No Horse Sense At ABC?

FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The Monday after the Kentucky Derby, you’d think ABC would know which way horses run around an American racetrack—counter-clockwise—as you’ll see in the photo of Mine That Bird’s stunning triumph the Run for the Roses.

But have a look at the Dem and Republican horses in the animation that Good Morning America used today to illustrate James Carville’s theory of why Democrats, according to his new book, are positioned to rule for 40 years.

Yup, they’re running clockwise.

View video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Good Morning America headed in the wrong direction ping to Today show list.

[Doc Savage]

ABC = Horse’s Ass!

[MtnClimber]

Everything the left does is backward and makes no sense!

[Veto!]

Absolutely wonderful graphic of the Left galloping leftward into the past. Unless you write in Arabic.

You probably know that if you pan from right to left with your vid camera, it creates a rather eerie effect. Check it out in horror films. And certainly, 40 years of galloping backward would be a HORROR. Funny they call themselves “progressives” when all they want to do is tear down Western civilization and return us to serfdom. But now we know, their vision is back asswards.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Perhaps horse races run counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, if the side nearest you is running to the left, you get clockwise.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

They do run clockwise in Jean le Kerry’s native land.

[jiggyboy]

Hmmm, a subliminal suggestion that everything should move to the left?

[G Larry]

BUMP!

[KarlInOhio]

Perhaps horse races run counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

They do in Britain. I don't know about the other countries that drive on the left.

[andy58-in-nh]

In this vein, it occurs to me that if Arlen Specter had run in the Kentucky Derby, there would have been two geldings in the field.

[rvoitier]

James Carville’s theory of why Democrats, according to his new book, are positioned to rule for 40 years.

It takes a damn book to spell A.C.O.R.N., FRAUD and explain how a gutless and insanely corrupt leadership (DEM & GOP, aka Genoveses, Gambinos) not only DOES NOT destroy A.C.O.R.N. forever but FUNDS IT?!!

[SAJ]

And in England, and in Japan.

[OB1kNOb]

It was a great race. The guy that won pulled his horse trailer with his truck (driving with broken foot) like 1,700 miles to get to the race. His horse cost something like $9K or so. Beat $2-3mm horses flown in from UAE. LOL! I loved it.

[USNBandit]

Actually this does depict an American race track. When both parties are running in the wrong direction it would appear clockwise.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Same here. Hard not to root for an underdog like that, especially when ridden by such a colorful character like jockey Calvin Borel.

[PurpleMan]

Sheesh, it’s just a graphic.

BTW: Brits’ horse races have been run clockwise for, oh, I dunno, a couple of hundred years?

OHMYGOD!!! OHMYGOD!!! That’s it!!

Carvile and BHO are in cahoots with ABC to turn us into the European socialist model and this, THIS is just one of their evil underhanded ploys to get the country to think “European.”

I knew it.

[6SJ7]

But have a look at the Dem and Republican horses in the animation that Good Morning America used today to illustrate James Carville’s theory of why Democrats, according to his new book, are positioned to rule for 40 years.

Don't the Democrats intend to rule for a thousand years?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Maybe it's an unconscious nod that the Dem party is headed further Left.

[Non-Sequitur]

Yup, they’re running clockwise.

For years ABC World News Tonight used to open with a revolving globe about their program title. And for years that globe revolved in a clockwise direction. It still may for all I know, but I believe it was a third grader who wrote them and asked them why their world was turning the wrong way.

[Sloth]

Unless I am missing something, the graphic does not show them going clockwise, just left. Whether left would be clockwise or counterclockwise depends on the position of the viewer.

[Pharmboy]

Yep...but did you see his post-race interview-on-the-run? His ONE chance at international recognition and what does he do? Acts miserably, complains, and runs off. He may know how to train thoroughbreds, but he won’t be making the egg salad sandwiches for the Mensa picnic.

[DrC]

“Whether left would be clockwise or counterclockwise depends on the position of the viewer.”

I see your point, but to minimize the distances they cover, horses logically run closest to “the rail” i.e., the fence separating the track from the infield that the track surrounds. Under that theory, the fence shown in the background is indeed, the rail, in which case the horses shown must be going clockwise etc.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Race tracks aren’t straight lines—they’re elliptical. Rail to the right means the horses must be going clockwise.

[OB1kNOb]

Yep...but did you see his post-race interview-on-the-run? His ONE chance at international recognition and what does he do? Acts miserably, complains, and runs off. He may know how to train thoroughbreds, but he won’t be making the egg salad sandwiches for the Mensa picnic.

I saw that. I hope it was just the pain meds wearing off and it was the pain speaking. He did have one good response though when the interviewer said that not many in the business knew him, to which he responded, "Well, they'll know me now!"

[vpintheak]

In that case, the fence would be in front of the horses. I thought that for a second too.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Followed by the GOP.

[pa_dweller]

Carville’s use of the word ‘rule’ is what concerns me. I don’t think of America as a country that’s ruled. Not yet anyway.