Liveblogging Dateline

I'm sure I'll get crap for this, but I'm already weary of the coverage of the VT shooting. It is what it is. Maybe I'm jaded from Columbine. No one benefits from the whore-media beating every minutia into the ground.

Maybe it's just that they're so obviously exploiting the emotion of it.

Some kid from VT has more character than Stone Phillips. I'm paraphrasing, as best I remember:

SP: There's been some talk about blaming someone.
The kid: This is not the time to channel our anger and grief into blaming someone, as there is no one person [other than the shooter] to blame this on. It's something that needs to be dealt with and move on.
SP: But shouldn't we try to learn from this so that if it ever happens again, we say we shouldn't do this or that.

One of the shooter's HS peers wrote that he appeared like the poster child of a school shooter.

Now they're crucifying the guy who legally sold him the 9mm handgun.
"Did he make your employee suspicious in any way?"
"How do you feel that he bought this gun at your store and did this?"

Guns bought in VA are used in NY for illegal stuff.
Talking about Bloomberg's investigation into illegal gun trade.
They're showing a straw purchase video.
What has this to do with anything?
Oh, by the way, he bought his guns legally

"Now, he was armed to the hilt"? With a .22 and a 9mm?
Yeah, adding that .22 to the arsenal really made a difference.

"Why him? Why any of them?"
"This is Emily." She's the girlfriend [that started it all]
[I'm sorry, but that's the implication they are doing with that juxtaposition]

Bummer. The hot Lebanese girl spent last summer in Beirut, during the war, only to be killed here.

SP is back to laying blame.
Christ, he's back to harping on the gun laws. Kill me.
"This Gun Culture that seems to play some role in this tragedy." Idiot.
How is a loner Korean immigrant part of this mysterious gun culture? Is he out shootin' varmits' on the weekends? Is he listening to Ice-T?
I HATE when inside-the-beltway morons try to sound like experts on something they know nothing about.

"The internet makes the world a village."
If Al Gore and Hillary ran on that, they could win.

Cybergriefing; a new word!

"The difficult, tough questions that security must be getting now."

All the kids in the hospital have been upgraded. Looks like they'll make it.

More blame. The parents of the hot Lebanese girl couldn't get her on her cell phone, so they drove to the campus and ran into a friend of hers that knew she was dead.
"Are you angry that the university didn't call you before you found out from someone else?"
Uh, I'm guessing 'the university' still had a pretty full plate at that point.

I wonder what the memorial will look like.

Jeebus! Stone, enough with the blame!
Can you not go two questions without going back to that well?

I can't believe ANY of these parents agreed to talk to the media. I wouldn't.

I love Hallelujah, although John Cale does it better.