It is always about the "Phony Bastards" who have never looked in a mirror except to admire themselves » The Chechen in the Rye

The Editors at the NY Times, Big Media and the Obama Gov't are so full of their own rarified gas, they all seem to forget "Catcher in the Rye" (if they ever read it) is about alienation from the phony bastards like them. Muslim fanatics are among the phoniest, as are all the self-righteous just mentioned. m/r

To paraphrase the immortal words of Holden Caulfield: "I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking [Allah] to send him a few more stiffs."

Ed Driscoll » The Chechen in the Rye
April 24th, 2013

In a post titled “Anger Management,” Mark Steyn writes, “Former brother-in-law Elmirza Khozhugov explains Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s grievances to The New York Times“:

So he blew up an eight-year old boy and a couple of hundred other Americans.

And now the media are full of stories about how the Tsarnaevs were all-American kids and “beautiful, beautiful boys” and maybe it was the boxing or the Ben Affleck movies or the classical music but, whatever it was, it was nothing to do with Islam. Nothing whatever.

I blame The Catcher in the Rye. Particularly after the New York Times‘ Michiko Kakutani did, too, on their front page, to boot. (Link safe; goes to Newsbusters):

Given the layers of irony, sarcasm and joking often employed on Twitter, it can be difficult to parse the messages of a stranger. Yet some of them can seem menacing or portentous, given what we now suspect: “a decade in america already, I want out,” “Never underestimate the rebel with a cause” or “No one is really violent until they’re with the homies.” But others suggest a more Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation: “some people are just misunderstood by the world thus the increase of suicide rates.”

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