Reality TV Show Abruptly Cancelled Due to Low Ratings and Police Gunfire

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But mainly police gunfire. Just woke up from a long nap here in Anchorage and this was the big news:

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Police shot and killed a gunman who held three hostages for several hours Wednesday at the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Md., authorities said. They said the hostages were safe.

My first thought was that this was some nut who had gone to extremes in an effort to get his own cable TV reality series. OK, so I was I was half-right. He was a nut:

“All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions,” it reads. “In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.”

In other words, James J. Lee hated babies and wasn’t content with doing what most people who hate babies do: Vote Democrat and contribute to Planned Parenthood.

No, he had to do more. And so he did, and now he’s dead.

So the world’s population has been reduced by one.

UPDATE: Ace of Spades, from whom I borrowed the headline riff, goes another way:

James Lee’s condition is reportedly stable, but dead.

Yeah. Good-bye, chump.

UPDATE II: Michelle Malkin has some more of the baby-hating nut’s “demands” :

Perhaps also [Discovery shows would include] forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation.

In other words: This guy had a “science” fetish even more extreme than Charles Johnson’s.

UPDATE III: Wow. That was just a random LGF joke, or so I thought until Professor Donald Douglas quoted Charles Johnson’s complaint:

“It would be nice if everyone could just agree that James Jay Lee, the hostage taker killed today in a standoff at the offices of the Discovery Channel, was deranged. And leave it at that. But of course, we’re already seeing some extremely partisan bloggers trying to put him in the ‘left wing’ category, simply because his weird views sprang out of a kind of extreme environmentalism . . . .”

Now, imagine if this crime had been committed by a creationist, upset about evolutionary rhetoric in Discovery Channel’s wildlife shows. What would CJ have said about that?

UPDATE IV: Patrick at Political Byline blogged the hostage crisis as it happened and has extensive details including a photo of James Lee.

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  3. And so it goes.

    Can we all just carry? To quote Robert Heinlein, “An armed society is a Polite society.”

    There you go…..

    If anyone comes and shoots at me, I tend to shoot back.

    I have a Cop living across the road from me. A few years ago, there was some rumor that he had had his house shot up. The guys I work with who are County Cops all laughed when they heard that rumor.

    “I know who he lives next door to. If someone started opening up in his front yard, they’d never leave there in one piece.”

    That depends on who I thought they were shooting at, actually. But it could lead to serious problems for the shooter, being as it’s a dead end road.

    Cops? I’ve got a 20 minute lag before they show up, best case. I lean toward telling them to bring the body bags when they come, should I need them.

    Me, my dog, and my weapons. I live here, and we are somewhat private.

    Heh.

  4. And so it goes.

    Can we all just carry? To quote Robert Heinlein, “An armed society is a Polite society.”

    There you go…..

    If anyone comes and shoots at me, I tend to shoot back.

    I have a Cop living across the road from me. A few years ago, there was some rumor that he had had his house shot up. The guys I work with who are County Cops all laughed when they heard that rumor.

    “I know who he lives next door to. If someone started opening up in his front yard, they’d never leave there in one piece.”

    That depends on who I thought they were shooting at, actually. But it could lead to serious problems for the shooter, being as it’s a dead end road.

    Cops? I’ve got a 20 minute lag before they show up, best case. I lean toward telling them to bring the body bags when they come, should I need them.

    Me, my dog, and my weapons. I live here, and we are somewhat private.

    Heh.

  16. I find it more than a little ironic that in the wake of Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally, leftie bloggers were talking about seeing the next Timothy McVeigh in the crowd, and then a violent, left wing, environmentalist whacko invades the Discovery Channel!

  17. I find it more than a little ironic that in the wake of Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally, leftie bloggers were talking about seeing the next Timothy McVeigh in the crowd, and then a violent, left wing, environmentalist whacko invades the Discovery Channel!

  21. and btw to correct my post in the previous thread the insanity fair hit piece portrays palin and beck getting revenge on more than half the world for electing a black man in the white house

  22. and btw to correct my post in the previous thread the insanity fair hit piece portrays palin and beck getting revenge on more than half the world for electing a black man in the white house

  23. and btw to correct my post in the previous thread the insanity fair hit piece portrays palin and beck getting revenge on more than half the world for electing a black man in the white house

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