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In reply to the discussion: TSA screener accused of stealing iPads from passengers' bags at JFK Airport [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)The key word in the original article that flashes out is TSA then criminal
It would be subliminal, but it is overt not covert the angle the writer is taking
This is a nothing story not warranting news coverage, but for what overtly the writer wants spun out
Because there are millions of thefts year round
From major stuff like a car theft, to stealing a penny.
Almost all are not written about
This was written 100% solely to put the TSA down. Nothing hidden about it
Because if it had been someone stealing an ipod from a laundry, it wuoldn't have made the paper
Someone stealing an ipod from a supermarket, would not have made the paper
Someone stealing an ipod from a package in a post office, would not have made the paper
Someone wanting to malign the TSA for some stupid conspiracy theory or paranoia against going through the machines because they are hiding something- BINGO, that is what the article was published for.
This reminds me of something-a poll came out today polling republicans saying that
repubs believe ACORN stole the 2012 election.
Never mind that ACORN doesn't exist because of the witchhunt after the 2008 race.
Never mind that ACORN never did anything at all, that maybe one or three people did not do something correct
It was a witchhunt
Same like the McCarthy hearings were that some of my past generation family was blacklisted no longer allowed their good name in Hollywood to write scripts anymore because of it
That is what this writer in the op is doing (the article writer, not the poster who posted it).
Ron Paul for years denied he was a racist, even though his campaign literature was strewn with nasty racial stuff. We all know that Ron actively was his whole life friendly with and courting the John Birch Society and its members. And was a lifetime associate with David Duke.
Ron denied and denied it. But it is known
Bing Crosby's Bob Wallace character said in the holiday movie White Christmas (c)- Everybody has an angle.
The writer above sure indeed does.
maybe a little investigation of the writer of that news article is warranted. Let's see what else he has written and if there is a pattern.
And the red herring is saying I have said this guy should not pay a penalty for doing what he is doing.
never said that. What I said is, why was this article written.
We shall get to the bottom of that in due time.
The word you are looking for is MACGUFFIN.
The theft itself is a MACGUFFIN to get the writer to show the that the TSA is the important word