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Perverted Pyramid

by @heymistermix.com|  April 17, 20138:14 pm| 82 Comments

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I know we’re beating this horse into the ground but here’s how fucked up CNN is:
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The person who caused death, dismemberment, panic and anguish in an attack that’s riveted the nation has been apprehended (according to them), and the third sentence of the story is “First!”. Res ipsa loquitur.

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  1. 1.

    lamh35

    April 17, 2013 at 8:19 pm

    the whole thing is def disgusting, but the cake for me is John fuckin’ King and his reports of a “dark skinned male”

    “I was told they have a breakthrough in the identification of the suspect, and I’m told — and I want to be very careful about this because people get very sensitive when you say these things — I was told by one of these sources who’s a law enforcement official that this was a dark-skinned male,” King reported. “The official used some other words, I’m going to repeat them until we get more information because of the sensitivities. There are some people who will take offense even in saying that.”

    “I’m making a personal judgment — forgive me — and I think it’s the right judgment not to try to inflame tensions,” he added.

    “not to try to inflame tensions”??? really King, really.

    oh but wait, there is more:

    And if other media reports are correct, even King’s initial description of the suspect as a “dark-skinned male” may have been wrong.

    CBS News noted on Wednesday that the “man sought as a possible suspect is a white male, wearing white baseball cap on backwards, a gray hoodie and a black jacket.”

    Fuck CNN and John King, on behalf of all the dark-skinned people from this brown-skinned female.

  2. 2.

    Rich2506

    April 17, 2013 at 8:21 pm

    I’ve mentioned this before, but as a teenager, I’d read the movie parodies put out by both Mad and Cracked. The Cracked ones came out first, but were often poorly written and sometimes they were obviously just based on the movie preview. The Mad ones came out later, but were usually thoughtful and funny. I MUCH prefer that news organizations take their time and get it right rather than trying to be first.

  3. 3.

    David Koch

    April 17, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    CNN, you lie down with dogs ya gonna get fleas. You hire wingnut bushie Fran Townsend ya gonna end up with ya own “Mission Accomplished” moment.

    Also too, http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UR551TOSajSPFkJWE4a2Pw–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA–/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/theticket/obama-truman-garyhe.jpg

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    April 17, 2013 at 8:24 pm

    News if the arrest was first misreported by CNN.

    Also, I’m shocked, SHOCKED (/Casablanca) that background checks is on life support if not deceased. There will be no significant Gun Control legislation in the foreseeable future.

    Now, gun safety, that is what should be pushed; people need to lock up their weapons and not be showing them off where little kids get to them and blow people away. Or, for that matter, have your whacked out kid get access to them to blow you and a whole bunch of others away.

  5. 5.

    tybee

    April 17, 2013 at 8:26 pm

    they can’t even round up the usual suspects

  6. 6.

    scav

    April 17, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    @lamh35: There are those “some people” being all offended and all. pulease. And throwing you own hat in for a Nobel by the unprecidented personal moral judgement and stand of not inflaming tensions? Forgive Me for not fainting at the sight of your glory. I second lamh35 on the part of paler bipeds.

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    April 17, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    The Onion ran a pair of stories a little earlier today:

    BREAKING: ‘The Onion’ In Kill Range Of Boston Bomber Suspect
    Do We Take The Shot? Tweet Us Your Votes

    UPDATE: ‘The Onion’ Apologizes For Killing Innocent Boston Man Tom Mahoney
    We Spoke Too Soon

    I give it a year or two tops before this ceases to be satire and instead becomes reality.

  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 17, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    Crack Bush administration vet and CNN expert on terrorism and intelligence Fran Townsend, yesterday

    Of course, that didn’t stop Wolf Blitzer, who really should be torn down so someone can build a drive-thru beer stand, from hosting former Bush administration Homeland Security chief Fran Townsend, who immediately went off for a few minutes about how ricin was “straight out of the al Qaeda play book.”

    ahem

    Federal agents arrested a man on Monday suspected of sending letters feared contaminated by the poison ricin to President Obama and a Mississippi senator, according to two officials with knowledge of the case. The suspect was identified as Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Miss.

