Where's the 3rd shooter?

By Stu Tarlowe

Are we now a nation of the arithmetically challenged?

Anyone who's ever owned a dog will concur with this: If you think a dog can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket, and give him only two.

Apparently, even a dog can count better than the Obama regime, its "authorities," its sycophant media and all but a teeny-tiny percentage of the American public.

Because, after almost a full day, Wednesday, of reports (including those from eyewitnesses) of three perpetrators in the attack in San Bernardino, plus hours of reports of police searching for three suspects in a black SUV and then, having dispatched two of them in a gun battle, still searching for the third (including reports that a third individual was being "detained"), suddenly Thursday came and went with nary a mention of any suspect other than Sayed Farook and Tashfeen Malik.

Overnight, three had become merely two.

But oh, did we learn about those two!

The coverage of every aspect of the lives of that "young married couple, with a small child" has been exhaustive, rivaling the giddy detail with which the lives of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and their ilk are chronicled in the pages of teen fan magazines.

I'm sure there are stories that could be told about the lives and loves and accomplishments of at least some of those who were brutally murdered or grievously wounded by the (two or three?) shooters, but those stories don't seem to inspire an iota of curiosity or attention among the journalist lackeys who are scrambling to humanize the murderers and are (in keeping with the regime's "anything but terrorism" narrative) searching for "whatever might have motivated them" (in much the same way O.J. Simpson is still searching for "the real killers").

(Besides, any energy expended by journalists on sympathy or concern for the victims and their families might take away from said journalists' relentless efforts to wring maximum political hay out of the tragedy; the most blatant and repulsive example of such crass exploitation being the front page of Thursday's New York Daily News. But that's another story.)

So, what gives, America? Did that third suspect drop off the edge of the earth? Did he or she disappear in the same way that our ability and willingness to recognize and identify a terrorist act when we see it seems to have disappeared? Or have we collectively forgotten how to count?

Have we now become a nation of the arithmetically challenged, the journalistically challenged and the cognitively challenged?

Stu Tarlowe is a native New Yorker living in the Heart of America. His pantheon of heroes and role models includes Barry Farber, Jean Shepherd, Long John Nebel, Aristide Bruant, Col. Jeff Cooper, Rabbi Meir Kahane and G. Gordon Liddy.