Unfair Tease? CNN Ties George W. Bush to Attempted Mosque Bomber
- Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:03pm by
Mike Opelka
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CNN teased a story this afternoon, just before 3:30pm Eastern.
The anchor, Brooke Baldwin actually said this;
“Police say an America wanted to blow up one of the country’s biggest mosques and he got very very close, frighteningly close. Who is this guy and why is President George W. Bush part of his past?”
Of course I had heard/read about the 63yr old California man who was arrested in Michigan this past weekend after bragging about his plans to blow up a local mosque and getting caught with a car trunk full of M-80s that could have caused a great deal of damage and possibly inflicted serious injury and death.
From all reports, the suspect Roger Stockham was an anti-government nut job who had driven from California to Michigan with evil intentions. Most reports had not mentioned that President George W. Bush was (as CNN promoted) “part of his past.” Yahoo.com covered the story and did not even mention the former President.
At the tail end of CNN’s report we finally were told that Stockham has a long criminal record that included child stealing, threatening to blow up a veterans center as well as an arrest for threatening to kill President Bush. Watching the original tease from earlier in the hour, you might be lead to believe that this would-be bomber was another of the virtually non-existent domestic terrorists with close ties to the GOP.
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Comments (107)
Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:31pmThey could not blame Sarah Palin or Beck?CNN.Communist Nut Network
Report Post »mermaid7
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:26pmFYI – Mike, I liked the article and yes, CNN’s take on this story is of no surprise. But, it‘s not ’lead them to believe’ in the last paragraph! It’s spelled, ‘L E D’ !!!!!!!
Report Post »You are using past tense, it changes from lead to led.
Nigel2
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:24pmM-80″s?? That is an illegal firework. Not a weapon.
Report Post »flyguync
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:20pmAnd now to our next story – Chuck Shumer proposes legislation to mandate background checks for purchasing M-80′s. I‘m pretty sure this guy didn’t get a trunk full of M-80′s in California.
Report Post »Cuthalu
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:18pmHe had, fireworks. How is this even a story or a police case? Their is your hard earned tax dollars going to work. Going after old men with fireworks!
Report Post »Mister_Bill
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:12pmWhat if he would have said that he wanted to kill Sarah Palin? Would that have been Headline. Palin involved with Mosque bombing attempt. Well I guess that makes every politician on the planet guilty at one time or another. Another good example of the Lame Stream Media bias.
Report Post »GUT_CHECK
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:11pmm-80′s?
Report Post »20 years ago, m-80′s had some kick.
theyve been castrated to a point that they are pretty safe.
what was he gonna do with them? celebrate islam?
Ooo, scary ! ! !
greggor
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:03pmI can’t help but think out loud on this.. but my feelings about “right wing” violence won’t be attacks on the innocent. If and when it happens, it will be to literally remove our leaders from office. And I seriously doubt there will be any warnings, either.
Report Post »joeliberty
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:58pmI do not believe this official story one bit! Our government and the state run media will say anything to strike fear into the hearts of the American people! This guy probably was taking them to the Muslims so they could use it for false flag operations!
Report Post »BlazingInSC
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:56pmPropaganda 101 – That’s why they call it a tease. Too many people listen to the tease, draw their own conclusions and never stick around for the facts. It’s like printing a retraction a week later and burying it on page 7.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:38pmNah, page 7 is too close to page 1. It has to be buried in the personals columns or next to the recipe of the week.
Report Post »SanDiego
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:40pmWhat was he planning on doing with the M-80′s? Blowing up their toilets?
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:31pmLMAO – I am in tears at your one-liner. Best I seen in quite awhile. I‘m in tears cause I’m laughing so hard. Thx. for sending to me sleep with a great laugh
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:32pmThis is disgusting and CNN should be ashamed of themselves, but I seriously doubt that any of them are.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:31pmyep, a Beck listener.
Report Post »Slobaphobe
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:44pmCNN Reports:Encinom, a Beck Blaze contributor…
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:23pmWhats the difference between the Comedy channel and CNN
nobody laughs at the Comedy channel
etetetet
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:26pmExcellent!!! LOL
Report Post »N34W118
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:23pmWTFO — It‘s still Bush’s fault. What a crappy lead-in. The lame stream media libs are pathetic.
