MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, journalistic giant that he is, had an
‘interesting’ take on the bombs discovered in New York and New Jersey last
month. On September 19th, not long after the New Jersey bombs
detonated injuring 30 people, Hayes tweeted out this sagacious observation to
his lucky followers: “We’re also very very lucky that the attackers tried to
use explosives rather than guns.”
Surely
this objective pillar of journalistic integrity (tee hee, I giggle just writing
that now oxymoronic phrase) would never let his anti-gun bias interfere with
his reasoning…would he? Had the 5K race in New Jersey not been postponed and
had the bombs been ‘properly’ placed, they would likely have killed many dozens
of innocent bystanders. In any case, the perpetrator, Ahmad Rahami, was captured following a gunfight with police.
Hayes
may have been ‘bombed’ himself when composing that tweet. Let’s bring his
‘logic’ to bear on other historic acts of violence, shall we?
Headline,
December 8th, 1941: “Japs Bomb Pearl Harbor, But At Least They
Didn’t Use Guns.” Hmm.
When
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated ending
World War II, I don’t recall Hirohito or Hideki Tojo exclaiming “At least they
didn’t use guns!”
February
26th, 1993: Al Qaeda exploded a 1,200 pound bomb in a Ryder truck
that caused a 100- foot by 200-foot crater several stories deep in the World
Trade Center, killing 6 people and injuring more than 1,000. I still recall the
palpable sense of relief the country felt when it was revealed that no guns
were used in the massacre. (Bombs were illegal then. Ryder trucks still aren’t illegal).
On
September 11th, 2001, terrorists hijacked multiple jet airliners
using box-cutters, and flew two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center, killing nearly 3,000 men, women and children. But we were very, very
lucky indeed that they didn’t try to use guns!
If
there had been someone on those
flights with a gun, all the carnage
could have been avoided.
And, if
there were objective mainstream
journalists that mainly cared about the truth, perhaps the ‘fundamental
devastation’ of the United States of America could be avoided, as well.
Agate Hunter-
10/27/2016
No comments:
Post a Comment