skippy the bush kangaroo: two socialites crashed the prez party? terrorism!! right wing bomb-maker? not so much...

Saturday, November 28, 2009

two socialites crashed the prez party? terrorism!! right wing bomb-maker? not so much...

today we found a couple of interesting blog posts that, when taken together, add up to a disheartening view of our media.

john cole wonders aloud why those two real housewives of dc who crashed obama's state dinner are causing such a stir amongst the beltway pundits:

but i have cnn on in the background and i am still seeing breathless commentary about the party crashers at the white house.

people are aware that the only thing that happened in the breach is that they were not officially invited, right? you all are aware out there that they went through intense screening on-site, went through metal detectors and everything else, and there was no chance they had a weapon on them. you are aware that if one of them had, as peter king suggested, “grabbed a knife off a table” and lunged for potus, they would have been tackled by any one of the thousands of security personnel there. you are aware that they were through far more security screening than it takes to get on an airplane, and tons more than any of the hundreds of thousands of people who shook hands with obama the last year on rope lines?

in short, you are aware that the only thing that was missing was their name on an official invite list, and it is looking like they were helped out by an indian dignitary.

meanwhile, over @ crooks&liars, dave neiwert (the best writer in blogtopia and yes, we coined that phrase) points out a real terrorist with real threats, who not only is not being covered by the media, has not even been arrested as of yet:

gee, for some reason, this story hasn't managed to make it out of the local news and into the national headlines:

cuyahoga falls, ohio – following a pipe bomb explosion monday night, police and federal law enforcement officials are trying to figure why a center avenue man turned his apartment into a bomb factory.

police said no charges have been filed against mark campano, 56. police found 30 completed pipe bombs in his apartment along with components to make more, plus 17 guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

campano is in an akron hospital with injuries received when one of the bombs exploded.

as police and federal authorities puzzle over campano's past and what he planned to do with the bombs, a former neighbor said campano often railed against the government.

barbara vachon lived next door to campano at the center park place apartments for several years and said he was a big reason she moved.

"he was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos," said vachon. "i would never watch them. he was some kind of radical, and he didn't believe in the government." …

of course, if this had been a muslim extremist caught with such an arsenal, we'd be getting talk-show panels on hannity featuring michelle malkin ranting at length about the threat of islamic jihad, blah blah blah. not to mention chatty discussion on fox and friends and morning joe.

but instead, because he's just a white anti-government extremist, hey, let's just give it a big shrug.

more on the case here and here.

we weep for our news media.

posted by skippy at 6:22 PM |

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