Location, location, location. Most US college logos are not known up here in Canada. (I’d never seen Virginia Tech’s until the recent TV news stories.) Heck, you’re lucky we know those two-letter state abbreviations! 
Phil is a typical Republican with childishly simplistic solutions to everything, which is why the majority of his audience are, well, childish idiots.
Tech is never referred to as “VTU.” It’s either “Tech,” “VT,” “Virginia Tech,” or “VPI” (for “Virginia Polytechnic Institute,” mostly used by old-timers who went there before the name was expanded).
We did not need 6 (COUNT THEM SIX) photos of the murderer on the front page of USA Today on Thursday. This was followed today by a pious editorial explaining how criticism of (certain other) media for publicizing Cho was off base, because if they hadn’t gone hog-wild spreading his images and ranting they’d be suppressing information. :rolleyes:
Besides, the Moron Media wouldn’t want to deprive other maladjusted dopes of the inspiration needed to create their own copycat crimes.
I’d like to pit an unusally stupid headline in the Washington Post.
Student Wrote About Death and Spoke in Whispers,
But No One Imagined What Cho Seung Hui Would Do
–The Washington Post, April 18, 2007
What’s the story about?
Nikki Giovanni refusing to have Cho in her class because 63 out of 70 students didn’t show up for the class because they were mortally afraid of him. Lucinda Roy asking that he be evaluated by mental health services. Students talked about his angry writings and discussed whether he might become a school shooter. Various people over years of encounters described him as angry, menacing, and disturbed. “Roy, other officals, investigators, acquaintances, and neighbors helped fill in a dark portrait.” His writings were described as “sinister” and his attitude “strange” and Giovanni noted there was “a meanness” about him.
In other words, the entire focus of the article is on how practically everyone he came into contact with wondered about his anger, his sanity, and even thought about whether he would become a school shooter.
Shouldn’t the headline have been “But Practially Everyone Imagined What Cho Seung Hui Would Do”???
Sailboat
You know, and pardon me for interrupting the pitting, but I have never encountered anyone as screwed up as this young man. A guy so nutty classmates were afraid of him?
(Someone once said in every poker game there is one sucker. If you cannot spot him, you’re the sucker. This may have some bearing on the above.)
Well consider yourself lucky, then. I’ve been in the company of more than one person in the midst of psychotic breaks (them, not me). Fortunately, none was violent, but, yes, they can be that ‘nutty’ and much more.
Perhaps it can be better explained to those who have such difficulty understanding as a trip gone bad. Seen the crazies with meth psychosis (who, btw, can be quite dangerous)? Well the brain of a Cho is that broken.
Just because you, personally, have not encountered such a person doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I’ve never met anybody who’s lived in Saudi Arabia but I believe you exist nonetheless.
That video is hilariously disturbing. In the words of Lewis Black, that woman is stone cold fuck nuts.
My complaint is the usage of VT everywhere.
All I can think is * Someone has a gun in Vermont? I thought all they did there was smoke pot.*
So Cho is now the latently gay autistic asian boy. If we could get “jew” and " Illuminati" in there, we’d have a Multi-fecta.
I pit all the Christian apologists trying to answer why this happened with the “God does answer prayers, it’s just sometimes he answers them ‘Fuck you, bitch…’” or the “We can’t understand now but it’s loving and part of his master plan” or “It’s a loving God’s way of reminding us that we, like Arnie in Gilbert Grape, can go at any time…”. I already knew that. If God really wanted to give me that lesson he could use the moon as a bulletin board and write “life is fleeting” on it.
One of the most verbally vocal voicers of this villainous vile is Dinesh D’Souza. Two jewels from his post murders blog posting (“Where is atheism when bad things happen?”):
and
He continues in Why is God Hiding?:
So in other words God only acts when his publicist can make him look good. Kind of like Hollywood celebrities at $50,000 fundraisers.
Dsouza continues in Unbelief as a form of payback and others.
He’s generated hundreds and hundreds of comments before disabling his comments section, but none are more eloquent or heartfelt than those of a guy with the screen name mapantsula who responds in detail as an atheist professor at Virginia Tech. Rather than select from it I’ll just link to it in its entirety- please read . It’s a wonderful rebuttal.
My yocto-rant on this subject - every time I see Cho’s picture, all I can focus on is the glare coming off the oily patch on his forehead.
