White Man Blows Up Times Square!

They Mainstream Media just can't help themselves, can they? Regarding the attempted terrorist attack in Times Square, today the New York Times reported that "Arrest made in Times Square bomb case". Yet, only yesterday in the article "Motive sought for car bomb", they showed no scruples to report that the prime suspect was a "white man", reporting of "surveillance footage that showed a white man who appeared to be in his 40s walking away from the area as he looked over his shoulder and removed a layer of clothing", and "images of the white man leaving the scene of the SUV that were shot by a tourist in Times Square".

Frankly, I would question the judgment of anybody of any race who didn't look over their shoulder after pulling a layer of clothing over their head in Times Square, much less a New York City alley, since it would be at exactly that moment that a mugger would knock you over the head. Or it could be that the guy was simply hot.

The article also reported that the white suspect was "was seen in Shubert Alley". He wasn't. The video clearly shows him removing his shirt on the same street as the parked SUV and walking down that street, but we all know how much more plausible his guilt would be if he were to be reported sneaking down an alley.

So why the rush to identify the culprit as a white man? Since when does taking off a sweatshirt make one a suspect? It's not much of a stretch to presume that the authors of the article wanted it to be a white man, and preferably a member of a Tea Party. Either way, it sounds like racial profiling to me.

One final note: it isn't just the Mainstream Media that fanned the Guilty Whitey theory; local, state and federal government investigators all fed this bogus story for two days, or roughly the length of time it took them to determine that a Pakistani American - Faisal Shahzad - had just recently returned from Pakistan, purchased the car, and was arrested at JFK airport today attempting to flee the country to Dubai, where he ran not the slightest risk of being racially profiled.