I considered linking to that, but I'm not a fan of attack-by-decontextualizing. (Even though the author of that post explained their rationale for doing it.)
"A major U.S. city is being destroyed and the president is eating cake and playing guitar" is too similar in shape to "Look, here's a photograph of Cindy Sheehan cracking a smile, that proves she's not really a grieving mother" (as seen on LGF and friends).
The current ban on filming or photographing the arrival of dead soldiers' remains in the US dates from the first Bush administration, when at least one national news outlet put a split-screen view on TV. Planes filled with coffins arriving in Delaware filled one side of the screen, while on the other, GHWB was at a press conference, complaining about his sore back and then strutting around like a duck (and laughing) to demonstrate to reporters.
To be fair, he did give it two very brief paragraphs the other day while he was speaking at length about WWII (and trying to equate the US effort there with Iraq). gah
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Date: 2005-08-31 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-31 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-31 06:49 pm (UTC)"A major U.S. city is being destroyed and the president is eating cake and playing guitar" is too similar in shape to "Look, here's a photograph of Cindy Sheehan cracking a smile, that proves she's not really a grieving mother" (as seen on LGF and friends).
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Date: 2005-08-31 09:43 pm (UTC)The current ban on filming or photographing the arrival of dead soldiers' remains in the US dates from the first Bush administration, when at least one national news outlet put a split-screen view on TV. Planes filled with coffins arriving in Delaware filled one side of the screen, while on the other, GHWB was at a press conference, complaining about his sore back and then strutting around like a duck (and laughing) to demonstrate to reporters.
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Date: 2005-08-31 04:54 pm (UTC)(I think you said you disliked sarcasm. Oh well.)
(And dammit, it really was one of the only cities in the Deep South to which I would've been willing to move. It was really beautiful.)
A correction.
Date: 2005-08-31 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-01 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-01 05:02 am (UTC)GAH!
I need some primal scream therapy right now.
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Date: 2005-09-01 05:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-01 05:32 am (UTC)[expletives deleted]
</primal scream>