Also, this whole incident is sort of putting to rest the argument that the former administration had anything to do with the fact we have not been attacked in the last eight years.

Excuse me?! That is so mind-bogglingly wrong, you’ve actually stunned me!

To imply that the only thing keeping this country safe is the TSA, is just dumb-dumb stupid! What about overseas operations, what about FBI intercepts and raids (like the Fort Dix conspiracy), what about domestic arrests made before people acquired the tools needed to create or detonate a bomb?! There were a whole host of increased security measures over the last 8 years that contributed to fighting terrorism inside and out of the country, that helped keep America safe.

What the heck are you talking about?!

…it may not be entirely surprising that the incident is bringing out, shall we say, certain people’s worser angels.

Glynnis… do you really not understand that this is YOUR OPINION?! And should be labeled as such? Colby… do you, as an editor, not get it either?!

What’s very interesting, is that the same people who will hoot and holler that someone is suggesting “profiling,” are the same people who will complain that grandma had to take her shoes off before boarding the plane! So which is it? Do we make EVERYONE go through extra screening… or do we start to efficiently target the people most likely to create a problem? That’s really it. Either that, or have no security… and when a plane blows up, post the comment that you’re glad it did, because allowing the plane to explode shows exceptional tolerance of people who want to kill other people. As for me… that’s a “tolerance” I’m comfortable being intolerant of.

Glynnis MacNichoccio wrote:

Also, this whole incident is sort of putting to rest the argument that the former administration had anything to do with the fact we have not been attacked in the last eight years.

I re-read this drivel two times to try and find a single fact supporting that statement, and what a surprise (NOT!) there isn’t one!

Let’s review, the list of facts (in reverse order) that led to MacNicocchio’s mysterious conclusion, from Jake Tapper’s tweets:

# (4) Dec 24 he boards plan in Nigeria for roundtrip multiday flight to US WITH NO LUGGAGE about 11 hours ago from web

Who was President of the United States on December 24, 2009? Barack Hussein Obama.

(3) Dec 16 he buys $3K ticket WITH CASH from KLM office in Ghana. Gives no address or contact info about 11 hours ago from web

Who was President of the United States on December 16, 2009? Barack Hussein Obama.

Nov 20, US Embassy informs other embassies and US counterterrorism community, but all thats done is name put in database of 550K about 11 hours ago from web

Who was President of the United States on November 20, 2009? Barack Hussein Obama.

(2) Nov 19, his father- a respected banker- reports son to US Embassy in Nigeria, says he’s being radicalized in Yemen…. about 11 hours ago from web

Who was President of the United States on November 19, 2009? Barack Hussein Obama.

(1) May 09 UK denies him a visa for claiming he’d study at bogus university. Per Home Secy that immediately put him on watchlist in UK. about 11 hours ago from web

Who was President of the United States on May 9, 2009? Barack Hussein Obama.

the video of our WN spot has yet to post. but we looked at 4 missed signals about Abdulmuttalab…here they are:…(contd) about 11 hours ago from web

Now, am I saying Obama is responsible personally for all those SNAFUs? Nope — but I can’t fathom how GlynnieMac somehow gathers in that data and spits out ‘This disproves the idea Bush kept us safe’ when the timeline SHE provided doesn’t have anything to do with “the previous administration.”

The reason why it is constantly pointed out that no terrorist attacks occurred after 9/11 is because the leftoids have insisted that Americans were in greater danger at home and that Bush’s policies made Americans more vulnerable to attack. Usually when that kind of charge is made, people feel the need to back it up with something — anything. But there are no straws to grasp to cling to that accusation. Apparently, Glynnis decided that Mediaite’s valued “loyal, smart, and attractive readers” don’t need, y’know, reasons to believe they’re right about stuff.

