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Hot cable news topic? Airport Security! Controversial take? Let’s start profiling! Absurd example? Wasting time on checking elderly women! Wait…what? If for some reason you’ve missed cable news programming over the last two weeks, you’ve missed that exact narrative, over and again. And if you need proof that airport security is wasting too much time with 80 year-old Grandmas (at least in the eyes of cable news pundits), then please watch the following montage…

It’s not entirely clear from the image running on Drudge right now whether suggested new airport security measures that would involve installing full body scanners in airports (something that has been suggested by security experts and which O’Hare has on order) are a scary proposition for the people being scanned or the scanners. Behold.