According to the Washington Post, NPR received a bomb threat letter on Monday and, of course, they relate it to Juan Williams’ firing last week;
The letter didn’t reference the Williams firing specifically, but people at NPR, who spoke about it on the condition of anonymity, said the timing and tone suggested it was sent after Williams’s widely publicized termination.
Yeah, we always hear about the death threats that somehow get sent to the Left but there is never anything substantial and no one ever gets charged. During the rise of the Tea Party crowd, Congress was always on about death threats but I never heard about anyone being arrested.
It’s always about getting some sympathy from the public and try to restore their constituency. NPR probably suffered a bit in the way of donations and staged this to get their customers to audibly breathe “Awwww” and start sending them money again. And maybe some of those Republicans who were calling for the defunding of NPR would feel sorry for them.
Who, besides Williams, would have anything to gain by threatening NPR? No one. And if we’re all racists anyway, why would we feel the need to commit an act of revenge for Williams? This doesn’t pass the smell test, and it certainly doesn’t inspire me to open my wallet for those two-faced “journalists” at NPR.
They went and pissed off the Black Panther Party.
Williams is a liberal and a Democrat. It makes just as much (if not more) sense to presume that a fellow liberal was incensed over his firing as it does to presume it was a conservative or Republican.
I suppose it would be too much to ask that all the facts be in before npr draws their conclusions? Otherwise, it’s just opinion, and then they’d need to fire themselves!
The old “we’re getting death threats” card! It recaptures lost victimhood in a jiffy. Sure, NPR was heavy-handed and intolerant in their effort to censor Mr. Williams. Sure, they did it because he strayed away from liberalism “during pledge week” when it matters most. But now everyone should just shut up about it or they’re contributing to a climate of violence against the esteemed news organization.
It’s not just liberals who play it either, although it is mostly theirs. That guy Tim Profitt, the one from Kentucky who stomped on the MoveOn.org chick, he’s claiming to have received death threats. Maybe he is, but that doesn’t make him the victim here. There’s no excuse for what he did.
http://www.wkyt.com/mobi?storyid=105818718
I suppose it would be too much to ask that all the facts be in before npr draws their conclusions? Otherwise, it’s just opinion, and then they’d need to fire themselves!
Poppycock. Wasn’t it NY Mayor Bloomberg who immediately suggested that it was probably a TEA Party activist who was responsible for the Times Square bomb attempt a few months ago, before any facts had come in about the situation? So, yes, it is too much to ask for all the facts to be in before speculating. Afterall, who needs all the facts when the answer is obvious.
You should know by now that if anything bad happens in the world, before all facts are in, it’s obvious that the likely culprits are either TEA Party Patriots, Booooosh, Jooooos, Christians, neo-cons, military members with PTSD.
Ben; did you actually see him stomp on her, or did you see him hold her down with his sneaker covered foot? Did he attack her for holding her sign up, or was he preventing her from reaching Rand as she charged towards him in disguise?
Actually, there’s no excuse for what she did. Now she’s claiming to have suffered a concussion and sprained arm, at least that was the statement put out by MoveOn, yet there source for this is her, not a doctor, so we are supposed to take her word for it.
Besides, these two things are not related at all and we shouldn’t be trying to connect them.
Old Trooper — I wanted to respond to that nonsense by Ben with what you stated, but, at this point, I think people have decided to see what they want to see. As you said, the focus should be on the radical political activist and what she tried to do. The fact that people are focusing on the people who restrained her shows just how out of whack things have gotten in this nation.
It reminds me of the idiots who, when a soldier gets a little rough with a terrorist in order to restrain him/her, blame the soldier, instead of the terrorist.
A radical political activist dresses up and makes a run at a politician and yet she is played up as a victim. Just ridiculous. If some jackass did something similar and made a run at Obama and similar actions were taken to restrain the person, there is no way in hell anyone would be considering the person a victim. Yet, people on the Left and the Right are considering this radical activist a victim. Sad.
“It reminds me of the idiots who, when a soldier gets a little rough with a terrorist in order to restrain him/her, blame the soldier, instead of the terrorist.”
Well, I’m not one of thos idiots, thank you. But let’s keep in mind here that Mr. Profitt is not a soldier and the woman on the ground is not a terrorist. Surely those distinctions matter to you?
Anyway, I know that she was a liberal puke, and I’d probably have a hard time standing in the same room with her. I’ve read a little bit about her background and it turns out that she’s a lifetime leftist agitator. In fact, she was deliberately provoking the Rand Paul supporters before the incident.
But I have also seen the tape and he crossed the line into assault. I’m not the type of partisan hack who always makes excuses when it’s “our people” who get in trouble. I’d be upset if the roles were reversed, and I wouldn’t accept such excuses from their side.
“Yet, people on the Left and the Right are considering this radical activist a victim. Sad.”
The radical activist is a victim. A victim of assault. I don’t think she’s a very sympathetic character, I’d rather if she moved to Canada, and I probably disagree with her about everything, but…the standard of evidence should be the same for all people, regardless of their political affiliation. The tape speaks for itself. He took it upon himself to put his hands on her. That’s assault.
My point was that whenever people do something that earns them fifteen minutes of infamy, when all of the sudden they are the focal point of national attention for doing something stupid, they can easily make themselves the victim by pointing out that they’re getting death threats. That way, anyone who happens to think that what they did was objectionable is partially responsible for the hate. And voila, the villian becomes the victim!
I believe that leftists employ this tactic more often than normal people, but leftists are not alone. It just so happened that before I read this post on TAH, I was reading about Mr. Profitt on another website. He had told his version of the story to the local media (He was only trying to restain her!) and he used the exact same defense that NPR used.
Ever since this incident, I’ve been getting death threats! Yeah, so everybody ought to forget all about it, because some wacko might actually make good on those threats, and then it will be all. your. fault.
Lame.
There was not a bomb threat sent to NPR. The caller actually said that there was a BUM at NPR.
Ha ha, Pops! Good one.
#7 “The radical activist is a victim. A victim of assault. I don’t think she’s a very sympathetic character, I’d rather if she moved to Canada.”
No thanks, you can keep her.
Ben (#7),
There is more than one tape of the incident. In the tape that I saw, She was forcing her way into His car window. Infact Her arms were completly inside. That is whatis called assalt and trespassing.