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Monday, Jul 03

Sears Tower Plot: "Such Total Hype"

Sunday's Reliable Sources briefly discussed the media coverage of the Sears Tower terror plot arrests:

KURTZ: Jeralyn Merritt, you know, the attorney general calls a press conference. We get hours and hours of coverage. Are the media kind of rolling over every time the administration wants to hype one of these arrests?

MERRITT: You know, I think they are. This was such total hype. As you pointed out, they couldn't even get boots. How were they going to get to Chicago? These people were just bumbling warriors. They had -- who had discontent with the United States. They were infiltrated by an FBI agent. That was the -- or an informant for the FBI. That was the only connection to al Qaeda, was that he pretended to be al Qaeda.

And yet, the networks covered it hour after hour, as if there was some actual threat going on.

Posted by brian | 08:38 AM | I Watch Reliable Sources So You Don't Have To

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