Actual Opening Paragraphs:
A man accused of threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wept Thursday as he talked to his attorney before a federal court hearing.No further details?!—What a copout! Was he sniffling? Was his nose running? Did he use a tissue, or did someone offer him a handkerchief? I NEED FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE WEEPING, CNN!
Gregory L. Giusti, 48, was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco, California, where Pelosi's home district is located, according to FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler.
No further details were immediately available about the case.
In all seriousness, I point out that this terrorist's weeping has been turned into an important news item for a reason: It further serves the narrative that each of these Totally-Not-Terrorists of the American Rightwing are independent actors, whose motivations formed in solitude, their actions exclusively attributable to lunacy. Men who cry, of course, are axiomatically unstable, each tear a wet little drip of evidence of the mental illness that is the exclusive source of their behavior.
It's a cunning little potion of sexism and disablism, delivered stealthily in an unmarked package, designed to assure you don't worry; it's only a few bad apples; pay no attention to the swelling indication that there's a dark ideology on the rise, fueling hatred and justifying extremism and tacitly encouraging violence…
Just look at this hapless, crazy loser. He's crying.
The media believes its purpose (and the government agrees) is to quell the hysterics and alarmists who shout that such men are not created in a void, by representing those men as silly characters. Pitiable, even.
Which make them sympathetic to other men like them.
The media creates rightwing martyrs, in its effort to discredit the left. And the beat goes on…
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