THE ANEURYSM ACTING UP?:

Bush Should Take a Walk Near Home (Jimmy Breslin, October 24, 2002, Newsday)

It was one thing that Bush was completely disdainful of the World Trade Center. He and his people hate New York. He barely showed for a year. And they blew the attack. They blew it because any threats to New York weren't of such vital interest. New York is filled with blacks and Jews and all kinds of Hispanics and Asians who don't vote right. We don't bother with them during an election, then why stop everything and concentrate on some threat to the place?

Now we find out that Bush doesn't even like Washington. The reason is that nobody in the shooting area, in Montgomery County towns, voted for him.

Bad enough that he's actually accusing the President of ignoring the 9-11 attacks because they were aimed at a state that wouldn't vote for him--one wonders why Mr. Bush didn't at least pay attention to the two planes that were targeted at his own administration?--but even worse is the fact that Mr. Breslin, who here is worried about Mr. Bush's attitude towards Asians, notoriously referred to an Asian co-worker as a "little yellow dog" and an epithet so awful we won't even post it here. Isn't it equally plausible that this legendary journalist failed to pursue the terrorist threat to New York because of his own racism? Yes, it's equally plausible because thoroughly implausible.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 24, 2002 7:14 PM