Report Post »CowboyExpat
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:23pmCNN anchors are whores for the left…..and yes, it was all Bush’s fault.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:21pmSo he works for MMFA?
Report Post »beverlee
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:19pmCNN – “Making” news count. While what the man was planning was quite foul…CNN should be ashamed of themselves. What ever happened to true reporting and not sensationalizing the news. They claim Glenn does these things and yet…not so much.
Report Post »thomas242007
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:18pmAnother lefty trying to stir up trouble, and they say us conservatives are a violent bunch, they keep trying to tie us in to all these types of things and then we find out this guy is indeed a lefty
Report Post »StackAble
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 12:25amJust like the dude who shot the Democrat representative in Arizona another if anything Lefty… Why does the left spawn so very many nut jobs that go over the edge? I think it is like Dr. Savage says: “Liberalism is a mental disorder”
Report Post »ProudConservative1
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:18pmClient Number Nine (CNN) Network is a total JOKE!
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:14pmI am mystified over the fact that George W did not show up and help this healthy, straight thinking man. Oh, wait a minute, George W did not even know him and likely never heard of him. CNN seems determined to drive itself into the ground where only a few far left nutjob will even tune in.
Report Post »In this day and age, I would think that even CNN would be past this kind of trash
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Sister_Mary
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:29pmIt’s called state run media for a reason .. they are barely haning on and will need the government to bail them out soon .. they will do it at a cost …. STATE RUN MEDIA folks…
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:36pmNo, no, no, TexasPatriot, you’ve got it all WRONG. You see, Bush was implicated because he was in the same country as Stockton at the time of the incident. That alone is enough evidence to include him in the great conspiracy.
Also, I noticed that Stockton was not wearing his tinfoil hat in the picture. Very dangerous, that. He could be receiving communications from Rove, Cheney, Limbaugh, Beck and Palin without it. I mean, really…..
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 11:52pmWhat I love most about this kind of garbage, they keep pushing us on every front and can’t figure out why we haven’t really pushed back, they just don’t get how much we love and respect our country.
It truly baffles them because they hate themselves and America so much
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:13pmJust another way for CNN to lie and keep it’s nut case base tuning in. God knows no one else watches them. In the 2nd video, Was good to see some still report the rtruth. WTG to them
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:12pm..and this jack@$$ is a muslim convert too ….
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:16pmhttp://ceinquiry.us/2011-01-30-roger-stockham
forgot linky
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:09pmGood link , all that heavy criminal record & he was free ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Report Post »VTDave
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:20pmJeez, according to the link CHEEZWIZ provided this guy has been up tp no good in my neck of the woods!!! I work In So. Burlington, VT.
Report Post »ULYSSESG
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:11pmWho watches CNN ??
Report Post »CNN= CRAPPY NON NEWS..
Cant believe CNN still alive … cant wait to see them fall…..
Boilervet
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:20pmLooks like Dreyfuss to me…
Report Post »taxed
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:11pmStandard MSM operation procedure.
Next on deck…. Sarah Palin.
http://conservativepoliticlforum.com
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:22pmWow. Thats pretty disgusting and full of misdirection. Typical of MSM. Imagine for a teaser if they reported on a pile of crap and said it was related to Obama. After commercial break, you learn that Obama uses the toilet in the Whitehouse.
The liberation of the “head up the butt” people occurs when they remove their heads from their rectums like in this animated satire where “Hairmericans” take back their country from the evil PC “ruling class” http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:32pmJust another nut case, lock him up. The sad thing is that he’s a vet.
Report Post »solaveritas
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:40pmJust another case of a “misleading headline”. Generating a news angle that doesn’t exist.
Here is a true headline for you:
Report Post »Did you know that journalists were complicit in the Massacre at Wounded Knee. Yes, they whipped up sensational alarm to the otherwise peaceful “ghost dances”, spooked the local governor who ordered tropps, then tried to CONTROL what wasn’t their business by seizing lawfully possessed firearms, …….. and you know the rest of the story.
drhunt
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:41pmTaxed-ahhh…in case you haven’t noticed, Gov. Palin has been in the crosshairs of the liberal elites ever since she was selected by McCain. Oh, is that a vitriolic term I used? Pardon me.
