I cannot speak to how my crazy-clown stalker, Dishonest Donald Douglas, interprets the words
"And officials are leaning this way largely because of the timing of the attack." or
"And the FBI right now is comparing this to the Eric Rudolph case - that's the 1996 bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta." in his most recent post, but I suspect that most people understand them to mean the person speaking is reporting things those unnamed "officials" and people within "the FBI" are telling the speaker. It is true that the sources-- the officials and FBI agents or media person(s) that she spoke to--are unnamed, and other than saying she got this information from them,
"She offers no evidence for her claims. That is, without a shred of substantiation, she drops the idea of "officials said such and such" and that the "FBI is comparing this or that"…". I'm all for not completely trusting reports based on unnamed sources…but I think it's a little conspiratorial to believe that a mainstream reporter with no history of blatant dishonesty or bias would create sources and attribute her own supposedly politically partisan ideas to them…or that, if she did, officials and the FBI would not immediately call her on her lies, which no one but Dishonest Donald has even hinted at doing.
That said, unlike Dishonest Don, I cited and linked to
the audio (and an admittedly poor written transcript) of the reporter's entire segment in the post to which he's ostensibly replying. Those interested can listen and judge Dina Temple Raston's segment for themselves.
"Morning host Steve Inskeep, her colleague at NPR, reported that Temple Raston "scoffed" at the thought of a possible Muslim suspect from Saudia Arabia: "Asked about 'Saudi national' off-air, @nprdina scoffed.""
No Donald… She didn't scoff at the thought of "
a possible Muslim suspect from Saudia Arabia;" she scoffed at the accusations the right was making about
THE Saudi National… This Saudi National:
The one that The NY Post, as well as Jihad Pam Geller and her fucked-up minions had practically already convicted in their stories by Tuesday, 4/16…and that some really screwed-up right wing conspiracists (including Geller, Glenn Beck, "the stupidest man in the world, Jim Hoft, etc.) are STILL trying to convince their readers was "the REAL bomber," or whatever... At no time did Temple Raston even imply that the culprits couldn't be muslim, or from Saudi Arabia...only that as of that tweet (and now, as far as I know) there was zero evidence against the one that these right wing outlets were (and in some cases, still are) accusing.
Look, Donald and anyone else who wishes real hard can willfully misunderstand and misinterpret every news report. They can bend every fact and parse every syllable so that it all fits into the hate-filled view of the world they see through their shit-colored glasses. But the facts are what they are. Dina Temple Raston and the other reporters and pundits whose cherry picked words and phrases these whiners are attacking said what they said. When you watch/listen to their whole segments, I believe that the vast vast majority who reported or speculated about right-wing extremists in the days before the likely perpetrators were captured/killed, ALSO reported/speculated about islamic extremism in those very same segments. (The only exception of which I'm aware is Michael Moore. And what I said in
that tweet included in my last post applies… By focusing exclusively on one possibility--his political enemies, in his case--Michael Moore showed his biased, partisan colors, and I do think that's pretty shameful.) As for the rest, these nut bag whiners on the right are grasping at straws and in their unending efforts to cry
"poor me." I feel kinda sorry for them.
And one more thing… Didn't my creepy-clown stalker Donald Kent Douglas recently say
"he doesn't even read this "shit hole" blog anymore? Guess that was a lie, too… Wonder how that "block, ban and report to the authorities" thing is working' out for old Don… Other than
getting him compared to Brett Kimberlin by some of his fellow right wingers and resulting in absolutely nothing, I mean… (Donald's reports to the police, his congressional representative(s), the FBI, etc. hoping that they would enforce his blog comment policy didn't produce a single office or agency contact (All Donald got was a bunch of people laughing behind his back.) It sure hasn't stopped him from
obsessively posting about me unprovoked, that's for sure… (This is Donald Douglas' ninth post about me just in the month of April… and yet, he still accuses
me of stalking and harassing
HIM… Fucking amazing… The concept of hypocrisy escapes Dishonest Don...)
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UPDATE: Obsessed Stalker Donald Kent Douglas Goes For The Triple: "
American Power: Rush to Judgment: Dina Temple-Raston 'Scoffed' at Possibility of 'Saudi National' Suspected in #Boston Bombing"
Contrary to what Donald apparently believes, lies do not become true by repeating them, no matter how many times one does so. The whole unedited report is still linked above, and it still says the same things it did two days ago. I'm sorry Donald cannot accept the facts, but repeating his untruths in three posts (so far) only makes him seem more desperately pathetic and sad. But please, don't take my word for it... Here (again) is the link:
Boston Marathon Bombing Case Gains Momentum : NPR. Listen and judge for yourselves...
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And again, only 5 hours later: American Power: Walter James Casper III = Certified NPR Tinfoil Conspiracy Crackpot.
Pathetic.
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UPDATE 3:
UPDATE 4:
Links:
American Power: After Tweeting Wishes for 'White American' Bomber, Despicable Terror Enabler Walter James Casper III Denies Leftist Bias in #Boston Marathon Reporting
Boston Marathon Bombing Case Gains Momentum : NPR
Note to Media Bias Hunters on the Right...
Twitter / repsac3: Anyone who ONLY speculated ...
In Reply: "I never thought that person did it because of their political leanings, I think they did it because they were cowardly bullies." (Popehat, Team Kimberlin, Donald Douglas)
UPDATE 1: American Power: Rush to Judgment: Dina Temple-Raston 'Scoffed' at Possibility of 'Saudi National' Suspected in #Boston Bombing
UPDATE 2: American Power: Walter James Casper III = Certified NPR Tinfoil Conspiracy Crackpot
UPDATE 3: Twitter / AmPowerBlog: .@RSMcCain Troll Harasser Walter James Casper III = Certified NPR Tinfoil Conspiracy Crackpot http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/walter-james-casper-iii-certified-npr.html#.UXw4KIVoyeg.twitter … @ZillaStevenson #Terror
UPDATE 4: Twitter / AmPowerBlog: .@RSMcCain Thanx4RT on trolling terror enabler Walter James Casper III @ Repsac3 http://is.gd/9mFSmC @BobBelvedere @Vermontaigne #DEMS
Obsessed much, Dr. Douglas?