The Nexus of Politics and Terror (Keith Olbermann)

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KO's gem of a piece from last fall

From: Bloggerman
• October 12, 2005 | 8:35 p.m. ET
Secaucus -

Last Thursday on Countdown, I referred to the latest terror threat - the reported bomb plot against the New York City subway system - in terms of its timing. President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment of Karl Rove in the CIA leak investigation.

I suggested that in the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event” - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning.

We figured we’d better put that list of coincidences on the public record. We did so this evening on the television program, with ten of these examples. The other three are listed at the end of the main list, out of chronological order. The contraction was made purely for the sake of television timing considerations, and permitted us to get the live reaction of the former Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Asa Hutchinson.

We bring you these coincidences, reminding you, and ourselves here, that perhaps the simplest piece of wisdom in the world is called “the logical fallacy.” Just because Event “A” occurs, and then Event “B” occurs, that does not automatically mean that Event “A” caused Event “B.”

continued with the list at....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9665308/#051012a

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1. A kick for Keith's serious wit !

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[FrenchieCat]

2. Yep.......all very "coincidental", or somethin'!

Like Wes Clark wrote yesterday in the WSJ in an OpEd in reference to National Security...."The Republicans will suggest that Democrats aren’t up to it. They’ll play the terrorist-threat card, hope for a few more messages of bin Laden, and ask whether an antiwar party can be trusted to keep America safe. But this is just the spin."

Of course, he wrote that Wednesday......prior to the biggo 24/7 media fest Terra Alert on Thursday!

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5. Good for him !

[spooky3]

3. Do you think it's a coincidence that it happened again this week?

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4. Heh, that's why I kicked it....

...there are great theories on the Greatest Page right now, which reminded me of KO's most excellent observations ring true. Just a coincidence that these terror alerts coincide with Wal-Mart openings, nah.