"I wish his name was 'smith.'"

Regular readers will know that I hold a special contempt for the deliberate denial of reality at the heart of all political correctness.

Last week, after the Ft. Hood massacre, ABC's Martha Raddatz said this:

As for the suspect, Nidal Hassan: As one officer's wife told me, "I wish his name was 'Smith.'"

Needless to say, I was amused to hear this analysis from Mark Steyn, guest-hosting for Limbaugh on Friday:

There's something very bizarre about this kind of reaction because what this woman is actually saying is, "I wish my nice multicultural illusions would not be disturbed by harsh reality."  And if they won't get disturbed by a body count like this, then in essence our culture is doomed, because nothing can penetrate the soft, fluffy, marshmallow illusions.