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Today: Katie's Krokodile Tears [More Concern for Baby Alligator than Human Life]
The Today Show | governsleast governsbest

Posted on 05/26/2005 4:24:33 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

It was just a throw-away line on a throw-away filler piece. Yet in its own way it was deeply revealing of the liberal mindset.

At the end of its top-of-the-hour news recap, Today ran a piece about a Florida family that had found a small alligator lounging in its backyard swimming pool. Today aired footage of authorities roping and removing the reptile.

Katie then murmured "gee, I hope it will be released and be OK," with Matt Lauer ominously informing Katie that things sometimes don't work out too well for the alligator in such situations.

So there it was. Katie's crocodile tears for . . . a crocodile. OK, an alligator, but who's counting?

Yet another example of the liberal mindset at work. From snail darters to spotted owls to baby seals to alligators, liberal hearts bleed at the thought of any harm being done to animals.

But 40 million and counting babies aborted since Roe v. Wade? Hey, when's the next march where we can "celebrate a woman's right to choose"? Starving and dehydrating Terri Schiavo to death? Hey, her life wasn't meaningful anyhow.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
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To: softwarecreator
HAHAHAHA ... you guys should form a tag-team

I'm sure Dan Rather and Mary Mapes had a similar light-hearted attitude towards our paltry efforts here at FR - until their forged-documents ship ran hard aground on the uncharted reef of Buckhead of the Free Republic...

141 posted on 05/26/2005 8:26:04 AM PDT by an amused spectator (If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
if you believe it's not worthwhile for the variety of conservative activists out there to keep track of what the liberal media is up to

No, I do agree.  I think that you are helping bring some of this crap into the light.

Guess I just didn't associate national security with a baby alligator story.   Obviously, there is NO way I could have known any of this from your original post.  Still, I am not sure that Katie's personal views on abortion OR Terri Schiavo means that she should not report on a family having a man-eating reptile removed from their swimming pool.

142 posted on 05/26/2005 8:32:09 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: an amused spectator
I'm sure Dan Rather and Mary Mapes had a similar light-hearted attitude towards our paltry efforts here at FR

I wasn't being flippant ... I think it's great that you guys are watching these people closely!!!

They've been getting away with lies for too long.

143 posted on 05/26/2005 8:33:41 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: softwarecreator

I had no problem with the story itself. In the very first line of my report, I described it as "just a throw-away line on a throw-away filler piece."

It's the lack of moral consistency that bothers me. If once, just once, in the course of her career, she had similarly shed a tear for the victims of abortion . . .


144 posted on 05/26/2005 8:36:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: an amused spectator
You may not believe this but I share your viewpoints on all of what you are saying about the MSM.  I've responded to many posts in the past stating this fact.

I may not feel that EVERY story needs to be examined, such as the gator thing, but I DO agree.

I absolutely LOATHE our American MSM and what they are doing, or trying to do.

Mostly I reponded to this story because I just get sick of everyone twisting ANY story into a Terri Schiavo or abortion debate.

145 posted on 05/26/2005 8:38:20 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: softwarecreator
"I wasn't being flippant ... I think it's great that you guys are watching these people closely!!! "

You're all over the place.

146 posted on 05/26/2005 8:40:25 AM PDT by Miss Behave (Do androids dream of electric sheep?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
just a throw-away line on a throw-away filler piece

I don't think the family who had the man-eating reptile in their pool feel the same.  Escpecially if 'mama' decided to show up and decided to protect her baby.    =)

147 posted on 05/26/2005 8:42:03 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: Miss Behave
No I'm NOT ... where are you getting this from?

Read the posts from the beginning AND know what I am talking about before you respond ... okay?

148 posted on 05/26/2005 8:43:26 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: an amused spectator; softwarecreator

I'm going to hang it up for the time being on this thread. I think it's been constructive. Sofwarecreator wandered in, and on a certain level I can understand his view about Schiavo being invoked in apparently unrelated stories. He was unaware of the tradition of FR's Today Show threads.

Now that he understands what we're up to with these reports, I think he has acknowledged their value. I'm willing to leave it at that, with the hope that he will check out future threads.


149 posted on 05/26/2005 8:44:03 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Of course.  It was informative.  Thanks.
150 posted on 05/26/2005 8:45:24 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; softwarecreator
Yes. We've beaten this dead baby alligator for about all it's worth.

For after all, tomorrow is another Today! (to coin a phrase...)

151 posted on 05/26/2005 8:54:43 AM PDT by an amused spectator (If Social Security isn't broken, then cut me a check for the cash I have into it.)
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To: an amused spectator
We've beaten this dead baby alligator for about all it's worth

Oh great, here come the PETA people!  =)

152 posted on 05/26/2005 8:56:31 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: an amused spectator
For after all, tomorrow is another Today! (to coin a phrase...)

Does that come with a rim-shot?  =)

153 posted on 05/26/2005 8:57:14 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: softwarecreator
Indeed it is!


154 posted on 05/26/2005 8:58:31 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: softwarecreator
I flip on Today during the Ditech commercials on Fox and Friends. I haven't had to suffer through much more since finding GLGB's daily reports.

I always check out Katie's outfit and shoes. My eldest sister does the exact same thing. We both agree that Katie's 'smart glasses' are the most pretentious twist in her escalating campaign to be "relevant". What a hoot!
155 posted on 05/26/2005 9:01:58 AM PDT by ishabibble
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Come on, this a non sequitor and completely nonsensical. This was nothing more than a fluffy story about an alligator.


156 posted on 05/26/2005 9:05:39 AM PDT by Gone GF
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To: Gone GF

I am worn out after a protracted back and forth with softwarecreator on this thread. To be short and sweet: I had no objection to the story itself. My point is simply that Katie expresses concern for animals, but never does so for unborn humans. I see a moral obtuseness in that. Do you need to be so quick in accusing a fellow FReeper of being nonsensical?


157 posted on 05/26/2005 9:09:26 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: Gone GF
HAHAHAHAHA .... here we go again  =)
158 posted on 05/26/2005 9:30:36 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don't watch any of the morning shows and don't have the slightest idea what Katie does and doesn't express concern for. If she does believe abortions should be legal and available (which she probably does, but, once again, I pay no attention at all to the woman), then there's absolutely no way she would express concern for an unborn person on the show, would she? And even if she wanted to, how would she intro it? Show an abortion?

Sorry about the nonsensical remark. I should have just stuck with non sequitor.


159 posted on 05/26/2005 9:58:55 AM PDT by Gone GF
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To: Gone GF

I appreciate your post. Let's put terminology behind us and discuss the issue.

I used to be pro-choice. I began shifting some years ago when I heard someone on the radio - it might have been Rush - point out the hypocrisy of animal rights advocates, most of whom it's fair to assume are pro-choice - being so concerned about killing baby seals yet utterly indifferent to the killing of unborn humans.

So perhaps I'm particularly touchy on the issue, but when I hear a liberal waxing emotional over harm to an animal, it bothers me. How can they be so exquisitely sensitive when it comes to animals, yet so utterly indifferent when it comes to humans?


160 posted on 05/26/2005 10:03:48 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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