That’s all for now.
I want to add a Pitting of CNN.com for putting up that damn picture of Cho pointing a gun straight at the camera as their front page headline. I could see down the barrel of the fucking thing. I stopped visiting their site for the rest of the day, because I kept wanting to back away from the computer. <brrrr>
Thanks, Sampiro, I’ve been wanting to see this ever since I heard about it, not content to wait two years for it to show up on BBCA. Guess I’m just in need to something to be even more outraged about. You know you’re in a bad way when Hannity says you have no soul. It’s like Satan turning you away at the gates of hell: “Sorry, but hell hath a policy: we don’t let anyone in here that’s more evil than me. But I’ll make you the same deal I made with Pat Robertson…”
The one that stuck in my mind was early on, before the guy’s identity had been released. Kind of inevitable, I guess:
CNN: “As yet, there is no evidence linking the shooter to any terrorist organizations.”
Why would there be? Terrorists generally don’t shoot up college campuses. Psychos shoot up college campuses.
I am glad this thread exists. I didn’t want to create one on my own for a random pit against Nightline.
I decided to take a few min out of some more important tv watching to see what a respectable program’s take on the “VT Massacre” would be.
This show sucks now. I cant believe what I saw.
They did a report on how people are profiteering on the shootings by snapping up domain names. And really worked at making them seem like horrible sleazebags.
OK whatever.
For the final ending…
Then after the story they cut to a reporter late at night (it was dark at least).
The Report, are you ready?
He is camped out in front of the counselors office at the school the shootings took place. Said it was open 24 hours a day and every couple hours you could see a person come out for a smoke or a breath of fresh air.
Show over.
WTF!
They dog on folks buying a domain name.
Hardly intrusive and they likely wont make all that much on it.
Then camp outside of the counselors office with lights and camera crews and vans
reporting on smoke breaks.
Hugley intrusive and profitable.
I couldn’t believe I was watching the show I grew up with my father watching every night.
If it was just the report on domains and profiteering I could have let it pass.
If it was just camping out in front of grieving students and families it would have just been bad.
But pair them back to back for the last ten min of the show.
I thought I was watching Fox and Friends for a second.
Except if it was on Fox I would have chuckled for a second and changed channels.
I’ll add the interactive graphic of “The Rampage” on the New York Times website. Yes, your 3D mapping technology is nice, but do we really need to know where and how each of these poor people met their demise? Isn’t that a little twisted? Aren’t you guys supposed to be more “sensitive” than the rest of the media? Apparently I was misinformed…
If you’re running Firefox, you should check out Adblock, if you haven’t already. It lets you filter out unwanted images. (I know simply blocking it is not really the point, but at least you can ignore it)
Whatever happened to Ricky Martin?
Did anyone happen to catch any of Larry King’s show on that particular night? I only saw the last minute or so, but I swear that one of the psychiatrists HE was talking to claimed that there are no black spree killers because blacks don’t value success enough. Between that and the psychiatrist on Anderson Cooper claiming Cho was so deeply in the closet he had to kill to get out of it (or something), I had to wonder just where the hell CNN is finding their psych experts.
(Please note: I would be overjoyed to find that Larry King’s psychiatrist didn’t actually claim that black people are just too lazy to go on a good killing spree. So if you can correct me, please do.)
Sorry not to overjoy you, but that’s pretty much what he said.
So a note for all black parents: if you ever want your deranged kid to be a mass murderer in league with deranged white kids and deranged Asians, you have got to teach them to expect more of themselves.
That reminds me of the comment by Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) from BARBERSHOP 2:
A minor point, but I get irritated when some sanctimonious columnist goes on about how “incomprehensible” this is. A crazy guy flipped and killed a lot of people. What’s incomprehensible about that? It’s not Finnegans Wake
Fuck you “journalists.” I was listening to my podcast of yesterday’s Diane Rehm Friday News Roundup this morning. Of course the issue of NBC airing the Psycho Video came up. Every single fucking one of the panelists said “NBC made the right decision! They had to inform the public! That’s what the news media is for!” Even the eleventy thousand callers they had criticizing them for that dumbassed belief did nothing to convince them that a little fucking humanity might have been appreciated by the same public they claim to serve.
It’s even more official: the national news media is totally out of step with what the American public actually wants.