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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 03:20 PM
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Jack Cafferty's question: Is there too much media attention to hurricanes
and not enough on Iraq?

Just as he started the answer, Leslie Blitzer interrupted him with "BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS! "Rita is now a Catagory 5 hurricane" then switches to NOAA and then some Texas mayors press conference. From there to commercials and Cafferty is forgotten.

Guess that kinda answers the question, now doesn't it...
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 03:24 PM
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1. The answer, my friend, ...
is blowing in the wind.
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 03:25 PM
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3. !
:spray:
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jedr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 03:28 PM
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7. chuckle......
:evilgrin:
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 04:07 PM
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8. LOL
Thats bad, man, really, really badddd.......
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dsewell Donating Member (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 03:24 PM
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2. Hurricanes are the new terrorism
The media has found its storyline. Not that Katrina, and probably Rita, don't deserve it--but this happened last week for Ophelia, which any other year would have been a bottom-of-the-news item.

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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 03:26 PM
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4. Rowdyboy
i do believe we are getting an ass kicking from nature that WILL bring home our troups. talk about being vulnerable to terrorist attacks! what we have already seen in NO will be trippled in texas, and that will spawn horrific storms everywhere in the southwest. power grids will go bonkers.
here comes Jack. i love this guy
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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 03:27 PM
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5. Pretty much sums it up right there...
Corporate media at it's best.

I'm sure CNN failed to say that Rita is forcast to weaken to a cat 3 before landfall. But I forgot, Wolf said his job was to "make news," right?

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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 04:08 PM
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10. Gee, somehow they failed to mention that
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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 03:28 PM
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6. what perfect timing...
And just as the words are out of his mouth...
BREAKING NEWS!! BACK TO HURRICANE!!!
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 04:07 PM
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9. saw it. how perfect. hope it makes the daily show. nt.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 04:13 PM
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11. Here in Houston, waiting for Rita....
We have lots of local coverage--with local authorities announcing evacuation plans, etc.

Do I really need to know what Wolf Blitzer has to say about Bushie's latest comments on the storm? Hell, no!
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