Media Matters - "Right-wing media rushed to politicize reports of an attempted shoe bomb attack"

[TomCADem]

The sad thing is that I bet the right wing pundits are just absolutely despondent over the fact that there was not an attempted terrorist attack. Remember the piracy incident early in the Obama Presidency when right wing pundits were salivating over the possibility that the incident would end in tragedy?

http://mediamatters.org/research/201004080022

Erickson suggested Obama's policies at fault for "attempted bombing" before saying we should "get some answers" prior to "throwing blame." In an April 7 Red State post, titled, "Attempted Bombing over Denver?" CNN political contributor Erick Erickson wrote: "Today the White House leaked that it was ditching the phrase 'radical Islam' from government language. Though details are still sketchy, early reports are that an Islamic radical attempted to blow up a United Airlines flight from Reagan National Airport to Denver tonight with a shoe bomb." The ABC News article to which Erickson linked made no mention of the passenger's religious affiliation. Erickson admitted that "news is changing rapidly and by the time you read this, Pete Williams at NBC is reporting it may have been something else." Despite this, Erickson repeatedly described the Qatari diplomat who sparked the incident, Mohammed al Modadi, as "the bomber" and said:

So we have now had two bombers make it through airport security and on to planes under Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security -- a Department of Homeland Security that has been tweaking Bush administration era policies to make us safer.

On top of these, we've had the recruiting office shootings and the Ft. Hood terrorist attack and the White House still wants to bring the GTMO detainees to Illinois.

All of that talk about making our enemies like us and forgiving us in the post-Bush era isn't really working out for us, is it?

Following this, Erickson added: "Now, all that said, before we start throwing blame, let's get some answers."

[zbdent]

1. how about trying to get some answers long before assigning blame!

[WeDidIt]

2. There's a thread on Free Republic where they question the official story

not unlike Troofers.

They think he was trying to light a shoe bomb and nothing will convince them otherwise.