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In a welcome departure from the quiet, understated private mourning surrounding the recent events at Virginia Tech (a topic that has remained free of gratuitous politicizing for far too long), Newt Gingrich this week attributed the recent tragedies at Tech to 40 years of liberalism and a culture where "Young people are being dehumanized by violence in video games and liberalism has created a 'zone of not being willing to talk about any of these things.'"

Gingrich is not without support to his argument. Here is just a partial list of items that the dangerous cocktail of liberalism and violent video games is responsible for over the last 40 years:

Jeopardy!
Dunkaroos
The Oklahoma City bombing
Slap bracelets
Teen pregnancy
AIDS
Autism (specifically asperger's syndrome)
Gigli
Flava Flav
Homosexuality
Rape Culture

The expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban
Brett Ratner films
Genocide (Darfur, Kosovo, Somalia)
Super Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt
Dick Cheney
Pee Wee Herman
Hostess Cupcakes
Global warming*
The existence of the Middle East
Tom Green
People who aren't white

The Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem
Hummus (not to be confused with HAMAS)
HAMAS
Nuclear weapons
Poverty
Unemployment
Homelessness
Goth Music



*This is a tricky one because although liberalism is responsible for it, according to most conservative experts it doesn't actually exist