If a tree falls in a forest and only bloggers notice..

[SariesNightly]

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If a congressman calls for a nuclear attack, and only blogs notice, does it really make a sound?

Number of times Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) recommended an unprovoked nuclear attack on Syria: 2
Number of daily newspaper articles to report the remark: 0

Number of newspaper editorials and op-eds to comment on the remark: 0
Number of reports on Johnson's comments on CNN: 1
Number of combined reports on Johnson's comments on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, and MSNBC: 0

At this point, I think it's safe to say the guy is going to get away with this. Let this be a lesson to all of us: Republican members of Congress can, in public, call for nuclear strikes in the Middle East and the national media will consider it mundane and uninteresting. Good to know.
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http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/003648.html

[merh]

1. It never happened of course, reports of that tree falling are just

wild conspiracy theories, trying to blame the government for the death of that tree because of its poor record on environmental protection. Those damn conspiracy nutts, they hate ameriku and all of our freedoms. They probably cut that tree down!

[burn the bush]

2. There was no tree!

[NV Whino]

3. This niggling little thought has been haunting me

What if bloggers highjacked the MSM? What if suddenly those little strips at the bottom of the screen started to tell it like it is? Just a thought....

Off subject: love your photo sig line. Beautiful. Did you take it?

on edit: typos--again. Argh.

[realFedUp]

4. Can one hijack those little newsbite strips?

I guess one could if one worked
at one of said networks, but can
it be done from the outside?

Just asking.

[NV Whino]

6. Not being one of the ones who could, I don't know...

But I bet there're some people who could.

[SariesNightly]

5. I could only wish..

The pics are from this wonderful site,

http://www.southknoxbubba.net/skblog/

[NV Whino]

7. Thanks for the link.

I spent some time in Knoxville. (Stole a quote for my sig line.) I love it that one of their main streets is called Gay Street.

[atommom]

8. No trees fell. Under our Healthy Forests Initiative,

our forests are completely silent. (And much healthier, now that the trees are gone.)