Columnist Faults Bush on Sniper Attacks

NewsMax ^ | 10/24/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Hours after news broke of arrests in the sniper case, New York Newsday hit newsstands with a column blaming President Bush for not doing enough to catch D.C.'s serial killer.

Headlined "Bush Should Take a Walk Near Home" and prominently placed on page 3, Breslin's piece excoriated Bush for campaigning for Republicans across the country instead of staying at home while his city was under siege - and even suggested that the president was a coward for leaving town.

"Bush should have been taking a walk through Silver Spring or Rockville," complained the writer who came to prominence during New York's notorious Son-of-Sam serial murder case.

"That was his job. He pledged to defend the nation. He could have started by helping to repel the attack on Washington."

"It was one thing that Bush was completely disdainful of the World Trade Center," the columnist bellyached. "He and his people hate New York. He barely showed for a year. And they blew the attack. They blew it because any threats to New York weren't of such vital interest."

Breslin then claimed that the reason Bush allegedly doesn't like New York is because he's a bigot:

"New York is filled with blacks and Jews and all kinds of Hispanics and Asians who don't vote right," he wrote. "We don't bother with them during an election, then why stop everything and concentrate on some threat to the place?"

The incendiary writer then said Bush feels the same way about the D.C. area, arguing, "nobody in the shooting area, in Montgomery County towns, voted for him."

Breslin compared Bush unfavorably to President Lyndon Johnson, whom he claimed had defied a Secret Service warning about threats to his safety to march behind slain President John F. Kennedy's casket.

"I'd rather be shot than let anybody think I'm afraid to go out on that street," Johnson said, according to the writer. Breslin then concluded, "Somebody should have shown George Bush the words."

The ill-timed column appeared in millions of copies of Newsday distributed throughout New York City and Long Island, was taken down for about an hour from the paper's Web site Thursday morning. But by 10:30 a.m. it had reappeared.

[HogFixer]

"Bush should have been taking a walk through Silver Spring or Rockville," complained the writer...

Sounds like someone needs to be reported to the Secret Service for threats against the president.

[boomop1]

Breslin is among the many illustrations that define MORON.

[prognostigaator]

Breslin's cup runneth over..
Either that or his senility is not responding to medical treatment..

[Billthedrill]

Jimmy the Mouth may not want to relate who it is has the Home Defense bill wrapped up in the Senate. Ain't Bush.

[shiva]

What would Clinton do?.........call the IRS on the guy.

[Jhensy]

Sure, Jimmy, the one politician who's actually working to crush Islamic terrorism, blame him for the Islamic terrorist sniper. Typical Dumbass Left-Winger. What else ya got?

[Abcdefg]

Finneman is also guilty of blatant partisan stupidity.

[sinkspur]

Breslin's alcohol-addled brain, combined with his advancing age, is beginning to take a toll.

[nicmarlo]

What the heck took 'em so long? I was expecting this blame days ago.

[OldFriend]

Breslin, the notorious wife beating drunk.

[evad]

KEERIST!!!

This som-bich is nuts!!

[evad]

..is beginning to take a toll.

I would say an extremely advanced stage.

[thinktwice]

Partisanship at it's worse.

Can anyone provide us with Breslin's take on Monica-gate and the impeachment trial?

[Falcon4.0]

yea,,,YEA

and my grass needs to be cut. and he's not doing enough for free lawn care.

FREE LAWN CARE IS A RIGHT.

and, and,and......

[RoseofTexas]

Geezzzzzzzz what took the CLYMER so long to come to that conclusion!! I hate the LIBERAL MEDIA WHORES!!

[meenie]

You will get free lawn care as soon as we let in another million illegals. Sigh. There are so many lawns that need taken care of that Americans don't want to do. Have you seen the splendid lawns that the illegals have? You just wish that your lawn looked so-so lovely.

[y2kdawgg]

This is great, and I'm glad he wrote this column. One more piece of evidence that the Dems are really getting their A** kicked. And fantastic timing too. Not only do these windbags start to blame Bush for the failing economy, while it is now actually improving, but they start to blame him for not catching the sniper once he's already been caught (hopefully). Talk about out-of-touch.

The Dems are through in 2002

[freedomson]

My lawn has grubs and Bush doesn't give a damn about it!!!

[Dante3]

The writers comments are ridiculous, obiosly written by someone who had one too many. Or who wants attention. What about all the other serial killers? Is Bush supposed to run to every scene? What about the Carr brothers' horrific crime spree? Anyway, around DC people had a better chance of dying in a traffic accident than being killed by the sniper.