Nowhere on the front page of the NY Times will you find the story about the four men in Georgia who conspired to go on a killing spree with ricin. You can dig it up on CNN, but it's pretty much buried. And you'll never see this described as a terror plot, presumable because the attackers are white, red state, "Real Murkins". However, we get wall-to-wall press coverage, including musings of a new U.S.Iran war when , as Glenn Greenwald describes:
[Iran] just dispatched a failed Texan used car salesman who constantly loses his own keys and can’t pay his bills to hire teams of Mexican drug cartel gunmen to attack a Saudi ambassador on American soil!
Honestly, that was about as sophisticated as the Iranian terror plot grew. And yet, check out this breathless coverage:
By this standard, shouldn't we need to be considering war against Georgia? Or at least mobilizing U.S. troops to surround the state as we are doing around Iran?
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I'd prefer to declare Waffle House a terrorist supporting organization. I have personal reasons for despising Waffle House and this sort of thing just adds fuel to the fire.
ReplyDeleteI don't like Waffle House either but that's because I think the food sucks (too greasy). On the other hand, I very much do enjoy other red state mainstays we don't have here in NY like Cracker Barrel, Golden Corral, and Denny's.
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