Times Square Bombing Attempt Update- "What? He's From Pakistan!? LA LA LA! Nothing to See Here! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! Edition

Well....he's from Pakistan, and they DO drink tea over in Pakistan. What the hell? Might as well say he's involved in the tea party movement.

Shortly after I reported that a suspect was in custody in the failed Times Square car bombing attempt, he was identified as 30-year old Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized US citizen originally from Pakistan and residing in Bridgeport, Ct. Faisal had a degree and reportedly worked as a budget analyst before being laid off. And for those of you who argue that terrorism is the last-resort weapon of the poor, oppressed, downtrodden and disenfranchised, Faisal Shahzad came from a well-to-do and influential family. The father was a high-ranking officer in Pakistan's Air Force and founder of the Sherdils, the country's military aerobatics team and the family lived on a compound outside of Peshawar in an upscale suburb. Not exactly some dirt-poor goat herder who's spent his whole life in rags and grinding poverty.

Faisal was arrested by law-enforcement on an Emirates Airlines flight as it was getting ready to take off at JFK this week. How he managed to get past the security checkpoints and onto the flight raises all sorts of questions about Homeland Security and the TSA.

This apparently hasn't been a good week for media 'personalities' like MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, either. Never mind that a mass casualty terrorist attack was narrowly averted in the heart of New York City thanks in large part to alert T-shirt vendors and the attempted bombers own ineptitude. According to Contessa, the real tragedy of Faisal Shahzad's unsuccessful attempt to detonate an explosives-packed Nissan Pathfinder in Times Square last weekend was that he wasn't one of those evil, white, backwards, scary, gun-wielding, angry tea party bigots that the mainstream media, Southern Poverty Law Center and Janet Napolitano have been hyperventilating over for the last year or so. In a radio interview, Brewer has this to say:

"I get frustrated...There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country."

Brewer continued, "...There are a lot of people who want to use this terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry."

So would she have been willing to 'discuss the root causes' with the perpetrator and his sympathizers if it was a lilly-white Timothy McVeigh clone at the wheel of the Pathfinder?

Turns out Mayor Bloomberg's guesswork is just about as good as Contessa's, which is pretty sad when you stop and think about it.

"If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything,"

Except for the really REALLY obvious scenario, Mayor McCheese.