February 11, 2005

SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY may be the best public affairs program on television -- it's the one I get the most out of anyway. Last night's show was oustanding, with a terrific segment on the FAA's 9/11 warnings coverup and an interview with DAVOS blogger Rony Abovitz on EasonGate. The transcript is here:
SCARBOROUGH: And, Michael Smerconish, that brings us to today. Here, you have got a dysfunctional FAA. You have got a dysfunctional federal government. They don‘t seem as interested in protecting us as they do protecting their own jobs. Where does that leave us today? Are we any safer in the air today than we were on September 11?

SMERCONISH: No. And let me tell you something, I was one who was readily accepting of that 9/11 conclusion that said, well, the 9/11 Commission, well, it defied the imagination. You know, Joe, when you hear about 52 reports in five months, I no longer think it defied the imagination, what was pulled off. I will tell you something else about the bureaucracy that we are describing. They play dirty. When my book was first out, “The Boston Globe” reviewed it and they went to the DOT for a reaction. And they said, you know that guy Smerconish has a warped sense of American values. I have a warped sense of American values? I want these problems corrected. That‘s all.

Posted by Greg Ransom