Because Hitler
By Mitch Berg
NPR’s Nina Temple-Raston intones to her white, upper-middle-class, degreed, free-range-alpaca-wearing, Volvo driving audience last Wednesday that the Boston Marathon Bomber was probably a white extemist…
…because right-wingers love April.
It’s the anniversary of Waco, Columbine and Hitler’s birthday, after all.
I wasn’t aware the Klebold and Harris were right-wing figures. Hitler shouldn’t be, although some on the “extreme right” have accomplished that ex post facto.
It’s also the month of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. But not a word about Jewish extremists, for some reason.
This was two days before we learned that the alleged bombers weren’t right-wingers at all.
But remember – there is no liberal bias at NPR.
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:15 am
She missed a couple:
May 19 – Bombing of The Pentagon, “in retaliation for the U.S. bombing raid in Hanoi.” The date was chosen for it being Ho Chi Minh’s birthday.
May 18 – The bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York. WUO states this is in response to the killing of 10-year-old black youth Clifford Glover by police
Oh, wait. That was Barry Sotero’s BFF Bill Ayers. Never mind.
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:34 am
They all missed Paul Kevin Curtis, the mailer of ricin laced letters to Sen. Roger Wicker and Barackus Obamaminus. Oh, wait; he is a confirmed DEMOCRAT. My bad! At least, he’s bi-partisan.
April 22nd, 2013 at 11:45 am
I’ll say it again…in light of last week’s domestic terrorist bombing, I wonder if Moorhead State still think domestic terrorism is a joke. They invited, paid, and celebrated a visit last month by Billy Ayres.
And don’t forget, today is Earth Day. So watch for earth worshippers to spike trees.
April 22nd, 2013 at 11:48 am
Dina Temple-Raston is also an apologist for the the Lackawanna Six (she wrote a very sympathetic book proving they were nice kids and not a “sleeper cell”), in addition she has close ties to the ACLU so expect her to lead the charge to scrub the identities and associations of the boys from beantown.
April 22nd, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Today’s Earth Day? Hmm.
Think I’ll go burn a few tires to celebrate before I shovel yet another 6-8 inches of Global Warming out of my driveway tomorrow morning.
April 22nd, 2013 at 12:11 pm
The idea that “the far right” celebrates the anniversary of the Waco raid & OK City bombing goes back at least to this article in the Daily Beast (published in 2010):
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/04/19/todays-holiday-of-hate.html
The sub-head is:
The article is badly written. For example, the only person who explicitly draws a connection between patriots day and the Waco/OKC incidents is the director of the OKC museum, who mistakenly believes that McVeigh was in some kind of militia.
The director of the OKC museum seems to be the only actual human being Avlon spoke to when he wrote the article. All the quotes from conservative, pro-2nd-amendment people are pulled from the web. And none of them connects April 19th to anything but the Battle of Lexington-Concorde.
No conservative figures Avlon writes about confirms that April 19th is a day of remembrance for Koresh & McVeigh. It’s all in the author’s head.
And who is the author?
John Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and the anchor of Beast TV. A CNN contributor, he won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for best online column in 2012.
April 22nd, 2013 at 12:34 pm
the WH has announced that the bad boy from beantown will not be tried as an enemy combatant – so the heavy lifting is done, now Dina Temple-Raston and her fellow communists at the ACLU can take it from here and make sure that he is a poster child for ACLU/NPR fund raising for decades to come – sorta this generation’s “Free Mumia”!
April 22nd, 2013 at 1:29 pm
I was listening to MPR on Friday while the Boston manhunt was in full swing, and they were interviewing a guy who wrote a book about the Oklahoma City bombing. Although they took great pains to try to distance the Boston bombing from the Oklahoma City bombing–the bombing duo having JUST been outed as Chechen Islamists–it was fairly obvious they booked the guy a few days earlier when the conventional MPR wisdom was that it was a domestic right-wing bombing.
It was actually amusing listening to them find some inkling of a relevant angle to link Oklahoma City and Boston, considering their accepted narrative had just melted before their eyes that very morning.
April 22nd, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Here is DHS’s form N-400, application for naturalization: http://www.redstonemwr.com/family/army_community_service/acspdf/N-400.pdf
Dzhokar was naturalized in Sept. last year. It should be easy enough to show that he lied on the application. Yank his citizenship.
Tamarlan never would have passed the screening process (foreign travel & wife beating charges).
You would think that one of the thousands of ‘journalists’ covering the Tsarnaev bombings might have followed this angle of the story, but I suppose they were too busy trying to dig up dirt on ‘hatriots’.
April 22nd, 2013 at 9:25 pm
So, there are Chechen terrorists and there are terrorists who just hail from Chechnya.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:00 pm
[…] Dina Temple-Raston’s report re the Boston Marathon Bombings the other day was a classic example: before the dust had settled, the first words out of her (and NPR’s) mouths in re possible suspects were that the FBI was looking at “right-wing extremists” because it was Tax Day, and Hitler’s birthday, when they worry about right-wing attacks on government and foreigners. […]