So ... What Did I Miss?
Dateline: Boston's Logan Airport, moments before a flight back to California
For the last four days I’ve missed the news, merely glancing at the headlines on the newspapers in hotel lobbies—I’ve scarcely even had the chance to check what people have been saying here at Ricochet.
What I can tell you is that New England experienced one of those rare, utterly flawless early autumn weekends, with light breezes and puffball clouds and a sky that seemed a bottomless vault of the creamiest blue. Perfect weather for apple-picking—the Cortlands in the big ceramic bowl in the hotel lobby proved crisp and sweet—and for football—in its pre-season opener, Dartmouth walloped Butler on Saturday evening, and then, Sunday afternoon, the Dartmouth junior varsity team came from behind to edge out Middlebury.
Watching CNN on the monitors here at Logan, I can’t quite tell whether the Middle East remains in crisis or whether CNN is simply prolonging the story.
How much have I missed? Do the events of late last week represent a new departure—perhaps even an historic pivot? Or merely new troubles in a troubled part of the world? Has Romney addressed foreign policy adequately? Has he displayed gravitas?
CNN has its uses, I suppose, but I prefer the Ricochetti.
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Oct '11
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
Sounds like a wonderful weekend, Peter!
Last week was the week the media completely melted down.
Aug '11
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
CNN isn't prolonging the story. They're burying the story. Everything is far, far worse than our media will let on. Even if Romney addressed foreign policy with gravitas, promotion of the narrative would not allow CNN to accurately cover it.
I'm going to have to take a break from the Internet for a few days, I think. This is draining.
It's apple season here, but the hot dry summer has resulted in really high prices at the orchards. And our own apple tree (Honeycrisp!) suffered badly from the weather and the japanese beetles, so we only got a small number of apples that were any good.
Oct '10
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
Does CNN pay to have every airport monitor on their channel? 'cuz I'd sure rather see The Golf Channel or ESPN or anything other than news when I'm sitting in an airport. Sorry, Peter, for digressing, but I'm flying to Boston on Friday and just had to vent.
Anyway, to digress further, until my son went away to college in Virginia we would go to 3 or 4 BC football games each fall (BC alum living in NH at the time), and at least twice a year we'd get the same weather you got at...at...wait, Dartmouth has a football team?
Jun '10
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From what I've see lately, Romney caused all the problems in the Middle East by daring to run against Obama, and he might as well stop running now because the President has the election in the bag.
Apr '11
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
Mitt tried to defend free speech and was pilloried for it. As for gravitas, lets just say he's no Dick Cheney.
All in all it was a disgusting display by the media. The cherry on top though was Susan Rice making the rounds of the Sunday shows. I'm surprised we didn't see her burst into flames, given the theory of pants on fire.
Dec '10
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
Dear Peter,
Everything is fine here, except the part where our middle eastern policy is inflames, our current Administration believes that a highly coordinated assault was the spontaneous reaction to a youtube video, creator of said youtube video was taken into policy custody in the middle of the night. And oh, Egypt might not be our ally anymore.
Best Regards,
Edited on September 17, 2012 at 11:01pmNyadnar17
May '10
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
College football....who beat who? Never heard of 'em.
Oct '10
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
Romney's been socked by the media.
Apr '11
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What's been happening? If polls are to be believed - after terrible job numbers followed by terrible int'l crisis - the USA is descending into a vortex of fear and dependancy that will destroy this country.
Oh, and USC lost to Stanford (can that o-line block anyone?).
Jan '11
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
According to the NYT, fall has arrived
May '10
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An amazing football game at Stanford! As one of the the signs there said "There was no Luck involved." Glad you had a good time, though Butler isn't Ivy, neither was the game " pre-season," just non-league. :)
Jun '10
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
You didn't miss much. Oh, other than our Ambassador to Libya being killed and dragged through the streets, the administration apologizing for it and blaming a YouTube video, Romney getting hammered by all sides because he had the nerve to suggest that we shouldn't apologize when our Ambassadors are killed, and um, lets see, oh yeah Netanyahu urgently asked to meet with Obama regarding Iran, but Obama refused (scheduling conflicts and such). I think that's about it. Oh wait, the Fed implemented QE3 with no sunset date, and our credit rating was downgraded again. Oh yeah, and there is the upcoming election, which of course is in the bag for Obama.
May '12
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
A mountain with rich veins of Unobtanium AND Upsidaisium has been found. But a rare & endangered Mosquito has also been found on the mountain, and its habitat is limited to that mountain.
So, the mountain has been declared Off-Limits for all but the Oompa Loompa tribe that lives there. Where they play their sacred song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ABcNAwytrOY
By the way, it was discovered by a Progressive looking for Big Rock Candy Mountain.
The search for BRCM continues.
Edited on September 18, 2012 at 12:20amMay '10
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Even at this hour, the "The Video Caused It" meme is The Official Version Of Events on all the MSM that I've caught a glimpse of.
Taliban attacks in Afghanistan? Video caused it.
Embassy evacuation necessary in Yemen? Video caused it.
Demonstrations in Europe, Indonesia, and Australia? Video caused it.
Traffic backed up on the toll-road? Video caused it.
Cat had kittens? Video caused it.
And pay no attention that if you are an amateur videographer making pointless movies about Mohammed, you are subject to being hauled out of your house after Midnight on Saturday night to come downtown for a voluntary interview with your probation officer.
Mar '11
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
Peter, you missed Mitt Romney storming the set of Morning Joe and forcing Joe Scarborough to report something at gunpoint.
Or something like that.
May '10
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The New York Times has informed us that Obama's poll numbers look better than Stalin's last two elections, and the media is doing a railroad job on this video guy being to blame that would make Goebbels blush. Plouffe is working on a video to document it called "Das Coptic."
Edited on September 18, 2012 at 2:49amMar '11
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The Pirates are blowing it, Peter. They're just blowing it...
Aug '10
Re: So ... What Did I Miss?
Fall is coming , followed by winter . Thank goodness there are great Obama sweatshirts available , at least that is what was tweeted during the ceremonies at Andrews AFB. It must be serious if it took precedent.
Stay warmed , be involved Mr President .
How is that direct flight from SFO ?
Jun '12
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I know the right is doing it's best not to defend W's record, but I am going to say it. I miss W, we had 5.5% unemployment, decent economic growth and nobody dared to touch our embassies abroad. I feel like I am reliving my childhood during the Carter years.