\nbicycle at noon yesterday, just back from his globe-trotting photo op, when the terror alert went
\nto Code Red, jets were scrambled, the Capitol was cleared and police told everyone:
\nattack.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/P>
\n
<\/P> A TV-viewing friend writes:<\/P> Taking care of the nation’s business as usual, our Dear Leader was tooling around on his bicycle at noon yesterday, just back from his globe-trotting photo op, when the terror alert went to Code Red, jets were scrambled, the Capitol was cleared and police told everyone: “Run. Get out. Keep running. … We’re under attack.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-hS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/images\/redbaronKITEteam.gif\")
<\/A>Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi said police “pulled me out of
\nmy shoes,” CNN reported<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. They whisked
\nher off, along with other pols, several Supreme Court Justices, and Cheney Boy to secure
\nlocations. MSNBC.com’s headline blared, “D.C.’s BIG
\nSCARE.”<\/FONT><\/STRONG> The Washington Post merely shouted, “Confused Fliers Trigger Capital
\nScare.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Dear Leader was oblivious to the mad dash for safety<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> because
\nnobody told him<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> what was
\nhappening until he finished his bicycle ride. Which captured the moment perfectly.
\n
\n
\n
\nSo I’m sitting here watching a swarm of squealing piglets flee Capitol Hill
\nfrom a little Cessna two-seater, not quite the Red Baron’s bi-plane. Makes me long for those puny
\nlimp-wristed Londoners who refused to run during The Blitz. Red-faced little rotten-toothed
\ncowardly faggots, one and all — but my kind of folks. And I’m laughing my ass off at this CNN
\nclown, one Joe Johns, a ballsy reporter who’s describing his narrow escape. Reminds me of Duke
\nWayne’s heroic WW2 exploits. Is it an axiom that lives without any justification at all are the ones
\nmost worth preserving?<\/BLOCKQUOTE>No charges were filed against the fliers. That, too,
\ncaptured the spirit of Homeland Security’s latest Code Red alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"