Must Be an Election Year

New Yorkers can thank their lucky stars for WNYC's Brian Lehrer, a man who knows the right questions to ask...like the ones he asked in today's interview with James Gordon Meek, the Daily News reporter who broke the story of the Holland Tunnel bomb plot. Questions such as: Was this story sourced to the White House? Was it given to you so as to snub the New York Times? Was the timing meant to coincide with a) Bush's Chicago Presser or b) the anniversary of the Madrid train bombings?

We New Yorkers remember all the Orange Alerts from the 2004 election season. Now it's midterm time...and we can be glad that Lehrer apparently does, too.