To the casual American observer, the terrorist attack on Thursday in Nice, France could have been a runaway ice cream truck, or one that had its brakes go out — if all they read is headlines.

Several American newspapers blared headlines that focused on the truck, rather than the terrorism.

Milwaukee talk radio host Charlie Sykes tweeted perhaps the most head-in-the-sand headline in the nation, courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

“Truck targets French revelers,” the headline reads, as if the vehicle just sort of a demented version of Herbie the Love Bug and had a mind of its own.

MSNBC, meanwhile, referred to the attack as a “truck crash.”

And the New York Times tweeted its front page Thursday night, revealing the most-read newspaper in America was calling it a “truck attack”:

How long before these news outlets — and their aligned politicians Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — call for a ban on large trucks?