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Her subscription seems to have lapsed sometime in 2002. Otherwise, I can't understand why she thinks Norman Mineta is in charge of airline security.
Yesterday Malkin reposted an old "Impeach Norm Mineta/ Liberty and Security..Not Bureaucracy" bumper sticker on her blog, in response to news that Mineta was staying on as the head of the Transportation Department.
She objects to Mineta because in 2002, he opposed racial profiling at airports.
Now if Malkin had actually been reading the newspaper, she'd know that Mineta is not in charge of airline security anymore. The Transportation Security Administration was carved out of the DoT in the spring of 2003. Mineta has nothing to do with whether airline screeners single out dark-skinned people, (which Malkin thinks they should do because white people are never terrorists.
If you happern to run into Malkin somewhere (maybe while she's supervising the Muslim re-education camps), please tell her that Admiral James Loy headed up the TSA until November 2003, when he was promoted and then replaced by Admiral David Stone, who continues to head the TSA. Asa Hutchinson, as the Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security, also has jurisdiction.
The reason you should tell her is to save her from parading her ignorance on television. She has some ill advised plans...
Maybe I'll wear the bumper sticker on my forehead the next time I'm on TV...
Then again, Malkin may well get the newspaper or have an Internet connection and knows all this, but simply prefers her subscription to the new Old West theory of reporting: When facts get in the way of a rant, print the rant.
Of course that could lead Malkin to go on national television with a bumper sticker on her forehead announcing her total ignorance of the events of the last two years.
So on second thought, readers, do us all a favor.
Save your subscription donations, don't tell her about Admiral Stone and keep your Tivos ready for the next time she shows up on Fox News.
Posted by Ryan Singel at December 10, 2004 12:46 PM
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You can't possibly be that stupid, can you? The TSA was Norm's baby and you don't think that his wacked out policies could have influenced its operations at all? Are you that clueless? You think an agency can just come fully-formed out of someone's ass and not be affected by that person's world-view? Norm Mineta is dangerous. He's still crying on the inside for what happened to him when he was a kid. And by the way, what happened to him was way worse than what would happen to the poor, defenseless people who belong to a death cult when they are pulled aside and their bags are searched more cautiously than others and he turned out just fine, a little psycho, but a cabinet member none the less. Ooooohhhh, the horror, the horror. God forbid we should take every precaution to protect the innocent people of this country from a fiery death when it takes such an insidious act like a secondary bag check. By the way, I know that you're a liberal, so this is going to come as a shock to you, but you don't have the right to do whatever you want or feel like doing. Riding on a plane is not your right. It's a privilege, and one that is more than fairly prefaced by an investigation of every person and piece of luggage on it, as well as an even harsher search of anyone who fits any terrorist profile, racial or otherwise. You should really rethink the analogy too. Tim McV was one dude who hung out with some nutty assholes and did a horrible thing. There are hundreds of thousands of Muslims who want all of us dead and are willing to do whatever it takes, including kill themselves in the process, to get it done Hardly an accurate comparison. The situations call for completely different remedies.
Posted by: Noneofyourbusiness at December 12, 2004 10:54 AM