If a Social Security Administration office in Casa Grande, Arizona gets bombed but the national media don't report on it, did it really happen?
Back on Sunday I broke the news here at PJ Media of the arrest of Abdullatif Aldosary in connection with the bombing of a Social Security Administration office in Casa Grande, Arizona, last Friday morning. I noted that while the bombing and Aldosary’s arrest had received local news coverage, there was a virtual blackout by the national media on the Iraqi refugee’s identity.
Yesterday I reported on details provided to the federal court on Monday during Aldosary’s initial court hearing, which included information on what was found when the FBI conducted a search of his Coolidge, Arizona, home last Friday night. Among the items recovered was a bomb-making manual that had been hidden behind a photograph on the wall. Also discovered were an AK-47 and a 9mm Ruger handgun, along with more than a thousand rounds of ammunition. Kerry Picket at the Washington Times also reported that they recovered several gallons of chemicals typically used in bomb making.
I just heard about it this morning, but if the dude had been a white Tea Party activist you can bet your ass that the national media would have spent this past week screaming about the second coming of Timothy McVeigh. Instead, crickets.
In other news about our pathetically lousy news media, George Zimmerman has filed a lawsuit against NBC for their outrageous and deliberate falsification of a quote from him that they aired several times this past March. NBC is claiming that it was just a mistake, but you pretty much have to be a drooling idiot to believe that one.
It will be interesting to see how far this goes and if it gets to the point where it sheds any light on how the editorial process works at NBC News. I doubt that Brian Williams, who is the managing editor, personally ordered that defamatory edit, but I'll bet a six-pack that he ordered the news staff to approach the story from the perspective and narrative he wanted to sell his viewers each night. I would love to see internal correspondence and/or testimony about that.
I doubt that particular curtain will actually get pulled back, but it sure would be interesting if it did.
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