The Nerve

The balls on these people:

The administration was obviously right to warn the country that Al Qaeda had apparently studied financial institutions in three cities with the idea of a possible attack. But the delivery of the message was confusing. The color-coded threat chart doesn’t serve the purpose for which it was invented, and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is hopeless as a public spokesman on this issue. The Bush administration needs to come up with a method of communication that informs the public in a calm, clear way. Perhaps most important, people need to be made totally confident that this critical matter is not being tangled up in the presidential campaign.

Gee- I wonder who was leading the charge in making the ‘delivery’ of this information ‘confusing.’ Oh, yeah- it was the NY TIMES EDITORIAL STAFF AND PROMINENT DEMOCRATS. Insert the obligatory POGO reference here.

If the editorial were written honestly, it would state:

This administration has had three years to learn what idiots and partisan hacks the NY Times staff and the DNC have become, and it is their fault they have not yet learned what morons we are. In the future, when they issue terror alerts, they should speak slowly and use small words so we can comprehend we know. The color system with five colors is difficult to understand hard, so we propose turning it in to a two color system.

Green would mean “all clear.”

Red would mean “be vewwy vewwy afwaid.”

We think this would help immensely lots.

Sincearlee,

Gail Collins

Of course, that would be honest, so you will never see anything like that.

Tom Maguire has more on the NYT’s pointless and self-serving sedition and malfeasance.