memeorandum: FRC Blames ‘Sexual Liberalism’ and ‘Family Breakdown’ for Mass Murders (Miranda Blue/Right Wing Watch)

10:25 PM ET, April 19, 2013

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FBI interviewed dead Boston bombing suspect years ago — The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to find any incriminating information about him. — As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr …

Discussion: RT, CANNONFIRE, Business Insider, Mother Jones, Gawker, The Jawa Report, Hot Air, Blazing Cat Fur and The PJ Tatler

Bianna Golodryga / ABCNEWS:

Boston Bomb Suspect's Dad Tells Him to Surrender, Warns ‘ Hell Will Break Loose’ if Son Dies — The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed “all hell will break loose.”

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Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:

Hospital Denies Involvement In Leak Of Grisly Post-Mortem Photo Of Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect — A grisly post-mortem photo of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers appears to have been taken early today after medical personnel turned the body over to law enforcement officials.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit

Irene / Judicial Watch:

Boston Bomber Could Have Been Deported After 2009 Arrest — Updated 4 p.m. Friday related to arrest versus conviction issue: One of the Chechen terrorists who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings could have been deported years ago after a criminal arrest and/or conviction …

Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Mail, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, Atlas Shrugs, Patterico's Pontifications and The PJ Tatler

Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:

Did Boston Bombing Suspect Post Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube? — Authorities have identified the deceased suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, which killed three and injured more than 170, as Tamerlan Tsarnaev. A user by that name has posted a video to his YouTube playlist extolling …

Julie Eich / CBS Boston:

CAPTURED - Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Caught In Watertown — WATERTOWN (CBS) - A flurry of applause at the scene of a standoff between police and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev signaled his capture Friday night. — After a nearly two-hour standoff in a Watertown neighborhood …

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, The Week, Deadspin, U.S. News, The Raw Story and CBS DC

Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:

Boston Bombing Hero Who Identified Suspect Resorts To Online Fundraising To Pay His Medical Bills (UPDATED) — Jeff Bauman, center, promoting the Boston Marathon — In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, Jeff Bauman's image was seared into the American consciousness.

Discussion: NY Daily News, The Boston Globe, Joe. My. God., Mashable, Gawker, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos

Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:

'I Don't Bluff, I Make Promises': Beck Gives Gov't Until Monday to Come Clean About Boston Bombing Cover-Up — Near the end of today's radio broadcast, Glenn Beck declared that the cover-up of the Saudi link to the Boston Marathon bombing makes this the second most important thing (behind 9/11) …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

Dee DeQuattro / WLNE-TV:

Report: 3 arrested in New Bedford in connection to bombing suspect — Neighbors say three have been arrested in New Bedford in connection with the Boston Bombing suspect. — Police apprehended suspects from the Hidden Brook Apartments on Carriage Drive in New Bedford.

Discussion: Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and American Spectator

Wall Street Journal:

Life in America Unraveled for Brothers — By ALAN CULLISON and PAUL SONNE in Moscow and JENNIFER LEVITZ in Cambridge, Mass. — Where did the alleged bombers of the Boston Marathon come from? What were their career aspirations? What can we learn from their online media presence?

Discussion: U.S. News, New Republic, BuzzFeed, WorldViews, New Atlanticist, Quartz, Business Insider and Hit & Run

New York Times:
One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead

Katie Glueck / Politico:
Friend: Suspect ‘a normal pot head’

Discussion: The Daily Caller

The Boston Globe:
One suspect in custody, another remains on the loose

Adrian Chen / Gawker:
‘Stay Safe People’: Here Is The Fugitive Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Twitter Account

Discussion: Business Insider, Quartz, Good As You and Daily Kos

U.S. News:
One Boston Marathon suspect killed; second suspect, his brother, on loose after firefight

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Associated Press:
Manhunt over, bombing suspect alive and in custody

Discussion: USA Today, Firedoglake, Right Wing News and Michelle Malkin

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Substituting Identity for Motivation

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Washington Monthly and Right Wing Watch

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
What We Know About Boston Marathon Bomb Suspects Dzhokhar And Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Discussion: FP Passport, The Long War Journal, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite, Gawker, Talking Points Memo, National Review and Riehl World News

