On Wednesday afternoon, breaking news reports alarmed the American public with the story that parts of Boston were in lockdown upon the discovery of several suspicious packages.
After scaring us all and inconveniencing a lot of commuters, the authorities determined that these suspicious packages were just some harmless props in a cartoon marketing campaign. [Read story.]
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it certainly seems like a terror threat miraculously appears any time that the White House finds itself in the hot seat.
When things aren't going well, gotta shake things up and scare the folks. A frightened public won't think so much.
And a study really has found that Bush's approval numbers tend to increase after announcements of terror threats.
But we've got greater dangers to fear. Like this one: Bush, laughing the whole time, nearly kills the press corps with a tractor.
All that was missing was Dick Cheney riding shotgun (in more ways than one).
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