Hurricane Irene a bust

Patrick · Aug 28, 2011

The lib media gets all excited every time the weather turns bad lately, so they had about two orgasms apiece over Irene. The reason is, they're eager for america to "get it" from the weather as punishment for not accepting AGW and implementing full tilt ecofascism.

Unfortunately, Irene didn't cooperate. The flooded Manhattan scenario, with tidal waves swamping the subways, just didn't happen. In fact, mayor bloomberg looks a little silly now for practically shutting down the whole city. It's amusing seeing these folks start swallowing their own propaganda. All the broadcast networks had their reporters fanned out up and down the coast in eager anticipation of disaster, and they had only the REALLY SCARY two foot waves to report on.

Remember the dire predictions after Katrina? America would end up getting hit with seven great hurricanes a season, etc. Now the first land fall hurricane in three years turns out to be no worse than a big rainstorm.

myp · Aug 28, 2011

Not sure why you are talking about the liberal media alone- Fox was on top of this all day everyday too.

That aside, it is all about risk. There was a risk it could have been much worse, but we got lucky. Better safe than sorry and in this case the cost of that reporting wasn't much (if you want to talk about cost-benefits of the coverage).

Patrick · Aug 28, 2011

myp said:
Not sure why you are talking about the liberal media alone- Fox was on top of this all day everyday too.

I'm not saying it wasn't a news story to report on, but Fox lacked the lib media drama that starts off with stuff like "Another of the bizarre and historic terrible weather events in the past year blah blah blah".

That aside, it is all about risk. There was a risk it could have been much worse, but we got lucky. Better safe than sorry and in this case the cost of that reporting wasn't much (if you want to talk about cost-benefits of the coverage).

The evening news was laughable - they were so sure they would have lotsa disasters to talk about that they must have deleted other news stories. Then you had stuff like "Well Diane, you can see how the water has moved TWO FEET further in than it usually is here in connecticut..."

myp · Aug 28, 2011

You have so much to say about everyone and everything other than your precious little GOP. So much hypocrisy...

And how exactly do you know that the people on say the Weather Channel aren't Republicans too? (I bet if you found out they were then they weren't dramatic like the "lib media" either

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Patrick · Aug 28, 2011

myp said:
You have so much to say about everyone and everything other than your precious little GOP. So much hypocrisy...

Dude, you have an attention problem. As I've implied here, I've spent half my waking hours ranting about the GOP and it's RINO establishment for about the last ten years.

myp · Aug 28, 2011

Patrick said:
Dude, you have an attention problem. As I've implied here, I've spent half my waking hours ranting about the GOP and it's RINO establishment for about the last ten years.

Yet not once have you said anything negative about or done by a GOP member. And then you go on these rants about the liberal media and even on a topic as non-partisan as the weather, you find a way to say Fox is better by saying they are less dramatic (which I actually don't think personally- everyone's coverage was pretty similar- TWC a little better than the others [probably for obvious reasons]).

DodgeFB · Aug 29, 2011

I find it strange that some people actually seem disappointed that it was not worse.

Patrick · Aug 29, 2011

myp said:
Yet not once have you said anything negative about or done by a GOP member.

BRING UP a topic involving RINOs and see what happens.

And then you go on these rants about the liberal media and even on a topic as non-partisan as the weather,

Wow - you're UTTERLY naive - one, the lib media politicizes everything (they're LIBERALS and liberals see EVERYTHING through the prism of politics) and two, you'd have to be blind AND deaf AND dumb not to see how the lib media has acted as cheerleaders for the ecofascist and AGW causes, which OF COURSE bear on the weather.

myp · Aug 29, 2011

You realize that your constant raving about the liberal media has also led to you, a supposed conservative, polticizing everything too right? I assume you'll say that that is because the liberal media is real, but at that point it is just my word against yours.

Fact of the matter is the liberal media, in the context you use it, is a conspiracy theory and not a defined organization or fully accepted entity. That being said, it is arguable whether it exists and to those who don't think it does would say you are politicizing everything by blaming everything on a political theory that you believe in.

As for what I believe, I believe everyone has bias- every group, news, etc. I do not think they operate in one form as you seem to think though- they all do what they think is right and what is good for themselves. Collusion is too expensive and conspiracy too unlikely statistically

Patrick · Aug 29, 2011

myp said:
You realize that your constant raving about the liberal media has also led to you, a supposed conservative, polticizing everything too right?

HA HA HA! I'm "politicizing" because I complain about politicizing? That's as if I call you a "ranter" because you rant about my "ranting".

Fact of the matter is the liberal media, in the context you use it, is a conspiracy theory and not a defined organization or fully accepted entity.

