Tragic deaths

The local rag (aka the Journal Gazette) is a twitter about the death of Dr. Tiller with nary a word of commentary about the death of Army Private William Long. Lex points out the inconsistency in this letter:

Uncle Joe Stalin said, “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.” So we morn the tragic senseless death of Dr. George Tiller, while we keep statistics on the number of viable babies he aborted. And like so many other things, Uncle Joe was wrong about it taking “one million” to become a statistic. Tiller probably only managed to kill babies by the thousands.

Also, it seems to matter a great deal who you are to qualify as a tragedy. That’s right. Not all solo deaths are equally as tragic. George Tiller was gunned down on Sunday. It didn’t take ten minutes for the media to start with an all day “breaking news” cycle on Tiller and the man who shot him. The White House issued an immediate statement that the president was “shocked and outraged” by Tiller’s murder. Inevitably, every conservative and/or pro-life advocate started to get tarred with the same brush by media and blog nuts as Scott Roeder, the man who shot Dr. Tiller.

Compare Dr. Tiller’s death and the media coverage associated with it to another tragic death. On Monday, Army Private William Long was gunned down on an American street by a homegrown Islamo-Terror-Fascist. The media silence was deafening. What little there was reported about Private Long’s death excluded the fact that he was murdered by a Muslim radical. It took the White House two full days to even notice that an American service member was killed on our streets by a terrorist. And even then the White House wasn’t “shocked and outraged” but only "saddened" by Private Long’s death. You know, like you’re saddened when your cat dies. And don’t even think about linking Carlos Bledsoe aka Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, the man who shot Private Long, with the “religion of peace.”