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Nice reframe of the question Johnny, but seriously, I think 4 out of 5 Texans would agree with me that the Whitman massacre was worse than the VT incident.
I'm done here.
Dan made a claim on one part of one subject, his claim has been refuted via his own evidence and yet finds some way to accuse me of throwing non-sequiturs into a thread where he has since brought up Dianne Feinstein.
Just like cops, sometimes we just want the confession even when we have all the evidence. Dan's a tough nut to crack.
Nice reframe of the question Johnny, but seriously, I think 4 out of 5 Texans would agree with me that the Whitman massacre was worse than the VT incident.
..and I know Whitman only killed 16, or 17, depending on where you get your stats, but the victims in VT were yankees. The victims Whitman killed were Texans, and the closer the victims are in vicinity to Holt's cat and FWDT, the more they matter.
So what you want is for the media to form opinions in their reporting?
Ah! The implied ad hominem non-sequitur. Still another interesting rhetorical twist from Knowitalldan.
Seriously, you're a ing idiot.
You're the one who framed the question, dan. You asked why the media couldn't get it right that this was the largest school shooting and lambasted them for calling it the largest school massacre:
You called them -- interestingly, without quoting a source -- for mischaracterizing the Virginia Tech tragedy. Johnny proved to you that you were wrong, citing source after source that made the precise distinction that you claimed they hadn't made. I realize that this is all part of your effort to keep grinding the 9/11 axe about bombs, since ChumpDumper and others have done a remarkable job of debunking the mythology that you're trying to spread on that subject. I can see that you think that there must be some clear line between the reporting that took place after the Murrah Building explosion, 9/11, and the Virginia Tech tragedy and that the media is to blame for, in your own mind, hiding the truth about the former. I'll admit that I've yet to see how the latter fits into your effort here.
In any event, this is a fight that you picked. And now it's one that you've lost. Conclusively. I realize that you'll never admit to that. But everyone else who has viewed this thread and bothered to post has acknowledged that you're wrong.
As for trying to compare the Whitman incident with what took place at VT on Monday, I don't really think you're winning that one either. I don't sit around trying to rank the tragedies that take place around me. The loss of innocent life anywhere is a tragedy to me and whether it's one person or 17 or 33 or 3,000. I'm not sure why you're so bent on suggesting that I might think differently than that. Again, that I don't bother to post my every single thought on such subjects in this website's political forum doesn't mean that I'm somehow callous to the tragedies that occur in other parts of the world. Unlike you, I don't see fit to reduce my every thought on subjects of a political nature to writing.
I'm in this thread only because I was appalled by how almost gleeful you seemed in criticizing the media in the first 24 hours or so after this particular tragedy occurred. It was decidedly unseemly.
A quick look back...
You called them -- interestingly, without quoting a source -- for mischaracterizing the Virginia Tech tragedy. Johnny proved to you that you were wrong....blah..blah....blah...
In reality, Johnny isBlazed and FWDT got it wrong (and consequently got their panties in a wad over nothing)...
'the worst school massacre in U.S. history' Did the media really report it?
May 2, 2007
Historical Amnesia
Worst U.S. Massacre?
By CARLA BLANK
San Francisco ChronicleThe mass media coverage of how 32 students and faculty members were fatally shot and at least 15 injured on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., is punctuated by phrases such as, "the worst massacre in U.S. history," or, as the New York Times put it, the "Worst U.S. Gun Rampage." CNN called it the "Deadliest Shooting Rampage in U.S. history."
This was followed by San Francisco Bay Area's FOX affiliate KTVU Channel 2's claim that it was "the worst massacre ever in the United States."TV commentary did not qualify these claims, and at least one Virginia Tech student, an Asian American himself, echoed the phrase when interviewed on national television, pondering his presence at the "worst massacre in U.S. history." In reality, an accurate investigation of mass killings of this magnitude would quickly reveal that the Virginia Tech massacre, as horrendous as it was, was not the worst massacre to occur on U.S. soil.
Apologies accepted.
It was pretty bad.
People will do anything possible to point out a possible in photographs. It's like when A&M beat UT, and there was a photo of Daniel "Boobie" Gibson jumping to block Acie Law IV's game winning shot; his white leggings were showing and everyone thought Gibson's white was showing and got offended.
Dan you have proven .
Actually, re-rerading this thread only proves what a lame ing idiot you are.
lol
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