Philbin Column: On Ft. Hood, Media and Elites Refuse to Deal with Real

Matt Philbin
November 10th, 2009 7:16 PM
As we survey the horror of the Ft. Hood massacre, it might be useful to remember that we’ve been here before, with another shooting 16 years ago. The circumstances were very different, but the reaction of the media and other elite – the excusing, the spinning, the slight regard for the victims – has been eerily similar. On Dec. 7, 1993, aboard a crowded rush hour Long Island Railroad…