The DailyKos reaction to the Fort Hood shooting

Posted on November 5, 2009

The DailyKos reaction to the Fort Hood shooting is typical. Rather than sympathizing with the families of the killed or the soldiers who were wounded, or waiting to find out all the facts, they’re showing an awful lot of sympathy to the shooter, and they’re making up their own facts and motives. And of course, what Daily Kos diary would be complete without the resident Free Republic outrage? A few commenters tried to examine the facts and offer condolences. Most simply blamed the Army, George Bush, or conservatives, and plenty expressed sympathy for the murderer. One person even said that violence is caused by… Texas? Classy. Check out the comments:

Molotov: idiots. you teach people to kill without remorse, then act surprised when they do.

primarydoc: and we have to consider the selective disclosure/spin from the military if it turns out that the reason for the shooting might undermine our “noble” wars, as in the case of Pat Tillman or Jessica Lynch

Alien Abductee: Maybe he’s just seen too much destruction of the mental health of his fellow soldiers and finally snapped himself.

olo: Maybe they just put the gun in his hand because be looks like a brown terror monger, is named Hasan (sounds & looks similar to Hussein) — and was the most convenient of the dozen bodies to blame this [expletive deleted] on.)

ferralike: It appears through the latest reporting on MSNBC that the shooter who was killed, Army Maj Malik Nadal Hasan, was possibly enraged about being shipped over to Iraq per Chris Matthews (at ~ 5:55 est). So it sounds as if the second possibility I raised was more correct. However, this guy could have already served multiple tours and this could still be a PTSD related incident. Who knows?

I actually feel for this guy if he was pushed to go this far that he flipped out and killed 12 and injured 31 (the number at this moment.) I hate that he did this and there are so many grieving and worried families but I doubt this was driven because he simply did not want to go over there on his first tour.

If this is true, this is indicative of a much larger disaster imminently waiting to happen for many, many other soldiers about to be deployed. We can’t keep this up sending these soldiers over time after time and expecting them to come back without being mentally and emotionally affected. This is very very tragic.

Julia Grey: I personally hope very much that he isn’t black. He’d be made out as an Obama confederate, part of the underground preparations for the coup, a guy who was so excited about destroying America that he started too early, yadda yadda. It’s already bad enough that he has an Arabic name.

Lying eyes: Good thing Bush is no longer in charge…. continued… True. But I was thinking if this guy has an Arabic name and is a muslim, Bush would use the tragedy to attack Iran. Or some convenient country.

MillieNeon: I just hope this doesn’t come with a huge Muslim backlash, or kick Muslims out of the military, etc.

How very say for the people who lost their lives, their families, for the moderate Muslim who already have so much difficulty in this country right now.

And my heart really goes out to all the soldiers with PTSD. They need much more support and treatment. It’s immoral to bring people back from war and leave them in psychological torture chambers.

Also, I think we should re-examine soldier training. They are taught to de-humanize the enemy so they can kill easier. How do you “undo” that? What are we doing to these poor soldiers?

SantaFeMarie: Why is it “surely just coincidence” that people in Texas commit violent homicides?

The Navigator: Let’s all hope it’s not wingers or the radical right that did this, but rather just a few disturbed soldiers.

o the umanity: I still can’t figure out what happened. When I was a little girl, it was an honor to serve. My father and all my brothers did. So did my uncles and one of my grandfathers.

And then came ‘Nam, and it’s been all downhill since

And on and on.

What does it tell you about the liberal psyche if their reaction to a shooting leaving a dozen soldiers killed and scores more wounded is to feel sympathy for the murderer who did this? They have more sympathy for Hasan than they do for the actual victims of this massacre. And on top of that, they’re blaming everyone but him. They blame the right wing, they blame Bush, they blame the military… everyone except the man who actually committed the crime.

These are some seriously deranged people.

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9 Responses to “The DailyKos reaction to the Fort Hood shooting”

Mike on November 6th, 2009 9:41 am

All liberals other than moderate Liberals are seriously deranged.
rawdawgbuffalo on November 6th, 2009 11:29 am

We need to take PTSD seriously and do some research or else it will continue to be like this as VETS return Home
Greg on November 6th, 2009 2:18 pm

Surely the Daily Chaos has figured out how to speculate the New Truth that the shooter had to have been a McCain/Palin voter thus a right wing nut job.
Uriel on November 6th, 2009 2:19 pm

Liberalism is NOT a mental disorder.
Liberalism is a disease whose symptoms include mental derangement.

Liberalism is RABIES.

Contemplate the consequences of that as you will.
Troy on November 6th, 2009 2:29 pm

“We need to take PTSD seriously and do some research or else it will continue to be like this as VETS return Home”

What? This guy had never even been to war. He was going to war, to serve in a mental health physician. What does this have to do with PTSD??? Let’s look at the real issue here. It’s not his Muslim name, but it’s the views that he has expressed towards “America’s war on Muslims” in which he stated that he agreed with suicide bombers heroism, as well as his postings on various radical MUSLIM websites.

This has nothing to do with PTSD and everything to do with this man and his associations with radical Islam. But, we won’t hear any of the truth about that in the media…
SteveP on November 6th, 2009 2:35 pm

He’s a Muzzie who has repeatedly expressed anti American views and yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he started shooting. That tells you everything you need to know.
tailgunner on November 6th, 2009 2:53 pm

This piece of garbage was an amateur KNOWN JIHADIST SYMPATHIZER who shot over FORTY “INFIDELS” while screaming ‘ALLAHU AKBAR’.

WHY are some people going as far as INVENTING NON-EXISTENT ‘SYNDROMES’ like PRE-PTSD or ‘COMPASSION FATIGUE’ to EXCUSE this obviously JIHADIST MASS MURDERER??

This is getting sick.
boston patriot on November 6th, 2009 3:37 pm

What’s a “moderate liberal”?
Kaitlin Beckman on November 7th, 2009 5:45 pm

I don’t blame Obama for his inappropriate “shout out” or using the shooting to advance his political agenda. Or going to Camp David instead of Fort Hood… I blame the Amercan people who voted him into office and giving him the power to do so.