Attack of the footless terrorists

[Jersey Devil]

Pres Press Secretary Scott McClellan sure had a hard time today trying to explain how terrorists with shoe bombs could possibly have carried out this supposed threat to fly planes into buildings in LA:

Q Scott, I wanted to just ask a follow-up about the LA plot. Is there something missing from this story, a practical application, a few facts? Because if you want to commandeer a plane and fly it into a tower, if you used shoe bombs, wouldn't you blow off the cockpit? Or is there something missing from this story?

MR. McCLELLAN: I don't know what you're referring to about missing. I mean, I think we provided you a detailed briefing earlier today about the plot. And Fran Townsend, our Homeland Security Advisor, talked about it. So I'm not sure what you're suggesting it.

Q Think about it, if you're wearing shoe bombs, you either blow off your feet or you blow off the front of the airplane.

MR. McCLELLAN: There was a briefing for you earlier today. I think that's one way to look at it. There are a lot of ways to look at it, and she explained it earlier today, Alexis, so I would refer you very much back to what she said, what she said earlier today.

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I also read on another board today, "The president said the plot was foiled when security became suspicious why the perfectly healthy hijackers were carrying crutches in their carryon luggage. " Get it? They needed the crutches to make their way into the cockpit after blowing the cockpit doors with their shoe bombs... Reminds me of the Black Knight skit in Monty Python's Holy Grail.

Which raises another question: How the hell do you get crutches into a carry on bag?

[demosincebirth]

1. Just like a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest.