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This Happened: Matthews Asks Why Does Terrorism ‘Always Seem to Involve Bombing?’
NewsBusters ^ | 29 Jun 2016 | Curtis Houck

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globaljihad; isis; radicalislam; terror; trump
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To: Capt. Tom

Chris,
Sometimes we are all out of the AR-47s with the clips of 12 gauge lead shot. We have to pass out the Brookes Brothers vests packed with whatever is left from weddings and funerals.

Achmed


41 posted on 06/29/2016 8:30:42 AM PDT by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: No_More_Harkin

I wonder what his comments (if any) were about this knife attack in China?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570996/At-27-dead-109-injured-gang-knife-wielding-men-attack-train-station-China.html


42 posted on 06/29/2016 8:30:44 AM PDT by volunbeer (ABH for President! - Anybody but Hillary)
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To: mandaladon
Matthews Asks Why Does Terrorism ‘Always Seem to Involve Bombing?’


43 posted on 06/29/2016 8:31:49 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: mandaladon
“How much brains does it take to pack yourself up with TNT and go running into a crowd and blowing yourself up?

Not much.

Which is why it's particularly well-suited to those who are the end result of a millennium of inbreeding.

44 posted on 06/29/2016 8:36:26 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: mandaladon

Why do Chrissy Mathews’ incoherent ramblings always involve stupidity?


45 posted on 06/29/2016 8:43:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: mandaladon

Because they found that throwing puppies and kittens at people did not have the same effect.


46 posted on 06/29/2016 8:45:47 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: mandaladon

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No Chris, terrorism only requires a terrorist with a weapon, and some victims.

The weapon can, as obama has shown, be a political office.
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47 posted on 06/29/2016 8:47:36 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mandaladon

LOL

Chrissie would rather death by a thousand paper cuts.


48 posted on 06/29/2016 8:48:59 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: mandaladon

.... because they feel explosive?


49 posted on 06/29/2016 8:50:17 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: mandaladon

A Muslim who dies in a jihad operation goes directly to heaven. A bomber dies instantly.

A shooter faces the possibility of being wounded or captured, this denying himself Paradise


50 posted on 06/29/2016 8:51:31 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: mandaladon

Matthews is bombed most of the time.


51 posted on 06/29/2016 8:53:44 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: mandaladon
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?”

evil will find the most efficient way to kill, That is what evil does

52 posted on 06/29/2016 8:58:00 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: beethovenfan
Why is a liberal talk show host always a moron?

'Cause he's a liberal, of course!

53 posted on 06/29/2016 9:14:04 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: mandaladon

why do terror attacks “always seem to involve bombing” instead of something else.

Good thinking Chrissie, laser tag could be used instead and it would cut out the massive loss of life.


54 posted on 06/29/2016 9:17:25 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: mandaladon

I think he should travel to the mideast and ask them. He needs to understand them so he can come back and share his vast experience with us. I’ll pay for the flight.


55 posted on 06/29/2016 9:20:27 AM PDT by I got the rope
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To: ManHunter
"What he really meant was, “Why don’t they just use guns? Then we’d get “common sense” gun control passed.”"

they already have gun control in Belgium, france, and turkey.

had to go to bombs to get their job done.

56 posted on 06/29/2016 9:23:38 AM PDT by thinden
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To: mandaladon

Uh, because Chris Matthews lacks deductive aptitude?


57 posted on 06/29/2016 9:42:04 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. –Donald Trump)
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To: Red Badger

Hard to imagine a mass shooting with a crossbow.


58 posted on 06/29/2016 10:10:59 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Crucial

59 posted on 06/29/2016 10:15:35 AM PDT by B4Ranch ("The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.")
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To: Red Badger

Hard to imagine a mass shooting with a crossbow. I hope Norman Reedus doesn’t decide to join ISIS though.


60 posted on 06/29/2016 10:16:59 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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