NPR (Dina Temple-Raston) wrote:
The thinking, as we have been reporting, is that this is a domestic, extremist attack and officials are leaning that way largely because of the timing of the attack. April is a big month for anti-government and right-wing individuals. There's the Columbine anniversary, there's Hitler's birthday, there's the Oklahoma City bombing, the assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco.
Huh??? Really??? What does Columbine have to do with politics? Who are these mythical right wingers enamored with Hitler?
Can the liberals here, who take offense at being called "communists", appreciate why the rest of the country, often called "right wingers" would find this association with examples of evil incredibly stupid, offensive, and slanderous?
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First of all, what does Hitlers birthday, a huge statist and war criminal, have to do with someone who is anti-government? Most American right-wingers are not pro-Hitler. Also, Tax Freedom Day, which is today, is the date that most on the right side of the political spectrum are enthralled about, and the celebration is usually done in private without bombs. On Twitter, NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep noted that Temple-Raston scoffed at foreign Muslim involvement: "Asked about "Saudi national" off-air, @nprdina scoffed."
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What are the odds that Dina Temple-Raston will face the derision Todd Akin faced?
By the way, she gets it wrong, just as Mike Bloomberg got the Times Square bomber wrong when he speculated that he was a "homegrown white right winger".
One of the suspects is dead with shrapnel wounds as well as gunshot. The other on the run. They are currently thought to be brothers from Chechnya or Turkey. What might they have in common other terrorists? Jihad maybe? A lot still to be learned at this point but it looks like maybe there was "foreign Muslim involvement". I imagine that will really be a disappointment to Dina Temple-Raston and her colleagues at NPR.
It wasn't a suicide attack because they still had more plans. The homegrown right winger theory bites the dust. Again.