That’s what I’m so relieved to hear from the president our tortured and murdered Libyan ambassador, the first such in almost a third of a century, is. I hope it didn’t hurt the Obama bus suspension when it went over that bump. Actually, as far as this administration is concerned, I think we need a reinforced-concrete roadblock. Maybe we’ll get one in a few weeks, just like we got the restraining order two years ago.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Note that one of the reasons Treacher is so hot about this is that he was literally a “bump in the road” for this State Department.
…are a waste of money, according to the CBO. Well, at least government subsidized ones. But who would expect a physicist to know anything about business or economics?
“What exactly is the news hook here?” asked Rick Kaplan, executive producer of the CBS Evening News. “Is this an upbeat human-interest story about a ‘day in the life’ of a bloodthirsty president who likes to kill people? Or is it more of an examination of how Obama’s unusual upbringing in Hawaii helped to shape the way he would one day viciously butcher two helpless citizens in their own home?”
“Or maybe the story is just that murder is cool now,” Kaplan continued. “I don’t know. There are a million different angles on this one.”
So far, the president’s double-homicide has not been covered by any major news outlets. The only two mentions of the heinous tragedy have been a 100-word blurb on the Associated Press wire and an obituary on page E7 of this week’s edition of the Lake County Examiner.
While Obama has expressed no remorse for the grisly murders—point-blank shootings with an unregistered .38-caliber revolver—many journalists said it would be irresponsible for the press to sensationalize the story.
“There’s been some debate around the office about whether we should report on this at all,” Washington Post senior reporter Bill Tracy said while on assignment at a local dog show. “It’s enough of a tragedy without the press jumping in and pointing fingers or, worse, exploiting the violence. Plus, we need to be sensitive to the victims’ families at this time. Their loved ones were brutally, brutally murdered, after all.”
This is the kind of length you have to go to in order to satirize these people now.
I sent out a tweet to correct the one that said it was F-16s escorting. I’m pretty sure it was a couple of Dryden’s F-18s (at least that’s what it looked like when it flew over the house).