New RW Talking Point - CNN Told Guests to Get Angry

[RamboLiberal]

Drudge is trotting it out for them now. From LA Times article by Michael Kinsley. Gee, did Faux tell Shep Smith and Geraldo to get angry? More like Hannity and O' Reilly were trying to tell them to shut up!

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-kinsley11sep11,1,7656580.column

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Everybody is having a fine fit about our politicians, governments at every level and "institutions" (current vogue word) for failing us in this crisis and others. The TV news networks, which only a few months ago were piously suppressing emotional fireworks by their pundits, are now piously encouraging their news anchors to break out of the emotional straitjackets and express outrage. A Los Angeles Times colleague of mine, appearing on CNN last week to talk about Katrina, was told by a producer to "get angry." But just Google a phrase like "commission warns," or "urgent steps" or "our children's future" — or simply "crisis" — and you may develop a bit of sympathy for the people who stand accused today of ignoring the warnings about anything in particular. Far from complacent about potential perils, we suffer from peril gridlock.

[ernstbass]

1. Is this the best that they can do?

KKKarl - you're losing your touch!!

[htuttle]

2. How long before they say the whole hurricane was a 'hoax'?

Pig-Boy: "That's right. There WAS no hurricane. The whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats. Most of the scenes on TV were filmed on a soundstage, my friends..."

I'd like to say I was sure you'd all know I was kidding, since this could obviously never happen. But I'm not so sure anymore...

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. hey it took them a week to link it to 9.11

and badly done, they have not gone there again...

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. Who's the writer?

?

[RamboLiberal]

5. Writer of article is Micheal Kinsley of LA Times

Is that the ? you were asking.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

6. Next they'll blame Clinton and say he and the Dems

Made It Happen On Purpose.

Personally since New Orleans is below sea level, I'd have to say it should be "on porpoise."

;)

They are insane.

What decent human being with empathy for their fellow human beings could have watched that horrid week unfold without feeling both enormous compassion for the victims, AND outrage at the PTB?

Come on. That is what happened. Reporters saw this first hand, undeniably right in front of their own eyes, and let the rest of us see it through their eyes.

[tsuki]

7. You lose everything you own. You're locked in a city wading

through sewage. You have no food or water for your family. And some one has to tell you to get angry?

The great disconnect. Conservatives and Brains.