Wooooosssh: Reality Was The First To Go

"On Ft. Hood, Media and Elites Refuse to Deal with Reality – Again"

-- Matthew Philbin, NewsBusters

"The conversation in the first few days after the [Fort Hood] massacre was well intentioned, but it suggested a willful flight from reality."

-- David Brooks, The New York Times

"Falsehood has more consequences than the revelation of personal insincerity. What happened at Fort Hood was no kind of 'tragedy.' It was a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by a man acting upon known Islamist motives. To present the perpetrator himself as a kind of 'victim' -- a man emotionally distressed by his impending assignment to Afghanistan or Iraq -- is to misrepresent the reality."

-- David Warren, Real Clear Politics

"The quality and thrust of this argument was best captured by the impassioned Dr. Phil, who asked us to consider, 'how far out of touch with reality do you have to be to kill your fellow Americans . . . this is not a well act.' And how far out of touch with reality is such a question, one asks in return—not only of Dr. Phil, but of the legions of commentators like him immersed in the labyrinths of motive hunting even as the details of Maj. Hasan's proclivities became ever clearer and more ominous.

To kill your fellow Americans—as many as possible, unarmed and in the most helpless of circumstances, while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is great), requires, of course, only murderous hatred—the sort of mindset that regularly eludes the Dr. Phils of our world as the motive for mass murder of this kind."

-- Dorothy Rabinowitz, The Wall Street Journal