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Here's a fact about the underwear attack that you might have missed in the media shoutfest: it failed. It failed, first of all, because Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was just one terrorist. Once upon a time, al-Qaeda's modus operandi was to launch multiple, simultaneous attacks. That way, even if one attack failed, the entire operation wouldn't. On 9/11, the network deployed 19 hijackers on four planes; on 12/25, by contrast, it managed only one. Second, the underwear attack failed because Abdulmutallab wasn't particularly well trained. The 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were personally selected by Osama...
...Shoutfest Crossfire, conservative pundit TUCKER CARLSON left the network last week and is in negotiations with rival MSNBC. A CNN exec told reporters his decision to drop Crossfire was influenced in part by Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who called Carlson and his liberal counterpart, Paul Begala, "partisan hacks" when he was on the show last fall. "It's a half-hour show at 4:30," says Carlson, who put in his resignation before Stewart's comments. "To say we're the problem with America is ludicrous." Yeah. It's prime time that's really doing...
...trivial and trivialize the important. Watching Hardball's Chris Matthews bark at his guests about tax plans and sex scandals, you wonder why his guests don't cover themselves with dentist's smocks to fend off the flying spittle. Kinsley recalls that as co-host of Crossfire, the CNN shoutfest, he once disagreed with a guest in too civil a tone. "No, no!" the producer shouted into his earpiece...
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