As everyone knows by now, the FBI has just made
3 arrests in the string of 10 Alabama church fires. CNN and others have shown photographs of suspects and, unless something changes, they are Southern Whites.
It's possible they are progressive and/or gay, as the thoroughly despicable Chris Matthews alleged. But, demographically and otherwise, it is now highly unlikely.
It was similarly possible, as right-wing talk radio alleged, that the Oklahoma City bombers were Muslim terrorists striking at our heartland. Who can't remember CNN encouraging "tipsters" to call in that fatal day any sightings of brown-skinned persons acting furtively?
But, of course, Timothy McVeigh was prototypical underachieving white talk-radio trash. He was a "dittohead."
I'm only posting this because Matthews and Limbaugh will quickly bury the Alabama story if the terrorists are, once again, among their flock.