Following in the footsteps of John "Abortionplex" Fleming, Glenn "Oligarhy" Beck has decided that the biggest tragedy of the attack on the Boston Marathon was President Obama's failure to explicitly use the word "terrorist."
"Our President yesterday wouldn't even come out and say that it was an act of terror," said Beck.
He then added "He had to have somebody make a statement after his statement. I found it reprehensible. I don't care who did it."
More reprehensible than exploiting a terrorist attack for petty political gain?
But this was not enough for Beck. He went on to accuse Obama of being someone who would eagerly capitalize on a terrorist attack just as Beck was doing.
"I don't care if it was the head of the Tea Party Patriots. If they did it, it was terror. Period. Because I have a feeling that if it was the Tea Party Patriots that did it, boy, he would, with glee, deem it terror."
With this sentence, Beck has delivered a stupid politics triple play. First, by trying to politicize a terrorist attack not even twenty-four hours after its occurrence. Second, by playing the language police; by attacking Obama for saying "attack" instead of "terrorist attack." And finally, by trying to reinvent Obama in his imagination as a petty, party-before-country lunatic.
"Labeling things 'workplace shootings' or 'workplace incidents' is not going to heal us," said Beck. But neither will twisting a national tragedy into an excuse to attack the President over a triviality.
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