Simpson > OBL

Last summer, I attended a speech by Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was the prosecutor in US v. Usama bin Laden, the case which the Junior Senator from Illinois now points up as the model for fighting the War on Terror (not that the Senator would use that term, which he no doubt regards as fearmongering). Fitzgerald made the point that at the time that case was going on, it received virtually no press coverage. Why? Because that was right smack in the middle of the O. J. Simpson trial. The press couldn't care less about the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

On a sidenote: much as I like Patrick Fitzgerald (though not as a speaker - the man is damn boring), I don't actually think that US v. Usama bin Laden was that effective at fighting al-Qaeda. After all, bin Laden had already been convicted in absentia long before 9/11 occurred. Nevertheless, Obama feels this approach was good enough. What a disgraceful, September 10 approach.