If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that the Repugs will ever do the right thing. I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans are often Republican gun toters.

That was the Facebook post about the mass murders in Las Vegas at the beginning of October that got its author, Hayley Geftman-Gold, fired from her job as vice president and senior counsel at cbs. How eaten up with hatred for your fellow citizens who belong to a different political persuasion do you have to be to issue a public statement like that when the bodies are still warm, overriding the most basic sense of propriety, not to mention self-preservation? The unfortunate victims didn’t even have to be Republicans or gun toters to get what they deserved, in Ms. Geftman-Gold’s opinion, only to like the same music that Republicans and gun toters “often” do.

She later apologized for what she described as her “shameful” post, but it should have been described more accurately as shameless. If whatever capacity for shame with which she might have been raised had not dried up and evaporated, as it has for so many others these days, she wouldn’t have written those words (or even thought of doing so) in the first place. Her retrospective shamefulness will doubtless look to most people more like regret for what her message cost her—something that also could have been foreseen.

Geftman-Gold’s retrospective shamefulness looks more like