[Oshkalaboomboom]

"Yes ... tens of millions of good people in Middle America voted Republican. But if you look closely at that electoral map you see a more complex picture. You see the state where James Byrd was lynch-dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart—it's red. You see the state where Matthew Shepard was crucified on a split-rail fence for the crime of being gay—it's red. You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal office building and murdered scores of federal employees—it's red. The state where an army private who was thought to be gay was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat, and the state where neo-Nazi skin-heads murdered two African Americans because of their skin color, and the state where Bob Jones University spews its anti-Catholic bigotry: they're all red too."

[newzjunkey]

Huh.

I guess Lawrence King, the gay 8th grader, wasn't murdered by a classmate in California, a blue state.

A terror bombing wasn't attempted at a MLK march in Washington, a blue state.

Eco-terrorists didn't engage in 17 attacks causing $23 million in damages in Oregon, a blue state.

A bombing didn't happen at a Federal Courthouse in California, a blue state.

Or a terror plot to bomb one in Washington, a blue state.

We could go on for weeks. I covered a few of the cases I recall here out West. It doesn't begin to scratch the surface of what's happened in utopian blue states.

The cases he mentioned reached the "national consciousness" because of they fit a template, the fit his the narrative of evil in red states and peaceful paradise in blue.