Orange alert: NPR gives Tom Ridge a kiss on the cheek...
“We haven’t really figured this one out,” answered the perhaps least competent of Bush’s outgoing cabinet members, Tom Ridge, when asked this morning by NPR’s Steve Inskeep whether he “knows who the enemy is in the war on terror.” Fishbowl isn’t surprised. What’s mildly dispiriting, though, is how all nominally Bush-critical radio hosts become hands-off when actually in the presence of someone from the very cabinet they love to whack on a daily basis. Hey, guys, why do you think Bush just dumped him, despite the tears in the Oval Office during the canning?
Inskeep must have known that as of this morning, the FBI has publicly concluded that the recent Boston terror scare was bogus; why not shove that in Tommy’s face? Instead, Inskeep kept his distance, allowing the architect of the roundly hated “terror alert color codes” to tell us how he thinks that system “absolutely” works but that,...
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