The Boston Bombing and the 5 stages of liberal grief

Rare ^ | May 6, 2013 | Brett M. Decker and James S. Robbins

[walford]

In the wake of the Boston Bombings, media commentators, academic experts and Obama administration officials exhibited classic signs of the five stages of liberal grief when faced with a mass casualty terrorist attack:

Stage 1 — Anger: Whoever did this was obviously a right wing, Tea Party-affiliated, patriot, militant, white, religious, Republican, tax-protesting, NRA-loving gun nut.

Stage 2 — Self Righteousness: Anyone who assumes that this tragedy was perpetrated by Muslim extremists is engaging in the worst form of racial profiling, jumping to conclusions based on no evidence whatever, and is undoubtedly a racist Islamophobe.

Stage 3 — Bargaining: The fact that the bombers were committed Muslims is incidental to the acts they committed. We have no idea what their motive was; it could be anything. There is really no basis for knowing. We may never know.

Stage 4 — Denial: This was an isolated incident of lone wolf terrorism unconnected to anything that could possibly imply that the Obama administration had let down its guard or overlooked obvious signs of imminent attack by an international terrorist conspiracy. Whatever the terrorists intended to do, they failed.

Stage 5 — Acceptance: The Boston bombing was not an act of terrorism. It was a series of man-caused sports-related injuries.

Brett M. Decker is Editor in Chief and James S. Robbins is Deputy Editor of Rare.

[PATRIOT1876]

“But is HAS to be a patriotic TEA Party member...Chris Matthews said so!!!”

Truth is kryptonite to the Left.

[who knows what evil?]

They are running these ‘BOSTON STRONG’ ads everywhere across Gay England...this bombing really damaged their self-esteem, and it is going to be a struggle to get it back.

[detective]

“the five stages of liberal grief”

1. Lying
2. Lying
3. Lying
4. Lying
5. Lying

and

6-100. Lying

[Blood of Tyrants]

Stage 6 - Blame- The bombing was obviously the fault of evil conservatives for taking away their welfare. How could two poor children from Chechnya be expected to integrate into the US? They should have been guaranteed welfare and food stamps and Medicaid and government housing for their whole lives.

[SES1066]

I think I have actually heard this #6 being media tested by Libertards;

Stage 6 - Equivalence: Terroristic behavior in Islam is exactly like what the Southern Poverty Law Center sees happening in racist white conservative groups. Therefore this attack is the equivalent of an attack by right wingnuts, it is just that they did not choose to do it that day.

[lentulusgracchus]

Very good, the both of you! Liberals are the ass puppets of Satan, LOL!

[lentulusgracchus]

Oh, very good -- "This is just what conservatives would do if they could!" Yes, they always try to get 'round to us, but actually I think that's what they do with their early hoping-out-loud that a Tea Party person shot this person or bombed that venue.

They try to put it out early in the news cycle, to "get it out there" before the truth can catch up.

[Daffynition]

[the OlLine Rebel]

You ARE right. It’s disingenuous to get mad over 1 attack when we know so many want to do it. Especially lily when we know damn well of other plots that almost were successful.

[peggyann1]

When we hear these Lib talking points, we just have to chant, “BEN GHA ZI, BEN GHA ZI, BEN GHA ZI, until they shut up and go away!!