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Sunday, May 02, 2010

Shorter CNN: AAAUUGGGHH!!!! TERRORISTS!!!!!
Posted by Jill | 7:07 AM
Last night, around 6:30 PM, a car bomb was found in Times Square:
A crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks was discovered in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm and busy night. Although the device had apparently started to detonate, there was no explosion, and early on Sunday the authorities were still seeking a suspect and motive.

Here in the New York area, where the event actually occurred, the local news channels are handling the story with unusual and laudable care, focusing on what we actually know so far, which is what you see above, and that the device malfunctioned and did not detonate.

Over at CNN, however, the hysteria is in full flower. The unidentified female newsbot talking to a former NYPD investigator seemed astonished at the idea that this could be anything but a Muslim terrorist attack, after said investigator indicated that what is MORE worrisome is the possibility of "another Timothy McVeigh." Apparently that possibility had never occurred to the bot that now passes for a media journalist on what used to be the most trusted name in news. T.J. Holmes referred to it as a "terrorist threat." And Alan Chernoff and Susan Candiotti were just on, live from Times Square, debunking the network's own previous coverage of people having seen a man running from the car.

This is the state today of the television journalism that reaches a nationwide audience: wild conjecture gets "out there", becomes fact, and suddenly whatever comes along later becomes unimportant. There's no fact-seeking, there's no reporting on "Here's what we know to be true" (as there is on the local channels).

Because at CNN, it's more important to try to rile up the teabaggers in the flyover states, who are at only miniscule risk of being actual targets for actual Islamic terrorists, for ratings than it is to actually get the facts.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Signs of the times
Posted by Jill | 8:11 PM
Oh, goody -- the Christofascist Zombie Brigade has got their war on. How much of a scumbag do you have to be to imply that Barack Obama's mother would have aborted him had it been legal?

Why do I have the sense that we are going to see more stories like this one?

If there's one thing that makes conservatives happier than thinking about evil women who won't keep their legs closed and how gay people have sex, it's the opportunity to obsess about Bill Clinton again. Now how about we take a look at the Saudi impact on the Bush family finances?

What the hell kind of country do we live in when a 93-year-old World War II veteran is allowed to freeze to death in his own home while Citibank doesn't get it that spending $50 million of taxpayer bailout money on a new corporate jet is really bad form until the Obama administration reminds them?

How can we miss you if you won't go the hell away?

Sometimes you have to just let the baby cry it out.

Second. Best. Headline. Ever. (The other white meat.)

Happy 50th Birthday, Keith Olbermann! May I suggest the TWO year AARP membership? Seriously, I'm glad he's 50. Maybe now all that "He's really a Gen-Xer" crap will stop.

64 years ago, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated. Ex-Nazi and current Pope Benedict commemorates the anniversary by reinstating a Holocaust-denying bishop. Kind of makes you realize why the Israelis are so fucking paranoid, doesn't it?

Maybe a repentant sinner is the best kind of convert.

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Friday, November 30, 2007

No terrorist acts in the U.S. since 9/11? What the hell do you call this?
Posted by Jill | 2:22 PM
Holy shit:

A man took people hostage at a New Hampshire campaign office for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, police said Friday.

The man claimed to have a bomb strapped to him when he walked into the office in Rochester, WHDH-TV reported.

Police said they believe two hostages were being held and that the man had released an adult and a child.

Bill Shaheen, chairman of Clinton's campaign in New Hampshire, said the hostages were two volunteers. "Hopefully, they're going to negotiate this so no one gets hurt," Shaheen told WMUR-TV.

WMUR-TV quoted a woman, Lettie Tzizik, saying she spoke to someone who said she had just been released by the man.

"A young woman with a 6-month- or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape.'"

Police surrounded the building, evacuated the immediate area and placed other buildings, including a nearby school, under lockdown.

Clinton, who was scheduled to campaign in Virginia on Friday, was not at the office.


More later, including the inevitable wingnut ranting that the Clinton campaign did this themselves.

UPDATE: They are SO predictable. The Nation wades into the fetid swamp so I don't have to:

As the hostage situation at Hillary headquarters in New Hampshire unfolds, right-wing message boards like Free Republic are lighting up with sarcastic, conspiratorial, and even celebratory commentary.

Many Freepers joked that the hostage taker, a man claiming to have a bomb, was really a Clinton "plant." A few examples of conservative "humor:"
To: raccoonradio

Is it Keith Kerr?

4 posted on 11/30/2007 10:33:20 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans who support Rudy owe Bill Clinton an apology.)
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To: raccoonradio

Recruiting questioners?

19 posted on 11/30/2007 10:35:10 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: NonValueAdded
Too late. Billary has had them implanted. ( Haven't you noticed the deeper voice and the 5 o'clock shadow? )
29 posted on 11/30/2007 10:35:42 AM PST by Leisler (RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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Another Freeper invoked the tawdry, fabricated rumor of a lesbian affair between Hillary and staffer Huma Abedin:
To: coloradan

Is Huma with Hillary today? probably

34 posted on 11/30/2007 10:36:04 AM PST by txflake (Yes there were WMDs)
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And what would a Freeper thread be without some reference to Bill Clinton's sexual dalliances?
To: raccoonradio

Has Bill got Ms. Willey cornered again?



See what we have to look forward to if Hillary is the nominee? It's going to be a long, long year.

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