What in the hottest pits of hell is CNN doing???

[Subdivisions]

I was just flipping through the channels trying to find something worth watching and when I passed CNN I saw Skeletor's frightening head. Backing up to see what the fuck, it turns out CNN is running a simulation called Cyber Shockwave. Everything is red, like communist red. There's this panel of neocons and right wing scum acting out a cyber terrorist attack. This is about the creepiest thing I've ever seen on teevee. Edited to add: Well, maybe second creepiest after that glenn beck thing earlier this evening. Huh. Imagine that. The two most creepiest things I've ever seen - on the same night! Weird.

What the fuck are they doing?

[KittyWampus]

1. de-sensitizing us for the inevitable?

[Subdivisions]

2. Softening the target? n/t

[me b zola]

3. They are trying to scare the panties off of us

...but if a person disconnects themselves from the matrix, there is nothing to be afraid of.

[Subdivisions]

4. Yea, I stopped watching teevee news in early December. Can't be

programmed any longer.

[a la izquierda]

8. me too and my heart thanks me...

[kestrel91316]

7. I disconnected last summer after the digital switchover - my converter

box doesn't work, and I don't want cable.

[liberal N proud]

5. Fear is king in the entertain-news industry.

[alp227]

6. A helpful link

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/us-government-will-respond-to-simulated-cyber-terrorism-attack-live-on-cnn-20100212/

[Orrex]

9. You're being a little bit sensationalistic, I think

Don't you appreciate how difficult it is for CNN to fill the hour of daily air-time that isn't crammed full of discussions of Tiger Woods and Sarah Palin?

[RevCheesehead]

10. It's the February sweeps.

For the non-olympic fan, I guess... more terra, terra, terra.

[WeDidIt]

11. They're so full of shit in there premises that the show is about 10 years out of date.

I've dealt with this shit for about fifteen years now and technically, they were completely fucked. They had no clue what the fuck they were talking about.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. It kind of sucks, but

unfortunately, even these freaks have freedom of speech. We have to just let them babble on and hope that we can counter with our side's good sense. That's where the Democrats are falling down now. They need to recapture the message.