The public is forever complaining about how the media are obsessed with bad news and rarely look for the good in what's going on, but sometimes doing so becomes just a little ridiculous. Such is the case with an Omaha, Nebraska TV station which managed to find some good news about higher gas prices: fewer people dying from auto accidents.
I suppose that we should be cheering gas to go to $15.00 a gallon then? After all, if it saves just one life...
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Hmmm
July 10, 2008 - 11:38 ET by ChuckM from PAHmmm. Makes sense to me.
People on motorcycles getting whacked
July 10, 2008 - 11:44 ET by YahooWatcherat a pretty good rate though.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-06172008-1550304.html
Man, the msm will look for
July 10, 2008 - 11:49 ET by gopsteveMan, the msm will look for any negative despite good news when it comes to the economy or the war, now they are trying to find the silver lining in bad news.
PS - fewer accidents are better of course.
Well, doesn't fewer auto
July 10, 2008 - 12:45 ET by motherbeltWell, doesn't fewer auto deaths mean less work for undertakers and gravediggers?
<sarc>
Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson
Mother
July 10, 2008 - 15:36 ET by DelsaLeave it to the democrats to "Kill" another industry!
You make me lauh out loud all by myself
Yea, the pun is intended
→ Maybe so, Matthew
July 10, 2008 - 11:47 ET by Cool ArrowBut aren't all the prevented car deaths deaths offset by starving elderly people?
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well, Cool Arrow, fewer
July 10, 2008 - 11:54 ET by gopstevewell, Cool Arrow, fewer accident deaths are directly causing starvation, as there are more mouths to be fed as a result. Or is that global warming's affect?
Women, Children and minorities are of course the hardest hit.
Ok, someone has to ask it
July 10, 2008 - 11:51 ET by sarcasmoHow the hell did those cars in the photo get like that???
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
EXACTLY!! I think they
July 10, 2008 - 11:54 ET by amberEXACTLY!! I think they did it for a photo stunt, trying to be funny.
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Carma Sutra?
July 10, 2008 - 11:55 ET by MassConservCarma Sutra?
my guess?
July 10, 2008 - 11:57 ET by SouthJersey1953I think the car on the left was parked and the one on the right hit the gas in reverse instead of forward. Proabbly some blue haired lady rushing out to buy tomatoes since they were taken off the 'bad food' list.
Those Hondas are a great
July 10, 2008 - 12:07 ET by taterThose Hondas are a great vehicle...they are built so strong they can even hold up another car on their frame.
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Here's another
July 10, 2008 - 11:59 ET by Jack BauerHere's another statistic:
Less Bad News = Fewer Suicides.
How about it media? Stop printing depressing bad news stories, and you'll save lives.
Seems kinda cruel and heartless of the TV News and newspapers when you look at it that way.
Less Bad News = Fewer Suicides.
July 10, 2008 - 23:50 ET by R D HelmLOL-Good one, Jack.
The truth is insensitive. - Neal Boortz
John boehner
July 10, 2008 - 12:43 ET by DelsaJust called on the democrats to bring Oil exloration to the floor for a vote! He told the dems to look in the mirror to see where the problem lies/lays.
He is followed by dem Hoyer who just blamed Bush/Cheny for our high gas prices saying, "sence bush took office, gas prices have gone from $2 to $5 and under Bill Clinton it went up 5 cents.
Never mind the FACT there was NO WAR in the GULF and a HUGE DEMAND
Hope GOD forgives me but I HATE these people!
"sence bush took office,
July 10, 2008 - 15:45 ET by motherbelt"sence bush took office, gas prices have gone from $2 to $5 and under Bill Clinton it went up 5 cents.
And it was $2.40 when the Democrats took over the Congress with their (paraphrasing Her Speakerness) common sense plan to bring down the cost of gas!
What say you now, Sen. Hoyer?
Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson
→ Not just Hoyer
July 10, 2008 - 15:47 ET by Cool ArrowNancy promised to drive down oil prices.
Nancy Lied! People Died!
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MB, that's just an
July 10, 2008 - 15:48 ET by MassConservMB, that's just an inconvenient truth that will never be acknowledged.
Michelle Malkin has posted
July 10, 2008 - 20:52 ET by motherbeltMichelle Malkin has posted this graph which shows prices under the Republican Congress, and what has happened since the Democrats took over.
Read it and weep, Your Speakerness.
Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson
...and on top of this, we
July 10, 2008 - 15:21 ET by bigtimer...and on top of this, we now have Sen. Warner wanting to bring back 55 Stay alive BS.
I am sick of the govt. imposing their stupid a$$ laws on all of us, they are the very ones who have created this problem in the first place..for over 30 years.
They won't face the fact that they are the problem, not the solution in this case...well, they are going to have to be...or face defeat in the upcoming election, they did the same with illegal immigration...
I despise the majority of the creatures in the Senate.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
DUCT TAPE ALERT!!!
July 10, 2008 - 15:48 ET by motherbeltIsn't it funny that the Democrats keep saying we can't drill our way out of this, but they apparently think that we can conserve our way out of it. And we can't wait 5 years for new oil, but we can wait that long for cars with higher CAFE standards.
BRRRPPPPT! BRRRPPPT! BRRPPPPT!!!
Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson
In Nebraska
July 10, 2008 - 15:42 ET by WR JonasAmazing ! Fewer highway deaths is a positive . How about those fewer deaths to our GI's and Iraqi citizens in The Iraq War on Terrorism ? Liberals are chin deep in the kool aid swamp and wading ever deeper.
Oh cool, you printed this!
July 10, 2008 - 15:48 ET by Cureboy675Oh cool, you printed this! That was exactly my thinking when they ran this story, "Ah, we finally found our silver lining!"
You have no idea how astonishingly bad this local TV station (WOWT) is. A few weeks ago, when the first tornado in 25 years hit here in Omaha, while other stations were providing non-stop coverage, WOWT was running an episode of an old 1960s western called "Wild Wild West".
However, they could never be accused of having any kind of bias, whether it be Conservative or Liberal bias. Because they just don't have the brains to pull that off :)