Reply #147: The problem is this. There have been so many big lies (WMD yellowcake &c) [View All]

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

as well as "bogus" situations like the FLA terrorist plot, that many are disinclined to believe ANYTHING, ESPECIALLY if it benefits shrubco from a propaganda standpoint and is based on information that we can't verify and that shrubco and allies have control over.

That's the problem. I entirely agree with the sentiment that just because shrubco is terrible doesn't mean that some of the threats they pimp & exploit aren't real. But it's a normal, and I think, justified, tendency with anyone who's been paying attention, to distrust any information from them especially if it benefits the terror war propaganda line, even though there will be real incidents.

This is the problem when you are the little president who cried wolf, and continue to cry wolf.