Tel-Chai Nation

R. Emmet Tyrrell writes about how Big Apple mayor Michael Bloomberg is continuing his wilting process:

Just hours after this Islamic brute attempted to kill the peaceful denizens of Times Square, many of whom were doubtless followers of Islam, Mayor Bloomberg speculated to the press that the perpetrator of this attempted atrocity was “a homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something....” Later, there was more. He would not tolerate “bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers.”

Now the mayor was manifesting the Liberals’ time-honored suspicion of his fellow Americans. Those of us who have studied the Liberals’ bugaboos as they pollute our political culture (we call the phenomenon Kultursmog) are familiar with this idiocy. We saw it during the Cold War when suspicion of communist infiltration of government was described by many Liberals as a senseless “Red Scare.” With the release of the Venona files and of research from the KGB’s archives we now know many of the accused Reds were in fact communist spies.

When will the elections be held for NYC's municipality? Because the Big Apple is sorely in need of a new mayor, and fast. Bloomberg, it appears, is one of those kind of people who favors the Obamacare bill, and this is just one more example of how he's screwing up royally, showing why he's not fit to be mayor.

Update: on a related note, Shahzad had contact with the jihadist cleric Anwar Awlaki (Hat tip: Hot Air).

Labels: jihad, Moonbattery, New York, terrorism, war on terror