Fox News’ Andy McCarthy Torches FBI Over ‘Woke Incoherence’ on New Orleans Attack

Fox News’ Andy McCarthy is blasting the FBI over its “woke incoherence” in the wake of Wednesday morning’s attack in New Orleans.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street before engaging in a shootout with police early on New Year’s Day. At a press conference later in the morning, Alethea Duncan, the special agent in charge of the bureau’s New Orleans Field Office, said that the attack — which claimed the lives of at least 14 victims, was not yet considered a “terrorist event.”

In a column for National Review, McCarthy wrote that “It’s not bad enough that we are forced to begin 2025 by grappling with a horrific terrorist mass-murder attack on revelers in New Orleans; we are also being tormented by the FBI’s habitual woke incoherence regarding the atrocity.”

“There should be no hesitancy in saying that this incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack. It was an obvious mass-murder attack by someone who was clearly trying to kill as many as possible — even prepared to kill with other weapons once the truck-weaponization component of the attack was completed. The attack, moreover, fits a common terrorism pattern of vehicle-ramming attacks,” argued McCarthy, who submitted that Duncan’s “maddening” statement was the product of the FBI’s decision to “long ago” retire “retired common sense out of fear of being perceived — by its ‘partners’ in the Muslim community and its superiors in Washington — as equating terrorism with Islam.”

McCarthy continued to express his frustration during an appearance on America’s Newsroom Thursday morning.

“Why not call it terrorism right off the bat? I mean, they found an ISIS flag in the guy’s car,” observed guest host Rich Edson to kick off his conversation with McCarthy.

“Rich, That makes too much sense, you’ll never make it at the FBI,” quipped the former federal prosecutor. “You know, look, this has been going on, sadly, for decades now. Basically, they’ve drawn this line in order to keep ideology in a black box. So unless they instantly come up with information that ties somebody operationally to a known, notorious terrorist organization, they take the position that it’s not terrorism. And the reason for that is they don’t want to be perceived as drawing a link between Islamic doctrine and violence. So I think they go out of their way to try to resist that conclusion, even though in this case, you can see it was a common sense conclusion.”

“Don’t you think part of this could also be just overly cautious government-speak?” followed-up Edson.

“Well, there is a lot of that that goes on. But, you know, they’re very selective about where they take that approach. So, for example, for the first two years or so of the first Trump administration, they actually went out of their way to suggest that the sitting president of the United States was a clandestine agent of Russia, even though they didn’t have any evidence for that proposition,” replied McCarthy. “Here, you have a situation where they have a mountain of evidence that’s staring them right in their faces, and they basically go out of their way to say that what is is not.”

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