Does anyone else find this a bit OBSCENE at this point?

[Th1onein]

I'm watching the news coverage of the Colorado movie massacre and I've seen a couple of press conferences with the police chief and other powers that be. What's making me sick to my stomach is the constant, continual back slapping and self-congratulations on the part of these people. Okay, OKAY! You're doing your damned jobs! Do we have to hear, over and over again, ad nauseum, how great you are?

I'm sorry. I just think it's really inappropriate at this point. They need to wait, at least, until we bury the dead, for God's sake.

[Swede]

1. No.

They are traumatised like everyone else there.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. :thumbsup:

[rufus dog]

14. Agree

There was a nurse on last night that appeared seconds away from a massive breakdown. She composed herself and went in to saying how everyone did a great job.

In reality she was just trying to make it through the interview and likely the most traumatic day of her life.

[Swede]

15. Imagine the cops that guarded the theatre with the ten bodies laying in blood.

That would cause nightmares forever.

[Mimosa]

2. Serously agree

Which is why I have not been watching the 'news coverage' on this. Everybody wants their 15 minutes.

[nebenaube]

12. Want to end mass murder?

[Fawke Em]

26. That voice sounds JUST LIKE Pete Townshend.

I digress....but it made me listen.

[soccer1]

3. It's always like this after a mass murder......

the 24/7 news channels have to fill in air time so they yak, yak, yak .....say anything. I haven't watched any of the coverage on TV. I read newspapers online.

[Pamela Troy]

4. No, not really.

The job of the police involves coming face to face with the horrors of these crimes and putting themselves in harms way. I can understand the relief that they managed to prevent things from getting even worse.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Self congratulation is this 'I did a great job!'

Leadership is this- 'they are doing fine work under tragic circumstances'. People in leadership roles should thank those doing the hardest and most traumatic duties.
It is interesting to me that you use the pronoun 'we' in terms of burying the dead, and 'they' in terms of the people who are actually burying the dead. 'These people' carried the stretchers. You say 'these people'. Then you say 'we'. I have to say wow to that. Wow.

[Th1onein]

8. Wow to you, too, Bluenorthwest! WOW!

When the Chief of Police comes on TeeVee and congratulates and backslaps the police force, I call that self-congratulatory. I think most people would.

I think there's a time for that, and now is not the time. Nor is it the time for introducing "dignitaries." There is a time and a place for this sort of thing. Now is not the time. All of the next of kin of the dead have not been notified yet. Jesus.

They, we, them, us, you, who cares how it's couched, or in what terms? I'm not Mitt's wife and I could care less about the pronouns. It's just sickening, all the self-congratulations that are going on right now. And introducing dignitaries? Huh? Is this a tragedy or a political rally?

[monmouth]

7. Turn.The.TV.Off....n/t

[pennylane100]

9. I always prefer not to watch the 24 hour talking heads that are just filling air time.

Once I know that there is no more people in harms way, I prefer not to watch the spectacle that is presented by the media, all of them trying to get a special angle on a tragic story that will give them more camera time than their competition. I find it disgusting. I know the people affected by this terrible crime want answers but I also think the deserve to get those answers in privacy, not on a world stage.

In a few days, maybe longer, we will get a clearer picture of who this monster was and what motivated him but I think the families of the victims should be given some privacy while they are dealing with this tragedy.

What I do find very distasteful is the gun rights advocates who are already busy putting in their two cents worth before the victims of the shooting have been buried. Shame on them.

[BeHereNow]

10. The entire country is an obscenity for the most part, so your point is?

I have never been so disgusted in my life.
All of it, every where you turn, it is spiritually, emotionally and physically FILTHY.

Not the country I grew up in, not at all.

Nothing surprises me anymore; the depths of depravity have become,
sadly, something I expect.

BHN

[Raine]

11. That's why after I've heard the facts of a tragedy I don't bother with the "news" that goes on

for days and days afterward.

[GarroHorus]

13. I find something different obscene

What I find obscene is somebody with the temerity to disrespect a leader of first responders trying to boost the morale of his team during a traumatic and trying period.

That's what I find obscene.

[Th1onein]

16. Sorry, Garrohorus, I'm not into respect for authority.

And there's a time and a place for that sort of thing. That was neither the time nor the place.

Like I said, it's OBSCENE.

[GarroHorus]

17. Lot's of obscenity is what I see n/t

[Th1onein]

30. Imagine a doctor doing something like that

Coming out of the operating room and telling the parent, "Hey, your kid's dead, but let me tell you, that anesthesiologist did a GREAT job! And I want to give a special thanks to the operating room nurse, too! And, by the way, let me introduce you to some of my buddies...."

I'm sorry. I've lost a child. I know what that feels like. This is NOT the time to be congratulating yourself, or your peers, for a job well done. And it CERTAINLY isn't the time to be introducing dignitaries!

FFS, they hadn't even notified all of the relatives of the dead, at the first press conference where he did this!

There's such a thing as decency and decorum, and no amount of respect for "authority" overrides that.

[lunatica]

18. I think they're talking to the people of Aurora mainly

probably trying to assure them that they're on the job. But I'm glad they're also talking to the country. I definitely want to know what's happening other than what the journalists are coming up with. Hearing from the Police Chief and the FBI and the bomb experts is important to me.

And you never know how much pressure they're under from the community. And a lot of police took the wounded to the hospital in their squad cars and I assume some people were saved because of this.

[Skip Intro]

19. Very little that isn't obscene on tv, internet, radio, games, these days...

and consequently, ever steadily, in society, people in general, are increasingly obscene, celebrating and giggling at the corrosion of any morality.

Disease is being pumped into our minds and our kids' minds from every angle.

This has been going on long before the events of the past couple of days.

[Lex]

20. There was a time when people were humble about doing their jobs, but now days

everybody wants do the touchdown dance and shout "USA USA" all too often.

[Kalidurga]

21. I don't find it obscene.

Because I don't see it that way. They dealt with a traumatic situation and they have been dealing with it for a couple of days now. Until you know what it is like to pick up a badly wounded person that you don't know if they are going to live or die and then you have your co-workers dealing with a booby trapped apartment. Not, knowing if they are going to live or die, because there is probably no way to make sure that disarming all the bombs is going to be 100% safe. And until you have to tell someone that their loved ones didn't make it. I don't think you are in a position to say what is obscene.

[GarroHorus]

22. Bravo

The only obscenity is anyone who denigrates these brave people.

[Zax2me]

23. Well, I do see where you are coming from.

It bothers me that first responders arrived within a reported 2 minutes - yet the shooter went on for close to 20?
All of this is too horrifically fresh.
And frustrating.

[Fawke Em]

24. No... actually I want to see an Obama commercial

showing those PUBLIC workers responding overlapped with Romney's asinine comments about how Wisconsin voted to teach us that we don't want taxes to pay for these people.

[LiberalAndProud]

25. The entire episode is obscene.

If James Holmes was seeking notoriety ...

[center]mission accomplished.[/center]

I suspect tru-tv is maneuvering as we speak to bring us into the front row viewing audience. Crime porn at its best.


If the press conferences are too self-congratulatory for your taste, turn them off.

[MADem]

27. I'm with the "turn off the tube" crowd.

You're not the Robot Chicken, strapped down and forced to watch. You have options. Exercise them.

[DainBramaged]

28. Reaffirmation of their manliness.

It goes on their permanent record you know.

[bluestateguy]

29. We had that during Katrina too

I remember Anderson Cooper had finally had enough and he blew up at Mary Landrieu in an interview about all the politicians congratulating each other.

Found it here: