NY Times: Family Research. Council Shooting POSSIBLY Driven by Politics?

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Warner Todd Huston @ Publius Forum:

The New York Times finally deigned to consider the motive of the domestic terrorist that shot up the Family Research Council earlier this week and in its wisdom it has decided that maybe, just maybe, there is a long shot, outside chance that the shooter could “possibly” have been motivated by “politics” with his murderous rage. Yes, they actually said “possibly.”

The Times’ headline reads, “Family Research Council Shooting Possibly Driven by Politics,” and the first paragraph immediately makes the lie to that less than ironic take on the facts.

A Virginia man charged with shooting a security guard at the headquarters of a prominent conservative organization told the guard “words to the effect of ‘I don’t like your politics,’” according to an affidavit filed in the case on Thursday.

How is it that a headline can cast a doubtful “possibly” while the first paragraph states directly that the shooter didn’t like the FRC’s politics is a conundrum for the ages, indeed.

Even as the Times continues to cast doubt on the shooter’s motivation, it reports that the would be killer, one Floyd L. Corkins, III, was a volunteer at the Washington community for gay men and lesbians and, “has strong opinions with respect to those he believes do not treat homosexuals in a fair manner.”

Hmmm. A gay rights supporter that hates anti-gay rights supporters and yelled out that he hates the politics of the people he was trying to kill… Yep, I’d say that the shooter could “possibly” be motivated by politics, wouldn’t you?

Then the Times notes that the shooter had a backpack filled with Chick-Fil-A sandwiches. You might have a vague memory that Chick-Fil-A became mired in controversy over the issue of its lack of support for gay marriage and the company became a political football for several weeks afterward.

Maybe that this shooter had a sack full of the chicken sandwiches, gosh, could that mean he might “possibly” have had a political motive for his act of terrorism?

FRC President Tony Perkins also pinned this act of terrorism on the Southern Poverty Law Center, the so-called hate group tracking organization that absurdly characterized the Christian-based FRC as a “hate group.”

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Obama’s DOJ is now trying to figure out how to sell a ”he’s crazy, so we’re not adding hate-crime charges, on a man who explicitly called his own act, political.
If they pull it off all I will say is, “Nice human pretzel, Holder.”