The Elephant In The Room
Source: Obama: ‘We’ are to blame, not Islamic terrorism, for massacre | New York Post
This stuff you can’t make up. In the immediate aftermath of the worst massacre on US soil by an admitted terrorist group since 9-11, the finger has been pointed right back at the American people as the root cause. How do we know that the murders were inspired by an Islamic terror group? Well there was the phone call to the police by the perpetrator exclaiming that ‘this is in the name of ISIS’, but I suppose that could have been misconstrued. Closer scrutiny of the tape may eventually show that he called the police help line because he wanted to know ‘where the ice is’. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
We expect the progressive media to offer the standard offerings of half truths in their reportage; we are accustomed to that. When the leader of the nation is confused as to the nature of the event and calls a spade a girdle, then there’s something very frightening about his grip on reality. He may as well be Joe Izuzu. It goes beyond lack of judgment; his entire stock of credibility is at stake.
As usual, the only elephant in the room he addresses is the Republican one, blaming the supporters of that party for ‘easy’ access to guns which led to the tragedy. The more obvious elephant, the one that is never invoked, Islamist militancy, is ignored like a white crayon. The logic of reducing legal access to guns by law abiding citizens as being the cure all for Islamic terror incidents is as reasonable as banning airplanes post 9-11. The veritable mountain of evidence pointing to Islamists as the ongoing danger to the country is swept aside for the partisan, tired narrative of gun access.
Reason and logic are not qualities found in abundance these days among the snowflake populace, but there should be some evidence of it in the leaders. The main priority of the presumptive leader of any nation is to provide security for its people, not to prevent it. America has always been fortunate enough to have a tradition of self reliance among its people. There’s a reason that people from all over the world are clamoring to get in to the country. They should not go down the road of depending on the nation state to protect them. For any of those still in doubt, I present North Korea as exhibit A.
It had a pretty good chance of being misconstrued, since the goof called to pledge fealty to ISIL, an Al-Nusra suicider, and Al-Quaeda. The main thing these groups have in common is that they hate each other. The other thing is that they come with so many variant spellings that it is hard to actually misspell one.
I think we’re dealing with a (former) crazy person, not a (former) Mohammedan ideologue.
yup, just hearsay:
LORETTA LYNCH: What we’re announcing tomorrow is that the FBI is releasing a partial transcript of the killer’s calls with law enforcement, from inside the club. These are the calls with the Orlando PD negotiating team, who he was, where he was… that will be coming out tomorrow and I’ll be headed to Orlando on Tuesday.
CHUCK TODD: Including the hostage negotiation part of this?
LYNCH: Yes, it will be primarily a partial transcript of his calls with the hostage negotiators.
CHUCK TODD: You say partial, what’s being left out?
LYNCH: What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda.
CHUCK TODD: We’re not going to hear him talk about those things?
LYNCH: We will hear him talk about some of those things, but we are not going to hear him make his assertions of allegiance and that. It will not be audio, it will be a printed transcript. But it will begin to capture the back and forth between him and the negotiators, we’re trying to get as much information about this investigation out as possible. As you know, because the killer is dead, we have a bit more leeway there and we will be producing that information tomorrow.