{"id":6120,"date":"2010-07-14T22:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T02:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2010-07-14T22:20:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T02:20:16","slug":"not-even-cfif-would-run-this-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6120\/not-even-cfif-would-run-this-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Even CFIF Would Run This Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would-be Times Square bomber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/57-homeland-security\/611-the-facts-about-the-failed-times-square-bomber-why-the-liberal-establishment-cant-face-reality\" target=\"_blank\">Faisal Shahzad is many things<\/a> \u2013 traitor to America, attempted mass murderer \u2013 but ABC News might be spinning news of his reluctance to kill himself a bit too far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/terror-tape-times-square-bomber-wimped-suicide\/story?id=11162584 \" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTimes Square Bomber Wimped Out on Suicide\u201d<\/a> screams that outlet\u2019s headline.\u00a0 Of course, I clicked on it.\u00a0 Apparently, Shahzad\u2019s handlers with the Taliban released a prerecorded tape of Shahzad in full terrorist mode proclaiming jihad to be an obligation on all Muslims.\u00a0 That he used a series of timers to ensure he\u2019d be clear of the death toll his bomb-laden van would bring is then juxtaposed to highlight his hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>I for one am glad Shahzad \u201cwimped out\u201d instead of making sure his plans were carried out to the letter.\u00a0 Put another way, would ABC News be trumpeting his follow through if he\u2019d stayed to detonate the bomb personally?<\/p>\n<p>Ridicule can be effective, but not when it motivates the next Faisal Shahzad to finish a job everyone should be too afraid to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad is many things \u2013 traitor to America, attempted mass murderer \u2013 but ABC News might be spinning news of his reluctance to kill himself a bit too far. \u201cTimes Square Bomber Wimped Out on Suicide\u201d screams that outlet\u2019s headline.\u00a0 Of course, I clicked on it.\u00a0 Apparently, Shahzad\u2019s handlers with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[436,1560,257,682,1559],"class_list":["post-6120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-abc-news","tag-faisal-shahzad","tag-taliban","tag-terrorist","tag-times-square-bomber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}