Article

2013-04-22 Home Front: WoT

Why did some seem giddy that suspects were Muslim?

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2013-04-22 13:12|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Sirota is doubling down on a busted flush.

Posted by Pappy 2013-04-22 13:18|| 2013-04-22 13:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Wait, wasn't he the piece of work who was so certain the Marathon bomber(s) were white, Tea Party type Americans? Looks like a lot of people are having alltogether too much fun telling Mr. Sirota that he was wrong-wrong-wrongedy-wrong.

But he's not the only pseudo-intellectual having himself a pity party today. Sarah Hoyt posted about one Amanda Palmer (who apparently happens to be married currently to Neil Gaiman.)Ms Palmer wrote an atrocious poem dripping sympathy regarding the surviving Beantown Blaster Brother. It's on her blog, here. Take a sickbag if you follow the link, although she seems to be getting a lot of unfavorable and sometimes hilarious blowback.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2013-04-22 13:33|| http://ncobrief.com 2013-04-22 13:33|| Front Page Top

#3 As poetry it looks like a good cheese.

Posted by Fred 2013-04-22 13:39|| 2013-04-22 13:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Why does anyone pay attention to Sirota? It's what he's whoring for.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-04-22 14:00|| 2013-04-22 14:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Why should these 'conservatives' be pleased that the Boston bombers were in fact islamofascists?

When islamofascistic terrorists committed atrocities in the West the standard reaction has been to reward Islam and Muslims.

The idea was to show Muslims that the method 'terrorism' was not needed to reach their political objectives.

Remember that when Khomeini demanded submission to Rushdie rules in 1989 this insane demand was seen as proof of the aggressive fanaticism of the Iranian regime.

In the 21st century however the consensus among the Western political class is that Rushdie rules are fully legitimate if not (yet) the law of the land.

As a result of the Boston attacks non-terroristic islamofascists will be rewarded. There will be no backlash against Muslims, just as there was none after 9/11.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-04-22 16:03|| 2013-04-22 16:03|| Front Page Top

#6 From the people who broad brush conservatives, Trunks, Tea Partiers, gun owners, red state/flyover country inhabitants, etc. Clean thy own house first.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-22 17:06|| 2013-04-22 17:06|| Front Page Top

#7 As poetry it looks like a good cheese.

Having read Amanda's poem, I fear the poor woman has cheese for brains. Condolences to Mr. Gaiman.

Here's just a teensy taste:
...
you dont know how to mourn your dead brother.
...
I suppose driving over him in a car is one way. Which is kinda sorta what made him dead. Assuming, of course, he would survive the wounds from his shootout with the cops.

Posted by SteveS 2013-04-22 17:28|| 2013-04-22 17:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Crap like that is the reason many people believe (rightly or wrongly) that all poetry is nonsense...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-04-22 17:48|| 2013-04-22 17:48|| Front Page Top

#9 As James Taranto said, What the hope-theyre-white crowd really wishes for is a reason to treat their domestic political adversaries as enemies of the state.

And now that that's fallen through, he wants to be able to declare that the people who didn't want to be treated as enemies of the state are racists.

I think 'racist' is the modern liberal religion's word for 'heresy.'

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-22 18:47|| 2013-04-22 18:47|| Front Page Top

#10 The funniest statement I've seen thus far is "You know, Sirota really shouldn't have used that monkey paw to wish for caucasian terrorists."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-22 19:26|| 2013-04-22 19:26|| Front Page Top

#11 That (#10) is just priceless, Thing! And James Taranto has it exactly right.

Posted by SteveS 2013-04-22 21:23|| 2013-04-22 21:23|| Front Page Top

#12 ANd what I've know remembered originated with Frank Fleming, I think.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-22 22:17|| 2013-04-22 22:17|| Front Page Top

23:52 JosephMendiola
23:49 JosephMendiola
23:43 JosephMendiola
23:35 JosephMendiola
23:23 Pappy
23:21 Pappy
23:21 Thing From Snowy Mountain
23:19 JosephMendiola
23:14 Pappy
22:56 Marilyn Lover of the Hatfields1778
22:53 Marilyn Lover of the Hatfields1778
22:34 Bill Clinton
22:31 Bill Clinton
22:17 Thing From Snowy Mountain
22:14 trailing wife
21:56 Besoeker
21:38 Skidmark
21:35 Skidmark
21:32 Skidmark
21:28 Skidmark
21:23 SteveS
21:19 tu3031
21:01 Frank G
20:41 Raj