The security breach at the White House state dinner the other night has the whole village in an uproar. The pundits are falling all over themselves in what looks to me like a contest to see who can make it sound the worst. I've heard better conversation from a bus load of average 8th graders.
What if they were trained assassins!?!
What if they had grabbed a knife from one of the dining tables!?!
What if they'd had a vial of anthrax!?!
What if they were ninjas!?!
Yeah; wow; what if... hey, I've got it: What if monkeys flew outa your ass!?!
This is straight out of 'The Power of Nightmares' (a BBC documentary - available on Netflix). The guy with the darkest imagination wins.
I'm not saying it was nothing. Any time somebody gets thru the protective circle, it's a major fuckup, and corrections have to be made, but c'mon guys. We have to stop losing our shit every time something scary happens. We'll never get anwhere this way.
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