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4/9/2011

Allen West’s Office Receives Envelope with White Powder

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 12:24 pm



Complete with a reference to anthrax and undisclosed “derogatory remarks”:

Boca Fire-Rescue has responded to U.S. Rep. Allen West’s Boca office after a suspicious white powder was found there at about 2 PM.

Officials announced shortly before 5 PM that the powder “was not biological in nature” and apparently was not a threat. The office is at 2108 N. Federal Highway in Boca Raton.

West’s office, identified as a campaign site, reported at 3 PM that a campaign staffer picked up an envelope from a post office box in Deerfield Beach, opened the letter and found a white powder inside with derogatory remarks about West and the letter mentioned the word “anthrax.” The worker was the only person in the Boca Raton office at the time.

The interesting issue is not that someone who may well be a random nutter sent the powder. The interesting issue is whether Big Media considers it a story. Any time someone says a mean word to a Democrat it is a hate crime directly attributable to the Tea Party. How will this play (that is, if it gets any play at all)?

Thanks to Verum Serum.

15 Responses to “Allen West’s Office Receives Envelope with White Powder”

  1. Why, Patterico! “That’s different!” is the motto of the Left. It’s like the “Obama is awesome!” video about Libya.

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  2. Racist tea baggers did it!!!!!!!!

    Torquemada (fccc6f)

  3. How will this play?

    Here at the 2:30 mark LTC Allen West discusses the white powder incident: he’s sure if he got 15 minutes with the culprit they could have a pretty good discussion and he (West) will not be intimidated nor back down from his principle stand of getting fiscal responsibility restored.

    Given that, I think it’s fairly safe to assume the media will report it as West making a veiled threat: “pretty good discussion” will take on a new life form: pretty good discussion, if you catch my drift.

    Dana (9f3823)

  4. The left is a gutter religion.

    Arizona Bob (911aa5)

  5. Just why would the MSM carry this story at all?
    Allen West is a complete non-entity – in fact, even less than that, he’s a non-person!
    What else would you call a Black, Conservative, Republican?

    AD-RtR/OS! (b6e264)

  6. West has announced his intention to vote against NoBalls Boehner’s sell-out.

    ropelight (893bdd)

  7. West has announced his intention to vote against NoBalls Boehner’s sell-out.

    Comment by ropelight — 4/9/2011 @ 3:55 pm

    Maybe it’s a Tea Partier after all!

    That would get it covered!

    Patterico (906cfb)

  8. It did get some play at CNN…but you have to work for it.

    On CNN’s main page, scroll down to the middle for “Politics” and click on “more”. Then, in the middle of the “Top Stories” section there’s a picture of West with a headline on the delivery of the powder. Click on that to finally get to this: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/08/florida.powder.congressman/index.html.

    All in all, probably about the “right” level of coverage — for a conservative victim. I suspect it would have been a front page link if the congressman was a Democrat.

    navyvet (db5856)

  9. Crickets chirp . . . a cool breeze blows . . . tumbleweeds roll . . .

    Icy Texan (4881f0)

  10. Didn’t find it on Fox.

    {^_^}

    JD (bcdcf2)

  11. Dude this is as pathetic as the WWF saying gorebull warming will wipe out the polar bear population in 71 years never mind they can swim.

    DohBiden (984d23)

  12. I think the media would find it understandable that a race traitor would get sent the real stuff… so cornstarch?
    Bah!

    You can tell the man was a good combat leader. I think I read somewhere that not all his men liked him… which is even better.

    SteveG (cc5dc9)

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