| Addressing the anthrax to the Democrats makes it more plausible that a "right-wing crazy" was responsible
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| Addressing the anthrax to the Democrats makes it more plausible that a "right-wing crazy" was responsible
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But I still believe there is a chance that the mailings to Daschle and Leahy were studied. The instructions the terrorists received may well have been "(to get attention) attack the American media, along with the Democrats (to deflect the attention from us)".
Of course, there would be some poetic justice in Daschle's getting a packet just because the media gave him a lot of face time...and he came across as an a**hole.
To think of that requires a degree of sophistication about American politics that I think is negated by the attack on American Media. Like Jim Noble (see Post #10) I think that attack points to a guy who is 'lost in space' as far as understanding American culture is concerned. That's a guy who saw that sign, and thought he was attacking the American Media, or at least some big power in it. That's a clueless foreigner at work. Somebody like that would not understand our politics well enough to know right-wing from Shinola. Besides, didn't Fox News get one of those envelopes? The New York Post did as well. In fact the selection of the Post (as opposed to the Times) is another indicator that the guy didn't know what he was doing. He just saw a row of newsstands and picked one.