Nice idiotic follow-up to him blaming the Baltimore riots on right-to-work states…
Via Newsbusters:
Taking a classic blame-the-victim posture on his May 4 Hardball program, host Chris Matthews joined terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann in blaming The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) for the would-be terror attack at the Garland, Texas, event on Sunday.
“Talk about causing trouble,” Matthews whined in a tease for the segment. “An anti-Islamic event caused, well, it caused this probably.”
Kicking off his interview with Kohlmann, Matthews repeated the “caused” language, even as he attempted to hedge his statement to guard against criticism that he was in any way condoning terroristic violence:
This is problematic to me, because I wonder whether this group that health this event to basically disparage and to make fun of the Prophet Muhammad does it in some way cause these events, without the word causing, how about provoking provoking, how about taunting, how about daring? How do you see the causality factor here?
Kohlmann then launched into the boiler-plate “I love freedom of speech but” spiels that the Left is fond of these days when it comes to Islamist radicals going ape and attacking cartoonists: