+1 to what Steve said.
What is up with you people? Take a step back and listen to yourselves.
Go back and reread the first few pages of the thread on the cabbie being stabbed. That incident was called "a modern day lynching." The "Tea Party-ish side of the Republican Party [was] whipping up hysteria." Obviously the crime was committed by the same kind of yokels who think "All 1.6 billion of the worlds Muslims are even now, actively conspiring to kill us all, all us non-Muslims." The whole thing was premeditated "Because this guy was probably pissed off at the Muslim population as a whole, and was seeking out anyone of that faith, to attack. He probably would have done the same thing if he walked up to a passerby or street vendor."
I won't even bother to quote from off-site sources.
Oops. The attacker was a film school guy who worked for a liberal organization.
Go back and look through media reports about the man who flew his plane into the IRS building in Austin, TX. It was reported in the beginning that he was probably some right-wing nut. It wasn't until his suicide note came out that it was admitted he was basically a Marxist. Oops.
When the Times Square Bomber happened NYC's mayor came out on national television and said that he thought it was probably the work of "someone with a political agenda who doesn't like the health care bill or something." You know, like those evil conservatives. In the words of Rep. Alan Grayson (Democrat) from the floor of the house, said: "If you get sick, America, the Republican health care is: Die quickly." Because, obviously, conservatives are evil.
As it turns out, the Time Square Bomber was a Muslim terrorist. Oops.
I could go on, but I think perhaps you are beginning to see my point.
The people posting here are simply pointing out that the horrible crime that the Discovery Channel Bomber (boy that's a weird combination of words) was motivated,
by his own admission, by the Left's favorite substitute for the eschatological apocalypse: environmentalism.
You don't have to excuse people for taking an opportunity to engage in a little sarcasm about the man's motivation. IMNSHO, we don't need to be excused. But perhaps you can see that the general tenor in this country breaks down something along the lines of: if something bad happens the media and cultural "elites" present it as probably being the result of a conservative motivated by conservative principles. Conservatives, the Tea Party, etc. are all a step away from Neanderthals (and frankly the main stream media isn't sure if the step is upwards on the evolutionary scale).
Except in a lot of cases when things come to light it's an example of DA Nifong's (who was pursuing several white students at Duke University for gang raping a black woman, until it turns out she had fabricated the events) statement: "The narrative was properly about race, sex and class... We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place... We just got the facts wrong.
The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."
The narrative was right. That sums up a lot of things here in 21st century America.
Pax,
Chris
