PARADE OF DUMBNESS – AT 8:33 A.M. ET:  Following on the theme of our first post this morning, just below, Mary Katherine Ham catalogues the parade of inept comments that began when news of the Times Square bomber first broke.  From the Washington Examiner:

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg put his ignorance of the situation and the suspect to great use...jumping to conclusions that might earn him a long-jump spot in the London Olympics if he decides not to put his dough toward a presidential run that year:

Bloomberg later told CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric that the suspect behind the bombing attempt could be a domestic terrorist angry at the government who acted alone.

"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," he said.

Well, wait.  We all know that Obamacare is deeply unpopular among jihadists.  It doesn't cover shrapnel damage, nor skin abrasions caused by suicide belts.  What kind of a health plan is that?

And...

Moving on, we have CNN's morning anchors suggesting this attempted bombing is probably just fall-out from the housing market crisis.  Video at the link from our friend Michael Moynihan:

Now that a deranged Pakistani-American with a political agenda (one presumes) has been detained, CNN did some honest to goodness journalism and discovered that—wait for it—suspected bomber Faisal Shahzad is a deadbeat that failed to make payments on his mortgage. This, says the blow-dried bozo in Atlanta, likely "brought alot of pressure and alot of heartache" and could have motivated him to take his revenge on the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company.

And the one that's been making the rounds on the internet:

And, finally, we have Contessa Brewer of MSNBC taking the silly crown so early in the game and with an enthusiasm which will be hard to top:

"I get frustrated...There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country."

Brewer continued, "...There are a lot of people who want to use terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry."

Oh, those outdated bigots – you know, people who worry about people who chop off women's heads because they disagree with the Taliban (or their husbands), or who try to kill as many "infidels" as possible.  Nothing to see, folks, nothing to see.

May 5, 2010