Just as the MSM rushed to distance the murderous Army Major Nidal Hassan from his Muslim roots and deny any possible connections with a radical cleric, we are seeing a similar effort to soften the story around the suspected Times Square bomber.
Yesterday on CNN’s lowly-rated “American Morning” a neighbor of the suspect had nothing bad to say about the man or his family and even shared the tragic news of the would-be bomber’s CT home going into foreclosure. The anchors speculated on just how awful that must have made this (attempted killer) man feel… Losing a home is stressful and emotionally painful.
And then I thought to myself, “Wait a second, in this latest recession there have been millions of home loans that defaulted and properties in foreclosure – how many of those homeowners have allegedly tried to blow up Times Square?” If you guessed zero – you were correct.
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MSNBC.com’s website has a headline story that leads with the statement, “Suspect in bomb plot lost home to foreclosure” – as if a foreclosure was the inspiration for this attempted homicide bombing in Times Square? If so, why did he choose this location? Was it next to the JP Morgan Chase headquarters? After all, Faisal Shahzad defaulted on a loan made by Chase Home Mortgage. Nope – not near a Chase branch. The car was parked close to the Viacom Headquarters… Viacom, the people who own Comedy Central and “South Park.”
CBS2 in NYC was quick to jump on the bandwagon and try to let us know “Who is the Times Square Car Bomb Suspect.” (as if this were a summer replacement game show). In the article, we learned much about the man who spent most of the past year in Pakistan. He was able to afford to fly overseas and live in Pakistan for months and then return and pay $1300 in cash for the SUV that would be his delivery mechanism. I guess he spent the mortgage money on overseas travel and throw-away SUVs.
And then there is Mayor Bloomberg’s speculation on the identity of the bomber, with an assist from CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric “leading the witness.”
If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.
Technically Bloomberg was right on a couple of levels. The suspect is likely to have a political agenda, it’s just not the health care bill. And I am also betting that anyone who would plan to detonate a bomb in a crowded area qualifies as mentally deranged.
This is a guy who spent the last six months in the terror training camp region of a country known for terror training. He parked the four-wheeled bomb near the offices of a company that was threatened online by a radical Muslim website.
Stop tip-toeing around the obvious militant Muslim issue, report the story.
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