Now, I am not saying that what happened Christmas Day couldn’t have happened on Bush’s watch. It might have. But it didn’t, and you liberals can’t countenance that feather in Bush’s cap, lest you damage your narrative that he was the Worst Prez Ever. I’m older than you are, Glynnis, and I lived through Carter, who unleashed state-backed Islamism on the world by trading in the Shah of Iran for Ayatollah Khomeini, whom Carter was convinced was a Muslim version of Gandhi. Bush isn’t even the worst POTUS of the last 40 years.

You’re entitled to be as wrong as you wanna be all over Mediaite — it’s your site. But you have an obligation to your readers to make a show of honesty by putting such tangential inaccuracies where they belong — in the “Columnist” section.

Actually, this is not new. Gallagher made the same “separate line” call in 2006, as we documented at the time.

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/08/15/fox_news_airs_call_for_muslimonly_line.php

We were KEPT SAFE by the God-Appointed Presidency of GEORGE W BUSH for eight GLORIOUS years … now the Obamessiah is in office barely a YEAR and THIS HAPPENS!!1 First he does away with the SUPER-USEFUL color coded terror alerts, then he plans to RELEASE TERRORISTS into the streets of our HEARTLAND!!1 Mike Gallagher is one of the FEW True American Patriots allowed to speak his mind in the LIB DOMINATED media, and he’s RIGHT!!1

And SMITHEE, I may not have been around for CARTER but I know he is the WORST!!1 The best way to deal with the ISLAMISTS is to SELL ARMS to them!!1 EVERYBODY knows that, especially the GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER TO LIVE (hint: rhymes with “maygan!!1″)!!1

Karl Spensen says:
December 29, 2009 at 1:21 pm

Christian Larson (aka Karl Spensen), is a former MSNBC/NBC worker (intern and then a staffer), who continues to play his college Colbert-esque persona (post college, mind you) because he thinks he’s funny. He’s not… but that’s pretty obvious.

Christian… methinks you need to knock it off. If you have something you really want to add, then do it… but we have enough other people around here who like to be annoying for the sake of being annoying… we don’t need another. Grow up.

(PS- If you’re interested in learning more about ol’ Christian. Do a Google search. There’s so much we can all learn!)

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!11

Karl Spensen banged on his keyboard and this came out:

And SMITHEE, I may not have been around for CARTER but I know he is the WORST!!

Well, look at that. A willfully blind squirrel finds a nut.

Gallagher is correct on this one. For statistics, Israel has “never” had a terrorist attack aboard an airliner in over 30 years. What’s the United States numbers? Israel has profiling and it “works”. Until the United States gets this in place (profiling) then I will not fly my family to any vacations or visits. We drive. 99.9% of terrorists attacks across the world are from Mulsims. We rest our case!!

Lying to ourselves
By Ralph Peters, New York Post
On Christmas Day, an Islamist fanatic tried to blow up an airplane whose passengers were mostly Christians. And we helped. Our government gets no thanks for preventing a tragedy. Only the bomber’s ineptitude preserved the lives of nearly 300 innocents. How did we help Umar Abdulmutallab, a wealthy Muslim university graduate who decided that Allah wanted him to slaughter Christians on their most joyous holiday? By continuing to lie to ourselves. Although willing — at last — to briefly use the word “terror,” yesterday President Obama still refused to make a connection between the action, the date and Islam. Was it just a ticketing accident that led to a bombing attempt on Christmas? Was it all about blackout dates and frequent-flyer miles? It wasn’t. You know it. And I know it. But our government refuses to know it. Despite vast databases crammed with evidence, our leaders — of both parties — still refuse to connect Islamist terrorism with Islam. Our insistence that “Islam’s a religion of peace” would have been cold comfort to the family members of those passengers had the bomb detonated as planned. Abdulmutallab’s own father warned our diplomats that his son had been infected by Islamist extremism. Our diplomats did nothing. Why? Because (despite a series of embassy bombings) the State Department dreads linking terrorism to Islam.

Until we get a President with some balls to deal with profiling which should be done immediately in the U.S., terrorists will “always” have the upper hand or advantage here in the United States and here is why it won’t happen (profiling of Muslims).

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28