Wednesday, March 24, 2004
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AMERICAN GRANDSTAND
Radio commentator Dave Ross has a perspective on the Dick Clarke book and controversy alleging Bush administration failures in being aware of terrorist threats.
CLARKE CRITICISM
All this incompetence! This is Dave Ross.....
I have to tell you, it's amazing how ex-administration officials who write critical books suddenly turn out to be completely incompetent. Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism director, writes his book saying the President had his eye on Saddam from the outset, and suddenly Clarke just doesn't know what he's talking about.
The Vice President says Clarke was "out of the loop" on this one.
Interesting that the White House would keep its own director of counter terrorism "out of the loop" on ... terrorism...
Hmm.
In any case, my favorite quote was the unnamed administration official who called the whole flap over Richard Clarke's book: "Dick Clarke's American grandstand" -- a clever pun on the old Rock 'n Roll dance show hosted by America's oldest living teenager, Dick Clark, NO "E".
Unless... you know, maybe that's it! Maybe that's why Bush wouldn't meet with Clarke about counter terrorism. Bush gets into the oval office, looks at the staff roster, sees "Dick Clarke, counter-terrorism," and he says to himself -- what does a DJ know about terrorism? Especially when he didn't realize how important Iraq was to America's safety. I mean if you have a DJ in charge of terrorism, he ought to at least be able to come up with a policy that has a beat and you can dance to.
And come to think of it -- maybe that's why he fired Paul O'Neill, as treasury secretary. I mean ... what does a Yankee right-fielder batting .267 know about money?
Radio commentator Dave Ross has a perspective on the Dick Clarke book and controversy alleging Bush administration failures in being aware of terrorist threats.
CLARKE CRITICISM
All this incompetence! This is Dave Ross.....
I have to tell you, it's amazing how ex-administration officials who write critical books suddenly turn out to be completely incompetent. Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism director, writes his book saying the President had his eye on Saddam from the outset, and suddenly Clarke just doesn't know what he's talking about.
The Vice President says Clarke was "out of the loop" on this one.
Interesting that the White House would keep its own director of counter terrorism "out of the loop" on ... terrorism...
Hmm.
In any case, my favorite quote was the unnamed administration official who called the whole flap over Richard Clarke's book: "Dick Clarke's American grandstand" -- a clever pun on the old Rock 'n Roll dance show hosted by America's oldest living teenager, Dick Clark, NO "E".
Unless... you know, maybe that's it! Maybe that's why Bush wouldn't meet with Clarke about counter terrorism. Bush gets into the oval office, looks at the staff roster, sees "Dick Clarke, counter-terrorism," and he says to himself -- what does a DJ know about terrorism? Especially when he didn't realize how important Iraq was to America's safety. I mean if you have a DJ in charge of terrorism, he ought to at least be able to come up with a policy that has a beat and you can dance to.
And come to think of it -- maybe that's why he fired Paul O'Neill, as treasury secretary. I mean ... what does a Yankee right-fielder batting .267 know about money?
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