The Left Politicizes the Boston Bombing (Is anyone surprised?

RUSH: I actually think as everybody's trying to figure out what happened in Boston, who did it, and why, let me just say something here at the top on this.

I have stated countless times -- there's nothing new today -- I have stated countless times, the left politicizes everything. You recall me saying this. You recall me offering evidence of this. And they already are. I mean, yesterday, within moments of this happening, the left began to politicize it and began drooling, in some cases, and I've got the examples, drooling over the possibility that a right-wing extremist in the same vein as Timothy McVeigh did this. You see, it would be very bad, bad, bad for the regime if it turned out that that Saudi national was responsible. It would be very, very bad for Obama and the regime, believe me.

Folks, some of this might seem unsettling, but I don't know any other way to do this. I mean, I can't come in here and fake it. I react to what I hear, and when I hear the people, the institutions, the principles I believe in under assault, I'm gonna stand up and defend 'em. I can't come in here and fake it even for a day, and I'm telling you that the effort is on to politicize this. You may have heard many of the efforts that some in the Drive-By Media, what is called the mainstream media, have already begun speculating. Already; they began immediately speculating and hoping. I kid you not. And I'll give you examples of this as the program unfolds.

I don't think you can rule out that we're in an economic disaster in this country. There are people who are at their wits' end over what to do economically. They can't find work, can't find a job, no apparent hope of it. This leads to all kinds of anger and chaos. So I wouldn't rule out the fact that the sociology of a depressed and in-ruins economy is leading to all kinds of frustration in all kinds of people all over this country. Now, nobody knows what happened.

RUSH: Now, no one knows at this time who's responsible for the bombs in Boston. Yesterday the president made a point of not calling it terror. Today he did. His former campaign aide, now commentator at MSNBC, says it's probably related to tax day. Another bunch of people, a whole bunch of people from the left are saying, "Well, you know, it was Patriots Day." One guy actually said, somebody at Slate or Salon or some such place, might have been somebody at CNN. Let me separate the papers here. Some guy named Paul Fisher (paraphrasing), "Today's Patriots Day, important day to militia movements in our country, the same day Tim McVeigh chose to bomb Oklahoma City."

These tweets and these items of speculation are all over Twitter and Facebook and the mainstream media. And nobody knows at this time who's responsible. At least if they do know, they haven't said so. In a vacuum like this, you're gonna have all kinds of people try to fill it. So if they say they don't know who it is you're gonna have people say, "Oh, yes, they do. They know exactly who it is, and because of the political nature of these people, they're gonna hold the information 'til they can make it as useful to them as possible." Now, whether that's right or wrong, the fact that a large enough number of people think that is a testament to how politicized virtually everything in this country has become.

Nobody knows at this time who's responsible for the bombs in Boston. Who planned, who executed the act of terror? Where did the terrorists come from? Are they Americans? Did they come from somewhere else? How'd they get here? Student visa is an avenue being discussed. What are we gonna do if we find out that one or more terrorists crossed our border undetected? What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do if we find out that it is Al-Qaeda? What are we gonna do if we find out it's homegrown domestic terror?

By the way, the Oklahoma City was April 19th, not the 15th. So this whole Patriots Day comparison to Timothy McVeigh is all wet anyway. But I've got a whole list, I've got sound bites here of people speculating on the fact that it's a right-wing Tea Party group that did this, just like every other act of terror. The mainstream media doesn't wait, they start launching. I'm making a point of this because I don't want anybody accusing me of politicizing this. What do I do here? I simply get up every day, I look at and I absorb, I see the people, the traditions, the institutions I believe in under assault, and I stand up and defend 'em.

Okay, I'll give you an example. Has anybody blamed a video for this? What, is that too impolitic to say? The president didn't blame a video for this? Really? Like he did in Benghazi? There's not a video that worked somebody up into a frenzy that caused this?

Hey, I'm just joining the circus here. I didn't lead off with this stuff. How about this: You know this is how Bill Ayers got his start? Bill Ayers is now responsible for educating American kids. He got his start blowing up the Pentagon. Ditto his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. We just learned that Kathy Boudin, who murdered a cop, is now a professor at Columbia. So could we say that whoever did this has just helped their effort to get hired by a major university?

