God Bless and Damn MSNBC

With tens of millions more exposed to their messages than my own, MSNBC enjoys and exercises the same freedoms of speech as do I.

Goddamn MSNBC for attempting to portray the Tucson mass murderer as a political assassin from the lunatic fringe of the conservative Republican party.

Worse, MSNBC consistently postulates this verbal pus under the guise of normal editorializing current events as ‘news.’

As a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists, this mischaracterization of today’s tragedy inflamed my ire as much as that goofball in SPJ who believes reporters shouldn’t use the term ‘illegal aliens’ because the invaders haven’t been convicted.

“It is what it is,” the pervasive phrase in contemporary American parlance applies in the instant circumstance. Premeditated murders occurred and I’m happy the shooter’s MySpace apology to his friends (posted before 6am this morning, Arizona time) may eliminate this defendant’s hope of a successful insanity defense for an egregious act more aptly labelled “horrific” than political.