Wait, what? That can’t be true, can it? Sadly, it is. The fishwrap of record hit a new low, joining the chorus of the morally bankrupt who are trying to “humanize” the Boston bombing suspects.
"But others suggest a more Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation…" http://t.co/WHd32Tanue
— Peter Cook (@_Peter_Cook) April 24, 2013
More from the New York Times article, which is shamefully listed as “news analysis.”
There are lots of references to musicians like Chris Brown, Jay-Z and Michael Jackson; television shows like “Breaking Bad” and “Game of Thrones,” and movies like “Spider-Man” and “Finding Nemo.” He prattles away about Nutella and Frosted Flakes, complains about typos and losing his remote. “Pop-up adds are the worst, on par with mosquitoes,” he tweets on June 17, 2012.
Given the layers of irony, sarcasm and joking often employed on Twitter, it can be difficult to parse the messages of a stranger. Yet some of them can seem menacing or portentous, given what we now suspect: “a decade in america already, I want out,” “Never underestimate the rebel with a cause” or, drawing from lyrics from a Kendrick Lamar song, “No one is really violent until they’re with the homies.” But others suggest a more Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation: “some people are just misunderstood by the world thus the increase of suicide rates.” Sometimes, Dzhokhar sounds downright sentimental (unless, of course, he is being ironic): “There are enough worms for all the birds stop killing each other for ‘em.”
If you have a hurl-bucket handy, the rest of it is just as foul. Attempts to create empathy … for a terrorist. Oh, he was just a typical teenage boy! Well, Ms. Kakutani, one of the Boston bombing victims, Martin Richard, will never even get that chance.
Because he was killed at the age of 8.
Holden killed 8 year olds? “@newsbusters: Really? NYT Front Page: Terrorist's Tweets Suggest 'Holden Caulfield-like http://t.co/tOZaldl6iH”
— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) April 24, 2013
Ace of Spades and other Twitter users destroy the repugnant New York Times article. Read and get your fist ready to pump:
Congratulations @NYTimes. You fucking nailed it, as usual.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
Compare & Contrast: @USAToday: Mosque had terror connex; @NYTimes: "A Holden Caufield-like adolescent alienation…" http://t.co/4giFlox0Q2
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
https://twitter.com/BenK84/status/327134729512030208
If there’s a way to analogize the Tsarnaevs to a plotline in “Girls,” rest assured the Times will eventually find it https://t.co/enGuIBhpnG
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) April 24, 2013
the @NYTimes' reviewer Michiko Kakutani gave Dzhohkar Tarnaev's ouevre a more positive review than any conservative book she's been assigned
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
Michiko Kakutani is the @nytimes Emergency Fire-ax for chopping up any book by a conservative or about one http://t.co/Tz0vKe2Yzb
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
And yet Little Michiko finds ample empathy in her to write that Dzhohkar's tweets evince a "Holden Caufield like adolescent alienation…"
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
Compare Michiko Kakatuni's reviews of conservative books vs. her review of the Tsarnaev tweets– she's rather higher on the latter.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
Update to @nytimes scoop that Dzhohkar had a "Holden Caufield-like adolescent alienation:" He became radicalized against "phonies"
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
I think @greggutfeld had a cutting insight: There are those who feel more kinship with and attraction towards the Murderers Tsarnaev….
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
…than any of the dead and maimed, because the Murderers Tsarnaev are now Famous while their victims are not.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
Think about that, and then throw up.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
The Future Belongs to the Famous, some famous people declared.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
The @NYTimes' "Star Reviewer" Michiko Kakatuni sure seems sympathetic to her fellow Stars (Stars of Murder and Maiming)
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 24, 2013
The moral depravity is horrifying. Enough. The sane have had enough.
@AceofSpadesHQ I am just wracking my brain trying to figure out what more we coulda done for welfare cheating drug dealing terrorist bros.
— Brian Cates //Flynn & Breitbart's Army! (@drawandstrike) April 24, 2013
Exactly. Where is the empathy for the victims? What more could we have done to save them, instead of fretting and hand-wringing over those accused of killing and maiming them.
Want to “analyze” something, New York Times? Try looking at Sean Collier’s life. He was killed during a shootout with the “Holden Caulfield” bombing suspect and was honored at a memorial at MIT today. Over the weekend, his body was escorted home by a sea of blue.
But you wouldn’t know that, would you? What with being so busy wallowing in depravity.
Try “analyzing” the Richard family: Now left without their son. Martin Richard’s sister has lost her leg and his mother is grievously injured. No “Catcher in the Rye” swooning for them?
For shame, New York Times. For shame.
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#apoemfordzhokhar: Greg Gutfeld, Twitterers destroy Dzhokhar Tsarnaev empathizer Amanda Palmer
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‘Evil people can still go to gym, smile’: Greg Gutfeld’s epic rant on Boston bombing suspects
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Snark bait: Twitter users propose #MediaQuestionsforDzhokhar
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