An Unsustainable Narrative

Grand Rants ^ | 11-9-09 | Stoutcat

[Stoutcat]

I wonder how much longer the media will attempt to spin the Fort Hood massacre as “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”...

Closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge does not mean that the situation does not exist. It is the somewhat more dignified version of sticking your fingers in your ears and singing, “La la la la, I can’t hear you!”

[Stoutcat]

Political correctness will be the death of too many of us.

[lacrew]

The are alreadt trying to spin it as ‘secondary ptsd’...as a psychiatrist, he heard enough war stories from patients, that it affected him...

No kidding!...which in some way makes this, you guessed it, Bush’s Fault!

I wonder, if a white guy went into a mosque, and shot a couple dozen muslims, if the media would at least call it a ‘hate crime’.

[popdonnelly]

The media will keep spinning it because that story fits their agenda. They’re opposed to the war in Afghanistan, and think the jihadis are quite reasonable.

[popdonnelly]

The only time Hasan experienced traumatic stress was when he got shot. And since he was in a religion-induced stupor at the time, I doubt that even bothered him.

[mtngrandpa]

It was a act of terrorism.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fort-hood-shooter-contact-al-qaeda-terrorists-officials/story?id=9030873

[Joan Kerrey]

Has anyone considered the global warming effect on terror? /s

[Barb4Bush]

Political Correctness was certainly the death of a lot of people last week. By the way, I wonder if I can get disability? I got PTSD from reading Stephen King novels. I also wonder if it would be okay if Chris Christie took a couple of shots at Jon Corzine? After all he made fun of Christie's weight. Doesn't that constitute harassment? Isn't shooting the media approved method of dealing with the villains that harass you?

[Stoutcat]

And yet, even Time Magazine is still trying to spin it as “secondary trauma”. Yeah, right.

The media really do think we’re stoopid.

[oneolcop]

Not, to my way of thinking, an act of terrorism. An act of TREASON: A Major in the Army of the United States waging war against the United States.

Strictly speaking, terrorism is an act calculated to provoke fear among the civilian popluation and a violent reaction in response by the government.

[Jenny217]

I have “secondary trauma” from reading Time Magazine.