Daily News’ Daly demogogues V-Tech killings

Mark it on your calendar. It didn’t even take 24 hours before an ivory tower, white, liberal jerk politicized the tragic deaths at Virginia Tech. As an entire state mourns the senseless and tragic killings of 32 students, as well as injuries to at least a dozen others, New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly was the first to jump on the incident for political purposes.

Or maybe he’s just an ass.

Virginia Tech, the state of Virginia, the nation and even to some degree the world has just suffered through the largest school killing in US history. You’d think Daly could at least wait until the dead are buried before making political hay out of the situation.

But no. That’d show some sign of shared humanity and soul. Daly lacks that. It’s all just an excuse for him to advance his liberal agenda.

Of course, some politicians and pundits from both sides will eventually do that, to one degree or another. But the degree of personally-insulting invective and snobbery Daly puts Virginia through is absolutely uncalled for.

Daly’s column insults all of Virginia, blaming them for not only the V-Tech shootings but for New York gun violence as well. He puts them through a battery of insults, as though it was something the university and the entire state deserved for… what? Supporting the second amendment, or something like that? He even blames them for looking the other way when an assistant to Sen. James Webb was caught carrying a gun around. Webb, by the way, is a Democrat, though that doesn’t seem to bother Daly. Huh?

You know, Don Imus was fired for fewer tacky words than this. I’m not Al Sharpton; I don’t believe people should be fired for exercising freedom of speech, no matter how idiotic that speech may be.

Daly’s choice of words is at least as contemptible as Imus’ words. That’s fine. He’s entitled to his opinion. But does Daly deserve an audience? Does he deserve to be read by anyone – liberal or conservative – after spouting such venom during a time of national mourning?

No.