EXACTLY right!

White-hat blogger Matt Margolis says Jesse Watters “got it exactly right.” I can only say that Margolis got THAT “exactly right” his own self. Good on ya, Matt.

The nation was left reeling Wednesday after a tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, where a gunman killed two young children and injured several others. Authorities later identified the shooter as a transgender-identifying male with radical left-wing views—a detail the media was quick to downplay. Sadly, this has become an all-too-familiar pattern. Just as we saw after the 2023 Covenant school massacre in Nashville, the press is once again bending over backwards to bury the shooter’s transgender identity. On his Fox News program Wednesday night, Jesse Watters blasted the media for their blatant double standard.

In his monologue, Watters detailed cases of shootings, firebombings, and ideological extremism, and accused politicians of placing ideology over child safety.

Watters began with an unapologetic charge, linking a recent Catholic school shooting to a broader trend. “So a suicidal transgender who hates Trump's Christians and Jews shoots up kids at a Catholic school, and the media wants to take away your handgun. So how are we supposed to protect ourselves from trans shooters?” he asked, before accusing the press of deliberately ignoring what he sees as an undeniable pattern.

According to Watters, this is not an isolated phenomenon. “The media's bad at pattern recognition. We aren't. Just two years ago, another trans 20-something walked into a Christian school in Nashville with a rifle and shot three kids and three adults. They buried the manifesto and locked down the case. We've seen trans shootings in Colorado and in Maryland. They even shot up an ICE facility in Texas. And it seems like half of Antifa's trans. A couple of they-thems just got popped for firebombing Teslas.”

But when Watters raised this concern, he noted that officials like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey jumped to shut it down. He played a clip of Frey at a press conference earlier in the day when he said, “Anybody who is using this … as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity.... We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone.... We should be operating from a place of love for our kids.”

Watters pushed back again Frey’s statement.

“I don't hate anyone who thinks they're trans. I feel sorry for them. But statistically, the trans population has been prone to violence. That's not villainizing, that's reality, and if you can't recognize reality, you're in danger. We love the American people, especially American children, and if they're troubled and believe they're somehow a girl trapped in a boy's body, we wanna get 'em help. We don't wanna give 'em hormones and operate on them. Society shouldn't be trying to produce more trans kids.”

Watters continued, “We shouldn't be encouraging an emotional disorder, or whatever this is, and doctors should stop profiting from it. Great Britain ended child sex change surgeries. They said it's barbaric, and they're right. And politicians should stop elevating the trans issue like it's the civil rights struggle of the 21st century.”

Still, leftist leaders doubled down on proud declarations of sanctuary for the trans community. Watters dismissed such rhetoric as absurd. “So when your nine-year-old tells you he's a horse, do you let him sleep out in the barn and eat hay? What are we doing here? Just a few years ago, the psychiatric community classified transgenderism as a mental illness. Then doctors went woke and removed it as a condition, and now millions of young Americans are identifying themselves as trans and getting high fives. When someone has an illness, we should treat it instead of affirm it. We don't celebrate schizophrenia. We don't encourage depression.”

Watters then accused the Left of weaponizing children for political aims. “Teenagers are confused…. But the Left's weaponizing trans kids and turning them into culture warriors, and they've been turned loose against the Church, schools, and Trump. You see it, I see it. The trans clan has a militant wing, and it's out for blood. They're taking lives, defiling churches, and freaking everybody out.”

Watters got it exactly right. America’s ruling class knows there’s a disturbing connection between trans ideology and violence, yet they insist on burying the evidence under hollow slogans and woke talking points. The brutal reality is that a disturbing pattern has emerged — one that the Left dares not acknowledge because it undermines their sacred narrative. Instead, the media and politicians run interference, excusing and silencing the truth, while innocent Americans — especially our children — are left exposed as potential victims of an agenda they never asked for.

Annnnnd Bang! Zoom! Matt got it exactly right again. He’s made a habit of doing this sort of thing, I’ve noticed.

My humble apologies to Matt for just jacking his whole piece and reposting it above, turning what of right ought to’ve been a reet, petite, appetite-whetting bite of the full-length report into a regrettable episode of shameless plagiarism, in the style of the undisputed Best Of Breed, God-Emperor Joe “Ramblin’ Wreck” Biden.

See, I tried to pick out two-three paragraphs which could be dropped without diminishing the post. At one point, I seem to have made my choices, telling myself that they were good ones. The back-and-forth of my internal dialogue had brought a few pings of trepidation, uncertainty, and self-doubt along for the ride. I made a final pass through the expurgated version, going slowly and carefully, line by line, as opposed to my usual practice of speed-devouring an article, blowing right past whacking great chunks of it, hopping around aimlessly from place to place like a fluffy bunny on a meth jag. I retraced my path to an earlier point and started over there, this time making sure to read EVERYTHING. The realization that truthfully, I hadn't understood a word of that last passage was quite painful. I hoped fervently that whatever it was I'd fast-forwarded through must have surely have held the key which would unlock the author's prose which would then let me come to grips at last with his central premise.

Anyhoo, I tried to figure out a way I could leave out some nonessential passages, as Blogdom’s widely-known “Fair Use” standards insist we all do. Yep, I tried really, really REALLY hard. Pinky-swears I did. I gave it my best shot.

In the end, though, after that last look-over of my three candidates for omission, it hit me with all the force, violence, and physical shock value of having a 5 gallon bucketful of ice-water hurled directly in my face from point-blank range: I can’t do it, I just…dammit, I can’t. The piece needs those ‘graphs, it requires them. Take ‘em out and the whole damn thing will come tumbling down like a house of cards in a gale.

As I’ve mentioned before a time or two, this latest excursion into the swamps of futility reminds me of how damned difficult it is to excerpt John Wilder’s work. As time marches ever on, the original hypothesis brought on by that difficulty evolved into a broader theory regarding the relationship between good writing with those of us lost souls who simply MUST write. These days, the hypothesis/theory/premise I created usually seems to hover, like a lazy, indifferent butterfly, somewhere between the opposite poles of cast-iron Law and a careful intuition which might fairly be thought of as analogous to the “tell” most poker players have. To wit: the difficulty of excerpting a given writer’s work is a reliable indication of how talented, how skillful, how just flat-out GOOD that writer truly is.

After this revelation, it was clear what I must do, so that’s what i did —I reinstated the three briefly orphaned paragraphs I had deleted mere minutes ago, then started another review of the finished article from start to finish. And whaddya know: I got it exactly right myself!

Heh.