Report Post »Timmtamm
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:45pmShame on CNN. That is clearly a swipe at Bush.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:59pmActually, however, Congress was being manipulated. This is how the war machine operates. Behind the seeming concern for national security are the busy men with the bulging briefcases hurrying form the Pentagon over to Capitol Hill, the tight-mouthed men hurrying from CIA headquarters over to the Pentagon; it is eventually a game. It is an operation designed to produce for the warfare sector and its military hardware supporters billions of dollars annually and unlimited power in the affairs of the nation.”
“Since the end of World War II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these men and their hunger for power. Could the CIA kill a President to keep such an operation going? Kings have been beheaded for infinitely less.” New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, “Heritage of Stone” (1970)
by Tom Flocco
Dallas—March 23, 2006—TomFlocco.com—A November 29, 1963 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit memo unearthed in 1977-78 proves that former President George H. W. Bush was a member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the recipient of a full briefing on the day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 when Bush was 39 years old, despite his protestations to the contrary.
Additional evidence linking Bush 41 directly to the scene of the crime is available and is circulating the internet over the past few days in the form of a U.S. intelligence-leaked photo taken just after the JFK assassination at the door of the Texas Book Depository in Dealey Plaza.
The individual in the photo has the identical profile and hairline of a more youthful George H. W. Bush, standing to the left of the doorway of the building just after the assassination looking in the opposite direction of the authorities who were intent upon locating Lee Harvey Oswald.
The image of the elder Bush at the Texas Book Depository is authentic and can be verified by the intelligence operatives who took the picture and would testify if subpoenaed, according to U.S. intelligence expert Thomas Heneghan, who provided TomFlocco.com with the photo which was leaked to several others. [Click here to view the photo with other similar and contemporaneous photos of George H. W. Bush.]
Report Post »http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/FbiMemoPhotoLinkBushJfk.htm
TennesseeConservative
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:06pmM80′s please, we play with them all the time down South. Now he could inflict major damage if he got the muslims to hold them in their hands, then lit the fuses. The result muslims missing fingers. What a joke. Please Mr. Bush give them tnt or something stronger. What a joke, this is stupid. But some mental midget will think they are right.
Report Post »WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:14pm@Solaveritas…I beg to differ. I don’t believe that the average person “know[s] the rest of the story.”
Fear and ignorance is a hellofa combination.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:48pmYet another Democrat looney toon.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:20pmTypical .. and their brain dead droids who watch (all 3 of them) won’t be able to figure out that he THREATENED BUSH!
Report Post »FoundersRedPill
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:06pmWe used to use M80s to keep elk and deer off the farm, They also had M80s you could shoot out of a shotgun which were awesome. They pretty useless for anything other than making a loud noise. Even puting them in fuse rope going off at different intervals the elk still got used to the noise. Moral of the story, nothing beats a bullet for keeping elk off the farm.
Report Post »Canuck GB Fan
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:40pmTalk about trashy reporting-what a way to slight President Bush!
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:41pmAre you aware the Police Chief is a muslim
Report Post »The Noodle Fish
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 4:03amHere’s to all you morons who jumped to conclusions when the story was still in the dark and assumed that it was a muslim terrorist trying to blow up somebody else. Here’s to all you idiots who are full of prejudice, malice, and bigotry against anybody different than you, without giving any thought to the facts, or the possibilities.
And still, you try to defend the non-muslim perpetrator of a terrorist act even after it is proven. You people are shameless. Cheers. Drink up.
(To Moderator: sorry for repeating the comment. I misposted it.)
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:06amThe good news is it wasn’t his fault. It was because of someone else. I was worried that some ones behavior was going to cause them to be held accountable.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:23amCNN was the first cable station I watched..the ONLY one I like was LOU DOBBS.. he was the only one who made any sense.. than Beck another one that made sense..was on CNN HEADLINE news so I watched him than Dobbs.. NOW BOTH have gone over to FOX no need to change channels..LOL.. Even the ones I don’t agree with on Fox make more sense than ANYONE they have on CNN who is desperate for viewers..
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