Pelosi, Jost and Bloomberg Need to Apologize to Conservatives After Pakistani-American & Bush-hater Arrested in NYC Car Bomb Case
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 5:47 AM
It wasn’t a balding white guy in his 40′s after all…
Last night Faisal Shahzad, a 30 year-old Pakistani-American and Bush-hater, was arrested for the attempted bombing Saturday night in Times Square.
Earlier on Monday New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested the bomber was a tea party protester upset with Obamacare:
Likewise, far left cranks Christine Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, professor, Washington and Lee University, need to apologize to conservatives for their outrageous claims in The Politico following the attempted Times Square bombing.
Christine Pelosi, attorney, author and Democratic activist
This is what a terrorist can look like: a balding white man in his 40s. Thanks to an alert street vendor and an NYPD officer who ushered in local and federal law enforcement, the Times Square would-be bomber was a bust. So far. They saw the parked car, engine running, hazards blinking, driver departing — in other words, they profiled behavior, not people. Take note, Arizona.
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, professor, Washington and Lee University
I think the politics of this incident will turn heavily on who is found to be responsible. If, as seems unlikely, the bomb is linked to South Asian or Middle Eastern terrorists, questions will again arise as to whether the Department of Homeland Security is doing all it can do to keep us safe. If, as I believe is much more likely, the bomb was placed by a right-wing lunatic, it seems to me that questions need to be raised as to whether the right-wing media bear some responsibility for stoking the delusions of such people through their relentless and often unfounded attacks on the Obama administration and the federal government.
We need to consider whether it isn’t time to return to responsible, ethical journalism.
Maybe these hacks should go to the Democratic leadership and insist they crack down on their violent rhetoric that is causing supporters to plant bombs in Times Square?
UPDATE: Shahzad is a known Bush-hater. He was not a registered democrat as previously reported.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
cathymv commented:
our mayor in NY pointed out that this could be a home grown terrorist that is disgruntled over healthcare or somehting… now its tuned out to be a pakistani naturalized american …. and that made me think… how disappointed are liberals now that they can’t blame a middle aged, balding white man involved in the tea party movement… because we all know.. when you think about car bombs you immediately think … tea party protester… .
liberals everywhere are mourning the loss of their coolective scapegoat…
see ya
cathy : )
jpehrlich commented:
I have it on good authority that Michael “The Moron” Bloomberg is having raging radical Janet Allquist founder of K&N Patriots investigated in the bombing. After all, just last week it was necessary to call out the SWAT Team on her and her roaming band of Grannies!!
jpehrlich commented:
It appears that Shahzad Faisal a person of interest was arrested at JFK on his way back to Pakistan. His FACEBOOK page shows Faisal as a “Fan of Farmville”. We now know where he purchased the FERTILIZER he used in his Times Square bombing oops make that: farming attempt.
xcxcxc commented:
I called it right out fo the box..
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/taliban-claimed-responsibility-for-times-square-car-bomb-before-attempted-attack/#comment-106891
“xcxxcxc
May 2nd, 2010 | 2:56 pm | #12
these people were on Obama’s payroll, half of the Taliban are on are payroll fighting the other half, Obama used his paid hit squad to get the Oil disaster off the news.”
———–
I knew it was a false flag operation by the government..
DougO commented:
“We need to consider whether it isn’t time to return to responsible, ethical journalism. ”
Yes… I wonder whether it is time to return to that… Do they even know what responsible, ethical journalism IS?
Flyover Sam commented:
This progressive hermeneutic is precisely what the tea party is protesting: big government is not only bloated, corrupt, inefficient and power-hungry, it fundamentally interprets our social reality in complete opposition to the interpretation of those it pretends to represent.
The tea party is an existential threat (to which the big government elites e.g. Pelosi, Bloomberg, Napolitano, etc.) and drives their irrational fear and hatred of tax-paying middle clasa Americans. Indeed the protests today are a polite form of rebellion (which historically do not remain polite when the entrenched power elites refuse to listen and comply with the masses demands). But the origination of this threat they so fear resides with their behavior and they alone can defuse the threat they fear by simply functioning according to their job description as a representative of the people.
