Look out! It's the Devil!

For the last few years, I've been looking for the exact point where I could say "that's it, Fox News is America's Pravda - I no longer have to even pretend to take them seriously." They've come close to the precipice before, toes dangling over the edge of a canyon of madness like so much pseudojournalistic Wile E Coyote, but they've just now taken two steps off, stood upon the air, looked down, realized they were falling, and held out a tiny umbrella.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the ninth wonder of the world:

DID THE DEVIL MAKE HIM DO IT?

Yeah, that's right: they found a guy willing to say that the V Tech shooter, perhaps the single greatest playwrite of this or any generation, was either possessed or oppressed by Satan. Because this has to be something or someone's fault, since we've got nobody to string up. Blame video games! Blame rock music! Blame movies! Blame magical metaphysical beings that embody evil so people don't think for a second that maybe they're capable of going absolutely bughouse nuts! Personal responsibility is for sissies!

The second you start drafting theories that supernatural entities beyond our mortal ken are behind mass shootings, you've moved out of the realm of even passively respectable journalism and straight into the kind of world wherein a cover story on Batboy becomes not only expected, but somehow okay. May as well start banging out stories about how Don Imus was really fired because he was going to reveal the vast conspiracy behind 9/11 that the grim shadow cabinet that secretly runs the world only revealed, apparently, to stone lunatics and talk radio hosts in cowboy hats.