Reply #8: Not to turn this into a looting thread, and not to ignore your point about [View All]

[chalky]

our fearless leader, but...
I've had CNN on in the background all evening, and you're right. They keep showing the same three clips of the "looters" over and over. I've seen them often enough to start paying attention to the "loot".

In the first, a guy is making off with a grocery cart that looks to be filled with drinks--either sodas or bottled water, I can't tell. One guy's following behind him and he's either hauling beer or sodas.

In the second they're taking off with diapers, bags of chips, soup, toilet paper and what appears to be "feminine products". A policeman hauls a guy who's holding onto a box of Snickers back into the store.

In the last I see them hauling off clothes. AN AWFUL LOT OF CLOTHES, yes, but clothes nonetheless. Yes, there could be something more expensive stuffed down the bags I saw but mostly they look to be stuffed with cloth-like items, and since the bags were that lovely Walmart blue and covered with yellow smiley-faces, I doubt there were a lot of minks and Tiffany items in them. One guy's bag looked packed with Coca-Colas (And yes, I can recognize a Coke product a mile away, thank you for asking).

AND YET...the talking heads never go into specifics about what's being taken. They keep referring to "merchandise" and "items".
And I had to wonder--are they afraid that they'll stir up too much sympathy for the survivors if they actually say that what these people were looting was food, toiletries and clothes?

To be clear--I heard the reports of shootings, drug addicts stealing "bling" and car-jackings and I DON'T DOUBT THEM ONE BIT. And yes, there's a clip of a smashed ATM that they've shown as well. I'm just having problems with the reporters lumping the people taking survival items in with the true criminals. And I'm wondering about the percentage of crooks loading up on big screen TVs vs. people loading up on Huggies and Snickers.

Thanks for letting me hijack your thread. And now that I've got THAT off my chest, back to your original point....

I heard a few hints (or slips, rather) when one or two of the CMWs went off script, earlier. Sadly, I was actually startled to hear Aaron Brown make an oblique reference to Bush "graciously taking time to go to NO" and his even more subtle reference to the lack of NG.