Health Care BS

For three days now, I’ve been trying to remember who NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg reminded me of when he speculated, without any evidence, that the Times Square bomber was someone with a political agenda who doesn’t like the health care bill.

Well, it finally came to me. Bloomberg was behaving exactly like the Steve Martin character behaved, in The Jerk, when the crazed sniper shoots at him but hits a stack of oil cans instead. Martin’s character, Navin Johnson, shouts “He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!”

Mayor Bloomberg, like the jerk played by Martin, is such a buffoon that he was unable to see the blindingly obvious. Unfortunately, Bloomberg was by no means alone in his cluelessness. The Anchoress does a good job of summing up the crack reporting of the MSM:

The mainstream media has presented us with a plethora of possible motives behind Faisal Shahzad’s attempted bombing in Times Square. We have read that he was a victim of the (Bush) economy, whose house was foreclosed on! In 2004, he is said to have remarked that he hated Bush (hardly a remarkable opinion) and the Iraqi war! He didn’t like the drone attacks!

The “news” media, like Bloomberg, were unable to figure what every other American over the age two instinctively knew—-that the bomber wasn’t “homegrown,” wasn’t connected to the Tea Party movement and wasn’t a white supremacist in a rage about Obamacare.

Meanwhile, the sheer incompetence of Faisal Shahzad is the only thing that prevented Times Square from becoming a slaughterhouse. So, my question is this: How many corpses must the jihadis pile up before our “leaders” and the “news” media figure out that it’s not the cans they hate?

Just asking.