In this new Febreezed political climate, Newsweek's Pepe Le Pew, Jonathan Alter, the MSNBC resident nebish cheerleader for all things considered, presents American Assasins as bullied weenies.
A disproportionate number of assassins were bullied or excluded as children or young adults. “In junior high I was an object of pure ridicule,” Bremer recounted in the years before his 2007 parole. Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President James A. Garfield in 1881 after he refused to offer him an ambassadorship for which he had no qualifications, had earlier joined a utopian religious sect called the Oneida Community. But the perfect world its adherents envisioned didn’t include presumptuous oddballs like Guiteau, who was nicknamed “Charles Gitout.”
The rage this kindles sometimes can’t be contained. At 12, Oswald threatened his half-brother’s wife with a knife and struck his mother. A psychiatric assessment when he was young described his “vivid fantasy life, turning on the topics of omnipotence and power, through which he tries to compensate for his present shortcomings and frustrations.” At her sentencing, Sara Jane Moore, who fired at Gerald Ford, described her attempt as “a correct expression of my anger.” Schrader sees a pattern: “If you’re filled with feelings of anger and self-loathing, you want to blame someone else. And people in the public eye are the ones that touch you because they’re bigger than life. They’re your surrogate parents.”
Oh, yeah! " Hey, John Wilkes! Nice, Play Shakespeare! We going to kick your Coriolanus!"
Jonathan, bullied weenies and snitches don't become assasins - that requires planning, skills and will- they become MSNBC commentators!
Now, me and the guys are gonna toss your Dad 'N Lads up over the telephone wires, paint your rump blue and make you kiss Rachel Maddow!
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