Posted on 01/04/2006 5:14:08 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
The MSM reports innuendo, rumor as fact, regardless of the consequences to family, friend, country.
Remember the Koran flushed down the toilet story that proved to be false? That cost how many lives in riots overseas?
Remember the media hysteria (Geraldo) in the aftermath of Katrina? "10,000 dead". Untrue. "Hundreds murdered and raped in the Superdome". Untrue. "Toxic waters will make New Orleans uninhabitable for months, if not years". Untrue.
Remember the Dan Blather fake documents?
Any story read or heard from the old MSM must now be independently verifired by the customer as anything, ANYTHING they report cannot be trusted as true.
And hey FoxNews, your stepping into that boat too!
OIC, you're one of the "better" New Yorkers.
Prothro will be back, and next year will be the first year (I think) with no players recruited under probation. Having Bama back in the Big Leagues is good for football. Viva Shula.
After the fact, yes.
From the post I was responding to, anyone that would blame a governor or verbally attack a governor of a state for some mine accident has to be such a moron that they're a liberal.
Ok, he may not be a liberal but, judging by the public rant he did on TV, he's a low/no class moron.
You are a very harsh judge of someone who just a few hours earlier believed his father had survived, then learned the trgic truth.
Could be because he sees himself responsible and potentially liable both civilly and criminally.
Or, being un-unionized, they had more money to provide for their families... their main goal in life. I don't think they were anticipating a beautiful funeral.
They kicked my ass around Star Coal a couple of times in the 80s.
Didn't he just take over ownership of this mine a month ago? He may feel morally responsible for and intensely sad about these deaths even if he is not guilty of cutting any corners.
Sorry but your tears for the unions are lost on me. Even though my only reason for bringing them up is because the man interviewed by Matt Lauer had lost a son and yet his only idea that could change the conditions was to let the unions in the mine.
Its unions that have come up with closed shops and increased the costs of products and excluded employees from choice. Its unions that attack employees that cross the line, its unions that make employees stop what they are doing the minute the break whistle blows even though thirty more seconds could have finished a task.
BTW if you look at the figures, union membership is down all over the country. Thats not because they help people, its because employees are tired of the bullshit. If these minors wanted to work in a unionized mine they could have.
The media has built up the Governor as a very sympathetic figure. Don't know, may be true, but I do know it is because he is a Democrat. A Republican Governor, unless he was an anti-Bush RINO, would not have been.
This man might be neither one...a liberal nor a low/no class moron, or he could be both. I reserve judgement on WHY he did this, but I condemn his actions nontheless. To go on national television for an interview about this tragedy, and of all things turn to the governor and start trying to blame him is just plain wrong. I can walk and chew gum at the same time. No matter how much my heart breaks for these people, that was so bad.
And so was Lauert's "question", but then I expected that from anyone from the Today Show.
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