THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
(apologies to Keith Olbermann)
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA)
People who judge people are the worst fucking people on Earth, seriously they suck
— God (@TheGoodGodAbove) October 5, 2015
In a lengthy blog post published on his presidential campaign website Tuesday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) claimed the father of Oregon gunman Chris Harper Mercer was a “complete failure” and demanded that he apologize for the shooting. In the blog post — titled “We fill Our Culture With Garbage, And We Reap The Result” — Jindal blamed the prevalence of mass shootings in America on “deep and serious cultural decay in our society,”…. “This killer’s father is now lecturing us on the need for gun control and he says he has no idea how or where his son got the guns,” Jindal wrote. “Of course he doesn’t know. You know why he doesn’t know? Because he is not, and has never been in his son’s life. He’s a complete failure as a father, he should be embarrassed to even show his face in public. He’s the problem here.”…. [H]e failed to raise his son. He should be ashamed of himself, and he owes us all an apology[.]…. “When he was asked what his relationship was with his son, he said he hadn’t seen him in a while because he lived with his mother. Case Closed.”
There’s not much I run across has the potential to render me speechless, so it was surprising that the only response I could muster to Gov. Jindal’s self-righteous blog post was, “Wow…just wow.” His egotistical, simple-minded, self-important, judgmental screed in wbhich he presumes to have the right to pass judgment on another’s family situation is as about as offensive as a Republican politician can get. How is it he thinks he has the right to even consider passing judgment on another man, especially in a family situation he knows nothing about? Gov. Jindal very likely doesn’t know the first thing about Ian Mercer and the reason(s) why he wasn’t close to his son. The smug arrogance inherent in his presumption that he has the right to examine Mercer and passing judgment on his parenting has to be one of the most pompous and supercilious aggregations of words I’ve read anywhere.
Wow…just wow….
“Case closed?” Hardly, Governor. For reasons known only to yourself, you’ve decided you’re uniquely well equipped to lecture us on the reasons for what you view as the Decline and Fall of Western Civilization ©. You do this even as you’ve slashed the education budget in Louisiana ande made it easier for religiously-oriented parochial schools to do business. You’ve proclaimed that you’re all about smaller government even as Louisiana has burrowed ever deeper into the private reproductive decisions of women in the Pelican State. In short, you’re in no position to lecture ANYONE on morality, parenting skills…or anything else.
If anyone is at all serious about changing any of this, they must address the root problems, and those are cultural decay, the glorification of evil, the devaluation of human life, the breakdown of the family, and specifically the complete abdication of fathers[.]
I’ll tell you what, Governor; I might be inclined to give you a hearing…if you hadn’t decided to approach it from the vantage point of a judgmental, contemptible egoist. One of the things Republicans do exceedingly well is pass judgment on others. Why do Republicans do that, Governor? Perhaps because it’s easier to point fingers and cast blame than actually come up with solutions? Blaming this country’s mass murder epidemic (and yes, it IS a public health issue) on “cultural decay, the glorification of evil, the devaluation of human life, the breakdown of the family, and specifically the complete abdication of fathers” is a cop-out, which doesn’t really surprise me. Judging by what you’ve (not) done in Louisiana, you couldn’t lead a pack of hungry Cub Scouts to a Dairy Queen. Despite this, you feel compelled (and qualified) to pass judgment on someone whose life and family situation you know nothing of. How very Christian of you.
Blaming America’s ills on people like Ian Mercer is easy; it gives you the opportunity to pander to those ready, willing, and able to devour the self-righteous swill you feed them. It does nothing to actually address the problem of gun violence in this country…probably because you’re far too busy cozying up to Proudly Closed-minded Gun Control Foes who’ve perverted the 2nd Amendment into something unrecognizable. What you fail to realize, Governor, is that, even as you decry what you believe to be the cause of the ills facing this great nation, YOU are the problem.
Meanwhile, the shallow and simple minded liberals will continue to blame pieces of hardware for the problem, and they will long for the days before firearms were invented.
But the simple truth is, as long as we place no value on human life, as long as we glorify senseless violence and evil, we will get the exact same result.
We “shallow and simple minded liberals” blame a piece of hardware because of the damage it can do in the hands of someone like Chris Harper-Mercer. It’s neither shallow nor simple-minded to demand that something be done to make it more difficult for people like Harper-Mercer to legally obtain guns.
The simple truth is not, as you so smugly put it, that “we place no value on human life,” but rather that the Proudly Closed-minded Gun Control Foes you pander to value guns far more than life. They- and you- refuse to even consider revisiting our gun laws with an eye towards reducing the senseless, never-ending slaughter. As long as Proudly Closed-minded Gun Control Foes refuse to reconsider their patently inaccurate interpretation of the 2nd Amendment (What well-regulated militia do you belong to?), innocent people will continue to die. Your moralizing, hubris, and self-righteousness won’t save a single life, Governor. How about joining those of us in the reality-based community, those who don’t base their prospect on pandering to monsters, and talk about taking real, concrete action that just might save some lives?
Or do you really care more about whipping up the faithful and securing their votes than you do the truth…and saving lives?
He owes us all an apology.
Really, Governor; how did you ascend to the throne- you know, the one that allows you to think you have the right to determine who is and isn’t a worthwhile human being? And how did you get to be such a spiteful, judgmental hater when you have so much failure on your own record as Governor? Perhaps it’s YOU who owes US an apology?
Before you run someone down by calling them “a complete failure as a father, he should be embarrassed to even show his face in public,” you might want to give some thought to taking a good, long look in the mirror. If you’re going to be casting stones, you should be certain your own house is in order. If you’re going to toss around words like “failure,” it’s best to be certain your own record is beyond reproach…and yours, Governor, is most certainly not. If you’re going to call someone a “failure,” you can’t claim to be surprised when someone lobs “hypocrite” back over the wall at you.
…and the horse you rode in on, Governor.
