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AceOfSpades has an interesting post about how the left has, all of a sudden, risen up and decided to mock conservatives offering "thoughts and prayers" to the victims in San Bernadino - even though that formulation has been, up to now, completely routine in the wake of shootings, epidemics, or accidents.
Here for example are some random "thoughts and prayers" wishes from the White House in the wake of the Navy Yard shooting, MH17, Ebola, the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and an Amtrak derailment.
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/sta...893440/photo/1
But somehow it has been decreed that such expressions are now worthy of disdain. When did this happen? Apparently a comedian named Anthony Jeselnik recently did a bit on it - was that it? What explains the left's hive mind on this?
After the massacre in Charleston, Senator Chris Murphy offered his "thoughts and prayers." Likewise, after Newtown, he offered "my deepest thanks" to his colleagues for their "thoughts, prayers, and words." Today though he struck a different tone. "Your 'thoughts' should be about steps to take to stop this carnage. Your 'prayers' should be for forgiveness if you do nothing - again." for this he was hailed by Huffington Post writer Sam Stein, who noted "Another Mass Shooting, Another Deluge Of Tweeted Prayers -
Seems to have been an ineffective strategy so far." But Stein himself had offered "thoughts and prayers" through Twitter on various occasions. Do these people just not remember anything from one day to the next? What's going on here?
AceOfSpades has an interesting post about how the left has, all of a sudden, risen up and decided to mock conservatives offering "thoughts and prayers" to the victims in San Bernadino - even though that formulation has been, up to now, completely routine in the wake of shootings, epidemics, or accidents.
Here for example are some random "thoughts and prayers" wishes from the White House in the wake of the Navy Yard shooting, MH17, Ebola, the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and an Amtrak derailment.
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/sta...893440/photo/1
But somehow it has been decreed that such expressions are now worthy of disdain. When did this happen? Apparently a comedian named Anthony Jeselnik recently did a bit on it - was that it? What explains the left's hive mind on this?
After the massacre in Charleston, Senator Chris Murphy offered his "thoughts and prayers." Likewise, after Newtown, he offered "my deepest thanks" to his colleagues for their "thoughts, prayers, and words." Today though he struck a different tone. "Your 'thoughts' should be about steps to take to stop this carnage. Your 'prayers' should be for forgiveness if you do nothing - again." for this he was hailed by Huffington Post writer Sam Stein, who noted "Another Mass Shooting, Another Deluge Of Tweeted Prayers -
Seems to have been an ineffective strategy so far." But Stein himself had offered "thoughts and prayers" through Twitter on various occasions. Do these people just not remember anything from one day to the next? What's going on here?
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