Knee-jerk “loath the middle class taxpayer” reactions such as these only ensure a wider divide between the people and its unaccountable government.
geo commented:
These idiots are going to get a lot of US killed while they play the “blame the tea party ” game. When are they going to wake up and realize that we are in a war to the finish. If we dont secure our borders, maintain vigilance and stop reacting instead of acting, we are in deep trouble.
Get serious NOW!!
daryl commented:
As a “balding white man” who is in his mid sixties but still looks mid forties (in his own mind) I call “racial profiling” on Pelosi Galore’s spawn, Christine.
Richard Aubrey commented:
Does this sort of howler embarrass those folks?
Naw.
Jim commented:
Don’t forget to call for Bob Boeckel to apologize! On Hannity he floated the possibility of a right wing militia being responsible.
daryl commented:
Chip off the old block.
Put a burka on her and she would pass as suicide bomber too.
http://images.politico.com/global/arena/christine_pelosi.jpg
Rich commented:
what worries me is that they let him board the plane with s flaged under the united arab emerints.wouldent that be the same as being in there country or at there embassy?
mcnorman commented:
An apology? Geez, they might swallow their tongues do that.
RickS commented:
I think this acceptance of violence by those on the left, as long as the violence was committed by their side (as in this case), is really starting to be a problem. Consider that all of the acts of violence committed since Obama became president were carried out by leftists and virtually no condemnation ensued from the media or liberal activists such as Pelosi or Jost. Instead they have lamely tried and failed to make some sort of connection with the right. Absolutely reprehensible behavior. This is irresponsibility at its worst. The left-wing and Democrat violence needs to stop.
kate commented:
How many times did I hear it was a WHITE GUY yesterday? Newsreaders desperately controlling their glee and giddiness.
Such disappointment in the halls of the mainstream media when it turned out to be a Southeast Asian. Isn’t that what they say in the UK when they don’t want to say the M word?
Highlander commented:
I wonder what Mr. Jost’s idea of a return to responsible, ethical journalism would look like. Does anyone here think that there wouldn’t be some profiling going on in that process?
Just_Saying commented:
Whatever happened to the Ft. Hood murderer? I know Obummer’s protecting him because he’s a violent muslim, but…
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Melvin Winter commented:
Related parody: Justice Department Presses Times Square Bomber on Possible Tea Party Sympathies and Opposition to Arizona Immigration Enforcement Law http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/05/justice-department-presses-times-square.html
Boo Radley commented:
If anybody is wondering, Jost does have an email address. Should we ask if he is going to apologize to conservatives for his politically-motivated inflammatory statements?
Here’s his email address:
jostt@wlu.edu
Faye commented:
Race of a person of interest is seldom mentioned if that person is of any other race besides “white”. If the person of interest is thought to be “white”, the race is headlined. I’d call that racial profiling.
Atlanta Media Guy commented:
Jost has no idea what responsible, ethical journalism looks like. I do not need an apology from this idiot, I just want him to go away. This administration is going to get us all killed someday.
Ms. Pelosi your idea of journalism would only grace the pages of a liberal rag like the NY Times or the Puffing Huffing Post.
It’s time we conservatives do our best at slamming the email servers at Washington and Lee University.
Chisum commented:
Let us not forget Gerry The Spitter.
TIMES SQUARE: It’s the Jihad, Stupid! “If you were listening to Geraldo on Sunday night (okay, I apologize), you would have thought the would-be Times Square bomber was either the illegitimate son of Timothy McVeigh or an evangelical minister overdosed on steroids looking for an abortion clinic. Geraldo was practically fulminating at the mouth — it’s a white man, it’s a white man — in nostalgia for the good old days when the true enemy was some evil Ku Kluxer waving his hangman’s noose. Well, it wasn’t.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/98665/
Agent99 commented:
And NOW THIS: Gov Patterson will use a Governor’s Pardon &&& Set up Panels to **HELP** Immigrants WITH Criminal Convictions AVOID Deportation http://weaselzippers.us/2010/05/03/gov-paterson-to-set-up-panel-to-help-immigrants-with-criminal-convictions-avoid-deportation-he-will-use-govs-pardon/html
Agent99 commented:
NYC-Based Islamist Younus Mohammed: “Absolutely, There Will Be More Jihadi Attacks in New York”…http://weaselzippers.us/2010/05/03/nyc-based-islamist-younus-mohammed-absolutely-there-will-be-more-jihadi-attacks-in-new-york/html
mrt commented:
“Maybe these hacks should go to the Democratic leadership and insist they crack down on their violent rhetoric that is causing supporters to plant bombs in Times Square?”
