Honestly, I don't get what everyone is bitching about. Cooper did exactly what any journalist would do, at least those with some tact and empathy. If this was for a print story, you would have only heard bits and pieces about what his brother was like. But on live tv, it's actually MUCH harder than any of you think to do what the stock holders want you to do, what the public expects you to do, and still be a human being to the person you're interviewing.

What is he supposed to say at this point? Hey man, sorry, but you're totally a bummer right now and well, we were hoping for something more ratings worthy than you sobbing about how much you miss your brother. On to the next one!

Look, I may seem like a cynic here, but I'm a real softy when it comes to kids, and they say cute, funny stuff all the time. My point is that this chainmail is fake. Kids didnt say this stuff, its just garbage thats passed around. And that counts, to me, because if this is just stuff a 40 year old man has made up, then the quotes arent cute at all, and theres no point in going "Aaawwww thats so cuteycutecute of all those toddlers saying that! I dont know where they come up with it!!" Well "they" didnt. They dont even exist, these kids.

Passing around unsourced cute "facts" like this is a stupid meme on the net that should be stomped out. Fine, this one is completely harmless, but they arent all like that. like just the other day I saw this bullshit about how you can die from drinking straight from a soda can, supported by some anectdotal sob-story about someone who knew someones dad's cousin it really happened to.

The same method is frequently used to spread garbage about vaccines and actual medicine and promoting hogwash.

Bottom line: I dont find stuff that imaginary kids said cute.

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Wow, that is one lucky SOB.

Was that noise after the fall the equivalent of a Penguin "SOB"?

>> ^gorillaman:

We're not all as witty and original as you a_c.
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Can't argue with that g'man. Just as most of us will never know the depths of cunt you master <3

We're not all as witty and original as you a_c.

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Of course. That's what makes something nationally relevant. It doesn't even have to affect me. It just needs to impact more than some kid in New Mexico or something (I already don't remember). I'm just saying this isn't national news. There isn't some national epidemic of cops brutalizing 10 year olds.

There could be an epidemic of police brutality, and certainly of racial profiling. A human interest piece covering systemic coverups, dirty departments, anything that involved actual digging could be considered actual national news. In fact, many have been run by the "corporate media" on things like stop-and-frisk, terrorist profiling, and even things like corporate prison labor. I, like most lefties, am interested in well researched stories of that sort. This isn't that. It's some regurgitated local sob story. Typically their fact checking is bullshit to boot.

In other words they amplify noise and partisan rhetoric rather than inform. The Economist or the Times they are not. It's usually fine that they do what they do, it's just that you shouldn't confuse it for something that it isn't, like news.

>> ^scheherazade:

That really speaks to the general state of selfish humanity.
If it isn't affecting me, then I don't care.
People not affected by the economic downturn, don't care about the recession.
People not affected by psycho police, don't care about police brutality.
Enough people are affected by the economy for there to be a lot that want to hear about it in the news.
Only some people are sacrificed to the police gods, so only some care to hear about that in the news.
(Although with 1% of our population in jail, and 1 in 30 in jail or on parole, 1 in 9 black males ages 20 to 34 in jail, it's not that small of an amount... and it's particularly sinister when these people are shoved into private jails that charge the public to hold the prisoners, and then charge the prisoners for their stay [as if it's a hotel], and use the prisoners for cheap labor that they sell to companies that don't want to hire people for livable wages, with solitary if you don't work for them. - on top of most people in jail being guilty of "crimes" that involved no one but themselves and have no harm.)
Ultimately, when it's you that's out of a job, the economy matters a lot.
And when it's you getting tazed, beat up, and charged with assault (oh the irony), then police brutality matters a lot.
The sentiment of "don't waste my time with your sob stories, we've got real problems (that affect me)", really goes all ways.
You could just as well read : "Who cares about your economy, when the government is taking my health and putting me away for no more than the entertainment/venting of a public employee".
-scheherazade

That really speaks to the general state of selfish humanity.
If it isn't affecting me, then I don't care.

People not affected by the economic downturn, don't care about the recession.
People not affected by psycho police, don't care about police brutality.

Enough people are affected by the economy for there to be a lot that want to hear about it in the news.

Only some people are sacrificed to the police gods, so only some care to hear about that in the news.

(Although with 1% of our population in jail, and 1 in 30 in jail or on parole, 1 in 9 black males ages 20 to 34 in jail, it's not that small of an amount... and it's particularly sinister when these people are shoved into private jails that charge the public to hold the prisoners, and then charge the prisoners for their stay [as if it's a hotel], and use the prisoners for cheap labor that they sell to companies that don't want to hire people for livable wages, with solitary if you don't work for them. - on top of most people in jail being guilty of "crimes" that involved no one but themselves and have no harm.)

Ultimately, when it's you that's out of a job, the economy matters a lot.
And when it's you getting tazed, beat up, and charged with assault (oh the irony), then police brutality matters a lot.

The sentiment of "don't waste my time with your sob stories, we've got real problems (that affect me)", really goes all ways.
You could just as well read : "Who cares about your economy, when the government is taking my health and putting me away for no more than the entertainment/venting of a public employee".

-scheherazade

Hah... I always heard it as "Thunder Chief" too when I was a kid.>> ^vex:

>> ^RFlagg:
90% of these I don't think most people misheard... and some seem to be in ways I never heard, like Dirty Deeds... who misheard it as "with sheep"? I always thought it was "and the Thunder Chief"...

Sobbing This whole time I thought I was alone...

>> ^RFlagg:

90% of these I don't think most people misheard... and some seem to be in ways I never heard, like Dirty Deeds... who misheard it as "with sheep"? I always thought it was "and the Thunder Chief"...


*Sobbing* This whole time I thought I was alone...

Ever watched campaign speeches? By practically any candidate, ever? They all say "next year, when I am the president of the United States" blah blah blah.

Is Romney a cocky SOB? Perhaps, but I don't think this clip is compelling evidence of that.

The internet is always good at public shaming. I look forward to a sob story on how his life was destroyed.

☝☝☝☝ Yep to all of the above, but you gotta admit the cops a dick. So the womans' kinna bitchy and she did take the cop up on his threat, ....douchebag!!! It goes with the job.

If this had been a sobbing scene with a lovely young woman i wonder how this speed-trap sittin', BBQ-gut-havin', Podunk Texas flatfoot would have acted?

>> ^mxxcon:

This man loves his hair!




Flaunt it if ya got it.




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