American Thinker

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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday's promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday's terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects. In these circumstances, the media, hungry for something to say in their wall-to-wall coverage, press law enforcement sources, to whom they offer anonymity, for information. In the circumstances, misinformation is almost certain to get reported.

But there is something else at work: a taboo, widespread in the MSM and government, on suspecting jihadists. McCarthy writes:

We don't know what the investigators know, but on our state of information, it would be irresponsible to discount the possibility that this is an instance of jihadist terror. Of course, other ideological motivations cannot be ruled out, either. My point is that it is ludicrous to enforce a politically correct filter in which the most plausible explanation must not be spoken on pain of being cast out as a racist "Islamophobe," yet every other theory, no matter how half-baked, is given a respectful airing. (snip)

...no radical ideology that urges violence should be ruled out at this point when, apparently, no perpetrators have been identified. How strange, though, that what experience suggests are the least likely scenarios - conservatives or anti-government extremists striking savagely at their defenseless fellow citizens - are being embraced seriously (even wistfully) by some media pundits, while one must walk on eggshells to describe scenarios whose proving out would surprise no one.

The avoidance of jihad as an explanation is particularly ridiculous given the initial suspicions focused on Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi, the 20 year old Saudi student, who is now rather mysteriously being deported, we are told.

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So what is going on? Why is the j-word (Jihad) unthinkable in media reporting? Why was Alharbi quietly deported, and why the urgent meeting of the president and the Saudi FM not on the president's pubic schedule?

It certainly appears that we are not getting the straight story.

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Yay it worked that time!

Beck was on this Boston Bombing being controlled by the govt' first thing this morning. I thought it was another one of his black helicopter stories, but it seems to have some legs. It revolves around the Saudi suspect getting quick deportation so the Arabs can save face. If true, this is an outrage.

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Beck was on this Boston Bombing being controlled by the govt' first thing this morning. I thought it was another one of his black helicopter stories, but it seems to have some legs. It revolves around the Saudi suspect getting quick deportation so the Arabs can save face. If true, this is an outrage.

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