Why the ‘Unexpected’ Keeps Happening

Pajama's Media ^ | 6-29-11 | Paul Hsieh

[radioone]

If an irresponsible teenager repeatedly crashed his car into a tree whenever he had a few beers, we would never say his accidents were “unexpected.” Rather, they would be foreseeable consequences of driving while drinking. Similarly, we shouldn’t let journalists get away with describing as “unexpected” the foreseeable negative consequences of bad government policies.

Blogger Glenn Reynolds recently highlighted numerous examples of the media’s increasingly frequent use of “unexpected” to describe bad economic news. Unemployment “unexpectedly” rose despite federal “stimulus.” Home sales “unexpectedly” fell despite taxpayer bailouts. ER visits unexpectedly rose in Massachusetts despite RomneyCare. Similarly, the Pundit Press blog has rounded-up dozens of examples of such “unexpected” developments since January 2011.

[Tax-chick]

If we all play the “Unexpected!” drinking game, will we predictable crash our computers into trees ... or at least spill wine on the keyboard?

[bcsco]

Hsieh is a little late to the dance. Or, maybe he’s been lurking here. We’ve been joking about this for a long, long time.

[Red Badger]

Unexpected Thursday
(Pleasant Valley Sunday - with apologies to Gerry Goffin, Carole King and the Monkees)

The White House Press Corps down the hall
Is trying hard to learn their song…
Serenade the weak kneed Gibbs, who just came out to make them yawn…

Another Unexpected Thursday!
Spilled Oil burning everywhere!
Rows of houses they’re all foreclosed
And no one seems to care…

See Mrs. O, she’s proud today because her roses are in bloom!
Mr. O he’s so serene, He’s on TV in every room!

Another Unexpected Thursday!
Here in Unemployment Land!
The Press complains about how high it is
And the people just don’t understand…

Creature comfort goals
They only numb my soul and make it hard for me to see
My thoughts all seem to stray, to places far away
I need a change of scenery

Ta Ta Ta...

Another Unexpected Thursday
Spilled Oil burning everywhere!
Another Unexpected Thursday
Here in Unemployment land

Another Unexpected Thursday...

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The word "unexpected" is correct. These people are communists. They cannot be convinced by truth in history or by the examination of human nature.

They "expect" Marxism to work THIS TIME. It didn't work all of those other times because "the right people" then were not trying to impose it upon society.

Now, the right people are in charge and Marxism is "expected" to work perfectly.

[FrankR]

What is truly "unexpected" is the mainstream media turning communist in the past 20 years.

Who would have ever thought that the "fourth estate" - which we all thought were the "watchdogs" in government - would latch onto the radical left and push their socialist-communist agenda with all the might that mass communication could muster?

It is "unexpected" that such an industry would give up their circulation/viewership/listenership to appease a cadre of evildoers that have invaded Congress and key offices of our Government.

Their drift to the low-class side of life is totally "unexpected".

The media - aka "The UNEXPECTED enemy" - has cast generations of respect to the winds for an invitation to the annualy "press" dinner and a mint on their pillow in the presidential entourage, and that is low-rent.

The media seems thos think that they have become the "defacto government" by osmosis in the sense that they totally contol the president and the democrats.

I totally tuned out the MSM when clinton was elected, and haven't watched them since. They are a bunch of adolescent "groupies" and will follow any "hip" politician so long as the champagne keeps flowing and the invitations keep coming.

What should be "unexpected" to the media is for American to vote out the marxist government we have, install a new, Constitutional government, and every decent advertiser in America to cancel their contracts with the MSM that has been so complicit in bringing down America.

[COUNTrecount]

Your's is the best post of the day and it's still morning where I am !

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

[SMARTY]

“Unexpected” is a word used by people so thick and slow that they don’t know any other way to explain being blindsided on an daily/hourly basis by things normal and intelligent people figured out when they were 8.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Unfortunately, too many journalists and pundits prefer to dismiss inconvenient facts that don’t fit their preconceived theories, thus abdicating their professional responsibility to report and analyze the truth to their best ability.

Theory like mist on eyeglasses - obscures facts.

[philman_36]

Unexpected Thursday - Pleasant Valley Sunday

I started reading your reply and I instantly thought of the Bangles and "Manic Monday"
"Unexpected Monday" might work too.

Well done.