Yesterday it was reported that 18 of 31 suspects who had at that point been ID’d in New Year’s Eve attacks on women in Cologne, Germany are in the country seeking asylum. The news puts a big damper on President Obama’s attempts to make everybody believe that refugees are “widows and orphans.”

Perhaps in an attempt to salvage the Left’s talking point about refugees, an op-ed columnist in the New York Times rode to the rescue:

The narrative is back on track: all those sexual assaults are really *Germany's* fault. https://t.co/pZghFhfkwM pic.twitter.com/WPQhtf9HQN — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 9, 2016

Facepalm!

Nice try, but no:

@CounterMoonbat why is it Germany's job to tell these scumbags to keep it in their pants and not rape women — Johnny (@jrmadmen) January 9, 2016

They are most certainly NOT kidding you. Let's not be confused, "integration" does NOT mean "assimilation​" either. @CounterMoonbat — Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) January 9, 2016

Subtle bigotry, implies refugees are dumb, victims with no agency or responsibility to integrate themselves. https://t.co/SB8FadBapZ — Laura Curtis (@Laura_PH) January 9, 2016

"Square peg must do more to make itself round." https://t.co/6sbkYMuYkx — We're Doomed (@trogdor8768) January 9, 2016

Apologists will excuse anything these barbarians do. https://t.co/snNvspjFKh — Terri (@CantBelieve10) January 9, 2016

@CounterMoonbat NYT takes victim-blaming to pro level. — Cultural Combat (@CulturalCombat) January 9, 2016

And then some!