Responsibility

I'm not sure what's more ludicrous, the claim that the Taliban was responsible for yesterday's massacre in Binghamton NY:

A Pakistani Taliban militant leader has claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. immigration center in New York state in which 13 people were killed, Reuters reported.

"I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to U.S. drone attacks," Baituallah Mehsud told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location on Saturday.

U.S. officials were not immediately available for comment about Mehsud's claim, Reuters reported, and one Pakistani security analyst dismissed the claim as a publicity stunt.

...Or the claim that the Mehsud story is in fact a clever ruse in order to spread "anti-American propaganda"...

But we all know this “acceptance of responsibility” is an outright lie. We may not know why Jiverly Voong went off the deep end, but we know he had zilch to do with Pakistan. So, why did Reuters think it a story worthy of reporting? There can only be one reason.

You see by telling us the lie of Baitubooolah Meshaweazel Muhammad something-or-another who is claiming he was responsible for the rampage Reuters can also promulgate anger toward our Predator drone program that has been so successful in killing these Taliban and al Qaeda scum-bags.

Reuters knows full well the story is bunk. But if it helps turn more people against the U.S. efforts to stop Islamofascist terror, well, that is a tale worth telling.

...or the belief that Mehsud is actually telling the truth and America's under siege.

Was there more than one gunman? I liveblogged the coverage and for a couple of hours during the day they thought there was. Who assisted the gunman? Whose car did he use to barricade the back door to stop people from escaping? How many were involved? What's on the murderer's hard drive? Will law enforcement give us the straight story?

The Occam's Razor assumption that Mehsud is just yanking our chain hasn't occured to the wingers yet, but then again this is the kind of thing they live for.

No doubt they're trying to figure out how this somehow proves Obama is a Muslim Manchurian Candidate.