Comments on: Just Look Away From The ‘Balloon Boy’ http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tristan Yates http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-427594 Tristan Yates Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:18:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-427594 There are about threes stories here on CNN: 1) CNN was staffed by idiots that couldn't properly calculate whether the balloon of that size could fly with a 65 pound boy (probably not - it would hover or bounce at best) 2) CNN didn't detect the hoax even when the kid showed up and said "its for a show" - it still took a couple of days 3) Thus in some ways the damage was actually done by CNN - if they had done a fact check, we never would have heard of balloon boy except maybe as a 30 second story. He certainly wouldn't have made Larry King, thereby passing another set of screeners. The other story, what people will do for fame, is old news - ask Hinkly Jr and Jodie Foster. There are about threes stories here on CNN:
1) CNN was staffed by idiots that couldn’t properly calculate whether the balloon of that size could fly with a 65 pound boy (probably not – it would hover or bounce at best)
2) CNN didn’t detect the hoax even when the kid showed up and said “its for a show” – it still took a couple of days
3) Thus in some ways the damage was actually done by CNN – if they had done a fact check, we never would have heard of balloon boy except maybe as a 30 second story. He certainly wouldn’t have made Larry King, thereby passing another set of screeners.

The other story, what people will do for fame, is old news – ask Hinkly Jr and Jodie Foster.

]]> By: myth buster http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425810 myth buster Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:08:57 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425810 To be fair to Jim Cramer, Cramer doesn't tell people his opinion on the issues; he just tells people how to profit from what he expects to happen. To be fair to Jim Cramer, Cramer doesn’t tell people his opinion on the issues; he just tells people how to profit from what he expects to happen.

]]> By: Lili von Shtupp http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425808 Lili von Shtupp Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:07:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425808 I'm glad you liked the movie, Dr Matt, but I think you are missing the plot. All I wanted to know was....what story did Fox break that was later proved false. That was it. vivo couldn't provide one, and instead went off that he/she didn't like the tone. As far as your charges, O'Reilly said that there were only about 70k people at the Tea Party rally in DC, and I never heard them back the birther thing. Yeah, they reported on the birther thing, but I only recall Lou Dobbs of CNN actually supporting it. (Oops. Different network.) Obama a racist...maybe....considering that he went off on his own grandma being a "typical white person" when confronted by teenage males (that's the way to thank the woman who paid for your schooling!), he didn't know that the Rev. Wright said anything that could be considered racist (even though he sat in the pews of a black liberation theology church for about twenty years), and immediately decided that the white cop in Cambridge had to be in the wrong even though he knew nothing of the details of the incident (his own words). But since I don't know the gentleman personally, I'll reserve judgment. Please point out to me where the Constitution has anything about "czars" that control different departments of the federal government (whose heads are, in fact, confirmed by the Senate as decreed in the Constitution), if you would? I don't think that job title is in there. Sorry, I'm a bit too tender in years to remember what, if anything, they said about Vince Foster, travelgate, Monica Lewinsky, etc. I’m glad you liked the movie, Dr Matt, but I think you are missing the plot.

All I wanted to know was….what story did Fox break that was later proved false. That was it. vivo couldn’t provide one, and instead went off that he/she didn’t like the tone.

As far as your charges, O’Reilly said that there were only about 70k people at the Tea Party rally in DC, and I never heard them back the birther thing. Yeah, they reported on the birther thing, but I only recall Lou Dobbs of CNN actually supporting it. (Oops. Different network.)

Obama a racist…maybe….considering that he went off on his own grandma being a “typical white person” when confronted by teenage males (that’s the way to thank the woman who paid for your schooling!), he didn’t know that the Rev. Wright said anything that could be considered racist (even though he sat in the pews of a black liberation theology church for about twenty years), and immediately decided that the white cop in Cambridge had to be in the wrong even though he knew nothing of the details of the incident (his own words). But since I don’t know the gentleman personally, I’ll reserve judgment.

Please point out to me where the Constitution has anything about “czars” that control different departments of the federal government (whose heads are, in fact, confirmed by the Senate as decreed in the Constitution), if you would? I don’t think that job title is in there.

Sorry, I’m a bit too tender in years to remember what, if anything, they said about Vince Foster, travelgate, Monica Lewinsky, etc.

