Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win

Look at the righties go immediately into full-blown distraction mode by focusing on source and trying to pre-emptively nail anyone who sees the merit in what Tom Ridge is actually saying with some sort of "well, you criticize sources too!" gotcha.

It's weak & predictable, but man, did they learn their lessons well during the Bush years.

This is just more evidence, more proof, more verification of what we already know, and the systematic approach the Bush admin took to misinformation & deception. It's BS, and WTF Damo & SF...WTF. How can something like this not make you at least set aside some pause for thought.
 
The color system is silly. They should've at least used numbers like in the UK so we wouldn't seem so childish; but no one alters their behavior based on it anyway, since it's just wolf-crying over and over again.
It's not even that. It's less than that, nobody is alarmed by it. Even if Ridge did this supposedly to gain votes for Bush it would have been extremely ineffective. Do you remember the discussions of that time? We constantly spoke about how weak and obvious this was.
 
Look at the righties go immediately into full-blown distraction mode by focusing on source and trying to pre-emptively nail anyone who sees the merit in what Tom Ridge is actually saying with some sort of "well, you criticize sources too!" gotcha.

It's weak & predictable, but man, did they learn their lessons well during the Bush years.

This is just more evidence, more proof, more verification of what we already know, and the systematic approach the Bush admin took to misinformation & deception. It's BS, and WTF Damo & SF...WTF. How can something like this not make you at least set aside some pause for thought.
Shh.... You are interrupting a discussion on the actual topic. I'm sorry you got embarrassed, we'll work in the future to exclude your more embarrassing moments from the JPP radar to make you feel better.
 
Nope... that is just a blogger... who essentially cut and paste from huff post... sorry...

side note: since when did Dems think Tom Ridge was a credible source???


Interesting theory. So the Huffington Post piece, which provided a link to the US News piece, was actually the source for the US News piece that was linked to in the HuffPo piece?
 
Shh.... You are interrupting a discussion on the actual topic. I'm sorry you got embarrassed, we'll work in the future to exclude your more embarrassing moments from the JPP radar to make you feel better.

Whatever.

I love it when you let your hack flag fly.
 
I remember quite fondly the days when the mere suggestion that the Bush Administration was playing politics with the terra alert nonsense was way out of the bounds of common decency. What a great time that was . . .
 
Whatever.

I love it when you let your hack flag fly.
Whatev', It is clear you did not avail yourself of your education and actually read the words of the thread. Now, participate or dig deeper, I really don't care. I'm holding a conversation about Ridge and the effectiveness of the "Terror Alerts", you are here trying to explain why this particular huffpo link isn't really a huffpo link.
 
I remember quite fondly the days when the mere suggestion that the Bush Administration was playing politics with the terra alert nonsense was way out of the bounds of common decency. What a great time that was . . .
Pshshshsh...

I remember this "terror alert" during the campaign, we spent time talking about how ineffective the system was even then. This particular "alert" did nothing to help Bush win the election.
 
Pshshshsh...

I remember this "terror alert" during the campaign, we spent time talking about how ineffective the system was even then. This particular "alert" did nothing to help Bush win the election.


Whatever. I'm not going to walk down revisionist lane with you.
 
Whatever. I'm not going to walk down revisionist lane with you.
Right, I attempted to tell you that wasn't where you wanted to go, but you took that turn anyway. I'll watch you walk down that lane by yourself and continue to attempt to get this topic back on track.

Anyway. When Ridge did this back in the campaign we all pretty much saw through it, except maybe Dixie and we all made fun of the "color" themes of the "terror alerts." Not even one person changed their vote to Bush suddenly because of it, and I personally do not believe that this helped him to win at all.
 
I remember quite fondly the days when the mere suggestion that the Bush Administration was playing politics with the terra alert nonsense was way out of the bounds of common decency. What a great time that was . . .

I remember posting a graph correlating the Bush approval number dips with the increase in terror alerts and it match very well. I also remember Superfreak coming on and saying something retarded like, "You can statistically correlate anything you want! This doesn't mean anything! This doesn't prove they're increasing the terror alerts for political reasons11!"
 
The assumption here is that raising the terror alert hurts Al Gore?
Why should we care about what effect they had on Gore. There were no terra alerts when Gore ran for President. Matter of fact, the 9-11-01 attacks came 8 months after Bush assumed the Presidency. 2004 Kerry ran for president. *big stupid shrug*
 
Interesting theory. So the Huffington Post piece, which provided a link to the US News piece, was actually the source for the US News piece that was linked to in the HuffPo piece?

It was a US News BLOG.... not a piece. You know... one of those op-eds you like to quickly dismiss should it come from the Journal.
 
Why should we care about what effect they had on Gore. There were no terra alerts when Gore ran for President. Matter of fact, the 9-11-01 attacks came 8 months after Bush assumed the Presidency. 2004 Kerry ran for president. *big stupid shrug*

Southern Man is a retard.
 
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