I second ImNotBlue’s comments. Page A1? Not if this had happened a year ago.

If this act of terrorism had occurred on Bush’s watch, you can damned well bet that the NYT would be crawling up the administration’s butt with a microscope trying to assign blame (and you know who they’d be assigning it to!). And you can damned well bet there wouldn’t be any hesitation in calling this an act of preventable terrorism.

It’s a distraction, pure and simple. It’s meaningless at this moment… and the fact that some folks would rather talk about this, than about the actual issue at hand, shows their unwillingness to confront terrorism and violence.

Many of the politically correct denisons are the same people who have been screaming bloody murder every time real evidence pointed to radical Muslim involvement in deadly attacks on American society and it’s institutions. They preferred instead to attack the processes and the institutions by which the evidence came to light.

When this story was breaking, Diane Sawyer of ABC wistfully mused about why it could not have been someone named, “Smith.” What an appalling gafffe! But she is in line to be the new anchor at ABC when the current one leaves. Why? Groupthink? And not to be outflanked in the ranks of those exhibiting sheer stupidity, Evan Thomas of Newsweek has openly lamented that it was a Muslim, apparently upset that this would somehow embolden conservatives!

Utterly unwilling to say the truth, they all quickly point fingers at an institution that cannot openly defend itself, and that must bend to civilian authority. It’s the oldest trick in the book. Nancy tried it with the CIA. Never mind that the political correctness that has been imposed on the armed services is really the product of a massive and willing case of denial of what has been going on right in front of our eyes for years!

Another example: It is now being reported today that Mayor Bloomberg of New York just had a “meet and greet” in his offices regarding the response to the Ft. Hood tragedy, and his office invited, among others:

“Siraj Wahhaj [who] has called the FBI and CIA the ‘real terrorists,’ defended the convicted World Trade Center attack plotters and said his hope is that all Americans will become Muslim.”

Well, now isn’t that special! What was his first excuse? That they wanted to be “inclusive!”

Lindsay Graham almost instantly and confidently proclaimed that Hasan’s religion had nothing to do with his actions. He actually out-did Chris Matthews, who was only deeply skeptical about the possibility when he decided to mutter something stupid about it.

Big Sis warns Americans not to form any conclusions, but neglects to give even one hint that her Department did anything to protect us from this terrorist here in the Homeland. That may be because they were too busy looking for ways to tag old-fashioned political adversaries with a terrorist moniker.

Finally, I would point out that this gal Kimberly Munley was no Jessica Lynch, no matter what anyone says. She courageously ran into harms way and confronted Hasan. At a minimum, she surely saved some lives by engaging him in an exchange of gunfire. Whether she shot the guy at all is really beside the point. She put her life right on the line to protect our folks, and no one can ever take that away from her.

Jessica Lynch was almost immediately knocked unconscious when the vehicle she was riding in crashed at the onset of the attack on her convoy.

*Sigh*