BREAKING NEWS -- Possible Terrorist Attack in London

[seansean]

actually, his blog links to mediamatters, which has been around longer than 4 months, and I don't think it matters whether the blogger is socialist, it only matters that the story is true. and it is. Marshall: You call the article laughable, but it happened. what's laughable, the article reporting on this callousness, or brit hume thinking of his stock portfolio before thinking of the deaths of innocents??

 

[NineseveN]

Actually, it does matter if the blogger is socialist or conservative, it colors their remarks. An internet blog or even an internet newspaper is far from being a serious journalistic enterprise with integrity. Socialists will take such comments made by anyone they disagree with and place them out of context and write some eye-catching headline. Case in point;

"During Fox News' coverage of the July 7 London bombings, Washington managing editor Brit Hume told host Shepard Smith that his "first thought," when he "heard there had been this attack" and saw the low futures market, was "Hmmm, time to buy." Smith had asked Hume to comment on the lack of a negative U.S. stock market reaction to the London attacks."

That was taken from Media Matters, directly. The words "when" and "and" signify a qualification and a continuation, you cannot simply quote "my first thought when i heard there had been this attack was, 'time to buy'". That's a misrepresentation of the facts. When he heard of the attack, and saw the futures market he thought, 'time to buy'. There is a huge difference in those 2 sentences. He was asked to comment on the lack of a negative U.S. stock market reaction to the London attacks, the questioner put the perspective down, Brit Hume answered within that perspective. Yet socialist knuckleheads are using the quotes (with the parts of the futures market ommitted of course) and writing headlines such as "Hume's "first thought" on hearing of London attacks: It's "time to buy" futures" and "Brit Hume Goes On TV & Says He Wants to Profit Off the Terrorist Attack". Those 2 headlines came from your source sites.

It's rhetoric, period. It's garbage, period, all these socialist bloggers want to do is profit off of the attacks by twisting words and trying to further their own agenda.

Thanks for playing.

 

[seansean]

The mediamatters page has video of the on-air exchange, not just their take on it. view it, see for yourself. direct page link.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200507070007

Thank YOU for playing.

 

[Marshall]

What's laughable is how it portrays the meaning.

I was watching that morning as well. I just happened to turn the tube on when they were speculating about the opening of the market. The same thing crossed my mind as crossed theirs. That in no way has any indication of how I feel about what happened or what is the most important. The fact that this article is trying to portray it that way is laughable indeed, sad actually. What's worse, some believe it.

 

[NineseveN]

I did watch the video, did you? The commentator spends the first 14.5 seconds framing the question about the performance of the futures market and raises the point that perhaps the timing of the incident, that it happened in the middle of the night gave the market a better sense of the scheme of things. Brit then says;

"well maybe, the other thing is of course, um, people have, you know, the market was down, it was down yesterday, and um, you know you nev-, we may have had some bargain hunting going on. I mean, my first thought when I heard, just on a personal basis, when I heard that there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning which were really in the tank, I thought 'hmm, time to buy'. Um, others may have thought that as well." (direct quote from the video)

That is a far cry from 'Brit Hume wants to make money off of ths tragedy'. He is simply saying that after he heard about the attack and then took a look at the market, he thought it was time to buy. It's all in context. I'm not going to try and educate someone on how to derrive context from the total portion of what was said, so I'm going to try and be done with this issue, we've gotten off-topic here, and I try not to feed trolls.

 

[seansean]

Marshall, when I was watching the towers fall, the last thing I was thinking about was which stocks I could pick up on the cheap. london is a comparable event, and the criticism of hume's comments are justified, IMHO. no biggie, we agree to disagree.
peace.

 

[RevDisk]

To the folks across the pond, best wishes...

May the people responsible be brought swiftly to justice.
May the wounded heal
May the dead be remembered

 

[seansean]

nineseven, why resort to name-calling? a troll? been here long enough to not have THAT leveled at me. honest disagreement is fine. name-calling is pointless.

 

[NineseveN]

It wasn't particularly meant to insult, but the fact that you came to this thread to attack a public figure without base (in my idea, this thread was more to console and discuss the actual event itself and the emotions surrounding it) using propaganda web-blogs as your sources came off as trollish. I call them as I see them. I call a chicken a chicken, a car a car and a painting a painting...I doubt they're offended.

What does Brit Hume have to do with anything that had been discussed in this thread? What did you hope to contribute by linking a socialist web blog to this thread? What kind of value did the anti-conservative message of your link bring to the discussion?

As far as I can see, zero. Hence, a troll post. Your mileage may vary. If you wish to continue a discussion on Brit Hume's remarks, bias in the media or political values, let's do so in another thread. Save this one for meaningful discussion that has something to actually do with the thread title.



Back on topic, hope all are doing well across the pond. I wonder what kind of impact this will have on the masses? Fear? Outrage? Both? Time will tell. It is only right that as Tony Blair has stood by our country during our recent tough times, that we now stand by his.

 

[Spiphel Rike]

I'm another with an Aunt and Uncle in London. The people who committed this atrocity must be dealt with, but i think that all the "mosques haven't said anything therefore each one is full of terrorists" rhetoric is crap. As has been said by others, the non fundamentalists stay quiet out of fear. If it was as bad as some of you think every muslim in the mid east would be getting on a plane to the US, and the other countries that are allied with gleefully carrying a bag of fertiliser. :banghead:

The brits probably won't respond to it as best they could, and might just ban having bags on public transport, but it got a lot of ignorant Australians to wake up, but they'll forget about it a little too soon for my liking. Don't forget that my country's government basically gave out fridge (refrigerator) magnets and brochures just after 9/11 and the bali bombings.

 

[rudolf]

Some of you folks should try getting more informed about muslims. Your discussion about whether muslims condemn terror only makes sense from a christian point of view. Muslims are NOT obliged to tell the truth. If it servres their cause, they will condemn. Later at home or in the mosque, they'll tell a different story. It really doesn't matter what a muslims says to an unfidel.

What you need to look for is whether muslims will help in catching muslim terrorists. Look especially at the muslims in your country. Here in Germany, the Police and other authorities got and get absolutely no help from our muslims. No muslim over here will hand over one of his brothers to the unfidels. Don't care for their words, watch their deeds.

And, adding insult to injury, muslims in Britain are telling us THEY are the victims, as they will now be negatively looked at. Isn't this disgusting.

Muslims do not share our values, so it does make sense to ask whether we need to have them stay in our countries.

Most of the muslim terrorists are young males with little or no family ties in the country where they are staying. They are students or otherwise better off and have gotten a chance to enjoy the pleasures of western life. With this profile, you can sort out most of them. Kick them out. Making laws that apply to all citizens of your country will not help anyone.

And to all you US folks, in the counterterrorism blog an article about eurojihadists asks some serious and valid questions about your visa waiver program. Not that I'd like to have to get a Visa next time I visit the US, but too many European countries have given citizenship to arabs, with little or no questions asked. They can now enter your country without any prior checks taking place.

 

[Mongo the Mutterer]

Ed Koch is on Fox News right now. He made one statement "how Many FATWAS have been issued by the Imams against Usama Bin Ladin?"

Tells the story for me...

 

[R.H. Lee]

rudolf from Germany nailed it IMO. The western Europeon countries are are forging the architecture of their own demise by way of ultra tolerance, and we're not far behind.