Here is what Mr. Anonymous wrote this morning, in response to the earlier post on NBC's To Catch A Predator:
"I believe I heard it on Glen Beck maybe not, that no convictions resulted from Catch a Preditor[sic]"Stop and let this sink in for a second: This person typed in this factually incorrect comment while connected to the internet.
Now, yesterday morning, before I started putting the finishing touches on the post in question, I knew pretty much squat about the Murphy, TX/Louis Conradt flap. Thanks to the magic of Al Gore's intertubes, in about an hour I had read a 12 page Esquire magazine exposé, a half dozen news reports, a double handful of Wikipedia articles, and some assorted editorial columns and blog posts, as well as watching several YouTube clips of Dateline: To Catch A Predator, a show I had never actually seen on TeeWee.
If only there were some big network of information-filled computers to consult rather than relying on what one might or might not remember from listening to Glenn Beck...
So, Mr. Anonymous, whoever you are, I hope you take this in the spirit in which it was intended, for you have provided a valuable lesson for us all.
9 comments:
Man, I hope I never give you the opportunity to point that high powered snark at me.
Wow.
It's hard to believe that someone would actually put something that's incorrect on the intertubes.
The Goracle would be upset!
One of my favorite Bill Mauldin cartoons is the one with the mess sergeant holding a bayonet and a Garand, saying "I'll be damned. Did you know this can opener fits on the end of a rifle?"
In the same vein, "I'll be damned. Did you know you can use this porn machine to look stuff up?"
;)
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Anonymous
Hey, careful spelling out Pr0n like that, it could result in thousands more hi -- uh, never mind.
:)
Surprised you didn't mention this:
http://xkcd.com/386/
You say you looked it up right?
So were there convictions, or not?
;P
Not out of the Murphy, TX episode, because the local chief borked things pretty good from the prosecution end.
The show itself has resulted in something like 200.
Wow. Armor-piercing snark. Poor guy never knew what hit him.
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