The mainstream media has decided to make the Times Square bomber a victim of his unraveling life:
Not long ago, Faisal Shahzad had a pretty enviable life: He became an American citizen after emigrating from Pakistan, where he came from a wealthy family. He earned an MBA. He had a well-educated wife and two kids and owned a house in a middle-class Connecticut suburb.
In the past couple of years, though, his life seemed to unravel: He left a job at a global marketing firm he’d held for three years, lost his home to foreclosure and moved into an apartment in an impoverished neighborhood in Bridgeport. And last weekend, authorities say, he drove an SUV loaded with explosives into Times Square intent on blowing it up.
Where were the similar stories about the so-called Hutaree militia members arrested in Michigan a few months ago. You won’t find them, because the media sees its job as demonizing white right-wingers after arrest to assist the prosecution, but to mitigate in any manner possible the crimes of any minority or left-winger.
In the case of the Hutaree arrestees, it’s unclear what they actually did that was illegal. The case against them is falling apart, and charges that those arrests were timed to give Barack Obama a way of pointing to right-wing hate abroad in the land are seeming more and more plausible.
Of course, you don’t even have to be a right winger to get the demonization treatment from the MSM, especially if there’s a minority involved and the allegations fit the white-man-as-demon template preferred by the media. The Duke lacrosse trio can attest to that.
