Leonard Pitts on the "lunatic fringe" in Knoxville.

I've noticed Putz's rather strange fixation on a gruesome double murder in Knoxville. See here, here, here, here, here, here, and here (also see Michelle Malkin's rather unhinged crusade here).

Putz's basic point can be summed up by this post from a couple of weeks ago:

It's certainly true, of course -- as LaShawn notes -- that if the races were reversed the press would be all over this case and lots of people would be confidently pronouncing it a hate crime without any evidence other than the races of the perpretrators and victims, but since it's black-on-white crime they're making less noise. That's the press.

Got that? It's "certainly true" (no question about it!) that the poor downtrodden white man can't catch a break these days in the media. The media, being liberal and therefore white- American-hating, just can't stand white people, especially white males. And it loves minorities. Is this really even debatable?

Over to you, Leonard Pitts:

It always amazes me when white people put on the victim hat.

As in victim of racial oppression. By any measure — health, education, economics, employment — white Americans enjoy a superior standard of living. If that's racial oppression, sign me up.

But still, one occasionally hears mewling noises from that subset of my white countrymen who feel put upon by big, bad racial minorities. This is one of those times. And Knoxville, Tenn., has become the capital city of that lunatic fringe.

Mr. Pitts, you have no idea. Go on.

Truth is, media ignore horrific crimes all the time. Space is limited and growing more so. Which means the story that catches fire usually has some element beyond gruesomeness to sell it. In the Duke case, it was class, privilege, sex and race that did it.

Not that I expect Oliver or any other "oppressed" white person to pay attention to something so trivial as fact. They're too busy demanding that this case be tried as a hate crime — even though police say there's no evidence the couple was targeted for any other reason than that they were there. And last weekend, white supremacists held — I kid you not — a "rally against genocide" in Knoxville.

That I missed. I'll have to find photos. Continue, please.

Black crime against whites is underreported? On what planet? Study after study and expert after expert tell a completely different story.

Simply watching your local news tells a completely different story. It's not entirely clear why Putz doesn't understand this.

Take it on home, Leonard.

I have four words for them and any other white Americans who feel themselves similarly victimized.

Cry me a river.

Ouch.