Sure sounds like it… (h/t – Riehl World View)

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A real estate broker says the Times Square bombing suspect told him years ago he disliked President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.

Igor Djuric  represented Faisal Shahzad when he was buying a home in 2004.  Djuric says he could not remember the exact words but said Shahzad made clear he didn’t like Bush or his policy in Iraq. He says the comments were not hateful, but he was surprised to hear them because they hardly knew each other.

Announcing your anti-Bush political views in someone’s face without them asking…. sure sounds like an American Liberal to me.

Dan Riehl has a hilarious commentary that I have to post as well:

Wow! It’s a wonder the guy wasn’t co-anchoring at MSNBC. Maybe he didn’t have the right skin color for that gig? They pretty much have a white only policy over there, as I recall.

Yep, we’ve covered that ground before here at GayPatriot.  MSNBC: The Home Of Angry Liberal Whites Who Call Everyone Else a RACIST.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

This weekend, conservative bloggers were quick to report the news of violent protests in Santa Cruz, California, filling in where the MSM was silent:

A group of protesters demonstrating at a May Day rally for worker’s and immigrant rights downtown broke off into a riot vandalizing about a dozen businesses around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Windows were left shattered and graffiti including anarchy signs were tagged onto buildings. The Rittenhouse Building, Urban Outfitters, Jamba Juice and Velvet Underground all had windows broken, according to Capt. Steve Clark.

The “state-run media,” Jim Hoft observed, “has been hush-hush about this violent attack.”  Noel Sheppard found that those who did cover it downplayed the violence: “Despite the violence, the reporter for ABC-TV affiliate KGO used an offshoot of ‘mostly peaceful’ to describe the festivities“.  When “CNN tweeted an unofficial video with a disclaimer – don’t blame the protesters” Dan Riehl quipped, “Pity they didn’t go to such lengths to defend the Tea Party protests.”

Guess when it comes to left-wing protests, media folk expect them to be peaceful, so they report their expectations, not the reality.

They really political violence to conform to their expectations as Ed Morrissey observes:

Contessa Brewer tells Stephanie Miller that she’s really unhappy that she couldn’t use the Times Square bombing attempt to prove Tea Party “bigotry.”  Never mind that this clip shows the bigotry of Brewer in relation to conservatives — that all of the opponents of Barack Obama and the Democrats are somehow the equivalent of the Hutaree militia in Michigan.  Brewer really wanted a way to smear conservatives, and now she’ll just have to wait a little longer

This gal didn’t want the terrorist suspect in New York to have “ies to any kind of Islamic country” because she wants the threat to be elsewhere.  Just as her media colleagues want the violent protests to be on the right.

Jim Geraghty observes how the initial absence of a suspect in the attempted bombing of Times Square revealed much about those making assumptions about his background and motivations:

This is how I like my counter-terrorism: No casualties and the good guys seem to be hot on the trail of the bad guys. As of this writing, we don’t know precisely who placed that car with various sundry incendiaries Saturday night, and the first 48 hours offered everyone a chance to suspect their favorite foe – Islamists, South Park critics, militia members, lone nuts, and in the case of New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, health care bill critics.

Emphasis added.  Each person who made a speculation about a suspect revealed the type of person he believed was responsible for such evil acts.  The real villains of his imagination.

Roger offers an important insight into the imaginations of aging baby bombers and their hangers-on in younger generations:

If you were listening to Geraldo on Sunday night (okay, I apologize), you would have thought the would-be Times Square bomber was either the illegitimate son of Timothy McVeigh or an evangelical minister overdosed on steroids looking for an abortion clinic. Geraldo was practically fulminating at the mouth — it’s a white man, it’s a white man — in nostalgia for the good old days when the true enemy was some evil Ku Kluxer waving his hangman’s noose.

Emphasis added.

In a roundup on the arrest, Glenn links Mark Steyn who offers:

Whenever something goofy happens — bomb in Times Square, mass shootings at a US military base, etc. — there seem to be two kinds of reactions:

a) Some people go, “Hmm. I wonder if this involves some guy with a name like Mohammed who has e-mails from Yemen.”

b) Other people go, “Don’t worry, there’s no connection to terrorism, and anyway, even if there is, it’s all very amateurish, and besides he’s most likely an isolated extremist or lone wolf.”

Unfortunately, everyone in category (b) seems to work for the government.

With the oil spill, the president’s hypocrisy on civility and the attempted terrorist attack in the Big Apple, looks like I picked the wrong week to take a break from politics and focus on my dissertation:

While preparing my dinner last night, I heard Bob Beckel speculate that the Times Square bomber may be a right-wing militiaman.  Looks like he’s wrong:

A Connecticut man who recently spent several months in his native Pakistan was arrested at Kennedy Airport early today in connection with the attempted Times Square car bombing, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Authorities believe that Faisal Shahzad, 30, was trying to flee the country.

They also suspect that he purchased the dark-green SUV used in the would-be attack, sources said. An e-mail sent from his account had been used to contact the seller.

Shahzad, a naturalized US citizen, had not been seen at his home in Shelton, Conn., or at his job since the explosives-packed vehicle was abandoned on West 45th Street near Broadway Saturday evening, sources said.

Right-wingers tend not to travel to Pakistan for training.

UPDATE:  Seems like this is the “person of interest” federal authorities were trying to track down:

There is growing evidence the bomber did not act alone and had ties to radical elements overseas, with one senior official telling ABC News there are several individuals believed to be connected with the bombing and that at least one of them is a Pakistani-American.

Radical elements overseas tend not to mean right-wing militiamen.

UP-UPDATE:  Moe Lane offers:

The implications of this – now that we’ve determined that the terrorist was not a domestic right-wing militia type against imposing carbon neutral insurance mandates on illegal immigrant stimulus project workers, or whatever the heck the Usual Suspects were guessingtoday – can wait for the morning, but I’d like to get this on the record: Mr. President, when it comes to successful counter-terrorism methodologies, hope is not a plan. And we cannot be lucky all the time.