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I dont know if anyone posted this but: WHY WAS THE STORM HYPED SO MUCH? VANITY
self | 08/28/2011 | RaceBannon

Posted on 08/28/2011 6:01:33 PM PDT by RaceBannon

Okay, we all know Hurricane Irene was hyped to the gills.

WHY?

Was it slow news? Was it media infatuation with Obama at the helm of FEMA?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Weather
KEYWORDS: conspiraqcy; hurricane; hurricaneirene; hype; irene; vanity
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To: RaceBannon

dnc-Soros-MSM used Katrina for political purposes.

From now on winds in excess of 50mph will require a massive hundred million dollar plus response.

Wonder how much carbon was wasted moving millions of folks for no reason.


81 posted on 08/28/2011 7:41:09 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Obama is bad luck for the US.)
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To: RaceBannon

Because DC and NY are full of drama queens.


82 posted on 08/28/2011 7:45:32 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: panaxanax

You are the first first-person account I read of the Catskills, I was wondering if it was true or exaggerated

Good Luck! Dont live up there anymore to chip in!


83 posted on 08/28/2011 7:46:07 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
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To: RaceBannon

Keep the people effed up and confused


84 posted on 08/28/2011 7:54:50 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Keep the 'ICk" in Democratici)
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To: RaceBannon

To stop the slide.

The left was praying for an opportunity for Obama to save the Eastern Seaboard, but Irene didn’t really deliver.

His disapprove is now bigger than ever, and the more time rolls by with the misery index pegged, the more evident it is we won’t rehire the Affirmative Action hire at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I ain’t referring to Reggie Love either. How’s that for a name too - Reggie Love.

If that guy has a girlfriend its time for the LSM to start airing shots of Reggie and his squeeze together to quell the rumors.


85 posted on 08/28/2011 8:05:23 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: combat_boots

Very good post. Thanks.


86 posted on 08/28/2011 8:12:12 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: bray

Both were noteworthy, but neither resulted in anything of newsworthy significance. So they need to move on. It is true that 11 people were killed, mostly by trees falling, but how many, in that region, would have been killed in carwrecks had the weather been normal? Meanwhile, floods in the midwest wiped out whole towns, inexorably altering the lives of thousands. The drouth from California to Virginia continues to effect farmers and ranchers, which will effect every eating person in the USA,..but little, proportionally speaking is said of these things. I guess flyover is just not that important.


87 posted on 08/28/2011 8:15:01 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I)
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To: bray

By the way, wait until Sept.23-26, California, USA.


88 posted on 08/28/2011 8:17:21 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I)
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To: bray

By the way, wait until Sept.23-26, California, USA.


89 posted on 08/28/2011 8:17:21 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I)
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To: RaceBannon
It's simple, the MSM is based in the northeast and they believe we value their butts as much as they do. Egomania in all it's glory.
90 posted on 08/28/2011 8:33:04 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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To: RaceBannon

Best guess: To get the economy and Obama’s numbers off the TV.


91 posted on 08/28/2011 8:39:30 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth".)
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To: RaceBannon

A big part of the overkill was because the bulk of the main stream media companies are headquartered in NYC and this storm was expected to affect them so personally. If something this big had happened to Arizona, there’d be barely a peep from the MSM.


92 posted on 08/28/2011 8:45:35 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: RaceBannon

Scroll down for shots of catskills.....they got clobbered! One of the streets looked a bit like the floods that went down streets in Japan....cars piled on each other.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/aug/28/hurricane-irene-new-york-live-coverage1


93 posted on 08/28/2011 9:54:04 PM PDT by caww
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To: Delta 21; All

Those who think this storm wasn’t much to speak of need to see this main street in Tannersville.....looks like Tusami hit them...watch the boat rescue go upstream a bit and you’ll see more of the street.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVF4yGlLNE


94 posted on 08/28/2011 10:00:17 PM PDT by caww
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To: RaceBannon

Why was the storm so hyped? Because that is what the L/MSM trains their idiot’s for. Hyping and distorting news to their particular political agendas. Tis late Race. Do have a great upcoming day.


95 posted on 08/28/2011 10:14:13 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: Steelfish

Brattleboro Vt...Irene floods the downtown....think japan like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cyDDmQ46_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_hm0Djw2aQ


96 posted on 08/28/2011 10:59:19 PM PDT by caww
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To: Inyo-Mono
Here in my little part of the rural West we had a 6.3 earthquake

It's a shame we that are east of the Mississippi hear less of the rural West and more from the dysfunctional elements in urban locales like San Francisco. The media industry, news and entertainment, sees no value in publicizing the healthy and wholesome.

100 winds that toppled trees and took roofs off of homes and businesses -

A real storm unlike what ended up hitting NYC! We had a windstorm last year, not as strong as your's, but frightening just the same. A tree came down on my brother's house next door. And it's an eerie sensation in the night hearing trees cracking in the distance and hoping one doesn't come down on your roof.

97 posted on 08/29/2011 3:05:24 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: RaceBannon

Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.


98 posted on 08/29/2011 5:15:27 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: RaceBannon
I for one am sick and tired of Eastocentric news reporting. If a similar storm had hit San Diego and traveled North to LA and then Sacramento it wouldn't have gotten half the coverage. I actually do not care at all what happens to NYC, the people in the surrounding areas I have some sympathy for but only in passing. Oh and I could give a small rats a$$ about some jackass that wants to live on the beach and expects the State to make him whole again after a storm.
99 posted on 08/29/2011 5:25:14 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: RaceBannon

Almost 700,000 customers in CT lost their power. As of 9am 587,502 customers are out of power - 47% of NU’s customers in CT.

I lost power for almost 5 hours last night (after Irene pretty much ended)- flooding and evacuations in my town - trees down.

It was ‘over hyped’ but damage did occur in some areas. Lots of power outages, trees down and flooding - just not as widespread as the “MSM” and the Administration was hoping for :>)

Did you see the Brattleboro, VT videos? That’s pretty wild!
I was in Brattleboro last week - what a strange and weird town - needed a good washing....../s (hopefully no one was hurt and minimal damage)


100 posted on 08/29/2011 6:09:03 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Agenda21: Dept. of Life, Dept. of Liberty and the Dept. of Happiness)
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