When Killings Are Understandable

Ari L. NoonanOP-EDLeave a Comment

An old demo reel for former broadcaster Vester Flanagan begins with him walking toward the camera while holding a gun. Photo: NY Daily News

Thank you, Vester Fester Flanagan.

The hour has arrived to admit the lily-livered errancy of my political judgment.

I am switching from the right to the left. Go, liberals.

Mow down those cadaverous fascists. Throw them under the next Tesla you see put-putting along a sidewalk.

Though Mr. Flanagan was a flat-footed overweight floozy and mental case in his living days, our fair and balanced media has had the good sense the past two days not to blame his live-television slaughtering of two Virginia journalists on the specious assertions that he was an oppressed Democrat, an oppressed gay twerp, an oppressed black man, an oppressed fat man, an oppressed victim of income inequality, an oppressed vagrant who sprang from the oppressed bowels of an oppressed Oakland ghetto, courtesy of an oppressed mother who deliberately birthed an oppressed baby just for yucks because she was curious to see if the punk could survive in a world where Democrats, blacks and gays alternately are oppressed, suppressed and uniformly unimpressed.

When Dylan Roof,  reported fan of Confederate flags and conservative politics, murdered nine black persons in a Charleston church two months ago, it was fair to blame his massacre on perverted right-wing influences such as flags from Confederate days and schools named for Robert E. Lee.

Mr. Flanagan retained and periodically waved LGBT flags in his hovel. But surely can he be forgiven for murdering two white people because MSNBC tells us lefty loyalists this is a racist, white supremacist country.

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