Fake news

For all you fans of nostalgia, this should really take you back to all those fake terror alerts in the summer/fall of 2004:

We hate to say we told you so, but....we told you so: Those terrorist "dry runs" at airports that bumped a slew of bad news for President Bush off the front page and scared a lot of summer vacationers in the process, were, as CNN itself confessed in a different report, "bogus."

It's hard to believe that the administration would politicize an agency responsible for public safety and issue bogus "terror threat" stories to get real news that make the administration look bad (read: "everything") off the front page.

Oh, wait. No it isn't.

And it's hard to believe that the mainstream media would fall for it over and over, or perhaps go along either because it's too lazy to check out the story or because it really enjoys being invited to the correspondent's dinner (this year's was a hoot. They had some white guys [read: "not Wayne Brady"] from "Whose Line Is it, Anyway?" Much better than that stupid Colbert! He was soooo unfunny, and I'm pretty sure he was making fun of us).

Oh, wait. No it isn't.

And Jon Stewart is the one who does the fake news, right?