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Agreed, I think that is the most likely explanation.
I found it interesting that when Brian Williams flipped through the guy’s pdf, the pages were mostly pictures except for what seemed to be 4-5 pages of single-spaced text at the end, which he just breezed over.
Also, the MSM clearly knows more about what is in his note, they have access to people who have it and can read it to them, and all we hear is vague things like “he didn’t like rich kids.”
I’d bet that text and the note are just full of leftist drivel that one might read on any typical thread at DU and which pervades prevailing thinking in the English Lit academic community. The MSM knows this will all come out, but they want to drag it out a bit because now they have the agenda set on gun control.
As to Ishmael, the a-hole Cho may have adopted the “Ishmael” persona for the same reason many writers, such as Melville and that idiot that wrote the book about the telepathic ape “Ishmael” have used it in their work.
Ishmael, in the biblical story, is the son of the bondwoman Hagar, and not the wife Sarah, and he is rejected and driven away to the wilderness, becoming an outsider. So liberal writers like to use the “Ishmael” persona as representative of an outsider in order to assume a position of wider perspective (as I say, Melville did this in Moby Dick and the idiot who named the telepathic ape “Ishmael” seems to have done this also). The liberal writers don’t really understand the Bible, but they like to employ Biblical allusion because they seem to think it adds a sort of weightier resonance to their work.
Cho, being an English Lit, radical lefty, might have adopted the Ishmael persona himself because he saw himself as the alienated outsider, like the Columbine losers, who is able to pass judgment over everyone from his loser outsider’s perspective.
Anyway, I find that to be the most interesting speculation as to Ismail/Ishmael so far, but I certainly wouldn’t at this point rule out other possibilities.