I mean, it's how Bill Ayers got his start. It's how Kathy Boudin got her start. There are a bunch of celebrated Americans today -- former terrorists, Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, any number of them -- who began just this way, and they are now heralded. They are exalted. The left politicizes everything, but is it untrue to say that this how Bill Ayers got his start? No. Is it untrue to point out that a professor at Columbia did something similar to this?

It was a resume enhancement, apparently, for the American university system. So don't be surprised. So if the left politicizes everything -- which they do and which we've documented and which I have further documentation for in this incident now -- is it reasonable to ask, "How might the left be calculating this incident to be of the greatest use to them?" 'Cause everything to them is politics, and the evidence of that is how quickly they launched into trying to blame people like us, folks.

People who I'm simply showing up here and defending. A bunch of people are being maligned, impugned, character assassinated, or assaulted today who had nothing to do with this. We don't know who did it, just like back in the Sandy Hook first days. Remember all of the news that was wrong? I mean, it was legendary how wrong it was. I mean, inaccurate wrong, and it was all rooted in speculation -- and it was rooted in the speculation of hope that there would be a way to advance the left's political agenda.

So why would this be any different, as far as they are concerned? So all I, El Rushbo, am saying is that my antennae are raised and I'm keeping a sharp eye for this. Let's see. Peter Bergen, CNN, in a tweet said, "Right-Wing Groups Might Have Something to do with This." A blogger at the Huffing and Puffington Post, "We don't know anything yet, of course, but it is Tax Day, and my first thought was all these anti-government groups. But who knows." Well, yeah, it's Monday, too, when this happened.

Paul Fisher: "Worth noting today's Patriots Day, an important day to militia movements in our country, same day (sic) Tim McVeigh chose to bomb Oklahoma City," except the Oklahoma City bombing was on April the 19th. Nicholas Kristof. Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times: "Explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking appointment."

So what happened in Boston is the Republicans' fault. Barney Frank is out saying, "No tax cut would have prevented this from happening." I kid you not, folks. I haven't said a word. "No tax cut would have prevented this from happening." So is it appropriate to say, "Is it true this is how Bill Ayers got his start? This is how Bernardine Dohrn got her start. This is how Kathy Boudin got her start. This is how Kathy Boudin got hired as an adjunct professor at Columbia."

I also am holding here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers (shuffling paper) a piece in the National Journal by Ron Fournier. (He might pronounce it Fourn-i-er. I'm not certain, and I don't mispronounce it on purpose.) Headline: "Why Boston Bombings Might Be Scarier Than 9/11." Now, you want to hear this from Ron Fournier, the former White House AP reporter? He might have been the DC bureau chief for AP, I'm not sure, but he was a ranking AP guy.

One would think that if there was a connection between some right wing extremist group and tax day that offices of the IRS would have been targeted instead of a sporting event.

“The Left Politicizes the Boston Bombing”

What? Now they want to outlaw pressure cookers? Or just require background checks to purchase one?

Villifying “teabaggers” plays well to the Progressive base. They just love projecting their own propensity toward violence on others, especially people whom they think of as weak.

IMHO

The DHS had clearly started focusing more on portraying patriots as the enemy than Muslims terrorist. They started replacing the threat of Islamic terrorism with anyone on the right, and they never had anything to base that decision on. At the same time the administration has been arming Muslim terrorist, and pandering to them.

We need all the details about this that we can possibly find out. We can not underestimate the lengths Obama could go in an attempt to cover up anything that may harm him, or give him an excuse to silence some of his political opponents. We shouldn't be surprised by anything he does at this point.

There is obviously a reason to wonder if the tyrannical Obama administration's funding of terrorist groups is connected to this in anyway. Shifting focus from Islamic terrorism to political opposition is obviously a possible reason this happened as well.

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“If we didn’t have corrupt inept unionized airport TSA workers and we’d privatized to competent efficient airport security groups, the Boston tragedy wouldn’t have happened.”

How’s THAT for politicizing things, Rats?

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