what you just read, and worse, it’s one that makes you think about it.
Sorry, but writing of this kind is all about evoking an emotional responce, and just from your reaction we can see that it did.