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From: Brumar8911/29/2010 4:01:30 PM
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The NYT on the TSA controversy:

"If terrorists learn that elderly white women from Iowa are exempt from screening, that’s exactly whom they will recruit."

[How are Muslim terrorists going to recruit elderly Iowa women? That must seem plausible to NYers. ]

Edward Jay Epstein responded in an email to James Taranto:

assuming elderly white women from Iowa are more technically proficient than the Muslim male shoe bomber and underwear bomber, and are not grounded by a fear of flying, some inducement would have to be offered to persuade elderly white women from Iowa to undertake suicide missions. Unlike the Muslim male candidates offered 40 awaiting virgins in paradise, elderly white women from Iowa presumably are not Muslim and have no need of virgins. Nor is ideology a likely incentive, since al Qaeda makes few provisions for women’s rights, senior citizen discounts, or the extension of Medicare benefits.

It is so very strange that the precise purpose of manhandling the elderly is to avoid offending people who fit the profile of known terrorists. As Taranto quipped: “The government treats Americans like terrorists — and terrorists like Americans.” We continue to be amazed that 4 in 10 Americans continue to support these clowns.

dinocrat.com

Treating Americans like terrorists and terrorists like Americans" - that sums up liberal idiocy pretty well.
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