Just hours after the terrorist butchery in Paris, actor Rob Lowe tweeted out a snarky comment, attacking the French government over its liberal immigration policy accepting refugees fleeing the horrors of civil war in Syria.
“Oh, NOW France closes its borders,” he wrote on Twitter.
Putting aside Lowe’s exploitative rush to score oh-so-clever partisan points as rescuers still pulled bodies from buildings, his loathsome provocation signaled how swiftly the carnage in Paris came to roil campaign politics in the U.S.