PEOPLE CAN’T SEEM TO RESIST IT, THOUGH: Ed Morrissey: Politicizing a Terrorist Act Degrades Victims and Heroes. “In a country that routinely criticizes itself for its lack of exercise, the American media tend to excel at two things – jumping to conclusions and running off at the mouth. In the immediate aftermath of tragedy or crisis, a vacuum of information opens, and cable-news anchors and analysts feel compelled to fill it with uninformed speculation that gets repeated as fact. Pundits and politicians climb onto well-groomed hobby horses, promoting their causes by exploiting the crisis and fear of the unknown. We have seen plenty of that in past crises, and this week’s bombings at the Boston Marathon were no exception.”

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UPDATE: Roger Kimball on David Sirota’s white privilege problem.