You mean rhetoric like this?
http://www.breitbart.tv/hitler-paranoia-dangerous-political-rhetoric-whips-protesters-into-vulgar-frenzy
Agent99 commented:
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/05/03/nyc-based-islamist-younus-mohammed-absolutely-there-will-be-more-jihadi-attacks-in-new-york/
Scott Wiggins commented:
National Geographic put out the KKK episode again on Sunday night just to remind everyone of evil white people…Meanwhile, in the real world 16000 homicides a year happen in the US…Fully half of these homicides are committed by blacks who are but 12% of our population…A rate six times that of white perpetrators…Al Sharpton could not be reached for comment…
Chisum commented:
And our dippedy-doo President sets an example for all to emulate. The rot really does start at the top.
President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus ‘Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers’
Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/president-obama-gop-opposition-to-stimulus-helped-to-create-the-teabaggers.html
Scott Wiggins commented:
So, does Eric Holder, meaning Obama, still want to bring KSM to New York City for a hundred million dollar show-trial?
Scott Wiggins commented:
Gee, more drama from those middle-eastern males of age 18-30…Good thing Napolitano’s TSA keeps giving blue haired grannies and Veterans the shakedown at airports…Remember, Napolitano famously said that Vets returning from combat were a security concern…And, Obama didn’t fire her!!!!!!!!!!! Try that gaff at any private sector business Janet…You would be out on your fat A$$…
Agent99 commented:
The HEADLINE!! “Kyl Jokes About Obama Drowning” What a Spin!! Spin..Spin..!! “”Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) got a big laugh on Saturday at a National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat, but his joke definitely wouldn’t be funny to some people.
According to a source who attended the meetings, Kyl told the assembled crowd a political version of the classic three-people-in-a-boat joke: “So [President Barack] Obama, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] and [Majority Leader] [Harry] Reid [D-Nev.] are in a row boat, and it springs a leak and starts to sink. Who gets saved?”
Answer: “The American people.”
But love it or hate it, it wasn’t even Kyl’s own joke. The senator poached it from late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, according to a source.”"
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/05/04/hypocrisy-alert-the-left-is-going-crazy-over-a-joke-said-by-jon-kyl-totally-ignores-obamas-kill-the-jonas-brothers-joke/
ProLifer commented:
Are not Conservative White People now victims of “racial profiling”?
( YES. )
Doesn’t this make racial profiling “a moot point”?
Militant Conservative commented:
Just as Arizona had to do WE MUST DO AS WELL. YOU are in charge of your security and safety as the Government is either unwilling or unable to secure these blessings and constituional duties. Folks your on your own, wake up and realize this simple truth.
powder is dry.
Agent99 commented:
MORE Hypocrisy http://weaselzippers.us/2010/05/04/when-a-picture-says-a-thousand-million-words/#comment-161340 Poster Sign Reads “Give Us FREE Healthcare —-Jobs _No Taxes ..House..Food .. YOU **OWE** US AMERICA!! {IN RED} beneath the sign is : WE WILL SHOOT More Police In Arizona Until **WE** Get FREE!!!
Robert commented:
President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.
From a so-called president.
How sad for our once-great Republic, which he thinks is a democracy.
