CBS Features NY Mayor Bloomberg Speculating Bomber Was Mad About ObamaCare

[alienlovechild 75]

With Katie Couric drawing him out, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg agreed the Times Square car bombing was likely “homegrown” as he proceeded, in an interview excerpt run on Monday's CBS Evening News, to speculate it could have been placed by “somebody with a political agenda who doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”

Could be “anything,” but the first thing Bloomberg thinks of are those who don't like ObamaCare, presumably conservatives or Tea Party activists.

From part of Couric's interview with the mayor aired on the Monday, May 3 CBS Evening News:

KATIE COURIC: Law enforcement officials don't know who left the Nissan Pathfinder behind, but, at this point, the mayor believes the suspect acted alone.

MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that, somebody-

COURIC TO BLOOMBERG: A home-grown?

BLOOMBERG: Home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.

CBSNews.com version of Couric's interview.

****UPDATE: Speaking on Stephanie Miller's radio show, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer offered yet more misguided liberal pontifications on the would-be bomber's motives:

I get frustrated...There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country.

...There are a lot of people who want to use terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/05/03/cbs-features-ny-mayor-bloomberg-speculating-bomber-was-mad-about-obamac

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Libtards were hoping, just hoping it was a Tea Party Activist.....

Goes to show you how deranged the liberal mindset is.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

just another good example of why he's not a fbi agent

[Heracles 417]

Libtards were hoping, just hoping it was a Tea Party Activist.....

Goes to show you how deranged the liberal mindset is.

Paul we have something in common. We detest libs.

[rsn 135]

Paul we have something in common. We detest libs.

I think if you look closely, you'll find that you two have a LOT in common.

[Heracles 417]

I think if you look closely, you'll find that you two have a LOT in common.

We both certainly explain our opinions beyond a sentence or two.

Edited May 10, 2010 by Booyah!

[rsn 135]

We both certainly explain our opinions beyond a sentence or two.

ok, good start. Keep going...

[Heracles 417]

ok, good start. Keep going...

We're both not gay, unlike yourself.

Edited May 10, 2010 by Booyah!

[The_Dude 1,142]

Libtards were hoping, just hoping it was a Tea Party Activist.....

Goes to show you how deranged the liberal mindset is.

Seems you're the only one superimposing your delusional political beliefs onto a potential tragedy. That really is pathetic.

[rsn 135]

We're both not gay, unlike yourself.

I know you are, but what am I?

[PhiLandShiR 18]

Libtards were hoping, just hoping it was a Tea Party Activist.....

Goes to show you how deranged the liberal mindset is.

OR, how deranged the minds of Tea Party Activist's are thought to be....

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Seems you're the only one superimposing your delusional political beliefs onto a potential tragedy. That really is pathetic.

awww, did you take offense that to that comment?

[The_Dude 1,142]

awww, did you take offense that to that comment?

Yes, your utter ignorance is borderline offensive.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Yes, your utter ignorance is borderline offensive.

I'm amused by the fact that you think I'm ignorant.

Divisive maybe. Ignorant? Not so much.

It'll be ok though. You keep living in your happy little world over there and leave the thinking to the grown-ups.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Libtards were hoping, just hoping it was a Tea Party Activist.....

Goes to show you how deranged the liberal mindset is.

The fact that Couric handled the interview shows that the network (See-BS) is aptly named.

In a sense, the terrorist WAS homegrown--as he actually naturalised to US citizenship to do the crime (and VOLUNTARILY walked out on mortgage--unquestionably with assent from his also-USC¹ wife). The "sob-story" from the groat (derivated from "Grit" for Canada's Liberal Party²) media really ticked me off (I've been through a good deal worse since 1997³).

1. on that the groat media got it right, he did get citizenship due to his wife's already being citizen (probably earlier-naturalised Pakistani)
2. cannot use "grit" as that would lead to confusion with a common hot-cereal, so archaic "groat" (pronounced as "grit" anyway) instead
3. from 1982-2005, I had Canadian-only citizenship and from 2005-2008 dual Canada/US--renounced in 2008 for Security-Clearance eligibility. I have lived/worked in US since 1994 (but only got my GC in 1999 due to a chop**** lawyer's misfiling my LC as EB-3 rather than EB-2)