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  • BUT I WANT TO TALK AGAIN ABOUT OBVIOUSLY THE TRAGEDY THAT

  • HAPPENED.

  • THIS WEEK, THE EMERGENCE OF DYLANN ROOF'S WHITE POWER

  • MANIFESTO AND HATE-STAGRAM PHOTOS DID LITTLE TO ALLEVIATE

  • ANY CONFUSION ABOUT WHY HE DID IT.

  • ABOUT WHY THIS WHITE RACIST'S RACIST RACE EVASIONS

  • FOR ASSASINATING NINE CHURCHGOERS WHILE RACISTING

  • RACE-ORIC.

  • I GUESS WE'LL JUST NEVER KNOW WHY HE DID IT.

  • NOW YOU MAY THINK A TRAGEDY SUCH AS THIS WOULD BE AN

  • OPPORTUNE TIME TO DISCUSS THE COMPLEX VARIETY OF DEEP

  • SEEDED, UNEXAMINED ISSUES AND FAILING THAT PERMEATE AMERICAN

  • CULTURE LIKE A SUBTERRANEAN FAULT LINE THAT MOST ONLY NOTICE

  • UPON SEISMIC ERUPTIONS, ABOVE A SIX OR SEVEN ON THE RICHTER

  • SCALE.

  • IT TURNS OUT, THIS IS NOT A GOOD TIME.

  • >> THE RACE TO POLITICIZE THE SENSELESS SOUTH CAROLINA

  • CHURCH SHOOTING TRAGEDY.

  • >> SO THEY COULDN'T WAIT?

  • >> YOU COULD HAVE WAITED FOR SOME OF THIS.

  • WE HAVEN'T EVEN BURIED OUR DEAD YET.

  • >> BEFORE THE BODIES HAVE EVEN BEEN BURIED.

  • >> THEY TRY AND BLAME GUNS AND DO EVERYTHING BUT IT IS

  • MISDIRECTED.

  • >> THE PRESIDENT, HE IS BLAMING GUNS, LIBERALS POLITICIZEING

  • THIS.

  • >> THE PRESIDENT GENERALLY DEALS WITH THIS WHOLE ISSUE

  • POLITICALLY RATHER THAN SUBSTANTIVELY.

  • >> THE BODIES AREN'T COLD AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE TRYING

  • TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS OF IT, AND IT'S FANKLY DISGUSTING.

  • >> IT'S ALMOST LIKE A SICKNESS LIKE, OH, WAIT. TRAGEDY

  • HAPPENS.

  • LET'S SEE HOW WE CAN ADVANCE OUR NARRATIVE.

  • >> Jon: YES, IT'S A SICKNESS, THIS RUSH TO USE TRAGEDY TO

  • ADVANCE YOUR NARRATIVE.

  • COMBINE THAT WITH AN INABLILTY FOR SELF-EXAMINATION, AND

  • ALMOST COMICAL DEGREE OF SELF-EXCULPABLE RHETORIC,

  • FLAG PINS, A LITTLE BIT OF LEG AND A COMPLETE IMMUNITY

  • TO IRONY, YOU GOT YOURSELF A FULL BLOWN CASE OF FOXABETES.

BUT I WANT TO TALK AGAIN ABOUT OBVIOUSLY THE TRAGEDY THAT

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