Jack Cashill’s Sept. 16 WorldNetDaily column is devoting to grousing that the media has ignored that a student who slashed the throat of a Kansas community college president “seems to have absorbed just about every animus in the left-wing ether: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others.” Cashill claimed that “comparable demons drove ‘environmental activist’ James Lee to storm the headquarters of the Discovery Broadcasting Channel. His inspiration too went largely unexamined.” Cashill concluded that “For the last century or more, it is the progressive fever swamps that have nurtured most of the world’s hate and virtually all of its violence, including, paradoxically, radical Islam.”
But Cashill frets much less about violence with right-wing origins. As we’ve detailed, Cashill found nothing radical about Scott Roeder, convicted of murdering Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller in church — in fact, Cashill praised Roeder for administering “frontier justice.” And Cashill has repeatedly served as apologist for Steven Nary, convicted of killing a gay man, by demonizing the victim and ignoring incriminating evidence against Nary.