National Press literally distracted by shiny object as Balloon Boy bouy's the collective hopes of anxious Americans that we can finally stop paying attention to serious, scary shit like health care and war and how creepy it is that the Right has terminally cracked its mental engine block.
Ripped from the front page of America's Newspaper of Record:
Balloon Lands, but Boy Is Not Found Inside
By LIZ ROBBINS
A homemade weather balloon, mistakenly thought to have a 6-year-old boy inside, floated over Colorado for over two hours on Thursday before coming to a rest.
...
Look!
Up in the sky!
It's...an inflatable runaway bride!
It's...a kid stuck in a well! In the air! With UFO sprinkles!
It's...oooooh...shiny...
I'm sorry for the tragedy and the waste of NORAD, but honestly had this happened eight hours later, in the dark, with no available helicopter video footage the teevee would NOT HAVE MENTIONED IT.
But if we could only have those whenever we needed them (to stun and amaze the twits at whim) . . . .
S
With UFO sprinkles!
But back to reality. The fervor with which the newsheads jumped onto this story was downright orgiastic. A few minutes ago I saw Ariana scold Ed Shultz about wasting time on the story. Ed fell in line and talked abut Afghanistan. His show ended and then MSNBC preempted Tweety to go right back to covering this non-story.
Sweet Jesus in the morning, what a pathetic indictment of our so-called journalists.
-Habitat Vic
I was TRYING to do productive, paying work at the 'puter. And there's this endles NON-STORY blabbering on the Boob Toob.
The Boob Watcher is my elderly, Alzheimer's ridden mother.
So what's Wolf Blitzer's, ABC's, NBC's, Fox "News'" excuse? Anyway?
Got it! This is the Baby Jessica Fell Down the Well (circa Bush One, 1988) of the current lost era.
F*ck Mainstream Media. They can't tell their own ani from a hole in the ground. Or the hot-air balloon.
"National Press literally distracted by shiny object"
THAT is the fukken truth, aint it Drifty?
I haven't been by here in a while - will try to reign in my penchant for posting a lot of comments while here...
You really expect them to pass that up? Pfffft. Right.
Sometimes, I'd just like to slap the snot outta Ted Turner with his 24 hour news idea.