Mainstream Media apologias: More worried about Islamophobia.

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.

Lower Manhattan. Vehicle is used to kill pedestrians and bike riders. The truck was rented by an imported terrorist — a title we suspected from the get-go but that was quickly confirmed — here on some sort of government-sponsored mumbo-jumbo called diversity visa lottery.

And the mainstream media called the guy a Truck Driver. This guy was not a Truck Driver. True, he drove a truck, but he was not a Truck Driver. Moving on.

The man who drove the truck did not choose the path nor the time of day at random. In other words, he wasn't having coffee at the Starbuck's and said, "You know what? I think I'll go rent a truck and mow down a bunch of people right this minute."

No. In a big eff you to capitalism, free enterprise, and freedom, the man chose the area near the very heart of the biggest terror attack on U.S. soil, almost across the street from One Police Plaza, and scoped it out. He asked himself the following questions:

1. When will kids be around?
2. Where is the easiest place to drive a vehicle to strike the most soft targets?
3. Which day is best?
4. Where can I rent a truck?

He then answers those questions.

1. When they are getting out of school.
2. The bike path because of no traffic lights or other motorized vehicles.
3. As soon as possible.
4. Home Depot.

As a good little terrorist is prone to do, this fellow hollered Allahu akbar. Militants on suicide missions holler that because they believe they are committing a righteous act. They want to die with praise for Allah coming out of their mouths. 

Thus far I haven't said anything you probably haven't already figured out or knew.

What I am going to tell you is this:

Within three hours after the attack, a local news channel has one of their on-air talent say, almost apologetically, something very close to this:

"The man was saying Allahu akbar which is a phrase of peace used by millions of Muslims around the world."

I. Kid. You. Not.

I was so shocked at the verbal apologia that I, your Citizen Journalist, did not think to look at which mainstream media outlet the affiliate was with.

I apologize.

Then later, when I was in the car and listening to an AM radio station, in the news break I heard what had to be a Politically Correct Democratic RINO Socialist Fascist Commie say that the solution to not letting terrorists do this type of terrible thing again was to...

Hold on to your hats...

...tightly regulate and track all truck rentals.

I. Kid. You. Not...again.

You also wait and see. Somebody is going to complain that this guy was not mowed down by police and will compare it to some other case. That will come. But two things stopped that.

The first was: The police saw the weapons he had weren't going to kill anybody. A pellet gun and a paint ball gun are easily recognizable. Once that decision was made, came number two: Alive, they can get intel out of him.

Frankly, I don't believe the man wanted to die. I think he played it out like this so that he would more than likely live but still have bragging rights.

Yeah. I'm cynical.