Oh, I’m sure. Trouble is I don’t watch FOX, so that makes me an America hater by default. Still doesn’t resolve the dilemma of who’s full of beans—the Staties or the Feds.
LOL Pablo!
Posted by justme on 10/07/05 at 01:22 PM
Why do you automatically assume that the feds are being political? I agree that the disconnect in the responses to the supposed threat is frustrating for we the public. But you’re not kidding about your cynicism when you assume that there are political motivations.
DHS didn’t say there was no threat at all. They just said that it’s not as big as NYC is making it. So maybe it’s the mayor who’s playing with politics? Maybe he’s just being overly cautious because his city lost 3000 people in a couple of hours because no one paid enough attention.
Timing, Jen, timing. See polls fall, see threat levels rise.
Things like this help feed my cynicism.
So let’s think about this latest alert. The powers that be in NYC sat on the information for two days. You can be certain the President was apprised of the situation. Six hours before the grand announcement, the Prez makes his major important speech about terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, Al Qaeda, etc.
And when DHS comes out and says it’s not a big deal, that raises a little red flag in my mind that someone is trying to get some political mileage out of raising the terror alert.
Nice Slate article, Pablo. Sums up my feelings on it perfectly.
Please note that it was not the feds that raised the terror alert, then. If your beef is that the President is in political trouble, then having the mayor of NYC increase security is hardly going to boost the President’s numbers.
There’s a huge disconnect in your conspiracy theory.
You call it conspiracy theory, I call it reality. The unfortunate thing is, it wouldn’t have occurred to me to think this way six years ago. I’ve never been prone to distrusting the government on this level before, but this crew does engage liberally in conspiracy and lying and cheating. Which, I imagine will hit the front pages in the papers soon enough. Bunch of rotten apples, as the saying goes.
*sigh*
Even in my most visceral loathing of the Clinton years, I didn’t stoop to this level of cynicism over every single thing he did as President.
That’s cuz he wasn’t a crony lovin’ incompetent. Somewhere in the recesses of your mind, even you recognized that. 
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I’m sure the folks at Fox News would tell you that you can rely on them to spoon feed you what you need to know. And if you didn’t like that, they’d ask, “Why do you hate America?”