Turner causes bomb scare in Boston

What was Turner Broadcasting thinking? From WCVB-5 television, Boston:

Turner Broadcasting plans to take responsibility for the "hoax devices" that were found at several locations in and around Boston Wednesday that forced police bomb units to scramble throughout the area.

The incidents were part of a marketing campaign that involved a character from the cartoon show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."

"The 'packages' in question are magnetic lights that pose no danger. They are part of an outdoor marketing campaign in 10 cities in support of Adult Swim's animated television show 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force,'" Turner Broadcasting, the parent company of Cartoon Network, said in a statement.

The company said that they have been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

Remember how some people couldn't bring themselves to understand that taking knives, guns, and other potentially dangerous items onto airplanes was a bad idea right after 9/11? We laughed at them.

Now, we have a large media corporation unaware that odd-looking, magnetic lights hidden around major cities would make people uneasy. More than five years after 9/11, this isn't a case of being slow to acknowledge a changed world. This is denial.

There are large numbers of people -- liberals -- who believe there is no war on terror, and that terrorists are just oppressed souls reacting to our bad foreign policies. The rest of us are taking this seriously.