I'm taking bets.. When will CNN implode?

[SoCalDem]

Think about it.. they have

1... a mining bump bounce disaster
2... a hurricane
3... a "royal" wedding
4... Michael Vick
5... Cheney's '94 video tape
6... Shuttle "troubles"
7... Stock Market jitters
8... Housing market collapsing
9... The "found" baby in Baghdad
10. "Arabs" disguising themselves as Mexicans, and sneaking across the border
11. Flooding in Texas
12. O.J.'s book
13. Peru's earthquake


How will they manage if Lindsay Lohan decides to take a drive or if Brittney drops her baby or blows her nose on her sleeve

Oh the agony...
I'm not sure they can handle all the stress..

It's enough to get Anderson Cooper to start pronouncing his "T"s..and to get Kyra all chatty in the bathroom again :)

[babylonsister]

1. Damn! They're covering 'real' news? Lay low, Lindsay! nt

[BOSSHOG]

2. One question My Dear

I agree, they do have a load (so to speak.) But your reference to Cheney's video of 94 intrigues me. I'm in the dark, could you give me a Cliff Notes brief?

[babylonsister]

3. Here: and FWIW, Tweety played it on air yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=47270

[SoCalDem]

4. oooh it's delish

YouTube has it.. He's giving an interview explaining why it's a TERRIBLE idea to go to Baghdad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

[BOSSHOG]

7. THANKS SoCalDem and Babylon Sister

DU - MY NUMBER ONE SOURCE OF NEWS

YOU GUYS ARE GREAT.

[SoCalDem]

10. We aim to please.. We do it all for you dahhhlink

:hi:

[mikeytherat]

8. Essentially, it's the same thing Poppy Bush said in the late 90s:

Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep" and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Further more, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different -- and perhaps barren -- outcome.

George H.W. Bush - A World Transformed (Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1998), page 489

If only there was some way, any way, G.W. could have spoken with his father and his running mate...

mikey_the_rat

[Virginia Dare]

5. If Michael Jackson "fathered" another kid..

that would probably put them over the edge.

[SoCalDem]

9. they might have to taser Rick Sanchez again.. just to settle him down

:)

damn .. I lost the video

[youthere]

6. All that REAL news..you know what that means...

There's going to be a NEW LEAD in the NATALIE HOLLOWAY case!! Whoo hoo!:woohoo:

[lapfog_1]

11. Uhh... John Mark Karr now says he DIDN'T lie about JonBenet!

I shit you not. It's on CNN's homepage. Time to pull up the file footage of five year olds in beauty pageants!

[Virginia Dare]

13. You've gotta be fucking kidding me!!

[madrchsod]

12. jessica biel is going to do a nude scene!

nothing else matters

[SoCalDem]

16. I thought she already did that.. Wasn't that why they kicked her off 7th Heaven?

:)

[madrchsod]

18. yes but this one is going to be more revealing!

stay tuned E will have the full story......

[Agnomen]

14. Any blondes missing?

If there is one, that will be their top, 24/7 story

[Ron Green]

15. These are CNN's golden days.

There are enough tawdry and distracting "stories" to keep them away for weeks from anything significant, anything that has to do with our democracy. They love this. Wolf can stand in the "Situation Room" 24/7 and bleat about this banality or that. He actually needs a Situation Kitchen and a Situation Crapper to keep up with the nonsense.

[Initech]

17. Either when they actually have to cover real news or when the next white female celeb buys the farm