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Originally Posted by transjen
So the truth is starting to come out, As Tom Ridge is spilling the beans that Rumsfeld and Ashcroft wanted the terror alter levels raised just before the election in 04 not because of any threats or hard facts but wanted it raised to scare the American public in to voteing for our savior W, So all the treats on the banks in 04 was a big load of Bush lies , Looks like the Bush adminastration rats are starting to come clean
 Jerseygirl Jen |
Except that's NOT what Tom Ridge said at all. It's merely the spin that the Left is trying to put on a quote that has been excerpted from his upcoming book, which his PUBLISHER was trying to push. In fact, consider this -- Ridge HIMSELF has not gone on TV saying any such thing to confirm THAT was the intent at the time OR that he had been ORDERED to raise an alert level to affect the upcoming election. Likewise, Ridge HIMSELF has not come forward to even say the Left are accurately quoting his quote.
More laughable still, literally only an hour or so ago, I got a huge laugh while I was flipping around some news channels in the midst of having lunch. I caught Nora O'Donnell on MSNBC interviewing someone from
US News & World Report who had gotten a hold of the quote. The problem was...as much as O'Donnell openly wore her Left-leaning politics on her sleeve, right there on the air, and as much as she kept trying to ram home the idea that "Bush and his people tricked us! They pressured Ridge! They raised the alert level to fix the election!"...even the
US News & World Report person had to challenge her on air and say "Uh, no, that's NOT what the quote actually says if you really read it in context. Ridge never says there were open talks about doing such a thing, and he never says he was directly ordered or was even pressured to do such a thing. All he ACTUALLY SAYS is that AS a former Congressman and as a former Governor, he simply felt that politics regarding the nation's safety were in play 3 days out from the Bush-Kerry Presidential election."
The
US News & World Report guy also noted -- in a moment of true fairness and in conjunction with a quote issued by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld -- that raising the alert level was actually NOT even uncommon back at that time. In truth, it had actually been done EVERY SINGLE TIME by the Pentagon whenever a new message was received from Bin Laden. So doing it yet again...even 3 days out from the election...was merely in line with established Pentagon procedures.
So, frankly this story can be summed up with a giant "Well, DUH!!!" It was 3 days out from a Presidential election and politics where in play? Wow! Nice going, MSNBC! That's really some earth-shattering, late-breaking news you got a hold of there! That ought to earn you a Pulitzer!
MSNBC.
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: "What a bunch of maroons."