[Buggy]

I'm pissed. I am beyond pissed. The MSM is a simple pawn to a corrupt government. We are fighting two deadly wars, killing the gulf with gushing oil, Europe is practically burning, and the best our MSM can offer us is headlines on a jack-ass who scored a clunker off Craig's List, went to the store and bought some propane tanks, M-80s and a used alarm clock from a thrift store!?!?!?!? Nobody even came close to dying!!!! The street vendor who spotted the smoke is a damned celebrity!!!! The thing never would have blown!!!! And New York wants money to fight what????? I built better bombs with acid and tin foil when I was a kid!!!!!!! I need a drink.

[timmac]

I would have to agree on this one, I think he was just mad because he lost his job and house was foreclosed on and he was just venting and had no idea of how to make a bomb, than got on a plane and tried to make it back to Afghanistan to show to his Islam buddies that he is back on there side..

I don't think he was really trained by the terrorist, he is just a wannabe with out a clue..

[Novus]

The MSM has been a tool of the government for 20 years now and you are only just realizing this. In the 60s the MSM was clearly anti-Vietnam war. The government learned has learned the importance of keeping the media under their thumb. In 2010 their control of things is downright Orwellian.

[Newfie]

MSM sells what sells. We The People are the idiots who demand such drivel.

"Ask not for whom the bell tolls, the bell tolls for thee."

[Buggy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'T')he MSM has been a tool of the government for 20 years now and you are only just realizing this. In the 60s the MSM was clearly anti-Vietnam war. The government learned has learned the importance of keeping the media under their thumb. In 2010 their control of things is downright Orwellian.

[mos6507]

Seems like anytime there is an attempted terrorist plot (like the christmas one) that these sorts of posts pop in to scold us for caring that we had a near miss.

They call it terrorism for a reason. It's scary. Why don't you be a little more understanding of human nature?

[Buggy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'S')eems like anytime there is an attempted terrorist plot (like the christmas one) that these sorts of posts pop in to scold us for caring that we had a near miss.

They call it terrorism for a reason. It's scary. Why don't you be a little more understanding of human nature?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buggy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'S')eems like anytime there is an attempted terrorist plot (like the christmas one) that these sorts of posts pop in to scold us for caring that we had a near miss.

They call it terrorism for a reason. It's scary. Why don't you be a little more understanding of human nature?

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buggy', ' ') But I really don't know where to go anymore to get the real story.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buggy', '
')Really?? Some dimwit fills an SUV with something that might catch on fire at most and that is a terrorist plot? But the number of murders in Chicago the same night, or the number of soldiers who had limbs blown off last week doesn't even make the local paper? You are an ass.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Homesteader', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buggy', ' ') But I really don't know where to go anymore to get the real story.

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Homesteader', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buggy', ' ') But I really don't know where to go anymore to get the real story.

[mos6507]

My point is, don't trust information based solely on the source, whether it be MSM or alternative sources. Stop the binary right/wrong thinking. Take what works, and leave the rest. Tinfoil that pollutes this site is just as bogus as anything that can be pinned on the MSM. Don't turn peakoil.com into some cult that can't be questioned.

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'M')y point is, don't trust information based solely on the source, whether it be MSM or alternative sources. Stop the binary right/wrong thinking. Take what works, and leave the rest. Tinfoil that pollutes this site is just as bogus as anything that can be pinned on the MSM. Don't turn peakoil.com into some cult that can't be questioned.

[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Buggy', 'I')'m pissed. I am beyond pissed. The MSM is a simple pawn to a corrupt government. We are fighting two deadly wars, killing the gulf with gushing oil, Europe is practically burning, and the best our MSM can offer us is headlines on a jack-ass who scored a clunker off Craig's List, went to the store and bought some propane tanks, M-80s and a used alarm clock from a thrift store!?!?!?!? Nobody even came close to dying!!!! The street vendor who spotted the smoke is a damned celebrity!!!! The thing never would have blown!!!! And New York wants money to fight what????? I built better bombs with acid and tin foil when I was a kid!!!!!!! I need a drink.

[mos6507]

Hystrionics are not gong to get us anywhere, folks. Figure out something productive to do besides these shallow calls for everybody to shake their fist at "the man".

[Homesteader]

See my post earlier today in the "Today I . . . ." thread.

[Sixstrings]

Yeah, I have to admit, it's all a little fishy. It's almost like they don't want to talk about what's going on in the gulf, you know?

The OP is right, it's not just the Gulf they're ignoring but also what's going on in Europe. So that's two massive stories of worldwide importance that aren't getting appropriate coverage.

On the other hand.. maybe we just don't realize it, but us regulars on this forum are actually AHEAD of the news curve. I've seen this happen a few times now, where the fringe forums are the first to recognize the importance of an issue, then it hits the mainstream blogosphere, then finally migrates to the mainstream news.

[Novus]

I don't even own a television so it doesn't impact me. You want the truth about the gulf readthis.

[Pops]

The NY car bombish was just about the right length to fit within the attention span of Americans, 50-something hours, Gulf War I was about the same, much longer than that and our eyes glaze. Not good for ad revenue.

The only story that holds our attention longer involves sex or someone famous or preferably both.

Blaming the MSM for talking about what we will listen to is like blaming politicians for demagoguery. Sure they're pandering but they deliver what we want or they wouldn't survive.