Owen Jones's Sky News meltdown - what happens to lefties when the hierarchy of victimhood means they have to lie

Denial might not be a river in Egypt - but it does seem to run like a river through mainstream Islam. I was watching coverage of the slaughter of 50 gay Orlando nightclubbers on Fox News a little earlier (they were discussing Trump's proposal to halt Muslim immigration, while agreeing that that wouldn't have prevented what happened in Florida) when they cut to one of their unbearably endless station ident sequences. So I switched over to the BBC, where everyone was jolly upset that unofficial Leave campaigners had posted a tweet suggesting that the Orlando outrage could happen here if we stay in the EU (the moral preeners seemed to have forgotten about the Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo attacks, despite no doubt bravely posting jesusiswhatever messages on social media in their immediate aftermath). Then it was time for a live interview with someone in Orlando. I was expecting some sort of reporter update - but no, a Muslim in Muslim garb representing a Muslim organisation appeared on screen. I groaned.

I watched the first two minutes or so of the interview to see if there was any chance that the bearded chap in the cap might issue anything even vaguely resembling an apology on behalf of his religion. (Yer 'avin' a laugh, incha?) You'll be astonished to hear that the murder of 50 revellers had absolutely nothing whatsoever in any way, shape or form whatsoever to do with Islam. Second, his organisation had started a collection for survivors and relatives of the Muslim gunman's victims, and his flock (followers?) were being encouraged to give blood. Third, he had warned his followers that they might be subject to an anti-Muslim backlash. Fourth, Donald Trump (I'm not sure what his point about Donald Trump was, because I switched over at that point).

I returned to Fox, which, for a change, was laying into the terrorist's friend, Barack Obama. I wondered how that BBC interview was going. Was beardy capman being asked why so many adherents of Islam seem incapable of expressing shame for the sins of their co-religionists? Was he being asked whether American Muslims understand why non-Beltway, non-Muslim Americans might be getting ever so slightly irritated by the adherents of the religion of peace, and might be wondering whether continuing to let them flood into their country is really such a spiffing idea? Was he being asked whether Islam's ingrained abhorrence of homosexuals, its utter contempt for women and its obsessive hatred of Jews made for a good fit with liberty-lovin', modern-day America? Or was he being smothered in lashings of sympathy and given a really easy ride? I think I can guess.

I think someone on Fox was advocating the use of nuclear weapons on terror-supporting Arab states, and suggesting that every domestic terrorist attack should result in an extra billion dollars being given to Israel to build up its armed forces, but that could have been last night.

Speaking of last night, more denial was in evidence, on Sky News this time, when Owen Jones (the little gay leftie who looks like a 15-year old and acts as if he's about seven - he's the one who last year wrote an article headlined "Russell Brand has endorsed Labour - and the Tories should be worried") flounced off the set because the Press Review host, Mark Longhurst, refused to fall in line with little Owie's preferred narrative that what happened in Orlando was purely a homophobic hate crime and had nothing whatsoever to do with lovely, cuddly, misunderstood Islam:

The problem for Jones - and for the whole of the moral relativist, cultural Marxist left - is that Muslims currently top their hierarchy of victimhood, and have done so for at least fifteen years. That means that when Muslims deride, mistreat or kill former chart-toppers like women, gays or blacks, modern urban lefties suffer episodes of severe cognitive dysfunction, and become even more hysterical and incoherent and bonkers than usual, to the point where they're reduced to blurting out the names of perceived "enemies" - "Farage! UKIP supporters! The Daily Mail! Bullingdon Club! Tories! Zionists! Bush! Trump! Boris! Gove! Royals! EDL! Racists! Homophobes! Little Englanders! Male Chauvinists! Christians! Clarkson! Arms dealers! Murdoch! Israel! Zionists!" - whether or not those enemies of Progressivism bear any relevance to the maddening, insoluble Hierarchy of Victimhood conundrum with which they are faced at that moment.

To argue that the Orlando massacre was nothing but a homophobic hate crime (Owen Jones) or that the real problem is gun control (Obama) - just in order to avoid the need to name and shame Islam and to hold it to account for the horrors committed in its name - represent acts of grotesque, wicked intellectual dishonesty. People are dying, you bloody fools! When we know, somewhere deep within ourselves, that we're being dishonest, and that our beliefs have proved to be utterly false, we get angry and we lash out.

I hope our main news channels ban Owen Jones from the airwaves, not just because he's always wrong about everything, but because, from now on, watching the sad little twat would make one feel like an 18th Century aristocrat visiting Bedlam to snigger at the antics of tortured inmates who dimly realise that their distorted picture of reality is false - but don't know how to put it right. Nobody's a fan of that.