IOpian commented:
The only weapon the TEA Party Movement will use is a camera and the ballot. But we do have an itchy trigger finger, November can’t get here soon enough to clean this political gene pool that Bloomberg swims in.
girlsgonegop commented:
Oooooh– Writing that email I just sent to Jost felt so good. More please. It ended with: “I can see November from my house. Can you?”
jainphx commented:
The only real job of the President is to keep America safe, but how can you fight if you refuse to identify your enemy. All the leftest “he was a white guy” “he probably hated the health care bill” “he was a deranged minister”
Once again he was a MUSLIM, you know one of those who has openly stated that we are the great satan and must be obliterated. I’m not sure who is more dangerous to our country, Obama and the left or that deranged religion.
kansas commented:
Hey, you don’t know for sure the guy wasn’t a teabagger.
kansas commented:
Hey cmon, Obama just told you how many nukes we had. Stop it already.
gus commented:
IMAGINE. JUST EFFING IMAGINE….that the report came out that the person looked ARABIC or MIDDLE-EASTERN and THAT turned out to be INCORRECT.
Can you imagine the LEFT and MSM defecating their pants in anger?
But it’s okay to report WHITE GUYS incorrectly.
logprof commented:
— in other words, they profiled behavior, not people. Take note, Arizona.
–Physician, heal thyself!
Corporal Vere commented:
Here is free financial advice for Mayor (five-foot-nothin’) mike.
Spend your $12 billion now. You can’t take it with you. It will burn.
Bill commented:
Well we now know he’s not but he could have been a balding white guy who planted the bomb. Picture Bill Ayers.
Joe commented:
Chris Matthews, Bob Beckel, Jarrold Nadler, Michael Bloomberg, Nancy Pelosi, etc. :
“All you people in the tea party movement, we’re getting really impatient with you! What’s with you guys?! It’s been months and months since you guys started, and not one act of violence out of you! Will at least one of you please, PLEASE, commit a terrorist attack or something so we can at long last justify our suspicion and hatred of you?”
nelli commented:
Bloomberg and Pelosi have proven they aren’t qualified to hold jobs whose main purpose is to protect and defend the citizens. The instinct to accuse middle age white people of terrorist activity before any facts are in hand, and the impulse to attack the mere enforcement of immigration law, no matter how it harms the nation, does not serve our interests.
pm commented:
“If, as seems unlikely, the bomb is linked to South Asian or Middle Eastern terrorists, questions will again arise as to whether the Department of Homeland Security is doing all it can do to keep us safe.”
Well, Timmy, why don’t you begin the questioning — “again“?
George Bush kept us safe from a second attack on our home soil for 7 1/2 years. How many – maybe 4 – attacks already in the first year or so of this administration?
onthow commented:
Why isn’t he a conservaphobe? If he had said this about Muslims, the Left would calling him an Islamophobe.
Boot them all commented:
Shocker. Democrats so desperate to save their corrupt and incompetant fannies they are courting the terrorist vote.
I can see the slogan now “vote Democrat,we’ll protect you as you try to kill US citizens”
wanumba commented:
The GOP should never have accepted Democrat Bloomberg’s cynical abuse of the party system by running as a Republican for the sole purpose of riding on Giuliani’s success. He’s diluting and confusing the Republican brand – the platform, the ethics, the vision. Dump him! Call him what he is, refuse to accept him as a genuine Republican.
Bloomberg is a hard-core Left Democrat and is running that city back down into the Democrat-mess it used to be. The Democrats ruin every city they govern. They bungled New Orleans so the hurricane just exposed their corruption, half the city is gone, never to come back as the land molds, Detroit is so decrepid after years of Democrat mal-management the Democrats’ only solution is to raze half the city, and New York City is being Democrat mis-managed into death by a thousand terror attacks.
John commented:
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, professor, Washington and Lee University…
I think anyone who had this retard as a professor should demand their money back. Obviously this retard doesn’t understand the First Amendment right to redress greivances against a corrupt government. And, his instinctual abilities as a lawyer are just plain foolish. Ask for your money back!!!
Pamela Troy commented:
Except that, see, Faisal wasn’t a Democrat.
Does the actual truth of what you post here matter to you?
jimspice commented:
Gateway Pundit Need to Apologize to Democrats After Jumping the Gun on Bomber’s Party Affiliation.