These 2 incidents (Coast Guard today; Air Force 1) -- meant to embarrass our Prez? Yes, I *THINK* so

[UTUSN]

O.K., so why are these incidents happening?!1 And, CLUE, it AIN'T because POTUS "ORDERED" them!1


------------ FIRE!1 -------- that fucking Coastie a-hole!1

[RagAss]

1. The one today was invented by CNN.

[fulllib]

3. why are they doing fake attacks on 9/11 though? n/t

[mth44sc]

6. Yep

this was a news media total fail. They are the ones that need to look at themselves. The Coast Guard was just doing its job. On a day when we honor the first responders among us - it was just plain weird to watch the media go after the CG because because the media got it so very wrong. I guess its now the job of the Coast Guard to make sure CNN doesn't embarrass themselves

[MrModerate]

2. CNN's getting pretty desperate, aren't they? n/t

[UTUSN]

5. Today (9-11) during our Prez's 9-11 ceremony, the Coast Guard did a terrorism "exercise"

[MrModerate]

8. Yeah -- I just found it. USCG might have picked a better day . . .

But CNN needs to check to see where it left its brains. Pretty stupid.

[kentuck]

4. What was the other incident?

taking photos of the Statue of Liberty or some crap?

[UTUSN]

7. Yeah, THAT one. n/t

[imdjh]

9. My first thought was that while everyone is being melodramatic and looking up

... someone wanted to see if you could take a gunboat right up the backstairs.

[lib2DaBone]

10. The media is Swift-Boating Obama. There is blood in the water since Van Jones.

The Repukes WILL NOT STOP. They have control of the media and all Networks will fall in line. The hour is getting late.

All along the Watch Tower

No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke but uh
But you and I weve been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hours getting late

[uppityperson]

11. CG does exercises all the time. Today's bs I'll blame squarely on the media

esp CNN who, yes, I think want to embarrass Obama. This was a media hyper-reaction to only a vague rumor. They said "we need to report the news as we hear it", but get a grip CNN, at LEAST do a quick check and see if it has ANY basis in reality.

Media wants to swift boat Obama. Nothing wrong with Coast Guard doing exercises on schedule.

[ShortnFiery]

12. No, all the dumb-asses at CNN needed to do is ask a scanner enthusiast and they'd

discover that the Coast Guard conducts a variant of these training exercises FOUR TIMES EACH WEEK.

They only called one contact at the Coast Guard and didn't even tell them that they saw "no visuals" but were basing their reporting ON NATIONAL TELEVISION based only on "scanner chatter."

That's UN-SAT. And based on CNN going NATIONAL, the other agencies were alerted.

IF I were the journalist and received a non-confirmation of a training exercise from some mid-level employee at the Coast Guard, if I THEN told them that "I was going national" because some scanner traffic conveyed that shots were fired, you'd damn well bet they'd kick it up to a higher level and confirm this ROUTINE (4x/week) training exercise.

However, the fact that someone transmitted the words "Bang! Bang!" before the report that shots were fired SHOULD have been one big RED FLAG that this was, in fact, a training exercise. At the very least, the foregoing transmission would caution a journalist with one shred of professional integrity to get firm confirmation before frightening the FBI, secret service, etc. which had no particular need to know. :crazy:


I'm truly saddened that Rachel got "it wrong" tonight on judging this incident.

CNN - The most INCOMPETENT name in Journalism.