I am listening to TV coverage now. Amazing how now it is being called a Bombing and

[diabeticman]

no longer being called a terrorist act.

[defacto7]

1. I don't get the difference.

Either way someone is trying to terrorize the general public.

[Skittles]

2. the difference is the color of the suspects

[defacto7]

4. jeez

I'm just naive enough to not think in those terms but it almost fits.

[Skittles]

8. I hear you

but it seems that the word terrorist is specifically reserved for, you know, THOSE people.........not homegrown nutcases

[Common Sense Party]

9. Right, because McVeigh was never called a terrorist.

[Skittles]

12. not as much if he had been foreign

not by a LONG shot

[Common Sense Party]

14. I don't recall him ever being referred to by any other term.

domestic terrorism. That's what EVERY story talked about.

[Skittles]

15. you never heard OKC BOMBER?

please

[Common Sense Party]

16. Yes, obviously, and in the same articles he was called a terrorist.

You can think it didn't happen, and that it's all some racial game. But thinking doesn't make it so.

[Skittles]

17. riiiiiiiiight

bye bye

[Common Sense Party]

19. hasta luego

[RZM]

32. Clearly that's not good enough

I mean, yes he was called a terrorist there, but it doesn't change the fact that he was never called a terrorist.

Or something

[RZM]

27. Have you heard 'Underwear Bomber' or 'Times Square Bomber?'

Nigerian and Pakistani, respectively.

[Common Sense Party]

33. No, only the "Underwear Terrorist." Because he was dark-skinned, you see.

[madokie]

21. I don't remember ever hearing him called a terrorist

a bomber yes, a terrorist no.
Remember this happened in my state and I followed the story close
No problem with my memory either.
How about a link where he was referred to as being a terrorist from back then in one of our papers

[Common Sense Party]

23. Do a lot of local newspapers have internet archives going back to 1995?

Go find it yourself.

[Skittles]

25. he was speculated as a terrorist until he was identified as homegrown ex-military

then he was mostly referred to as the OKC bomber - you are correct; I lived in Texas and remember wondering about that.....you are correct

[madokie]

34. You are so kind

in comparision to the other reply I got, thanks
For the most part yes he was referred to as the OKC bomber not the okc Terrorist. I'm sure some did use the terrorist word when they referred to him but most did not.

[Common Sense Party]

35. The terms "terror" and "terrorist" were used in every article.

Was he called the Oklahoma City Bomber? Yes, he was. Just as the D.C. Sniper was not called the "D.C. Terrorist." We also don't hear of the "Underwear Terrorist," do we? Sometimes they use the term 'Bomber' to describe the specific method these terrorists used. I do not understand why some people insist on bringing some racial element into this.

If you honestly think that McVeigh was not called a terrorist, or that the OK bombing was not referred to as an act of terror, then your memory is not quite as sharp as you think.

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/mcveigh+terrorist/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/oldest/

[PD Turk]

22. Precisely

It seems it's always the "9-11 terror attacks" but when it comes to McVeigh it's "The Oklahoma City Bombing"

[Common Sense Party]

36. "Bombing" is two syllables. Pretty easy to say. It takes a bit more time to say "the 9/11 hijacking

of jet airplanes with box cutters and flying them into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania."

Do you honestly think that a significant number of the American public--or the U.S. media--consider the Oklahoma City bombing to be anything other than an act of domestic terrorism?

[AgingAmerican]

24. One is domestic and one is foreign

n/t

[Myrina]

29. ... and the fact that (at least one) was an American citizen.

The elder brother was 'naturalized' or something several years ago, don't know if that's the same as taking the Citizenship test.

[CincyDem]

3. White guys bomb, people of color terrorize. Don't we all know that?

[defacto7]

5. I didn't till now.

n/t

[CincyDem]

6. Oklahoma City Bombing vs. 9/11 Attacks.

I don't know if it's true but it always seems that knowing how the event is described is indicative of the perpetrators.

[defacto7]

7. Just crazy.

[subterranean]

13. Probably because bombs weren't used in the 9/11 attacks.

The 1993 attack on the World Trade Center is usually called a bombing even though it was perpetrated by non-white Muslims.

[Common Sense Party]

37. Hey, but that fact doesn't fit in with this made-up racial bias against non-white terrorists.

As if we should care about hurting the feelings of killers and attempted murderers.

[RZM]

28. 'Underwear bomber' n/t

[piedmont]

30. and also "Shoe Bomber" nt

[RZM]

31. They couldn't call him a terrorist for fear of a backlash from the hobo community n/t

[Union Scribe]

10. I'm seeing a lot of this line

...that the bombing was "domestic and not terrorism." I saw it just tonight on the local news (reading viewer comments from their FB page I think).

Me:

[Skittles]

18. CORRECT

even some DUers just don't seem to notice the difference

[Renew Deal]

11. The scripts were already written

The press just fills in the blanks

[freshwest]

20. +1. News readers repeating. Since they weren't reporting events, who writes the script?