[VanShuyten]

Booted Marine, muslim convert chickens out of terror attack in San Francisco.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Fraudulent enlistment. Not much going for himself.

[aquila48]

So, the most appropriate description the SF rag could find of him was ex-marine, not current Muslim jihadist. Truly despicable!

[Gen.Blather]

“Booted Marine, muslim convert chickens out of terror attack in San Francisco. “

When people go crazy, they pick a familiar model to follow. In the nineteenth century there were all sorts of stories from people claiming to have been picked up by giant air ships. The drawings all looked like the Hindenburg. When somebody wants to kill, they pick a familiar model that allows them to do that. Islam is tailor made for allowing people to do whatever the heck they want to do.

Incidentally, if I got picked up by a bunch of gray aliens and anal-probed, I’d never tell a soul. ‘Cause no matter how you try to explain something that stupid sounding, you’d sound crazy. I’d just sit on an ice pack and make darned sure I had a gun with me for next time. Next time, trust me, I’d have proof!

[Darteaus94025]

Give him a stolen handgun and let them have at it. That’s the San Francisco way!

[DadOfFive]

Never earned title of Marine, thus not an ex-Marine. Just a loser flunky, and waste of oxygen.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I like how the SF Chronicle manages to avoid using the word "Muslim" for nearly the entire article before finally being forced to write it once in sentence buried near the end. Meanwhile, the fact that the guy is a former Marine is trumpeted in the second sentence and the word "Marine" appears three times. Which is more salient here, the fact that this guy is a Muslim or the fact that he used to be a Marine?

Orwell's "1984" wasn't meant to be an instruction manual for today's journalists, but somehow it apparently has been.