David Weigel / Slate:
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect: “I Don't Have a Single American Friend”

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Boston Globe:
Relatives of Marathon bombing suspects worried that older brother was corrupting ‘sweet’ younger sibling

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Washington Post:
Details emerge on suspected Boston bombers

Discussion: Twitchy, Reuters, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Online NewsHour, Mashable, Ed Driscoll and The Spectacle Blog

David Weigel / Slate:
No, You Didn't Just Find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Secret Twitter Account

Discussion: Quartz, Mediaite, BuzzFeed and Mother Jones

Kevin Cirilli / Reuters:
Muslim groups: Resist ‘scapegoating’

Discussion: Politico and The Boston Globe

RT:
Boston bombing suspects identified as Tsarnaev brothers from Russia, near Chechnya

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Gideon Lichfield / Quartz:
On Instagram, Chechnya's president criticizes America's handling of the Boston manhunt

Discussion: Mediaite, Business Insider and WorldViews

New York Times:
Updates on the Hunt for the Boston Bombing Suspects

Discussion: New Republic

Timothy Burke / Deadspin:
Everything We Know About Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect

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Colin Campbell / Politicker:
Governor Cuomo Says Boston Bombing Part of ‘New Normal’

Discussion: Associated Press, Weasel Zippers and Sense of Events

Mark K. Updegrove / PARADE Magazine:

PARADE's Exclusive Interview: President George W. and Laura Bush — More by Mark K. — President George W. and Laura Bush Reflect on the Twins, Bush's Newfound Passion for Painting, and More — Ben Baker — This Sunday's PARADE features an exclusive interview with the former first couple, George W. and Laura Bush.

Discussion: The Caucus, Trail Blazers Blog, Firedoglake, Mediaite and The Hill

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian / Reuters:

U.S. Boy Scouts set to end ban on gay members : spokesperson — (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America called to end a long-standing ban on openly gay members, a spokesman said on Friday, but the organization's board must still vote in May on whether to ratify the resolution.

Discussion: New York Times, detroitnews.com, ThinkProgress, The National Memo, Mediaite, Joe. My. God. and Truth Wins Out

David Crary / ABCNEWS:
Boy Scouts Proposing to Lift Gay Ban for Youth

Discussion: CNN, Hot Air, Taking Note, The Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and AMERICAblog

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

It Wasn't Sunil Tripathi: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster — How a terrible misidentification of two people with no connection to the Boston bombing spread so far, so fast — In the middle of the last night's nearly unbelievable turn of events, for a few hours …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Techdirt, U.S. News, Gawker and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

Why Chechens Think The Tsarnaev Brothers Were Framed — Even paranoids have real enemies. Especially in Russia. — Via: Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty Images — The Tsarnaev brothers' forceful and charismatic aunt, Maret Tsarnaeva, had barely begun her lecture to the press …

Bedford / The Daily Caller:

New York Times shows sympathy for Boston terrorist suspects — A New York Times feature story on the suspected Boston terrorists showed the possible terrorists in a sympathetic light, with the headline “Far from war-torn homeland, trying to fit in” and a black-and-white picture of one of the men.

Discussion: National Review, Ed Driscoll, The PJ Tatler and Weasel Zippers

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:

This Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Actual Twitter Account — His last tweet was on April 17, and he wrote, “I'm a stress free kind of guy.” — “I would confirm this as to being his Twitter account. Those users went to my high school,” said Stefanie Gardner, of the Rindge class of 2011.

Discussion: CNN, CANNONFIRE, Mashable and Atlas Shrugs

TMZ.com:

HIP HOP — The older brother who was killed and suspected in the Boston bombings was deep into hip hop, and it appears he belonged to a fan website that touted that genre of music. — Tamerlan Tsarnaev has an email associated with the website, “Real-hiphop.com.”

Discussion: New Jersey Online

Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:

FRC Blames ‘Sexual Liberalism’ and ‘Family Breakdown’ for Mass Murders — The Family Research Council is joining many of its fellow right-wing groups in celebrating Wednesday's Senate filibuster of a bill that would have expanded background checks on gun sales.

Discussion: Daily Kos and Truth Wins Out