Someone has been collecting a list of everyone being blamed for the Virginia Tech shootings in various corners of the punditocracy. All the usual suspects, plus some … even stranger ones. Up to 47 at last count.
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- Madison, James -- Letter, Philadelphia (9 Jun 1782) 4-Jul-09
- Rogers, Fred -- AP Interview 4-Jul-09
- ~Other -- Constitution of the United States, preamble (17 Sep 1787) 4-Jul-09
- Hazlitt, William -- “The Times Newspaper” Political Essays (1819) 4-Jul-09
- Stevenson, Adlai Ewing -- Speech, American Legion convention, New York City (27 Aug 1952) 4-Jul-09
Doing Write
- ?Conspiracy Theory? 2-Jun-09
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Oh, and the local angle of the Righties…Klebold and Harris’ fault.
Also, all major crimes of the past week are Cho’s fault…and NBC’s.
I don’t know how much of it is folks with political axes they want to grind, and how much is folks who are desperate to understand what’s going on and latch onto any convenient reason they can think of.
As DOF notes, it’s almost certainly a combination of factors, given that we don’t have this sort of thing happening every day.