Kidding aside, ZZ, I’m not proposing someone use the massacre to promote the (Obama supported) extension of the “lone wolf” provision, but suggesting that someone likely will, after an indecently short interval.
If you were familiar with the magazine and its “scum” (charming devil you!) you might (might) have picked up on that.

Little or nothing, which considering what spurning Iran’s offer through the swiss, the stovepiped intelligence that got us into Iraq, our belligerence via NATO to Russia and various other things you probably could name better than I produced, is a huge step in the right direction.

The bleeding on the foreign front has stopped. Fewer self-inflicted wounds. Some are even starting to heal.

Or as the Hippocratic oath says, “First, do no harm”.

Truth to tell, the American Media lost any pretence of being ‘Liberal’ back in the 1980s, and are now at a stage where the “No, really, I can spin this monumental fuck-up as actually good for the GOP and bad news for Democrats, just watch me!” conventional wisdom they pump out has driven away the majority of people who - want - actual fact-based news, while acting as a gateway drug for the minority who need to hear how right they are all the time, and so are losing them to Fox News, where the crazy is uncut and has no nasty reality to spoil the taste.

Very sad, but instructive. And they’d still be getting away with it, if it wasn’t for those pesky bloggers and their addiction to things they can prove by the simple expedient of pointing at a headline.

Voters in NY-23, had an election day choice between a Democrat who supports Obama’s agenda and a third-party candidate espousing the kind of conservative ideology you wholeheartedy agree with, backed by a menagerie of conservative figures (including a former VP candidate) who made a - very - big deal about this being just the first race in a campaign to purge the Party of those considered ideologically impure and oppose everything Obama-related on general principle.

No one thought there was a chance that Owens would ever win that seat. I didn’t, you didn’t. The whole point of choosing a safe GOP seat like NY-23 was that the far-right conservative Base would triumph if they drove out the official GOP candidate and left the reliably conservative voters of the district with no option but to cast their votes for their guy.

That was how the MSM was covering this story.Had Hoffman won, it would have been presented as proof that Obama’s policies were so extreme that he was losing moderate Republicans and Independents to a resurgent conservative movement. Palin, Armey and the like would have been glued to those morning show couches, and NY-23 would have been the big story for a week.

But the conservative lost, badly, as moderate Republicans swapped over in droves to the Democratic camp. In a place where Republicans haven’t lost an election since the Civil-War.

That’s a - massive - political story right there, however eager you are to pretend otherwise. One that would have been hammered 24/7 on the talk-shows and in the OpEd pages of the MSM if the moderates had been Democrats and the third-party had consisted of far-left liberals. The lede would have been that extremists on the left were destroying the Democratic Party in a crusade for ideological purity, and no Democrat Congresscritter would have been able to leave their office without facing a barrage of microphones and demands for their opinion on what this meant for the future of the party.

But since that wasn’t the case, and the result turned out to be - very - bad news for the GOP, what do we hear? Crickets. Very somber crickets. No one is interested anymore. Which is pretty damned odd for a ‘Liberal Media’ that goes out of its way to make conservatives look bad, isn’t it? Really strange that the ideologically blinkered hacks you’re absolutely certain you remember lying through their teeth in order to make Obama look electable last year wouldn’t use the NY-23 result to drown out any coverage of the Gubernatorial elections you now suddenly find so important and interesting?

There’s reality, and there’s the spin the Conservative Media are putting on it. You’re making yourself dizzy trying to reconcile the two by pretending that the MSM just isn’t conservative enough - not - to be liberal. It’s sad. As sad as the fact that this thread is about to go under the fold.

It’s been illuminating chatting with you. Hope you stay well.

Before we charge him with high-treason, we need to make sure we have given him a fair chance.