[cll]

Who has the eye on the ball, I pray?

[Beowulf9]

Darn, have to rattle more chains over there or they won’t get any money out of us:(

[concerned about politics]

Just why did that switch got turned off and all of a sudden what seemed like an imminent worldwide crisis has fizzled into nothing.

The Hitt Effect First noted by astroecon whiz Bob Hitt:
The idea is simple: When the public is starting to whip itself up into a frenzy over the wrong thing [e.g. the market and the Depression unfolding, war with North Korea] all that's needed is a properly sized emotionally impacting event to 'switch the panic off' by, as Hitt explained it back when "…diverting that emotional energy somewhere else…"

[Fzob]

Maybe the Norks are only good fodder for the sheeple when it’s a slow news week.

[Jet Jaguar]

Push keyword Nkorea. They are still posturing.

[Michael Barnes]

The check cleared...

[concerned about politics]

"Don't look over here. Look over there - a bomb!"
While everyone is watching the right hand, the left hand is doing what ever it wants.

[arthurus]

Kim Jong Ummm has been decisively upstaged.

[Average Al]

The little dick-tator better not try anything during Oscar week either or he won’t get any coverage then either. ;-)

[vpintheak]

Goes to show how the media can create crisis and divert people’s eyes whenever they want. Quite a pathetic statement about most of us, how we can be led by our noses so easily.

[Daffynition]