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â« Runaway blimp, tearinâ up the sky
Ainât nobody askinâ why
A giant bag with a helium fillinâ
Could somehow cost the Army $2.7 billion â«
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âWeâll stay on top of this very disturbing story. And weâve never seen anything like this in the United States before,â
Jesus Fuck. Iâm beginning to think Blitzer and Tantaros are actually the same person, because I am truly loosing my ability to distinguish between the two through the blinding cosmic radiance of the event horizon at the edge of their derp singularity.
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I knew it!
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itâs over. chris christie has been captured.
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âWeâve never seen anything like this in the United States beforeâŠâ
-Wolf Blitzer
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Câmon CNN, I thought you were the first with breaking coverage!
A suspect whoâs believed to have detached the âRunaway Blimpâ has been apprehended:
This is the problem with 24 hour news channels. Thereâs not enough real ânewsâ to justify 24 hours every day.
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Obviously much more exciting and relevant to Americansâ lives than tonightâs GOP debate.
Even the local news people canât help amping everything up to absurd levels. Like 20 years ago they started yelling, literally almost-yelling, in the beginning of the winter when three-quarters of an inch of snow would fall in the Philly area. Thereâd be grass still sticking up through it on the lawns, and these people would be carrying on like it was lava falling out of the sky and not fluffy white stuff that meant you had to slow down a bit on the road. Itâs no wonder people donât know a goddamn thing about the world around them.
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Spot news, the police blotter, the daily noise, wasnât so much the province of networks until after deregulation and the hyper political frenzy of the Bush II years where today itâs used as bulk time filler between political nonsense. Networks, once, had a broader, educational approach believe it or not.
Once legendary local investigative and documentary news operations in my city have, today, been reduced to police blotter, traffic reports, weather and, a recent addition, birthdays and pet news!
Media deregulation killed a Federal licensing requirement, something called âCommunity Ascertainmentâ, where the broadcaster seeks out the needs of the local audience. âThe FCC now relies on [the much less expensive] broadcasters and the marketplace to meet their general obligation to serve their local communities.â Yea, and I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
(Written in Squishese but a good primer)
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Gawd, look at Wolfâs face. Youâd swear he was seeing this:
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Witness the recent weather cataclysm that occurred in Texas and then up into the northeast. I am truly shocked any of us lived through it. The hype (in a years-long span of time without major tropical weather) about the low merging with the remnants of Patricia was more than I remember for hurricanes Rita or Ike.
Many local events were cancelled or rescheduled, we were told to stay off the roads, and everyone hunkered down waiting for the⊠light to moderate rain that fell for several hours. For sure there was some localized flooding, but come on, people!
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It can surveil an area the size of Texass? What and how is it surveilling? How do we know there arenât listening devices onboard to hear us down below? Am I paranoid? Did I just subscribe to the tinfoil hat club? What do we know about this behemoth anyway?
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My kid used to have one of these. Is this blimp supposed to be a giant listening post in the sky?
Me thinks I need to lay off the coffee today perhaps.
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The Blimp That Can See Around Corners!, A CNN Special Report
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Same here in Michigan. Light rain all last night, today and probably tomorrow. Sucks, but its not like we havenât seen rain here in the fall before. In fact, I canât remember a Halloween here in the last several years when it didnât rain on that day at some point. Meanwhile the U.P. and other areas of the State from increasing lake effect will get several feet of snow at some point every winter but OMG when it snows 3-4 inches out eastâŠKaty bar the door.
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I bet Alex Jones starts screaming that this was a foiled government plot to get our guns.
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Oh, the humanity!
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actually thereâs plenty of real news to cover; itâs just that it typically requires reading documents and an ability to analyze that information.
i havenât seen once today any report on the court decision ordering alabama to reinstate the funding for planned parenthood⊠you know that issue that was headline news just a few short weeks ago⊠now down the memory hole.
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