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Tea Party Hates Bloomberg's Bomb Suspect Speculation
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Jaya Saxena
Published May 4, 2010
Modified May 4, 2010
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Before the Times Square car bomb suspect was arrested, Mayor Bloomberg told Katie Couric last night that he thought the suspect acted alone, "If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything." Of course, now that the suspect is a Pakistani man, Bloomberg's words are getting the Tea Partiers all angry.
Members of the Tea Party movement allegedly circulated an email last night, demanding that Bloomberg apologize for his "biased" statements against Americans. The email claims that by suggesting the suspect wasn't acting as a terrorist, "he was trying to blame the Tea Party movement and the patriotic Americans who stood up and fought against this usurpation of our rights." The email continues, "The bomber is a naturalized citizen from Pakistan, with ties to the terrorists in Pakistan. Instead of apologizing for getting it wrong, or insulting mainstream, patriotic Americans, Bloomberg's response has been to say that 'bias will not be tolerated.' Mr. Mayor, how about your bias against the majority of Americans in this country?" The Tea Partiers encouraged members to call the Mayor's office, or to take to the internet and tag their complaints #Apologize on Twitter.
Twitter has since been flooded with demands for apologies, with one Washington State woman saying, "Bloomberg should be ashamed of himself. Boy, do I miss Giuliani." Naturally, once the liberals got news of the protest they took to Twitter themselves with requests like "Mike Bloomberg should #apologize for that burning smell that comes from most hot dog carts. It's un-American." He's doing his best to stop it!
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