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February 20, 2006
Fabulous Fumble of the Week - Feb. 20th - Michael Chertoff
This week's winner was a hard one to decide, really. There was the actual sports fumble, when Lindsey Jacobellis lost a gold medal making a hot dog move in the Snowboard Cross event. And Bryant Gumble amused us with his politically incorrect statement on his show Real Sports with Bryant Gumble on HBO:
"Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don't like them and won't watch them ... Because they're so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something's not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what's called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they're done, when we can move on to March Madness - for God's sake, let the games begin."
Nothing like a little politically incorrect comment to spice up the award race.
Then we had a decision by District Court Judge David Trager dismissing a lawsuit by Maher Arar, a completely innocent Canadian citizen seized at JFK airport, flown to Syria, tortured, and held in a prison for almost a year. The judge said it did not matter how badly he had been treated or how the government behaved. He might have been killed and it would not matter. The government was not accountable because of the need for secrecy in the war on terror. Gee, good thing it wasn't you or me that was grabbed. And it makes me wonder if kidnapping and torture are fine, what isn't?
However, we had something even bigger and better to consider. This week's award, after much thought, analysis and plan old gut feelings goes to whoever made the brilliant decision to turn security of 6 of the country's biggest ports, including NYC, over to a company based in the United Arab Emirates. No one knows the direct relationships here, but the U.A.E. was the base for at least a couple of the 9/11 hijackers. The U.A.E. also has known connections to Al Qaeda. That doesn't make the company complicit in anything, but it sure looks terrible. One would think that the U.S. would protect its own ports, instead of turning them over to a Muslim company. Just think of the fallout if by some chance any of these ports are attacked by Al Qaeda and we find a connection within the company. Talk about looking more than stupid. I could not have made up something more ridiculous than this. After all of Bush's talk about terrorism, this is amazing. So the winner this week is the head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff. Have you ever heard of him before?
Posted by Chip Spear at February 20, 2006 11:11 AM
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