Ok, I get it. The subway shooting was horrible

[H2O Man]

41. Right.

When a person who has used a gun to shoot 30+ times before it jams, who had two smoke bombs and materials for a home-made explosive device, an axe, and has clothing that suggests he has put thought into his attack on society is on the run, it is mighty important to keep the public informed. Can you imagine the complaints we would hear if the police had not requested the media cover the situation closely, and then the shithead attacked another group of people?

I understand that this is a hard time, and that the array of extremely serious problems wears people out. That tired people are more prone to finding things annoying. But this was a good response to a terrible situation that needed a quick conclusion so far as taking the guy into custody.

It's funny -- on FB, a guy I don't really know was complaining about the coverage on CNN, saying the l"iberal media" (sic) refuses to report that this was a racist black man attacking white people. That strikes me as close to as tortured thinking as one can suffer from. I said that this was something beyond "politics," that all good people should be horrified by these types of events. He responded by calling me a "leftist fool," though he has never met nor talked with me. Ha!