I guess we’re gonna have these every two weeks or so until the election
Is the White House actually paying the press corps?
Google News has 863 stories now on the terrorist plot (heroically thwarted by the FBI!) to blow up the Holland Tunnel and flood downtown New York. Aside from the fact that blowing up the Holland Tunnel would just flood the Holland Tunnel, not the streets of Manhattan, this whole thing is a crock. The “plot” consisted of nothing more than some talk in an online chat room — several months ago — about maybe bombing some part of the New York transit system. FBI noticed the chat and picked up one of the guys (or maybe a couple of them) — several months ago. That’s it.
Rolling Stone nails it:
Now let’s turn to the timing. Here’s the most important line in the [Daily News] piece:
“FBI and New York City Police Department officials would not comment about the investigation, which has been kept under wraps for months.”
In other words, this is old news . . . of an incipient plot . . . that was defused before it left the chat room. [UPDATE: ABC’s The Blotter reports that Andalousi has been in custody for roughly three months, since April.]
So why did someone leak it to a tabloid for publication on today of all days? Consider: Today is the one-year anniversary of the July 7 bombings in London. It also marks four months to the day from November’s mid-term elections.
Karl Rove & Co. are, once again, playing the Fear Card in an election year. Anyone who doubts that simply hasn’t been paying attention for the last five years.
And the headlines keep rolling in: “Arrests Made in Alleged New York Plot” reports NPR breathlessly. Uh-huh.
8 Responses to “I guess we’re gonna have these every two weeks or so until the election”
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will says:
NPR has been ticking me off with their lame “neutral” coverage.
They have forgotten that part of a journalists role is to question what they are being told.
They have been taken over by larry King apparently!*!*!*!*!* Arrrrggargargagrgrag
July 8th, 2006 at 8:02 am EST -
belledame222 says:
I am just so very happy that Fearless Leader, once again, is right on top of things when it comes to keeping my (adopted) hometown safe.
maybe they can come back and have another convention trampling all over the place and taking photo ops of themselves looking grim and warriorlike, that was big fun. it made me feel so protected and cared for!
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Infidel says:
The Chicago “plot” was luckily instigated and subsequently thwarted before those “terrorists” could be bankrolled by the “undercover Alkaida” since they couldn’t afford the fertilizer themselves. I know where they could get plenty of fertililzer.
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Violet says:
Will, ever since the NPR was taken over by GOP partisans they’ve been useless. Just part of the noise machine.
Hey, did you teach your sniper class today?
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promenea says:
I’d be interested in what you thought of this.
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Infidel says:
…smaaataaa den de maaan in ebereee way..
if you wanna know what I think. -
Violet says:
Promonea, my chief reaction is that it’s amazing how whenever males outperform females it’s genetic, but when females outperform males there’s something wrong with the system.
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Reclusive Leftist » Blog Archive » Is the British government as dishonest as the U.S. government? says:
[...] Is the British government as dishonest as the U.S. government? That’s the question on my mind as I contemplate this news of an astounding plot to blow up the Concorde with a giant carry-on bag full of nail polish remover white-out some unspecificed dangerous liquid. Or whatever the plot was. Anyway, the reason I ask, of course, is that last month our government pretended that it had foiled a plot to flood Manhattan with nail polish remover white-out the Hudson River, which wasn’t actually, you know, true. So I’m just wondering. [...]
