San Bernardino

And Muslims are suspicious.

 

The Times working overtime to help make the President not look out of touch:

The New York Times came under fire for the second time in less than 24 hours for quickly editing an error in a story about President Obama’s terror response without issuing a correction.

In its story headlined, “Under Fire From G.O.P., Obama Defends Response to Terror Attacks,” the paper painted a picture of a clueless president failing to grasp Americans’ anxieties over terrorism.

“In his meeting with the columnists, Mr. Obama indicated that he did not see enough cable television to fully appreciate the anxiety after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, and made clear that he plans to step up his public arguments,” the Times originally wrote.

Journalists on social media immediately seized on this, calling it “breathtaking” for the President to require more cable news to understand the situation.

But the Times quickly changed the section in question, replacing it with an unrelated passage about President Obama’s long held belief that ISIS doesn’t pose an existential threat to the U.S.

New York Times Quickly Changes Obama Terror Response Story With No Correction





"Trimmed for Space":

 

That's just how newsrooms work.

 

The fact Obama doesn't watch a lot of cable teevee news is a GOOD thing.

 

Just think how suspicious they'd be if they were as efficient at killing innocent people as you would like.

 

Yes. And, it's pathetic that he's blaming his lack of TV time for his failure to not understand the nation's anxiety.

 

No, he's saying cable news shrieking isn't a measurement of the nation's anxiety. He's mocking cable news.

 

It's not a question of lumping in Muslems. It's that it is simple fact that anyone of whatever motivation can come up with terror weapons fairly easily. Timothy McVeigh's primary ingredients were nitrogen fertilizer that you can buy in any garden center and diesel fuel.

This is more about your trying to make every attack be about Muslim extremists, and preaching the fear of Muslims. There are plenty of attacks that are home grown of whatever sort. I'm talking about the problem in general, and you are bitching because I'm not tunnel visioned on Muslim terror the way you are. Nutcakes killing people en masse are a problem, not matter what their ideology.

 

That's really a nice touch. Gotta like his sense of irony.

 

Is he mocking their influence? Is he mocking the actual anxiety Americans felt?

 

Mocking their influence.

Put it this way, if they covered every murder with a gun like they do a terrorist attack, no American would leave their home.

 

He is saying that the fear of Muslim terrorism in this country is overblown far beyond the reality, and that cable news, and in particular ideological groups with axes to grind, amp up the danger and do their best to scare the hell out of people.

Basically, he's mocking people like you that try to make it seem that it's not safe to go to the mailbox without a pistol, because ISIS will gitcha.