Some murders matter more than others. The horrifying Islamic atrocities in the UK are already forgotten. You can bomb a concert full of little girls and it'll be wiped clean from the headlines in a matter of days. 17 people gunned down at a Turkish eatery in Burkina Faso by Islamic terrorists? Please. We're too busy broadcasting live from Charlottesville.
Because Charlottesville is ripe for agenda exploitation. I thought that blaming the NRA for Charlottesville (that's like blaming the Sierra Club for Weathermen terrorism) would be the lowest form of Charlottesville exploitation. But Senator McCain would like the left to hold his beer. He's got this one. No, he's really got this one.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is defending national security adviser H.R. McMaster, who has been under withering attack from right-wing media outlets worried that he’s purging conservatives from the National Security Council (NSC).
McCain likened McMaster’s critics to the racist protesters that gathered in Virginia over the weekend, calling the right-wing media outlets the “same purveyors of hatred and ignorance who precipitated the recent violence in Charlottesville.”
No, he really said this.
"Such smear tactics should not be tolerated and deserve an emphatic response," McCain said. "I hope the president will once again stand up for his national security adviser and denounce these repugnant attacks, which arise from the same purveyors of hatred and ignorance who precipitated the recent violence in Charlottesville."
That's right. Critics of McMaster, a group that includes me, Frank Gaffney, Caroline Glick, etc... are Nazis.
The good news is that McCain has been around leftists long enough that he's mastered the formula. Take your agenda of the moment, e.g. defending the guy who's purging the National Security Council of anyone who will call out Islamic terrorism, by associating his critics with Nazis.
Between this and ObamaCare, McCain's got quite a legacy going.