Did the Left Create Chris Dorner? By Ben Shapiro. Townhall.com, February 15, 2013.
Understanding Christopher Dorner. By Matthew Cunningham-Cook. Salon, February 14, 2013.
Don’t Mythologize Christopher Dorner. By Charles M. Blow. New York Times, February 15, 2013.
The hero cult of Christopher Dorner, the ex-L.A. cop turned cop killer. By Joe O’Connor. National Post, February 14, 2013.
Marc Lamont Hill: Dorner’s “Exciting” Rampage Like “Watching Django Unchained In Real Life.” By Tim Hains. Real Clear Politics, February 13, 2013.
Crazy to Everyone but the New York Times. By Heather MacDonald. City Journal, February 12, 2013.
Heather MacDonald can’t justify Dorner’s rampage. Audio. LauraIngraham.com, February 14, 2013. Also find it here.
Shapiro:
When
Adam Lanza murdered 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Conn., the media jumped to the position that the NRA’s “gun culture” was
responsible. They suggested that violent video games and movies had to be
curbed.
But
when it came to Dorner, the media suggested that his manifesto meant nothing –
nothing! Piers Morgan blamed Dorner’s “deranged criminality,” although he said
nothing of the sort about Loughner or Lanza.
If
the manifesto did mean something, the
media said, it was that Dorner was essentially right about the LAPD. CNN
reported, “LA cops stalked by suspect – and a brutal past.” The New York Times
reported, “The killings and Mr. Dorner’s online manifesto have reopened old
wounds for some black residents here, even as they condemned the violence.”
The
media never once stopped to consider that it was their coverage of the LAPD
that may have created the cultural background noise for Dorner’s belief system.
Liberal Hollywood and the media regularly portray law enforcement as a bastion
of bigotry and nastiness. Every depiction of LAPD in the last 20 years has
focused on their supposed hatred for minorities, their corruption, their
violence. If we are going to suppose that culture creates criminals, then
leftist culture is responsible for Dorner.
In
truth, we are all responsible for our own actions. But the double standard of
the media is truly stunning. Next time they try to claim that Constitutional
conservatism is responsible for mass shootings, the media ought to be reminded
of Christopher Dorner.
Cunningham-Cook:
Dorner’s
reaction is partly rooted in a corrosive version of American masculinity — his
response to institutional corruption is uniquely Jack Bauer and John Wayne.
Gratuitous violence included. Dorner is a wholesale product of a society gone
mad on racism and war, of a state that aggressively punishes dissent, of an
intellectual milieu where telling the truth has become a dangerous act. There
was no internal institutional outlet for him to address injustices against him:
the blue line prevented that.
