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Maynard says:

The Left is desperately and blatantly trying to spin the public attention away from the obvious. The WSJ’s Taranto describes more of this in today’s column, “Sex, Lies, and Orlando”. In the segment below, he refers to the latest New York Times editorial:

…today’s editorial about Sunday’s Islamic terror attack on a gay bar in Orlando, in which the Times asserts this:

While the precise motivation for the rampage remains unclear, it is evident that [attacker Omar] Mateen was driven by hatred toward gays and lesbians. Hate crimes don’t happen in a vacuum. They occur where bigotry is allowed to fester, where minorities are vilified and where people are scapegoated for political gain. Tragically, this is the state of American politics, driven too often by Republican politicians who see prejudice as something to exploit, not extinguish.

In fact, the motivation is entirely clear. The Washington Post reports that during the attack, Mateen phoned a local TV station and told a producer: “I did it for ISIS. I did it for the Islamic State.” He told 911 operators the same thing.

Where might Mateen have developed an antipathy toward gays? On Monday we noted that after the attack his father posted on his Facebook page that “God himself will punish those involved in homosexuality.” Mateen père is not a Republican but an Afghan immigrant reportedly sympathetic to the Taliban.

The Times faults Republicans for opposing same-sex marriage, antidiscrimination laws (which the Times believes should be enforced without any exception for religious conscience) and the use of ladies’ rest rooms by persons whose “gender identity” does not match their sex. In itself, that’s fine. There is room for civilized disagreement about such matters. But falsely blaming your political adversaries for mass murder is hardly civilized.

Got it? If you oppose Obama’s political agenda and/or object to men peeing in the ladies’ room, you’re responsible for murder.

Accusing decent people of such evil is reprehensible, but the Left does it every day. This is Obama’s America, cheered on by the smartest, most morally supreme crowd on the face of the planet.