http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1000082A conservative organization is calling on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to apologize for remarks he made shortly after the recent failed terror attack in Times Square.
Less than 24 hours after the failed car bomb attack, CBS anchor Katie Couric asked Mayor Bloomberg about possible suspects.
Bloomberg: "If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Somebody..."
Couric: "A home grown?"
Bloomberg: "A home grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda [who] doesn't like the healthcare bill or something -- it could be anything."
Tea Party signAlthough the mayor did not mention the Tea Party by name, Andrew Langer, president of the Institute for Liberty, believes Bloomberg's message was clear.
"...The most outspoken movement on the healthcare bill has been the Tea Party movement," Langer explains. "[Mayor Bloomberg] might have been trying to parse words or have it both ways, but the end result is still the same -- he was trying to pin this on the Tea Party movement."
Langer is calling on the mayor to make things right. "We are going to be asking for the mayor to recognize what this movement is all about and to apologize for his ill thoughts [and his] ill-conceived remarks," he remarks.
In a press release, Langer states: "There is nothing more irresponsible than a politician using a crisis to extend a dogmatic agenda."
The Institute for Liberty is planning a petition to ask Mayor Bloomberg to issue a formal apology.
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