Here’s the SDMB thread where several folks opined that it was probably a right winger: vhttp://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=561766
Here’s a choice quote:
I like how you say that like he and I are bosom buddies or something. In reality, he thinks I will burn forever, and I think it’s sad he’s been deluded by his parents (and I hope he’s able to break out of it soon).
Oh, you’ll like Hell, Rand. Gated community. Very exclusive.
Nah, they got teh black folks there . . . making me cross the street all the time . . . and shit . . .
Why are we not at threat level red?
Why are not the east coast airports closed, or at least the banks and post offices along the southern shore of lake Erie?
If Bush were still president, there’d be some sort of shit like that to let us know this threat was serious. Does Obama want us to stop hyperventilating as a nation? The resultant decrease in exhaled CO[sub]2[/sub] could lead to a new ice age! That’d be serious! For our nation’s sake, we must continue to panic!
The islamist terrorists to date have used highly viable devices. A very large percentage of them have been devastating. Those that haven’t gone off have been basically viable but thankfully had minor faults.
The Times Square bomb didn’t suffer a minor technical hitch, it was utterly non-viable. It appeared to have been the work of an ignorant idiot with no apparent knowledge or training. Consequently it was in my view a rational guess that the perp would be a local nutcase rather than an islamist terrorist.
As it turns out, it seems the perp seems to have been an islamist terrorist. Sometimes rational best guesses turn out to be wrong.
I don’t know if he did or not. He did say that the accused Times Square bomber is a registered Democrat. (Hint: he’s not.)
I wonder if that’s what prompted Curtis to start this thread; say that the left is throwing around accusations as a means of advance damage-control for Rush.
Do be sure to turn your webcam off first.
Can you point to a choice quote where the conclusion was “the Tea Party and other right wingers.” I see a lot of reference to “local” because the guy was white. In other words, how does that thread line up with:
Can we have a quote from the Mayor? Can you link to a quote from a nagging head on MSNBC? Why did you link to the Guardian?
What exactly are you pitting?
It appears that because the OP bashed liberals, he is now a victim if liberal douches call him stupid.
That is such completely bullshit. Cue Starving Artist to rush to his defense.
A conservative posted something stupid, linked to something unrelated, and started us all off by insulting liberals.
What the fuck did you guys think would happen? He even held up Rush as a beacon of sanity. Well, great, I’m glad Rush didn’t blame a bombing on hippies.
If there were lots of posts then CITE THEM, in the fucking OP. Don’t expect the rest of us to do your homework for you while get off.
If you want to fuck us all with a rant about the liberal douchebags on MSNBC (does anyone actually watch that?) at least have the fucking courtesy to give us a bit of a reach around and post A FUCKING LINK TO MSNBC!
In conclusion: we don’t think you’re stupid because we disagree with your beliefs. We think you’re stupid because YOUR A FUCKING MORON.
Dipshit posts a completely retarded OP. World shocked.
Everyone keep this one bookmarked for the next time pooh-flinging monkey or his reactionary defenders whine about “broad brushes”.
-Joe
Oh? So because you disagree with his views that means his OP is completely retarded?
tisk tisk, typical liberal douche, can’t come up with a better argument so you resort to name calling.
this whole thread shows how liberal the SDMB has become. why, I remember a time, back before liberals ruined everything, when conservative could post random shit and people cheered and gave high fives.
Now everyone is all “facts” and “cites” can’t someone just give their opinion any more? Curtis LeMay clearly believes that at some point between May 1st at 6:28pm and two days later, “all liberal morons” on MSNBC blamed the attack on the Tea Party. Isn’t that enough?
Respect his authoritah!
There, that seems to make sense.
I did not suspect Islamic terrorists for the Times Square bombing. I expect a certain level of professionalism and dedication (as in a suicide bombing) from Islamic terrorists. The lack of skill in this attempt would point you towards suspecting an Angry White Guy.
On the other hand, Angry White Guys generally attack targets in the South.
So mixed signals.
Let’s leave your personal habits out of this.
And this, of course, is the key here.
Even if it’s completely true that some liberals suspected homegrown right-wingers for this attack, as suggested in the OP, this doesn’t mean that the fact that it turned out to be an Islamist makes those earlier suspicions unreasonable. And, as others have pointed out, the article linked by the OP as “evidence” for his broad-brush claims is largely an exercise in “wait and see.” It postulates a few possible culprits, and argues that some are more likely suspects than than others, but that’s pretty much it.
It’s worth noting, too, that despite the OP’s typically asinine arguments, and his blustering implications that Islamists are the only really viable suspects in cases like this, he appears to have forgotten that it’s barely a month since a bunch of right-wing Christian nutcases were arrested for plotting to kill police officers using firearms and explosive devices.
That’s nice. Go stick your head up your ass and jump off a bridge.
Here’s an interview of the Mayor by Katie Couric, where he said "If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”
As for MSNBC anchors, I couldn’t find anything before the case, but here’s Contessa Brewer on the Stephanie Miller show afterwards saying that there was part of her hoping that the bomber didn’t have ties to any Islamic country because people would use it for justification for bigotry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVwAKUnbQPg&feature=player_embedded#!
And that Dreyfus article quoted by the OP (which originally appeared in The Nation, which is a US left wing magazine), started:
So the author says that he thinks its more likely the bomber was a tea partier.
I hadn’t heard of the ring-wing-nut car bomb theory until this very thread. I need to get out more.
I thought I detected a distinct fwapping sound.