So Dwight Armstrong died last week. He was an asshole who planted a bomb made of jet fuel near a lab at the University of Wisconsin back in 1970. The bomb killed a young teacher named Robert Fasnacht, who had three kids.
I bring this up because The Weekly Standard rightly nailed the Washington Post for its obituary headline describing Armstrong as a “Vietnam War Protester.”
Sterling Hall, University of Wisconsin
The Standard says that’s like describing Major Hasan simply as a “Fort Hood Psychiatrist.”
They’re right, but I would go further.
It’s like saying Adolf Hitler was a regimented vegetarian.
Or the Donner party enjoyed cold cuts.
Or Lizzie Bordon was a cut up.
Or John Wilkes Booth was a great actor.
Or that Ted Kennedy was a lady killer.
And Robert Byrd, a grand wizard of the KKK.
whoa……….
Yes it’s time for a Redeye Techno-apology! With techno music!
[Ed. Note: Please imagine the techno music. Better still, tune into RedEye tonight and hear the real thing.]
Redeye would like to apologize for the previous statement. We realize that, for the mainstream media, it’s just too unseemly to bring up Byrd’s racist past, and we apologize for doing so.
However, it was done only to show how easy it is to pick one thing from a person’s history to gloss over or obscure the rest of his past. The point: the press suffers from Alzheimer’s of the spine – that over time, they just seem to forgive and forget almost anything. That explains the romanticization of losers like Bill Ayers, and Armstrong – as well as WTO protesters who somehow deserve a movie – but their victims don’t.
The love for the phony rebel allows for all sorts of violent idiocy – witness Canada – now with helpless police standing by as thugs destroy their cars.
That’s the problem with so-called “revolutionaries:”
If you can’t beat them, you just joined them.
And if you disagree with me, you’re a racist homophobe who plays soccer.
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