More media crap to scare the American public

Shock! Horror! Fear! There was a bombing attempt near a London West End night club!

Don't believe it? OH! Oh! CNN has the story, and it's not one car bomb. It's TWO! The first one was filled with nails and had two (not one, but two!) canisters of ... gasoline?

Wait a minute! Isn't that a suburban homeowner on the weekend with a carpentry project and the fuel for the lawn mower?

OK. So one Mercedes with nail and gasoline. But there was also a second nearby with propane canisters and nails inside. Coincidence? Well, CNN doesn't want its faithful viewers to think so.

For those of you not yet suspicions that we are hearing another media over-hyped provocation to fear, go check out Larry Johnson at his blog No Quarter.

For starters, gasoline is not a high explosive. If we were talking 50 pounds of Semtex or the Al Qaeda standby, TATP, I would be impressed. Those are real high explosives with a detonation rate in excess of 20,000 feet per second. Gasoline can explode (just ask former owners of a Ford Pinto) but it is first and foremost an incendiary. If the initial reports are true, the clown driving the Mercedes was a rank amateur when it comes to constructing an Improvised Explosive Device aka IED. Unlike a Hollywood flick the 50 gallons of gas would not have shredded the Mercedes into lethal chunks of flying shrapenal.

And you wonder why I treat the so-called news media as delivering a load of really smelly crap? Especially FOX, CNN, and MSNBC.

There is NO TV NEWS that can be trusted. The do not deliver news to their viewers. Lies and over-hyped packaged efforts to manipulate the audiences' emotions? Yeah, that they deliver. But if you want news, turn off the TV.

Here is what even the so-called journalists on MSNBC think about the so-called news on their channels:
But the public will get what they ask for, right?

How did I MISS this? (Oh, yeah. Can't afford cable.)

Sometimes I get my news from north of the border.

No, No, not Oklahoma, north of the BIG border, the one with Canada. Catnip tells us that CNN was reporting Friday that "...we've just received a bulletin from the FBI that, and I quote, "suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police"."

It must not have worked. The American news outlets still reported on the Valerie Plame testimony to Congress, and overlooked the danger to our schoolchildren (which the FBI did say was very low.)

Oh, and I love what Catnip's daughter calls the yellow school busses. "Cheesewagons." Could they be the state transportation for Wisconsin?