The day after the Paris attacks he called for circuses to be bombed back to the stone age. There is a four hour time difference between Santiago, Chile and Paris, France. The first of the attacks, before anyone would have known what was happening or it would have been on the news, was about 9:20pm Paris time. At 12:30 on the 14th they were storming the Bataclan. By then it was worldwide news. Somewhere between 5:30 and 8:30pm om the 13th, Morrissey's local time, he had to have known. Maybe he had already sent his statement, however that works, but it wasn't published until the next day. It wasn't posted on Solo until 10pm, and Solo is on the same time zone as Paris, 6 hours ahead of TTY's timezone. So it was posted on TTY sometime in the afternoon EST, twelve hours after the attacks, conservatively. Say it was posted at 12pm. Morrissey was in a timezone 3 hours ahead of that making it at least 15 hours after the attacks.
He had all day to stop the post, which called for bombings. I do think that he did not intentionally refer to Paris with his post. It was already written. But he had at least after the attacks to put that post on hold, and since it referred to an incident months before it would have still had the same relevance. Any rational person, I think, would have thought about this.
I realize all that about the timezones sounds batty, but I wanted to know if it was intentional, and I don't think it was. Still nothing here suggests he cared about the people of Paris. Not his previous comments on mass killing, or his neglecting to postpone his circus quote, which, on a slow news day might have gotten some traction. Not the post the next day about the British Royals. Not the post complaining about being denied a re-release. Not the post grabbed from twitter. How does that show respect to anyone? People died and his problem is that his song didn't get re-released?
That's why it's not hard to honestly, honestly believe that he saw this as something he could capitalize on. I never came here to blindly worship anyone. I think he's gotten away with a lot over the years because of people thinking that he couldn't really mean what he appeared to be saying, and this time, because his behavior is so obviously self-centered, it's easier to believe that he wanted publicity than not.
But I do understand how bad it seems to be accusing him of that based on circumstantial evidence. It's just the immediate feeling I had, and the more I look at it the more convinced I am.
