It's What Happens When You Sympathize with the Destroyers

CNN's coverage of the Steubenville, Ohio, rape verdict involving a pair of high-school football players is being harshly criticized for its focus on the rapists rather than the 16-year-old victim.

"I've never experienced anything like it," CNN correspondent Poppy Harlow said live outside the juvenile court in Steubenville. "It was incredibly emotional—incredibly difficult even for an outsider like me to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believe their life fell apart."

Harlow continued:
One of the young men, Ma'lik Richmond, when that sentence came down, he collapsed. He collapsed in the arms of his attorney, Walter Madison. He said to me, "My life is over. No one is going to want me now." Very serious crime here. Both found guilty of raping this 16-year-old girl at a series of parties back in August, alcohol-fueled parties. Alcohol is a huge part in this.

Many liberals are outraged, but isn't this the way that they would cover most of the biblical verdicts upon the wicked?

"I've never experienced anything like it," Professor Joe Liberal said outside his university office. "It was incredibly emotional—incredibly difficult even for an outsider like me to watch what happened as these Canaanite child murderers that had such promising futures, star senet players, very good farmers, literally watched as they believe their life fell apart."

Professor Joe Liberal continued: One of the young men, Ma'lik bin Richmond, when that sentence came down from God, he collapsed. He collapsed in the arms of his priest, Balaam. He said to me, "My life is over. No one is going to think well of me now." Very serious crime here. His culture was found guilty of violence against humanity for thousands of years. Tribal culture is a huge part in this.