]]> By: Del http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425494 Del Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:58:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425494 vivo the Richard Heene of the blogosphere. You don't like Fox News don't watch. I doubt anyone is holding a weapon to your head. I don't watch the other channels because I want accurate news not what they perceive as news. Everyone gets tired of listening to a whiner . vivo the Richard Heene of the blogosphere. You don’t like Fox News don’t watch. I doubt anyone is holding a weapon to your head. I don’t watch the other channels because I want accurate news not what they perceive as news. Everyone gets tired of listening to a whiner .

]]> By: imbecile http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425417 imbecile Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:50:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425417 While the output of the traditional TV press is still hooked up to a bigger video monitor than the Internet is it must exploit this remaining edge to survive. Once our PCs and Macs are hooked up to monitors as large as our TVs traditional TV news media will join newspapers in the museum of media paleontology. While the output of the traditional TV press is still hooked up to a bigger video monitor than the Internet is it must exploit this remaining edge to survive. Once our PCs and Macs are hooked up to monitors as large as our TVs traditional TV news media will join newspapers in the museum of media paleontology.

]]> By: Dr. Matt http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425393 Dr. Matt Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:10:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425393 Loved, the movie, Lilli, the birther thing, tea-party being the biggest march on Washington ever (a very ok, free speech event, but the numbers were way exagerated), Obama a racist, czars being unconstitutional, that's just a recent ones.... There's Vince Foster, travelgate, etc.... Should we give them a pass on WMD's, Saddam being a member of Al-Quaeda and those most all media missed ? But much more to the point, is the various corporate puppet-masters on the right AND THE LEFT, make YOU, Ms. Lil, concentrate on the punch and judy show instead of the principles shared in bad governance on both sides: 1) rule by moneyed elites against other moneyed elites 2) putting incompetant friends into positions better served by boring, anonymous COMPET3NT bureaucrats (Van Jones, Brownie and Fema, Most of the Carter administration, Acorn in any Government role, Bush's withdrawn Supreme court nominee...it's a long list) 3) joke Veeps (Ford, Carter, and Kennedy only exceptions since FDR...including nearly all the Veep Candidates). 4) gaming the system, gaming the media coverage of system until nobody even knows there is anything other than the gaming. Loved, the movie, Lilli,
the birther thing, tea-party being the biggest march on Washington ever (a very ok, free speech event, but the numbers were way exagerated), Obama a racist, czars being unconstitutional, that’s just a recent ones….
There’s Vince Foster, travelgate, etc….

Should we give them a pass on WMD’s, Saddam being a member of Al-Quaeda and those most all media missed ?

But much more to the point, is the various corporate puppet-masters on the right AND THE LEFT, make YOU, Ms. Lil, concentrate on the punch and judy show instead of the principles shared in bad governance on both sides:
1) rule by moneyed elites against other moneyed elites
2) putting incompetant friends into positions better served by boring, anonymous COMPET3NT bureaucrats (Van Jones, Brownie and Fema, Most of the Carter administration, Acorn in any Government role, Bush’s withdrawn Supreme court nominee…it’s a long list)
3) joke Veeps (Ford, Carter, and Kennedy only exceptions since FDR…including nearly all the Veep Candidates).
4) gaming the system, gaming the media coverage of system until nobody even knows there is anything other than the gaming.

]]> By: Lili von Shtupp http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425356 Lili von Shtupp Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:01:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425356 You're right, vivo. It would be so much better if Glenn Beck used the calm, rational, measured tones of Keith Olbermann or that Cramer guy. You’re right, vivo. It would be so much better if Glenn Beck used the calm, rational, measured tones of Keith Olbermann or that Cramer guy.

]]> By: vivo http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425312 vivo Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:18:31 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425312 My dislike for Fox is not about WHAT they say, but HOW they say it. It's like watching a kid who got in a fight and the story's embellishment just gets out hand. My dislike for Fox is not about WHAT they say, but HOW they say it. It’s like watching a kid who got in a fight and the story’s embellishment just gets out hand.

]]> By: Roschelle http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425136 Roschelle Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:47:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425136 My mother saw this family a couple of weeks ago on Wife Swap. She said the father was a nutcase and the wife was kind of weird to say the least. My heart goes out to the children. Nature and Nurture have both failed these kids. My mother saw this family a couple of weeks ago on Wife Swap. She said the father was a nutcase and the wife was kind of weird to say the least. My heart goes out to the children. Nature and Nurture have both failed these kids.

]]> By: small goverment http://pjmedia.com/blog/just-look-away-from-the-balloon-boy/#comment-425098 small goverment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:00:47 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=69711#comment-425098 Reminds me of another fame seeker. Keep an eye on this guy, he could be the next president. Reminds me of another fame seeker. Keep an eye on this guy, he could be the next president.

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