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Martin Bashir on Moore, Oklahoma: 'Perhaps the Worst Tornado in the History of the Planet'
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Posted on 05/20/2013 6:24:46 PM PDT by chessplayer

As NewsBusters has reported over the years, America's media love to hype every serious weather event.

On Monday, shortly after an F4 tornado demolished the town of Moore, Oklahoma, MSNBC's Martin Bashir called it "perhaps the worst tornado in the history of the planet" (video follows with transcript and commentary,


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: dumbass; oklahoma; oktornado; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: 762X51

Probably not in the history of the planet, possibly in the history of recorded history.


There have been F5’s.


21 posted on 05/20/2013 6:36:22 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
Probably, the worst in the US since Joplin.

List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths

22 posted on 05/20/2013 6:36:30 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: ConservativeInPA
This is way worse than the 1999 OC tornado.

Fatalities are going to exceed 100 by the time all is done.

It could not have been a more unfortunate confluence of events.

I'm guessing the President will deign to show himself in the situation room for this "incident."

23 posted on 05/20/2013 6:36:32 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: bigheadfred

Ah, he’s on MSNBC. No wonder I didn’t know who he was.


24 posted on 05/20/2013 6:36:38 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Dallas59

We need more gas taxes, property taxes, fines, fees and government regulation...raise the electric rates!!

Those with even addresses should ride bikes to work on odd numbered days...

Bike pool with your neighbor with using tandem bikes!

Nothing else will stop the global warming


25 posted on 05/20/2013 6:37:06 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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in terms of area of damage, he might be right...astonishing


26 posted on 05/20/2013 6:38:50 PM PDT by basalt
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To: dragnet2

If those “people” in OK had given up some of their wealth...this would have never happened./s


27 posted on 05/20/2013 6:40:10 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Q: The worst president in US history?)
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To: chessplayer

Liberals suffer from a silly modern conceit. This was a devastating storm, but hardly the worst in the history of the planet. He needs to study the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, among others. The Tri-State Tornado was an F5 that was on the ground for 3.5 hours and traveled 234 miles across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, which is the longest continual tornado path in the recorded history of the world. It killed at last 747 people and injured thousands, making it the deadliest in U.S. history by far.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado


28 posted on 05/20/2013 6:40:24 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: chessplayer

Out of curiousity I tuned in to MSNBC. Heard Chris Matthews and didn’t last 20 seconds.


29 posted on 05/20/2013 6:40:36 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: chessplayer

You can tell an F5, even the grass gets sucked up. Learned that a the ‘97 Jerrell Tx tornado....


30 posted on 05/20/2013 6:41:27 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Libs are ECSTATIC about the destruction and deaths this thing caused. They really are. Now they are actually claiming (DUer’s) that the Earth NEVER had tornados or hurricanes until humans showed up.


31 posted on 05/20/2013 6:41:40 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
Libs are ECSTATIC about the destruction and deaths this thing caused. They really are. Now they are actually claiming (DUer’s) that the Earth NEVER had tornados or hurricanes until humans showed up.

if there are no humans how would they know?? I'll bet they are ecstatic that the IRS is off the front page, though..

32 posted on 05/20/2013 6:44:46 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: .45 Long Colt

The History channel did a program on that in their Wrath of God series


33 posted on 05/20/2013 6:45:39 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: albie

Bttt....excellent comment!


34 posted on 05/20/2013 6:47:22 PM PDT by yellowdoghunter (No man is without sin.)
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To: central_va

One of the many things my grandfather said about the F5 Tri-State Tornado was that blades of grass and pieces of straw were driven deep into tree trunks like nails. I’ve got dozens of old photos of the devastation from the communities in Southern Illinois. If I told someone they were pictures of Hiroshima or Nagasaki they would believe me.


35 posted on 05/20/2013 6:50:47 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: chessplayer

Any lib that is happy about this I hope that karma gets them..it may not be today, or tomorrow..but it will happen..because scum bags like that who relish over the misery of others are NOT human beings


36 posted on 05/20/2013 6:51:29 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: RginTN

Yep, I have a copy. There is a scene with a truck in a tree. That was my great-grandather’s truck.


37 posted on 05/20/2013 6:53:40 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: napscoordinator
He might be right. It seems to be pretty bad.

Gotta to the “Tri-State Tornado” killed 695 people and injured 2,027, traveling more than 300 miles through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, 1925. It was rated an F5 at the top of the old Fujita scale (with winds of 260-plus mph).

38 posted on 05/20/2013 6:55:39 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: chessplayer
I seem to remember Barack Obama campaigning in 2008 and reporting on a Kansas tornado that had just killed 10,000 people.

Those Liberals -- they just like to say stuff.

39 posted on 05/20/2013 6:56:45 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: scbison
Same with this, if this tornado hits 20 yrs ago in same place probably not as many people die because there wasn’t many people living there..

Same is true with hurricane damage. Damage is worse than in storms of the pastdecades because there is a lot more development...everywhere.

40 posted on 05/20/2013 7:01:23 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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