Let's blow the cockpit off to hijack the airliner

More on the imaginary threat to the "Library" Tower in Los Angeles. You will recall that the story the prez told said that the hijacker was planning to get into the cockpit with a shoe bomb. Even the press couldn't take it seriously. Here's some of the White House press gaggle yesterday:

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.

This story is so ludicrous its beyond belief. And, if you think this one is ludicrous, go look at the nine other "terrorist" threats we've allegedly intercepted on Bush's watch. If you believed Bush, you'd believe al Qaeda was as incompetent as the Keystone Kops. Believe me, they aren't.