    I’m betting Paul Kevin of Tupelo doesn’t have an Al Qaeda playbook.

  9. 9.

    David Koch

    April 17, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    the look of devastation

  10. 10.

    Violet

    April 17, 2013 at 8:34 pm

    @efgoldman: Might have a gray hoodie.

  11. 11.

    JPL

    April 17, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I wonder if he owns a black jacket and hoodie.

  12. 12.

    Roger Moore

    April 17, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    @tybee:

    they can’t even round up the usual suspects

    What do you call blaming it on the darkie, then?

  13. 13.

    TR

    April 17, 2013 at 8:36 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Well, in that case, he’s clearly not a terrorist.

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 17, 2013 at 8:37 pm

    Frannie Townsend signed George W Bush’s yearbook thusly in 2007:
    In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime.
    Mr. President, you are such a man.

  15. 15.

    PeakVT

    April 17, 2013 at 8:39 pm

    @efgoldman: Cole got reddited.

  16. 16.

    Roger Moore

    April 17, 2013 at 8:39 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I’m betting Paul Kevin of Tupelo doesn’t have an Al Qaeda playbook.

    I wonder if he knows local douchebag, Chesley Ruff of Tupelo, Mississippi.

  17. 17.

    Mike with a Mic

    April 17, 2013 at 8:40 pm

    The latest wingnut thing is that the SEALs were in on it. Because there happened to be some SEALs at the marathon. I find this utterly hilarious because I was in the service, Navy at that. Military members participating in a marathon as competitors and helping out off duty isn’t abnormal at all. Seeing all sorts of SF types and the general military is pretty damn normal for this sort of thing.

  18. 18.

    Soonergrunt

    April 17, 2013 at 8:54 pm

    @Mike with a Mic: Hell, there were MA NG Soldiers running the marathon in combat boots and uniforms.
    Big marathon like this can sometimes have whole platoons or companies doing it.

  19. 19.

    Ha

    April 17, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    Someone at another news blog wrote that Senator Wicker who received the ricin-contaminated mail along with Obama (possibly), was one of the few Republicans who voted to end the gun legislation filibuster.

    If so, this could explain why a Republican as well a Democrat received poisoned letters. Of course, if Obama’s mail was not ricin-contaminated, then this supposition is wrong.

  20. 20.

    David Koch

    April 17, 2013 at 8:59 pm

    all the so-called-liberals who love to give Rand Paul a reach around, did you hear he called the Newtown families “sad” and “props”.

  21. 21.

    Hoodie

    April 17, 2013 at 9:01 pm

    My disgust now extends to John King, Anderson Cooper and anyone else continuing to have anything to do with CNN, my Republican senator (who makes frigging Joe Manchin look like Wayne Morse) and any asshole who thinks that steaming pile of pig excrement Rand Paul has anything meaningful to say about anything.

  22. 22.

    Mike with a Mic

    April 17, 2013 at 9:01 pm

    @Soonergrunt:

    I’ve done a marathon inside and out of the service. The MCM finishes right across the street from my apartment. Hence why it cracks me up “military people in black jackets, hats (unit designators at that, STV) and cargo pants, INSIDE JOB” ummmmm….. no.

    Their reaction makes my blood boil at some level and laugh on another. I worked with several SEALs during my stint and “zomg SEALs at marathons” yeah… no shit. They should come to this area see the MCM, military types EVERYWHERE!

  23. 23.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    April 17, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    @David Koch: But he filibustered about drones! Even though his position was well to the right of anything the one-issue drone-drones want, he mentioned them! He really LIKES THEM!

  24. 24.

    Mike with a Mic

    April 17, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    @efgoldman:

    They weren’t running it. They were standing around in black tops, khaki cargo pants and boots, and with black backpacks.

    http://www.infowars.com/navy-seals-spotted-at-boston-marathon-wearing-suspicious-backpacks/

    Which again, it’s not out of the ordinary at all. The hysterics are obnoxious though.

