Yeah, I'm sure it was the first thing many people thought upon learning the horrific news of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon -- there goes another Republican.
More accurately, it was the first thing fervently wished in the fever swamps of the left, one of which is inhabited by Alan Colmes, formerly the lesser half of Hannity & Colmes, now opining over at his own show on Fox News Radio.
During a conversation with a caller on Monday, Colmes complained about those quick to stereotype the man responsible for the carnage at UCC. This was quickly followed by him providing his own example of shabby stereotyping --
CALLER: Yeah, Alan, on your show Friday, neo-Nazi Doblison came on and proclaimed the coward-killer to be black without any proof, of course, and I watched CNN all weekend, they interviewed his father and his father was clearly a white and I think he sounded a little bit, somewhat European.
How is it then that Obama can be considered the first black president when his mother was white ...?
COLMES: Right.
CALLER: It's just a perfect example of how people like Doblison simply try to take their own ...
COLMES: You wonder why when there's a dastardly event like this, what is the agenda of people who want to make sure the person's either a Muslim or a black or mixed race, what are they really trying to tell us?
CALLER: Absolutely. He just wants to forward his, to make himself seem right because lately I've noticed with Doblison, his entire message has gotten stale and mundane and boring. So he just wants to be relevant again and, you know, when I listen to him and that angry idiot Larry from North Carolina and Joe the Vagina from my hometown of Chicago, I just know ...
COLMES (clearly amused): Joe the Vagina?! (chuckles)
What is it about liberal males -- I hesitate to use the word "men" -- and their frequent disparaging references to female genitalia? Jon Stewart, for example, was incapable of getting through a single Daily Show without loudly maligning someone, invariably a Republican, as a "douche", "douchebag", "douche nozzle", etc. Do liberal males believe they are given a pass for such unsubtle sexism due to their devoted support for government-funded birth control and abortion on demand?
CALLER: These are three white guys who probably caught their significant other watching interracial porn and it just really messes with their head and they just have to come on your show and just exorcize all this hate ...
COLMES: Well, what really amazes me, when you get in a moment, these people are in denial, they're in denial about science for one thing, we get into that with (Arizona State University cosmologist) Lawrence Krauss in a moment. But they're in denial about the fact what when something, that mass murderer's tend to be white, they tend to be, and this person defined himself as a conservative, uh, uh, Republican, uh ...
CALLER: He was a racist. He hated black people.
COLMES: He hated black people.
As clearly demonstrated by the race of his victims.
Something he definitely was not, contrary to Colmes's earlier claim -- a Republican. How do we know? Because his party affiliation is listed on the website of the Oregon Secretary of State as "Independent Party," based on the name "Chris Harper-Mercer" and a date of birth of July 26, 1989. (h/t, Gateway Pundit).
Notice how Colmes doesn't cite a source for his dubious claim, possibly to avoid having to name its likely origin -- the dating website Spiritual Passions. And one thing that can be said with confidence about dating websites -- the information compiled within them is always accurate.
And surely no one with access behind the curtain at such a site would ever, ever alter information about a person listed there who just committed a heinous act -- for example, changing "political views" to read "conservative, republican" a mere two lines over a personality line that yet again includes the trait "conservative."
What a shock it wasn't to learn from the intrepid scribes at Conservative Treehouse that Harper-Mercer's profile at Spiritual Passions was edited at least a dozen times from Oct. 2 to Oct. 3 in the two days following the rampage at UCC. Presumably it wasn't Harper-Mercer who made the changes.
