/ RANT / Why isn’t there a non-stop uproar about this?
Now to the evacuation of the Capitol and White House earlier this week after a small Cessna plane veered off course.
The White House admitted yesterday that while Vice-President Dick Cheney was spirited out of the White House in a convoy of black armoured vehicles and sped to a “secure location”, President Bush was oblivious and riding his bike around a Wildlife Research Centre in Maryland. … More outrage below:
Armed F16 fighter jets roared over Washington, circling a Cessna 150 that appeared to be headed to the White House, and fired warning flares to warn the pilot to turn around. It prompted panic as workers, including members of Congress abandoned buildings and ran out on to the street. The U.S. Customs service also scrambled Black Hawk helicopters during the red alert. At one point, national security officials considered shooting down the plane.The White House characterized the alert as the most serious since Sept. 11.
But it did not interrupt Bush’s bicycle ride until 40 minutes after the “all-clear” was given.
From this morning’s headlines on Democracy Now!
A lot of us have commented on this. Parker wrote a diary yesterday on the story.
But, my god, why isn’t every news channel and newspaper trumpeting this? WHY?
It gets tiresome to say, well, if Clinton had been riding that bicycle, holy hell would be going on. OF COURSE! That’s obvious.
Furthermore, that doesn’t make any sense. Clinton:
1. Would have been in the Oval at that hour.
2. Would have been immediately alerted.
3. Would have acted.
4. Would have spoken to the press afterwards.
Susan beats head against wall.
Does it take a non-poofy-haired, leftwing, Haiti-obsessed, brilliant, workaholic female anchor on an indy TV station — that most Americans will never hear or see — to tell us the f–king truth? / END RANT /