  25. 25.

    Schlemizel

    April 17, 2013 at 9:13 pm

    CNN – We put the broken in breaking news!

    CNN – You’ll hear inaccurate stories here first!

    Although its tough to top TDS commenting on CNN reading a Skippy post as part of a news show
    “When I want news I turn to CNN. When CNN wants news they turn to . . . Skippy the Bush Kangaroo!”

  26. 26.

    Thoughtcrime

    April 17, 2013 at 9:13 pm

    So when will CNN be declared an Errorist Organization?

  27. 27.

    maya

    April 17, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    Boy, is everyone going to be in mouth-open shock when it is learned that the bomber is actually a Native American (Red-man) who has colonial era treaty grievances.

  28. 28.

    Baud

    April 17, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    If they reported the news right the first time, you wouldn’t have any incentive to keep watching.

  29. 29.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 17, 2013 at 9:17 pm

    @maya: I don’t want to laugh at that, but…

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    April 17, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    @maya: No, no, no, it’ll turn out to be a British tea fanatic upset that the colonists didn’t properly warm up Boston Harbor before adding the leaves.

  31. 31.

    Yutsano

    April 17, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ll take up residence in the condo in Hades right next door, because I thought that was actually kinda awesome.

  32. 32.

    raven

    April 17, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    I am assuming I’m not the only one having trouble accessing the site?

  33. 33.

    ? Martin

    April 17, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    I want my $19.95 back!

  34. 34.

    Baud

    April 17, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    @raven:

    No. Heavy traffic because Cole’s rant made it onto Reddit’s front page.

  35. 35.

    Roger Moore

    April 17, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    @Baud:

    If they reported the news right the first time, you wouldn’t have any incentive to keep watching.

    If they keep getting the news wrong, I have no incentive to start watching them.

  36. 36.

    beltane

    April 17, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    @Roger Moore: Getting several major breaking stories in a row wrong doesn’t sound like the best business model, especially if your motto is “the most trusted name in news”.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    April 17, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    I stopped watching a long time ago. I rely on Balloon Juice to be my filter.

  38. 38.

    Suffern ACE

    April 17, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    Was it CNN who after sandy hook ran up a Facebook photo of the shooters brother claiming that he was the shooter?

  39. 39.

    Scotius

    April 17, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    CNN — “All the news we haven’t bothered to check.”

  40. 40.

    Bruce S

    April 17, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    CNN: “A dark-skinned male has been apprehended…”

    Does Susan Smith deserve to be paroled out and made head of the CNN Boston Bureau?

  41. 41.

    raven

    April 17, 2013 at 9:39 pm

    @Baud: Well it blows.

  42. 42.

    Gravenstone

    April 17, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    @Mike with a Mic: I feel unclean for following that link. My bad for not realizing “infowars” was an Alex Jones op.

  43. 43.

    RalfW

    April 17, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    Gabby Giffords op-ed already up at NYT on the filibuster shit. Its devastating to any remaining Senator who isn’t a Gollum.

  44. 44.

    Redshirt

    April 17, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    This site is horked for the next 12/24 hours. Too popular!

    I hope the bomber is a Freeper. They’d still defend him.

  45. 45.

    Morzer

    April 17, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    “First reported by CNN”

    i.e.

    “No-one helped us to fuck this story up so monumentally that even Dubya thought we were incompetent.”

  46. 46.

    Comrade Mary

    April 17, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    It appears that Paul Kevin Curtis, the ricin guy, may not be playing with a full deck.

    What seems to be his web site. Includes discussions of conspiracies related to a fridge full of body parts.

    Poor raving bastard. I feel for everyone put at risk by the ricin (including postal workers, Hill workers, and the like), but if this is the guy, he’s got some serious, serious problems.

  47. 47.

