Hurricane Irene Media Coverage and Global Warming Narrative
Hurricane Irene's impact on the U.S. East Coast is characterized as a media-driven farce and a distraction from ongoing military operations in Libya. The storm serves as a test for the Council of Governors executive order and a talking point for global warming advocates despite being downgraded to a category one hurricane. News organizations like ABC and CNN are criticized for using tight camera shots and hyperbolic adjectives to exaggerate the storm's severity.
hurricane irene· barack obama· council of governors· global warming· libya· cnn· abc news
00:00 Adam, it's a terrible storm here and the ducks...the ducks are flying. And they're just a flank away from the storm that is bad sign Adam. The water is rising. It's rising into my west! Adam Curry John C Devorah It is Sunday August 28th 2011 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 334 This Is No Agenda Tracking the tracking of Irene from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in the People's Republic of Southern California. In The Morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry And from the northern encampment, I'm John C. DuVoix.
00:55 Who are charged up ready to go once again as a government loves them in the chat room with no agenda stream calm? No, agenda chat.net is the show has always performed live Sunday mornings Thursday mornings and you are up in upstate Washington Upstate their Port Angeles northern encampment that way you call it right well when did you get up there I After a couple days ago, okay? Well, I mean I got up here a couple of days ago. Yeah, that's what I mean so have you been following the news yeah There's not much going on except this Hurricane this thing has me baffled it really does it has me absolutely baffled there's only one thing I can think that this whole farce is about because it is a farce obviously and
01:46 This is like a test of the Council of Governors. That's the executive order that President Obama enacted in January 2010 for all kinds of disasters and it coincides so nicely with another earthquake in Albany and, of course, they drill for massive human migration towards West Virginia but it certainly wasn't like really really horrible devastating storm-the one that was promised Well, I know they had people bailing out and then...I thought that the whole thing was just a it's just kind of talking point regarding global warming. Well you know interesting you say that because...oh jeez first before we get there i just want to give people who are not in the United States because we do have plenty of listeners around the world and I don't think CNN International
02:42 or any of the other news channels and their hype of this, which by the way completely threw Libya off-off the map. It's like nothing going on in Libya This is a huge distraction as we would say Let me try and give you an example Of uh...the past 48 hours on all television channels here in United States So if you have to kind of throw it to me John I'll be a guy outside with a jacket on and a hood, fighting against the wind. You gotta toss it to me. We have Adam in the storm as we speak... Yes! John it's kind of hard to hear As you can tell Irene is just raging up the coast completely enthralling everything. We see sea surges, sea walls It is just I mean we can barely stand here
03:38 That's pretty much what we had the past 48 hours. It's just ludicrous! Completely crazy and you know, when this started because we went to Vegas for my daughter's 21st birthday So this started Friday and Mickey's like, ah! I'm like no trust me. This is nothing. You can see that when they started morphing away from actually talking about the strength of the storm as it started to die down... I was like oh this it just all over. It's not gonna happen let me play you a...I love the adjectives people were using for this now tropical wet fart
04:33 Uh, this is ABC the compromised news organization. Witnessing history rarely before has a hurricane barreled forward with so many major American cities in her path Irene is roaring up the east coast tonight The hurricanes eye is moving into Virginia you're looking live at Nags Head North Carolina pummelling that region all day and now the view from another perspective You can see from space that is the angry swirling high above earth tonight And this evening, Irene is a category one hurricane. What? It's category one! Category one is nothing. Nothing. Just to give you an idea... A couple of things I was doing.
05:15 and I would see where the reporter would be standing. By the way, these are all really tight shots so that you... this is a television trick it really is! So you do the same thing with all of Libya and all the Arab Spring footage as well just to a tight shot on the reporter You don't really have a lot of background information coming to you. Yes? Well one other things I want to point out I wanna remind people of a clip that floated around during one of these flood days situation someplace in the country where the reporter was in a boat and he's showing the devastation this huge devastation is great flood as he's in the boat reporting and then some guy walks by in waiters so I just want to say one thing because you know here's the typical response I'm already seeing it in chat room 10 people died man no listen
06:05 If people were on the streets, a hundred people would have died. People die all the time every single day in traffic accidents I think probably less people died in the past 48 hours than is typical Would you agree? I had some guy just tweet me the other day about, oh look this proves you wrong. To a New York Times article saying that Romney and and
06:54 It is mind-controlling people and I had to remind myself and Mickey, remember we were in this earthquake in DC. It wasn't all that bad as the way it was reported within seconds. We saw the transition. I mean, to completely stop reporting on the continuous NATO bombing of Libya which is really weird to me since you know if you've already captured Tripoli why do you have to continue to bomb? I guess something's not right. And apparently by the way they've been bombing a pathway that just bombed the crap out these people and these dumb rebels take credit for everything. No but that's when you are a Nobel Peace Prize winner and that's what you do your carpet-bomb people
