From the urgency of the lengthy report on the Today show this morning, you'd have thought someone had infiltrated the Smithsonian, stolen the Wright Flyer and crashed it into the White House while yelling "Allahu Akhbar!" Instead, somebody had swapped some flags.
NYPD cops were swarming over the Brooklyn Bridge, even (or so the on-the-scene reporter breathlessly intoned) "counter-terrorism officers", all to investigate someone changing the flags atop the bridge towers. I realize this is kinda close to NBC's flagpole at 30 Rock, but you don't see CNN losing their collective fecal matter every time the "T" goes missing off the tower at Georgia Tech, now, do you, Matt Lauer?
And why the freakout this time? The rest of the nation scratches its head.
Man, there's no omphaloskepsis like Manhattan omphaloskepsis.
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I hope George Bush has a very strong alibi for his whereabouts.
Gerry
"Dammit, I don't care if you can do anything go LOOK LIKE YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING!"
I didn't do it this time!
http://staghounds.blogspot.com/2006/04/my-felony-crime.html
You say navel, I say arsehole.
Man, there's no omphaloskepsis like Manhattan omphaloskepsis.
Dear Diary,
Today I learned that I am the kind of person who will get the urge to tell a stranger "I love you" if she can turn a phrase on a dime.
Man, there's no omphaloskepsis like Manhattan omphaloskepsis.
If it didn't happen in NYC, it can't really be very important. If it DID happen in NYC, its importance is transcendent no matter how trivial the actual incident. It's not navel gazing, it's just keeping your priorities straight.
Wait; there's still a Today Show? -- Lyle
Once again I'm reminded of the time I spent in Belize, where the only news on available was NYC local. Though sitting on the beach in February and hearing all those talking heads whine about how cold they were wasn't all bad.
If you look at the footage it look more like they white-washed the flag instead of replacing it. Either way it was a hell of a stunt.
White flags...so it was the French!
Based solely upon the phrase, navel of the world" I expected a blog post on the mysterious hole in Siberia.
Time for them to ask for more money, I suppose.
The sheep are easily spooked.
Sheep stampede!
I just lurked over at Democratic Underground to see what they had to say on the matter.
Their response would have been appropriate to, say, mining the Hudson River or sinking a barge.
It would have been entertaining if it weren't so pathetic. As it was, it was kind of sad and pathetic, like how you feel when you spend too much time at a strip club or the zoo.
gvi
Staghounds, actually reporting anything that involves yelling "Allahu Akhbar!" doesn't carry the same opportunity benefit of reporting something that involves demonizing the people in their little playground who belong to the other political party whom they can call teabaggers.
I swear, if this deer-in-the-headlights attitude of this administration and their lickspittle lackeys in the media continues unabated, in 15 years when we have a caliphate here, the news presenters will be welcoming them like the people on the roof of that building in Los Angeles welcoming the "friendly aliens" in "Independence Day."
With the same result
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