Maddow's very correct answer of (paraphrasing) "they have a very extremist agenda, so they need an extremist enemy to scare us all with", is exactly correct. To steal as much of the Treasury's money as they can…..to conduct the wildest and most radical of all imperialistic foreign policy doctrines,…..to politicize each and every corner of federal government, including justice and defense,…..to attempt to put in place a permanent Republican majority by hook or, what it really was, by crook….to openly violate laws and the Constitution….to do all this, a very scary, almost supernatural enemy was required.

Why do you think Bush-bots allow us to see those Bin Laden tapes. The Bush-bots need Osama. Osama will go down as the greatest diversionary character in history. If you want to rob a bank, setting fire to a big building across town could divert the police's attention for a spell…..Osama is the burning building.

"I've never heard ANYONE suggest that Al Qaeda was a worse threat than the Soviet Union was. "

I think Huckabee saying this on Oct. 21 on Fox News Sunday would qualify:

"…I like to be funny, let me be real honest with you. There’s nothing funny about Hillary Clinton being president. Let me tell you why. If she’s president, taxes go up, health care becomes the domain of the government, spending goes out of control, our military loses its morale, and I’m not sure we’ll have the courage and the will and the resolve to fight the greatest threat this country’s ever faced in Islamofascism."

This from Rachel Maddow:

"…this band of death cults, fundamentalist criminals into a threat that is greater than the Soviet Union ever was when they not only had a military but they had thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at our country. They have to make Al Qaeda even worse than that".

I've never heard ANYONE suggest that Al Qaeda was a worse threat than the Soviet Union was. I think Maddow made that up. The first thing liberal extremists always do is make stuff up, and then they attack what they just made up, instead of attacking reality.

Olbermann, as always, is an idiot. Two of the three people who watch his show agree.

According to Steve Doocy, they learned that "police officers in a hovering helicopter saw a guy starting one of these fires." An "ominous" FBI memo from early this past summer has "popped up," and "an Al Qaeda detaineee" has said that the next wave of terrorism could be a series of wildfires. Of course, he could be lying and California was not mentioned on the list of possible target states, but there is a possibility that it's terrorism and we can't let a day go by without reminding you how scared you should be."

There's no question that FOX nuts were doing their level best to cheer for the neo-con 24/7 fear machine. Rachel Maddow was addressing the question of WHY FOX does what it does. And she is dead on. It couldn't have been said any better.

The FBI "memo" mentioned is several years old, California is not mentioned and there is not any other intelligence of any kind to justify FOX nuts saying what they did. They simply misled their viewers. Shocker.