John King is an idiot and should be fired. His continued employment is the real conspiracy here. Just as the most recent example: "Dark skin?" Really? That describes roughly 7/8ths of the world's population. More, if we assume the benchmark for dark skin is 'darker skin than John King'.
I bet he has photos of Wolf Blitzer in a compromising position. Discuss!
Also: They're talking about how the older of the two suspects felt detached and had no friends in America. More tellingly, he wanted to keep his shirt on in photographs to avoid giving women the wrong idea and how people these days have no control.
And his response is to cling violently to his religion and his guns. Of course, the other people who do that are Christian, which is totally different from Muslim!
A funny thing, how the far right Christians hate Islam so much that they deny Muslims who would be their allies in their imaginary culture wars any real space at the table. Most of the stuff the elder Tsarnaev said wouldn't look at all out of the ordinary in a far-right extreme Christian setting.
Of course, not all far-right, biblical-literalist, Christian Fundamentalists are the same, and most of them aren't violent. Of course, neither are all increasingly religious Islamic Fundamentalists are the same, and most of them aren't violent. But in the United States, pretty much alone among western nations, the Christian Fundamentalists hold the brief on the culture wars.
Violence is even more likely when you feel there is legitimately no voice for your feelings in mainstream society, when those same feelings expressed by Christians are put on cable news and discussed on the senate floor.
