White House “Wags the dog” With Their Old Favorite, FEAR!
July 28th, 2007Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone with half a brain but the White House has been caught AGAIN “wagging the dog” with their favorite topic, fear, to overshadow news about their crimes from making the headlines. Now for those of you that don’t know what “wagging the dog” is I suggest you go to your favorite video store and rent the 1997 Barry Levinson movie titled ‘Wag the Dog’, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. Actually the term has been around for years. To quote the urban dictionary “When something of secondary importance improperly takes on the role of something of primary importance. The expression pre-dates the movie by the same name, and was NOT coined by said movie.”
So what’s the latest version of the White House’s wag the dog? Well if you remember a few days ago the headlines and top stories on the nightly news was “Suspected Dry Runs by Terrorists”. Yup that’s the one. So how did they “wag the dog” with this story? Well first of all TSA reports like this come out almost once a week but never seem to make it to the news media. This one mysteriously leaked its way to the news media 5 days after it came out. So what’s so bad about that you say? Well ALL of the incidents reported in it were total BULLSHIT and had been proven as such. Each and every one of these supposed ‘dry runs’ had completely harmless explanations (like the 60 year old woman who’s ice pack had leaked into her suitcase).