No words. Just no words.
WSJ Columnist Asks if Women Saved By Boyfriends in Aurora Theater Shooting Were Worth It
By Steve Huff
The New York Observer
Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto’s bad Tuesday night on Twitter is a tale of two tweets. First, Mr. Taranto’s offending post, which started a firestorm. Referring to the three women whose boyfriends saved them from the bullets of a mass murderer in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater on July 20, Mr. Taranto wrote:
I hope the girls whose boyfriends died to save them were worthy of the sacrifice.
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) July 25, 2012
(snip)
To be fair, Mr. Taranto did retweet many who who took him to task for his musing. This angry, outraged response from a tweeter named Matthew Almont is an excellent example of the sort of bile Mr. Taranto was comfortable with relaying to his followers:
@jamestaranto To their boyfriends, they were. I guess that’s what really matters.
— Matthew Almont (@matthewalmont) July 25, 2012
A blistering reply.
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The rest, with links to follow if you have the stomach for it:
http://observer.com/2012/07/wsj-columnist-asks-if-women-saved-by-boyfriends-in-aurora-theater-shooting-were-worth-it/
Un. Real.
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