“Live footage of the Boston Marathon Jihad bombing!”

“It would be irresponsible to speculate,” Pamela Geller will never say, especially not when Muslims speak. Conservatives have realized that having a choke-hold on the narrative and maintaining constant pressure is the best way to ensure that, even if the facts eventually betray them, they’ll have framed the event to their advantage. The Newton massacre, which unequivocally concerned the ready availability of unnecessarily high-powered weapons, is now a marginal debate about maybe closing gun-show loopholes and never doing anything about mental healthcare deficiencies because that would be communism.

But ask a conservative and he’ll insist that his views aren’t being represented in the mainstream media — because he’s incapable of understanding that a system in which liberals on television ineffectually call for change while “liberals” in Congress noisily twiddle their thumbs is the perfect mechanism for maintaining conservative policy. I’m using the term “conservative” in the broader sense of “conserving structures as they currently exist,” but given that the country’s been stumbling into Sharia for the better part of five years now, how does erecting such a system constitute anything other than a conservative victory? Rachel Maddow can rail against Mississippi’s successful skirting of Roe but it’s still happening and, in the early hours after this attack in Boston, it doesn’t matter who’s ultimately responsible. In the minds of many — including Geller’s readers and Fox’s viewers — even if it isn’t the Muslims, it’s the Muslims.

Because that’s what happens when people conspire to “praise” an absence no matter how often it never appears.

And on the day they consult their stopped clocks and find no fault? That’s the day the rest of us begin to never hear the end of it. The day “twice right, daily” becomes the new standard of prophecy all liberal policy suffers more than it did under W. I sincerely hope that day’s not today.