So what happened to the color coded terrorist threat system?

[StrongBad]

That was fun for about a year. Did Bush secretly abandon this initiative or is it still in effect and already an anachronism?

Even Fox News isn't broadcasting the threat level daily.

[alsame]

1. I think they dropped that after they

'won' the 2004 election. Didn't need to drum up fear any longer.

[quantass]

12. +1

[Arkansas Granny]

14. After screaming "yellow" and "orange" for much of 2004, the colors

just seemed to go away after the election.

[YvonneCa]

26. You beat me to ...

...it. :7

[Captain Hilts]

2. Pink, blue, green, orange, now used for tampon sizes. nt

[blm]

3. Olbermann did a breakdown of emergency alerts - they coincided with strong news days

for Kerry during 2004 campaign.

[StrongBad]

6. That doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

[MadMaddie]

20. I believe that by using the alerts to terrify the country was

criminal activity. Like Crying fire in a movie theatre and there is no fire.

Rumsfeld and anyone else involved should be prosecuted.

[blm]

29. Couldn't agree more. It was a wave of criminal behavior corpmedia abetted every step of the way.

.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Bush needed the colors for his Texas library crayons

[SoCalDem]

5. they revamped it... then abandoned it

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. It's getting a further revamp in order to reflect our economic status

[Jennicut]

15. OMG- That is brillliant!

:rofl:

[rvablue]

8. Pickles took it to Dallas for paint color samples. n/t

[SIMPLYB1980]

9. This is the republicans new color coded threat assessment.

[Ediacara]

10. It's aparently still in use

But I think Obama and Napolitano will drop it. It really only had three levels, as there was no way that we'd drop down to blue or green. I think that keeping us on "medium" at all times was as effective as raising us to orange when Bush's numbers dropped.

[sandyj999]

11. GW liked it so much he took it with him.n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

13. ...

:rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

25. Unless some haven't noticed, GW the Lesser is gone

And with him, most of the embarrassments of America, if not the problems.

[Dreamer Tatum]

16. Still in use, same as always.

Flew around all week last week. Still up and running.

[Beacool]

21. Yep, it is still in use.

:eyes:

[StrongBad]

23. Interesting. So airports report the threat info prominently?

I flew last month but don't remember ever encountering the code. Though, I am quite an oblivious person sometimes so I may have just not noticed.

I thought it was defunct. Sorry to hear it's still in use. What a farce.

[karynnj]

17. Abandoned right after the 2004 election - when it was no longer needed

It appears to some that given the correlation between Kerry gaining any momentum and the code rising, the code really reflected the political danger the Bush administration faced.

If true, Bush terrorized the country. As one who had a young college age daughter in Manhattan then, I know - even though I was skeptical, the feeling when the somber voices came on speaking of threats to Manhattan. The country was essentially Bush's battered wife - and many were too scared to flee from him.

[Lex]

18. I eated it.

[Generic Brad]

19. It's been orange for a few years now

I'm not sure what that indicates, but that is what the sign outside of the Minneapolis airport always says.

[leftofthedial]

22. It was destroyed by terrorists

but it doesn't count as a terrorist attack on our soil because the servers that generated the random terror threats was in Dubai.

[rufus dog]

24. I think they tried to use them a bit before the 06 elections.

The realized they went to the well one too many times. Sort of like car alarms when they first came out, at first people would walk over to see if everything was o.k., then people got annoyed, then people got pissed and started keying the car.

[Autumn]

27. That fricking thing used to

drive me crazy. Some days it was hard to figure out what to wear so it didn't clash with what I was wearing. Used to really piss me off.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. Like every other failed GWB initiative, once they realized it went over terribly, they let it slide.

Pretend it never happened, that they never did it.

Like floating the trial balloon that Rove was in charge of New Orleans reconstruction.

Or the Iraqi flag that had similar color and design as the Israeli flag.