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And I didn’t even mention that, having claimed that it’s totalitarian to make any inquiry into the motivation behind a homicide, she then asserts that “the aimless hooligans who beat Shepard and tied him to a fence perhaps didn’t necessarily mean to kill him.” Needless to say, the basis for this inference is left unspecified. And, hey, about some victim-blaming: “Only a week before, Shepard had expressed fears about being killed. Given that apprehension, it is still inexplicable — if the case is examined only through a political lens — why Shepard would leave a public place in the company of such blatant thugs.” Um…well, I trust you don’t need me to deal with this (and it looks even worse following her discussion of History’s Greatest Martyr, Sarah Palin.)