QUICK: MSNBC

QUICK. BEFORE THEY PULL THE PLUG, EVERYONE WHO IS INDOORS AND HAS MSNBC PLEASE TUNE INTO MSNBC'S MEMORIAL DAY HOOPLA.  

It was 10:45 EDT, and I was watching.  Were you? Someone should make an open thread to monitor these folks.  

I just watched a Marine being patched through to his son. It was billed to be a surprise for both of them.  I think they surprised them all right, but it was more shock and awe than thanks for the memories.  

I just don't understand why they have to use the child like that. The MSNBC anchor actually said to the child that although his father can't be at the kid's baseball games, what does he say to the other kids about where his father is. The child's response was "he's fighting." I think he meant to say "he's fighting for our freedoms" or "he's fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" or something schmaltzy like that.  

Then, they have to ask the dad how he is going to celebrate the kid's birthday in the next couple of days. I can only imagine what thoughts ran through the father's head other than the obvious that he would be, of course, celebrating it in the middle of a war zone!  Wait til next year, son...

I hate to say it, but neither one of them said they loved the other.  Yes, the child said he missed his dad, but that was it.  

PLEASE WATCH AND REPORT.....

•  Emotional voyeurism

  The media shouldn't pull these stunts and we shouldn't try and make any inferences based upon their intrusion.

  by jmaier on Mon May 29, 2006 at 08:01:22 AM PDT

•  I see the awol War time

  president is there.  He should be arrested for desecrating this day with his brainless rhetoric. Freedom on the march, blah, blah, blah, fighting them over there, so we don't fight them here, blah, blah, blah, global war on terror.  Bull feces.

  by Desert Rose on Mon May 29, 2006 at 08:07:18 AM PDT

•  I wanted to apologize for directing

  anyone's attention to Shrubya.  If I had known, he was coming on, I would have told everybody to go outside.
  Just tune out MSNBC and all news channels for the next  20 minutes or so.  

  I am sure they will return to their madness.  

  by fightorleave on Mon May 29, 2006 at 08:10:02 AM PDT

  •  It's OK

    I'm compelled to watch him anyway.  I have little sandbags that I throw at the TV when I can't take it anymore, and yep, he said it, "We're fighting them over there....blah,blah,blah."

    by Desert Rose on Mon May 29, 2006 at 08:29:54 AM PDT

•  WTF?

  chimpy is 'determined to account for all MIAs'(applause) - what's with that?

  BTW: 80 seconds before he mentioned 9/11 - is he studying Tantra? Amazing self-control! LOL

  by Clem Yeobright on Mon May 29, 2006 at 08:23:31 AM PDT

  •  which mia's is he referring to ?

    are we missing soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan ?  Or is he working on the VietNam MIA's ?

    by murphy on Mon May 29, 2006 at 08:58:11 AM PDT

    •  Have they found the Cobra crew yet?

      by Big Nit Attack on Mon May 29, 2006 at 10:05:59 AM PDT