Ambiguity is the last refuge of the apologist.


After being raked over the coals by his own comments section for taking seriously his – girlfriend’s? I’m uncertain – fairly pointless observation that suspected traitor and terrorist Faisal Shahzad’s house was foreclosed, Ezra Klein huffed in a follow-up:

I thought I said pretty explicitly that speculating about why a terrorist commits a terrorist act is a mug’s game…

What he actually said was:

That said, you of course don’t want to speculate on why someone “really” did something. The hearts of men are opaque, and motives are complex.

Ah, ‘complexity.’  A favorite refuge of the intellectual who has realized, deep in his oh-so-opaque heart, that he once had to make a moral choice – and that he chose poorly.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.


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It would help if Ezra knew what string theory is.

johnt Thursday, May 6th at 11:29AM EST (link)

From cosmology to idiot journalists “stringing” a story together. From different “strands” of course.
There can’t be much doubt anymore, not that there should be any, that our American [?] journalists have much more sympathy for islamic killers than for thousands of peaceful protesters against Obama and the sickness of leftism.

The hernia giving effort to excuse or even explain an attempted mass murder is telling of a twisted corruption. The morons should be more careful, increasingly more normal people are beginning to catch on. They are starting to see we have two deadly sets of enemies, not one.

Cat’s out of the bag Ezra, you gave yourself away. Maybe you & Contessa can get together on this.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

Ezra Klien never had the slightest doubt

kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 11:33AM EST (link)

about the racism that was in the heart of the average tea partier did he?

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

BAM!

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:53PM EST (link)

Exactly true.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 

BAM!

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:53PM EST (link)

Exactly true.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 
 

Liberals[?] are so twisted that signs carried

johnt Thursday, May 6th at 11:48AM EST (link)

by Tea Party people generate more rage then acts or attempted acts of terror & mass murder.
As said above, we have two enemies to face.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

Ezra...as my wife tells me sometimes

Hugh (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 11:49AM EST (link)

Hugh, put the shovel down. In case that doesn’t make any sense just look up the first law of holes.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell

 

Ezra's just trying to channel Faramir

CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 3:18PM EST (link)

“Come hither!” said Faramir. “Look at me! Do you know the name of this place? Have you been here before?”

Slowly Gollum raised his eyes and looked unwillingly into Faramir’s. All light went out of them, and they stared bleak and pale for a moment into the clear unwavering eyes of the man of Gondor. There was a still silence. Then Gollum dropped his head and shrank down, until he was squatting on the floor, shivering. “We doesn’t know and we doesn’t want to know,” he whimpered. “Never came here; never come again.”

“There are locked doors and closed windows in your mind, and dark rooms behind them,” said Faramir. “But in this I judge that you speak the truth. It is well for you.”

Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)

soli Deo gloria