Conservatives' Twitter reactions to President Barack Obama's speech on the massacre in Charleston were, even by Twitter's low standard, almost uniformly awful.
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Is it just me, or are you noticing a trend?
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Because I'm definitely picking up on a common theme here.
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Whatever could it be?
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And because no conversation with a conservative these days is complete without at least one refererence -- but let's be honest, most likely many more -- to it:
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As the president himself noted, this is the fourteenth time he's had to a deliver a speech like this, which means that thirteen times before all these same people said all the same things, and yet somehow they fail to realize just how much damage their pathological commitment to being wrong does to their credibility. As one user noted:
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley -- who most likely shares the the belief behind the sentiments above -- managed to rise above the idiots' din and go straight to the point. The steeple point:
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