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According to Fayette County authorities, pro wrestler Chris Benoit placed Bibles next to his wife and child after he murdered them last weekend.

Will American journalists and bloggers use the placement of the Bibles to speculate about Benoit’s motives and whip up anti-Christian hysteria?

Of course not.

Only morons and anti-religious bigots would use the mere presence of Bibles to link an apparent murder-suicide to religion or global religious extremism.

Contrast the news coverage of and blogging about the Benoit family deaths with the Virginia Tech shooting.

After reports surfaced that Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho had the phrase “Ismail Ax” written on his arm when he was found dead by police, right-wing talking heads and assorted cyberbigots immediately tried to connect the massacre to Islam. According to their idiot logic, “Ismail” is the Arabic spelling of Ishmael, therefore Cho was a Muslim extremist (examples: 1, 2, 3).

Among the speculators was Washington Post conservative columnist and Fox News talk-show staple Charles Krauthammer. “I suspect it has some more to do with Islamic terror and the inspiration than it does with the opening line of Moby Dick,” said Krauthammer on Fox.

Nevermind that Cho was raised a churchgoing Christian or that he’d suffered from mental illness. And nevermind that “Ismail” isn’t the Arabic spelling of anything (Arabic doesn’t use the Roman alphabet) or that he actually wrote “Ismael” instead of “Ismail” on the video package he mailed to NBC News.

When you’re a bigot, you see what you want to see. Imagine what these idiots would be saying if copies of the Quran were found in Benoit’s home.

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One of the favorite laments of the right-wing noise machine is that there’s been an epidemic of teen sex, especially oral sex, because of Bill Clinton trysts with Monica.

Rush Limbaugh, for example, recently proclaimed: “Who popularized oral sex for the nation? And who was defended day in and day out royally for doing so? Bill Clinton. And who defended him? The Democrats.”

When a, ummm, turgid intellect as Limbaugh renders such an erection of opinion, it not only must be true, but we must apply it to other social events…

The massacre at Virginia Tech, for example.

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The Fulton County District Attorney is investigating a police shooting of two unarmed brothers in Fulton, Georgia on Sunday. Yes, this is the same District Attorney who chalked up a police shooting of a 92 year old woman as “another tragedy involving drugs.”

– TChris from TalkLeft.com on the Sunday morning shooting by Fulton County police of brothers Ron and Roy Pettaway. Fulton County police have confirmed that the two men were not armed.

How far have we advanced in the wussification of America? I am now under attack by the left for wondering aloud why these students did so little to defend themselves. It seems that standing in terror waiting for your turn to be executed was the right thing to do, and any questions as to why 25 students didn’t try to rush and overpower Cho Seung-Hui are just examples of right wing maniacal bias. Surrender — comply — adjust. The doctrine of the left.

– Neal Boortz, explaining that unarmed college students who don’t team up to rush armed attackers are, in practice, spineless leftists. Silly me, I just thought they were innocent victims.

There were many other injured, all of whom were taken to one of the three trauma centers located within 27 miles of the campus. Had this tragedy occured in Georgia, we’d have prayed to be so fortunate. There are no trauma centers located close to the University of Georgia campus in Athens. There are none located close to Valdosta State University in Valdosta. There are no trauma hospitals close to Georgia Southern University in Statesboro.

– Seth Millican at Peach Pundit on Georgia’s relative lack of trauma hospitals. Millican states that Georgia’s death rate from trauma exceeds the national average by 20 percent.

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Certainly, the nanny state has gone too far, but not far enough when it comes to guns. There’s more restrictions to smoking than weapons. Trust me, if the “pro-smoking lobby” was as vociferous and organized as the NRA, you’d be seeing Mitt Romney taking a drag off a Winston before his next campaign speech.

– ATLMalcontent on the political influence of the National Rifle Association. Gov. Romney has been accused of exaggerating his interest in hunting to appeal to gun-owning voters.

Sadly, schools that do not recognize right to carry laws will continue to have havoc wreaked upon them, just like Columbine, the Amish School, and Virginia Tech. Am I advocating that university students be allowed to carry guns? Absolutely.

– Jace Walden believes that university students should be allowed to carry guns on campus. Virginia Tech does not permit students to carry firearms on campus, even if they have a permit from the state.

Columbine is a high school and the Amish school in Bart Township, Pa., was a one-room schoolhouse with kids as young as 6.

On the day after what’s being called the deadliest single murder spree in American history, the Senate will debate a bill to permit employees to keep guns in their cars parked on corporate lots.

– AJC.com’s Political Insider on H.B. 89, state legislation that would allow employees to keep guns in their automobiles, regardless of the wishes of the employers or property owners

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