re: #365 The Shadow Do

Cripes, how many times do I have to post this disgusting post:
But it flew in the face of national rage. They just *had* to be cowards! The Prez said so! We wanted to believe it! To believe otherwise would *empower* this new threat with something we didn’t want to give them- legitimacy.

That doesn’t validate the notion the way you think it does - he was saying that many people erroneously thought that this would confer legitimacy on them.