Is your refrigerator running? Better catch it …
by digby
If you want to know why Americans are suddenly all quaking in their boots afraid of their shadows, here’s one good reason:
All Los Angeles schools were closed today over an unspecified threat authorities believed to be credible. And whether it was or not, NBC’s Chuck Todd called it a successful terrorist attack regardless.
He said that officials probably erred on the side of caution, but still argued, “This was a successful terrorist attack today. It wasn’t blood, it was fear. Okay, and fear shut down the second-largest school system.”
And Todd tied that into the presidential debate tonight, in keeping with the focus on national security.
I sure hope ISIS is watching. They can save themselves a lot of trouble by just calling up the Pentagon and asking them if they have Prince Albert in the can. We’ll immediately scramble the jets and start WWIII.
*Oh, and by the way, no word yet on whether the guy who shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic and calls himself a warrior for babies might have perpetrated a terrorist attack. He didn’t use the word Islam or Allah at any point so apparently not …