Washington, D.C.- The Institute of Public Opinion is reporting that Americans are for the most part hugely disappointed that alleged would be assassin Jared Lee Loughner is not Muslim.
Poll results released this morning show that 75% of Americans initially thought and hoped that the shooting in Tucson, Arizona had been perpetrated by a person with Islamic ties while 24% assumed the shooter was an illegal immigrant, possibly Mexican.
"This is a huge blow to our nation's psyche," Fox News news analyst Juan Williams said in a statement released to the press.
"We needed this kind of incident to vilify us and put us back on the soapbox of self righteousness. Too bad this Loughner guy wasn't named Abdul or Bin Somebody or other," a clearly dejected Williams remarked in his Fox News show Let's Roll.
Williams- who is best known to Americans as the guy who described "Muslim garbed" people as potential terrorists- added that it was his fervent hope that the next massacre would be carried out by someone "other than a John Smith."
"All the Hassans and Gonzalezes of this world need to step up. We are relying on you. How are we going to help you if you can't help us. I know some of you are decent people. But you need to do something dramatic. How else are we expected to make you feel important if some white kid from suburbia beats you to the punch?" Williams wondered.
Other prominent observers of the American political scene were cautiously optimistic. Sean Hannity- also of Fox News - told a gathering of Tea Party supporters in Houston, Texas that it was only "a matter of time before some bastard in the middle east takes credit for that Arizona thing. Until then we have to be patient."
In another development, Sarah Palin- the republican frontrunner for 2012 presidential party nomination- released a statement urging the CIA to come up with "something, anything" to link the shooter with a local mosque, preferable one close to the ground zero Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan.
"Why am I paying taxes if they (CIA) can't refudiate claims that the shooter fell through the cracks because our mental health system is basically third string?" she asked.
An anonymous source at the agency said that efforts to connect the shooting with an international conspiracy were being thwarted by the Whitehouse.
"Can you believe that those guys actually want us to look at the facts? They obviously don't understand that we don't work that way. That is not how the world works. Unbelievable," the source added.
(Additional reporting provided by Luke Sevina in Buenos Aires, Argentina.)
1 comment:
Speechless..
It's always easier to blame other people ???
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