Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Friday, Jan. 17, 2003 - 12:04 a.m.

So, LA has a new guy in charge of "Homeland Security". This newly created office will be responsible for ponying up terrorist response plans and all that for the police department. Pretty important, right? So of course the person they hire for the job has no experience or training for this sort of thing. No, they hire - are you ready? - a television news magazine reporter. Why? Because the dumbass in question is a friend of our new police chief, Bratton, who used to be the police chief in NYC. And the job Miller held in NY? He was the liason between the police department and the press...that's right, he was the dildo who held the press conferences and read news releases to the press when the police department needed to do damage control. And this is the nimrod they decide is qualified to head up the terrorist response department in a city of over 13 million people. Why, I feel safer already.

(In case you care, his name is John Miller, he worked for ABC, he did a brief stint co-anchoring 20/20 with Barbara Walters, and he co-wrote a book after September 11, which Disney, co-incidentally the owner of ABC, printed. It's his first book, and it was written - apparently not well - by him and Michael Stone, WITH Chris Mitchell. Uh-huh. Oh yeah - and he did an interview in 1998 with Osama bin Laden, which CLEARLY qualifies him as an expert on terrorism. So, since I once did an interview with several people on golf courses, I guess I qualify as an expert on golf courses and planned communities with golf courses in them. Guess I better hang out my consulting shingle, huh?)

Is it any fucking wonder people don't trust the government to behave in a responsible, ethical, intelligent manner? Judas Priest.

Peace out,
Katie

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