Fox Cheers Terrorist Attack; Bush Can't Hide His Negligence

The reaction to the awful terrorist attacks in London by both Fox News and the President of the United States show just how pathetically inane and incompetent both of these tools of the right-wing machine have become.

Fox News actually appeared to cheer about the massacre, saying it "works to our advantage." Meanwhile, Stuart Varney - Fox's designated corporate hack and one of televisions true morons - seems to salivate that the attack will mean the end of discussion about things that makes Big Business uncomfortable. "It takes global warming off the front burner," Varney frothed. "It takes African aid off the front burner. It sticks terrorism and the fight on the war on terror, right up front all over again."

Meanwhile, President Bush has moved the terror warning system up to orange for the nation's transit system. That is obviously a prudent move, and politically, it is designed to make it seem like he is doing something to defend this country.

In fact though, while the alert level change is necessary, it makes him look like the exact opposite when you really look at the situation. He is changing a meaningless color chart in the wake of an attack instead of adequately funding transit security over the last few years as experts have requested. It shows just how incompetent and negligent they really are over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They think changing a color is "doing" something - when in fact they've ignored actually doing something real over the last few years. You can change the warning system to magenta and it wouldn't do a fraction of the good that actually putting real resources into transit security would.

If Bush was so committed to defending America, he would, for instance, back off his plans to eliminate the Estate Tax that falls on the top 2 percent of Americans in order to fund what's necessary to secure the nation's public transportation system. That is the true test of whether the talk-tough-on-terrorism Bush administration is more interested in protecting this country, or in enriching their campaign donors. I'm not holding my breath.

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