Posted on 06/29/2016 7:46:07 AM PDT by mandaladon
All three cable networks dedicated droves of airtime Tuesday evening to the Istanbul terrorist attack and on two occasions, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews wondered “how much brains does it take” for someone to become a suicide bomber and why do terror attacks “always seem to involve bombing” instead of something else.
Matthews was speaking to an assembled panel of terrorism experts about five minutes into the program when he cited recent terror attacks ranging from French train in August 2015 to Tuesday’s bombings in Istanbul and appropriately wondered if it means there’s a pattern to the string of Islamic terror attacks.
From there, however, Matthews blurted out this question: “How much brains does it take to pack yourself up with TNT and go running into a crowd and blowing yourself up? What do you mean, sophistication?”
Risk management analyst Anthony Roman explained to Matthews that most attacks are “coordinated” and “planned,” but Matthews interjected to wonder if suicide was considered “brave” to which Roman responded that he certainly wouldn’t want to do it (but would be in the eyes or radical extremists).
A few minutes later, Matthews introduced an utterly bizarre line of questioning about why terrorists turn to bombs to carry out their heinous acts over any other weapon [emphasis mine]: This was a combination, apparently, we don't have all the information on the — at least 28 dead, maybe more. A.P. is reporting many more. At least 100 injured badly, probably....Bombing. What's bombing and terrorism have to do cause it always seems to involve bombing. Is that because it’s one sure way to blow yourself up, certainly, and the suicide bomb strapped to the body seems to be part of this cult of suicide, of martyrdom, if you will, by their standards.
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Illegal Explosive Devices are WAY more effective than legal semi-autos.
Chris, invite Bill Ayers on for the inside scoop.
We all know it is because the liberal’s gun control laws have been so effective that terrorists are motivated to seek out alternatives. < / sarcasm >
Sounds like that question asking the bank robber why he robs banks? “Duh, because that’s where the money is!”
Bombs destroy vast areas very quickly. End of story.
I guess Chrissy didn’t get the meme.....YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BLAME IT ON ANYTHING BUT GUNS! Even though bombing is much more destructive.
What he really meant was, “Why don’t they just use guns? Then we’d get “common sense” gun control passed.”
Fortunately, the morons haven’t figured out the effectiveness of a daisy chain...
More bomb control, please.
Makes one wonder “how much brains does it take” for someone to be a TV commentator on MSLSD.
Actually I think he is working on “the narrative” by defing terms a certain way.
Islamic terrorism? Oh, that involves bombs. And it occurs overseas in places like Turkey.
Meanwhile, you know, the US has a problem with gun nuts like that gay guy in Orlando. Totally different you see.
He was hoping for mass poisoning, or mass ebola?
Oh you mean that gay guy who is a Muslim.
“why do terror attacks “always seem to involve bombing” instead of something else”
I don’t know, chris. maybe throwing rocks and bottle rocket attacks are not very effective?
Terrorism, my ass! They are all acts of war.
You can get knuckle draggers to do anything
Clearly, they see the bomb is the fail safe to martyrdom.
Run out of ammo -self detonate.
Being overwhelmed by bystanders (rare) -self detonate.
At risk of being taken alive -self detonate.
Facing overwhelming force -self detonate.
Is all that that hard to understand for Chris Mathews? Guess so.
I’ll bet that is no ‘off-the-cuff’ question or accident.
Somehow that will be twisted to mean we need to abolish the 2A here in America. Only in the liberal mind is there a connection, but the global warming nitwits will find one.
And big media will run with it for all it’s worth.
Whoa. Chrissy’s right to be upset about the lack of diversity in terrorist weaponry, though - it makes all that self-defense training he’s taken against terrorists attacking with fresh fruit pretty much useless.
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