We'll, also, like all good public
education efforts, have information
that's accessible to kids, and we're
going to have a mascot who will, you
know, help spread the message in
the good tradition of Smokey the
Bear and McGruff, the Crime Dog.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Who is that
going to be?
SUSAN NEELY: Well, we have found
that what kids really respond to is a
cartoon character of a - an American
Shepherd dog, and what we'll be
launching in--
BROOKE GLADSTONE: There's,
there's no such thing as an
American Shepherd, is there?
SUSAN NEELY: Well--
BROOKE GLADSTONE: It's, it's a
German Shepherd. We know it, and
you know it. The Homeland Security
Agency just doesn't want to say
that's what it is.
SUSAN NEELY: Oh, well there's
Australian Shepherds, there are
German Shepherds, there's Belgian
Shepherds, I think-- I mean it's a
cartoon.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Now this is
an election year, and so perhaps it's
inevitable that anything the
incumbent administration does will
be cast by some as politically
motivated. So I have to ask you: why
declare National Preparedness
Month on September 9th, right after
the Republican Convention, just a
few days before the anniversary of
September 11th?
SUSAN NEELY: Well, my goodness,
if we stopped everything that was
needed to be done in this country
because someone worries it's for
political purposes, I, I think that
would be unfortunate, and not very
sensible
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)
SUSAN NEELY: ...We'll, also, like all good public education efforts, have information that's accessible to kids, and we're going to have a mascot who will, you know, help spread the message in the good tradition of Smokey the Bear and McGruff, the Crime Dog.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Who is that going to be?
SUSAN NEELY: Well, we have found that what kids really respond to is a cartoon character of a - an American Shepherd dog, and what we'll be launching in--
BROOKE GLADSTONE: There's, there's no such thing as an American Shepherd, is there?
SUSAN NEELY: Well--
BROOKE GLADSTONE: It's, it's a German Shepherd. We know it, and you know it. The Homeland Security Agency just doesn't want to say that's what it is.
SUSAN NEELY: Oh, well there's Australian Shepherds, there are German Shepherds, there's Belgian Shepherds, I think-- I mean it's a cartoon.
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)