    Redshirt

    April 17, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    Did anyone really expect gun control legislation to pass? Are you the same folks who think we’d have Single Pater Unicorns if only Obama used the Bully Pulpit?

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 17, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Okay, now I begin to understand this otherwise puzzling Wikipedia bio entry for Fran Townsend:

    Frances M. Fragos Townsend (born December 28, 1961) is the former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush and TV personality. Townsend was appointed to this position by President Bush on May 28, 2004.

    See, I never realized before that Presidents had the power to appoint people to the position of “TV personality,” but the yearbook entry explains it.

  49. 49.

    Just One More Canuck

    April 17, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    @Rich2506: In all fairness to Cracked, they do better reporting than CNN. I can feel my brains being sucked out of my head when CNN is on

  50. 50.

    Baud

    April 17, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    At this point, CNN should just stay with the “dark-skinned male” story and try to capture some of Fox’s viewers.

  51. 51.

    RaflW

    April 17, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    @Redshirt: I did not expect it to pass the House. I did think it had a decent chance in the Senate, so that at least we’d have a f*cking starting point. So at least we’d have a way of saying that Dems can move a popular bill, and Reps have a way of horking everything up in the House. Ergo, get rid of Repubs.

    But since our press is utter crap, lots of people are pissed off at the Dems for not getting it through the Democratic senate.

  52. 52.

    Baud

    April 17, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    @RaflW:

    There are a lot of “Blame Democrats First” Democrats out there. I think it hurts us more than the vapid media.

  53. 53.

    beltane

    April 17, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    @Comrade Mary: My first job out of college was as a pro se clerk for a federal appeals court. Most of the people I worked with were like this-invariably sincere in their delusions and unable to understand why the rest of humanity does not see what they’re seeing.

    However, the sick thing is that the Senate voted today to continue to allow people like this to have unimpeded access to assault weapons. We are fortunate that this fellow does not really seem to have ass murder in his heart, but who are the true madmen here.

  54. 54.

    4tehlulz

    April 17, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    >ass murder

  55. 55.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 17, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    @Comrade Mary: It appears that Paul Kevin Curtis, the ricin guy, may not be playing with a full deck.

    There are conflicting reports (should we call them CNNs?) that he put his return address on the poisoned letters.

  56. 56.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 17, 2013 at 9:58 pm

    “man sought as a possible suspect is a white male, wearing white baseball cap on backwards, a gray hoodie and a black jacket.”

    Cuz, you know, in Boston, during the school year, this narrows it down to, oh, only about 20% of the metro area’s population

  57. 57.

    karen marie

    April 17, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    @RaflW: The way I heard it reported (on CNN) was that “it didn’t pass despite a Democrat majority.” What they failed to mention was that the bill passed by a majority but was defeated because Republicans force everything to pass by a super-majority.

  58. 58.

    danimal

    April 17, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    Fox News justifiably gets the bulk of the hate around here, but for my money, CNN epitomizes everything that is wrong about the MSM. They can’t go bankrupt fast enough.

  59. 59.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 17, 2013 at 10:01 pm

    @Baud: I’m so old I can remember when that kind of thing was called a Slashdotting.

  60. 60.

    Chris

    April 17, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    @danimal:

    Word.

  61. 61.

    Narcissus

    April 17, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @4tehlulz: I had ass murder in my heart once

  62. 62.

    beltane

    April 17, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @danimal: Fox mainly preaches to the RW choir, CNN misinforms people who are attempting to learn about what’s going on in the world. This makes CNN more destructive even if slightly less obnoxious.

  63. 63.

    beltane

    April 17, 2013 at 10:04 pm

    @Narcissus: I meant to say “mass murder”. Where did my “M” go?

  64. 64.

    RaflW

    April 17, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    @karen marie: Exactly. I linked above to James Fallows, who (repeatedly) has deservedly banged on about how the press enables the Republicans by failing to explain the obvious, that (as Obama put it) 90% of Dem Senators voted yes, but a minority, namely 90% of Repubs, voted to gum up the works and kill the bills movement to a floor vote.

