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August 10, 2006
Terror Alert Denounced As Republican Plot
Despite the best efforts of the New York Times and the rest of the Left to make it impossible for authorities to monitor the activities of the terrorists who have already killed thousands of Americans and clearly plan to kill as many more as they can, a major terrorist attack has been foiled. It entailed blowing up passenger planes flying from the U.K. to America. Unsurprisingly, Homeland Security raised the threat level to red for commercial flights from Britain to the USA. Unsurprisingly — or suspiciously, to the mind of a moonbat.
Here's what AMERICAblog has to say about it:
And isn't it queer that the emergency is declared within a day of Republican party leader Ken Mehlman launching an all-out offensive against Democrats following Joe Lieberman's loss in Connecticut, an offensive in which Mehlman, the White House and Republican operatives are claiming that Democrats no longer care about national security or the war on terror.
And just at that moment we get our FIRST ever red alert. Beam me up, Scotty.
Yeah, Scotty. Please beam him up.
Hat tip: Townhall Blog, on tips from V the K and Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 10, 2006 7:52 PM
Comments
Saw on LGF earlier that Kos polled his gaggle of lunatics and actually published the results -- 6 out of 10 think Bush ginned up this thing to "keep people scared." It's getting where it's difficult to even parody them. But do you see the pattern of "implausible deniablity" here: It never happened. If it did, Bush did it, or he riled up the Muslims to do it. Now they're violating civil rights trying to catch them. But if it happens again, they didn't connect the dots, or we're fighting the wrong enemy. Lalalala .... Seriously, did you really expect anything else?
monsoon
Posted by: monsoon at August 10, 2006 8:51 PM
If it happened, then it didn't.
And if it didn't, it did, but the absence of evidence is just further proof of the depth of the conspiracy.
Shoulda told the White Rabbit to get lost, instead of following him.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 11, 2006 11:58 AM
It isn't as if there had never been similar nitwits on the Right. The John Birch Society, in its heyday, came up with some real humdinger conspiracy concatenations. They started out with a little provable fact (Alger Hiss was a no good sonofabitch, for example) and then spun out a huge mass of speculation like rancid cotton candy. These twits have always been with us, and they tend to gravitate to whichever party is out of power at the moment.
The Creme de la creme of this kind of thing is Robert Anton Wilson's ILLUMINATUS. Wilson, a Leftwing radical loony-toon with REAL style (remember when there were such people?), took all the Conspiracy Theories he'd run into as a letters-to-the-editor editor for Playboy and wrote a novel that assumed that all of them were true - even the ones that contradicted each-other. The result is one of the few leftwing, anti-establishment, surrealist novels of that era (the 60's) that is actually readable.
Far more interesting than the stale delusions of Kos and company.
Posted by: C. S. P. Schofield at August 11, 2006 12:30 PM