We'll get along a lot better if you stop trying to guess what I think - experience has shown you're no good at it. I've never alleged any "conspiracy". The lib media takes pretty much the same view because they're LIBERALS. They graduate from US journalism schools that are LIBERAL bastions. They stay inside the DC beltway and only talk to each other. The big three broadcast networks have been liberal redoubts for decades. Read Bernie Goldberg's (an insider) book Bias to get a clue. As many commentators have noted, what often happend is the NYT and/or Washington Post sets a tone on an issue, and then the rest of the lib media picks up on it. Frequently, they'll use the selfsame phrasing that was originated by the NYT. I saw a funny video on that one time and will try to find it.

myp · Aug 29, 2011

Patrick said:
HA HA HA! I'm "politicizing" because I complain about politicizing?

Yes because there is a strong argument that it wasn't political to begin with.

As for bias, you agree that everyone has it.

Then what's the problem? Some are left biased, others right biased.

Patrick · Aug 29, 2011

myp said:
Yes because there is a strong argument that it wasn't political to begin with.

As for bias, you agree that everyone has it.

Then what's the problem? Some are left biased, others right biased.

The difference is the liberal media is 95% of the mass media. You seemed obssessed with this false "everything evens out" notion.

myp · Aug 29, 2011

Patrick said:
The difference is the liberal media is 95% of the mass media. You seemed obssessed with this false "everything evens out" notion.

Or maybe you just take little things too seriously and in doing so divert your time from the important things? Or what is important to me is not important to you?

I have come to realize that politics is a stupid game played by both sides mostly because it is lucrative. I look for bias in all news- right and left and I have little allegiance to either side for the sake of being part of the side- I would much rather figure out the facts for myself using the clues I can get from any available information (and that can be news articles, but I just stay open to the bias and where they might be wrong). A lot of what you deem liberal media is not a problem if you just want to search for the truth.

And even the whole "they're liberals" and "they're conservatives" thing is subjective. Some people would say we have a very rightest media due to their corporate allegiances. Also, what is right and left varies depending on who you talk to.

Patrick · Aug 29, 2011

myp said:
Some people would say we have a very rightest media due to their corporate allegiance.

I've heard that before, and it's the silliest-ass thing anyone can say about the media. To suggest that american corporations are "rightest" is or ought to be criminally stupid. In many ways, corporate america is the lap kitties of the left. They've completely bought into the leftwing program of anti-white discrimination ("diversity") and thoroughly institutionalized it. They've signed up for the homosexual agenda, and give shacked up gays "partner" benefits. They give liberal left PBS/NPR millions of dollars, I'm guessing in the hope they won't bash the corporations TOO hard. They've joined the general leftwing project of erasing religion from american public life, by such things as converting christmas parties into "holiday" parties. They also give millions of dollars to the big leftwing foundations. Lenin said the capitalists will sell us the rope that we use to hang them, now they're GIVING them the rope. Corporations fund many liberal/left projects under the "corporate responsibility" rubric. On and on.

"Rightest", my ass.

myp · Aug 29, 2011

You addressed the least important point from my last post

David · Aug 29, 2011

myp said:
You addressed the least important point from my last post

Surprised? Look at his rhetoric, liberal media, 'homosexual agenda', he's a Glenn Beck nut.

Patrick · Aug 29, 2011

myp said:
You addressed the least important point from my last post

So what? It's BS. Do I have some kind of duty to address ALL your BS??

myp · Aug 29, 2011

Patrick said:
So what? It's BS. Do I have some kind of duty to address ALL your BS??

You completely missed my point if what you responded to was what you thought was important. Of course you're not obligated, but you still chose to respond and conveniently only to the point that matter the least and was the easiest to argue.

Patrick · Aug 29, 2011

myp said:
You completely missed my point if what you responded to was what you thought was important. Of course you're not obligated, but you still chose to respond and conveniently only to the point that matter the least and was the easiest to argue.

If you thought it was unimportant, why did you post it? Actually it IS important - it's one of the biggest fabrications out there about the lib media, and only idiots would believe it, unfortunately there are many idiots out there.

myp · Aug 29, 2011

Patrick said:
If you thought it was unimportant, why did you post it? Actually it IS important - it's one of the biggest fabrications out there about the lib media, and only idiots would believe it, unfortunately there are many idiots out there.

I addressed that in the part of the post that you didn't respond to. What is and is not liberal and conservative is arguable as is whether most of the media is liberal or conservative. Either way, it doesn't matter if you want to find the truth of matters because you won't get the full truth flatout from either side.

Hurricane Irene a bust

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