Fort Hood Massacre: Jeffrey Goldberg on the See-No-Evil elite
8th November 2009
The Other McCain likes to point and laugh.
The tendency of elites to leap to hysterical, far-fetched interpretations when dealing with phenomena associated (rightly or wrongly) with the Right is counterbalanced by their “nothing to see here” reaction when confronted with events that implicate pet causes of the Left.
When events seem to teach a simplistic liberal lesson, there is no need to seek out any mitigating factors. Yet when the simple lesson would seem to favor a conservative argument, there is a frantic search for mitigation, or else the event is dismissed as meaningless.
What is most amusing is how the elite assume that the rest of us are so stupid as not to notice the pattern.