    I used to think the press believed the public too bovine to be able to follow senate procedural complexities. Now I think the press is itself to uncaring and vapid to bother.

  65. 65.

    Gordon, the Big Express Engine

    April 17, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    Serious question: do people like king and blitzer et al know that they suck (but have the self awareness to realize that have a plum gig and are milking it) or do they actually believe they are excellent journalists?

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 17, 2013 at 10:12 pm

    @RaflW:

    I used to think the press believed the public too bovine to be able to follow senate procedural complexities. Now I think the press is itself to uncaring and vapid to bother.

    It is definitely the latter. Even if one doesn’t explain the details of a filibuster, one can make clear that the legislation was stopped by a procedural move by the minority.

  67. 67.

    GregB

    April 17, 2013 at 10:17 pm

    Perhaps it is time for a CNN motto contest.

    CNN-These chickens aren’t going to fuck themselves.

    (Said in a deep James Earl Jones voice)

  68. 68.

    Davis X. Machina

    April 17, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    @Gordon, the Big Express Engine: That question answers itself every other Friday — if they weren’t excellent they wouldn’t be so highly compensated, now would they?

  69. 69.

    Calouste

    April 17, 2013 at 10:25 pm

    @Gordon, the Big Express Engine: The latter. Blitzer really is dim, see his “performance” on Jeopardy.

  70. 70.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 17, 2013 at 10:27 pm

    @Xecky Gilchrist: The scary thing is that he is really working up a bunch of naive young lefties. They’re posting shit like “gun control is unimportant”. He’s totally fucking nader-baiting them on purpose and it’s working.

    Vile.

  71. 71.

    beltane

    April 17, 2013 at 10:28 pm

    @Calouste: Was Wolf Blitzer the one who got his ass whooped by Cheech Marin or was that Anderson Cooper?

  72. 72.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 17, 2013 at 10:28 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Obama made it clear, but how many of us watched that?

  73. 73.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 17, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Good times.

  74. 74.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 17, 2013 at 10:35 pm

    @Soonergrunt:

    The annual Sound to Narrows race in Tacoma has an entire time block set aside just for military formations running the course in formation.

  75. 75.

    gwangung

    April 17, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    @Another Halocene Human: And CONTINUING to use the bully pulpit, hm?

  76. 76.

    RareSanity

    April 17, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I’m old enough to remember actually reading, first hand, CmdrTaco’s infamous first impression of the newly announced Apple iPod:

    “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”

    Ah the good ole days of the internets…

  77. 77.

    Gravenstone

    April 17, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Apparently he’d sent oddball correspondence to Sen. Wicker’s office in the past. So he was on the authority’s radar early on.

  78. 78.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    April 17, 2013 at 10:47 pm

    @RareSanity: it’s been a long time since I’ve really looked at Slashdot. Is it still overrun with glibertarian idiots?

  79. 79.

    waratah

    April 17, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    I was kind of hoping that John King would get thrown out with
    wash with the new head management.

  80. 80.

    Bitter and Deluded Lurker

    April 17, 2013 at 11:09 pm

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Yes.

  81. 81.

    Calouste

    April 17, 2013 at 11:15 pm

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: It’s a tech site, of course it is. They all are. Can’t read a lot of the comments on articles with a social angle on any tech site without sunglasses, the white male privilege is so blinding.

  82. 82.

    Mike E

    April 17, 2013 at 11:18 pm

    I don’t have cable anymore, but everybody already knows CNN suuuuuucks. Awful. Take a brick with “CNN” written on it and bash yourself in the face, it’d be about the same as watching that dreck.

    Inside Edition did a fine wrap up of the day’s events, pointing out that the “tattered pants” dude running away may have been, oh I don’t know, scared shitless. My local tv news team still beats the “suspect” drum when showing his image. The tabloid show finished up the segment with analysis of the CNN fuck up, and succinctly done. 15 minutes worth that blew CNN’s doors off, effortlessly.

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