The Reichstag Fizzle

Andrew McCarthy  on the media’s treatment of the “pipe bomb” story:

There is plenty of media commentary at the moment about incivility, in the form of incendiary rhetoric and actions. This is entirely appropriate. But I’m at a loss to understand how the climate is improved by spicing up reports with thinly veiled suggestions that President Trump may have triggered a series of potentially murderous attacks on political opponents. When Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson opened fire on the Republicans he targeted and nearly killed Representative Steve Scalise, I don’t recall much Times speculation about whether he could have been set him off by Democrats urging their supporters to get aggressive — “get in their face”; “if they bring a knife, we bring a gun” — when dealing with political adversaries.

Every one of these episodes is like a mini Reichstag fire, a Gliwice incident;  every Democrat from Maxine Waters to Kathy Griffin to the New York Times can openly fantasize about killing the President and attacking Republicans – but let Trump talk smack about reporters and suddenly we’re on civility patrol.

As we often observe after terrorist attacks, everyone needs to take a deep breath until facts begin to emerge. The investigators are doing their jobs. Chances are we will know soon enough who is actually responsible for the pipe bombs. Then we probably won’t need speculation about motive and incitement . . . though there will be no shortage of it, anyway.

As Andrew McCarthy points out, there  is no evidence yet as to who did it – which doesn’t excuse the media’s double standard in covering the story.  At any rate, my speculation is of no more (or less) value than what you’re seeing on the news right now.

So I’ll speculate:

  • – The bombs were amateur productions: https://twitchy.com/…/former-bomb-disposal-officer-weighs-…/
  • – They targeted obvious Democrat figures – the Clintons, CNN, Obama, and George Soros – but only in a way that was practically guaranteed to get discovered long before they reached their ostensible targets (at least some were apparently packed in padded envelopes).
  • – They came out two weeks before the election.

Seeing that, what would YOU think?

 

74 thoughts on “The Reichstag Fizzle

  1. Calling a thing that can’t be exploded a bomb is beyond spin.
    Your first clue that this was fake news should have been the clock-attached-to-the-mailbomb pic.

  2. Emery honey, you can call that non white , non republican, non conservative, non real Trump fan whatever your sweet little heart desires.

    Gosh, he couldn’t POSSIBLY have put Trump stickers on his car. Oh Noes!!!!!

    Unpossible!!

    He’s a Trumper all right.
    I know, because bumper stickers. BUMPER STICKERS. Cuz we are all sciencey and stuff, so bumper stickers is like, Harvard and all the other big schools sayin it is so.

    There.

  3. A fundamental truth in life is that if you need to posit a conspiracy in order to make your argument, then you’ve effectively admitted that you have a pretty weak argument.
    Like Trump colluding with the Russians to meddle in the election & steal the election from Hillary?

  4. A fundamental truth in life is that if you need to posit a conspiracy in order to make your argument, then you’ve effectively admitted that you have a pretty weak argument.
    Trump communicating with his white nationalist soldiers using cryptic references to the letter ‘Q’ (or its position in the alphabet)?

  5. A fundamental truth in life is that if you need to posit a conspiracy in order to make your argument, then you’ve effectively admitted that you have a pretty weak argument.
    Secret discussions between the White House & Anthony Kennedy resulting in the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh?

  6. Christopher Wray: “”Each device consisted of roughly six inches of PVC pipe, a small clock, a battery, some wiring and what is known as energetic material, which is essentially potential explosives and material that give off heat and energy through a reaction to heat, shock, or friction,” Wray said at a Justice Department press conference.”
    Nothing about a detonator, and notice the fancy dance around saying exactly what the “energetic material” is. Corn starch? Pop Rocks?

  7. Look at the bright side: Finally, the Feds have uncovered someone who illegally voted in the last election.

  8. Well done, MP. Those last four, five comments were awesome. I think EI thought so as well; he changed the subject – always an admission of defeat by a leftist. Congrats, MP

  9. Conspiracy theorists are the best. They dress up stupidity in the guise of curiosity.

  10. Conspiracy theorists are the best. They dress up stupidity in the guise of curiosity.
    Sez the man who believes Trump is blackmailing Trump into doing his bidding.

  11. Let’s see how the creative Alt-right spins the truth on this one

    Fuk that. The fun is watching fapping leftist 1/4 wits try and convince anyone this was a serious plot.

    Steroid raging, Seminole-philippino male stripper, living in a van down by the river, masterminds massive terror plot! Im literally shaking right now. LMFAO!!

    And that van! It is a work of art! All it was missing was “Free candy” and a pair of bloody hand prints on the back doors.

    Read the comments on MSM stories; everyone is pointing and laughing. #MassiveFail

  12. The minute the FBI decided they needed to trot out and say, “Nuh uh, guys. Those were not fake bombs.” everyone knew it was over.

  13. It must be frustrating for Trump and his followers not being able to score political points from the MAGA-bomber.

  14. Well, the MAGA’s tried with to leverage the attempted mass murder of GOP congressman but the media doesn’t want to report on that.
    It’s challenging when half of America, including most of its journalists, believe Kennedy was killed by a mysterious right wing assassin instead of a loser commie named Lee Harvey Oswald.

  15. If your plan to MAGA includes blowing up stinking leftist reprobates, baking soda and vinegar isn’t gonna get ‘er done!

    LOL!

  16. Nah. Best rid of him and all like him.

    Must suck for you, Em, that the “epidemic of conservative violence” just keeps not happening.

  17. The deadliest attack against Jews in the history of the United States.
    Rough week for the United States.

  18. 1/4 wit tard: Let’s see how the creative Alt-right spins the truth on this one

    AR: Bwaaaahahahahaha you ignorant fuckwits are killing it! Hahahahahaha!

    1/4 wt: [pea soup leaking out of ears] Glug…[/pslooe]

  19. So the people who believe Trump is responsible for Sayoc’s faux bomb campaign believe that if someone else — anyone else — was elected president in 2016, Sayoc wouldn’t have done it.
    Laughable when you look at it that way, isn’t it?

  20. “Trump has denounced the attacks and called for national unity.”

    Well, that’s one way to describe what he did. But it would be more accurate to say, “Trump read some words that were written for him from a teleprompter, and then started looking for where blame could be placed, fixing on the press, Democrats, and a lack of guns in the synagogue.”

  21. According to the CIA
    “Honduras’ population growth rate has slowed since the 1990s, but it remains high at nearly 2% annually because the birth rate averages approximately three children per woman and more among rural, indigenous, and poor women.”

    Honduras unemployment stands at 8.2%; bad but not catastrophic. The mob that is headed for the border consists of the lowest IQ, least educated Mestizos. About 18% of them are illiterate in Spanish. They are unemployed because they have no marketable skills.

    They have piles of kids, even though they cant clothe and feed them, because they simply don’t know any better.

    This demographic is very descriptive of the mobs that assault our borders, where ever they come from. Their governments do not stop them from leaving for a reason. They’re not “bad people”, per se, but they are the people that become members of drug cartels, drain fragile economies and fuel leftist insurgencies.

    What will happen to this population when it is integrated into the US welfare state?

    This is the reality leftist reprobates are so desperate to distract public attention from.

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