Two strange moments on the TV "news" tonight.

[DemoTex]

The first was during NBC Nightly News. Toward the end of the broadcast, NBC did a feature on the booming sales of motor homes (RVs) in the US. Low interest rates and gasoline availability trump gas prices, said one industry spokesman. I'm screaming at the TV set about blood for oil. With my B/P up to about 200/110, NBC segued into the last segment, a poignant look at Easter Sunday around Camp Pendleton (where most of the dead and wounded Marines of the last couple of weeks were stationed stateside). It was an unbelievable juxtaposition! I wonder if NBC did it on purpose to ridicule the RV buyers?

Next, at 8:07 pm EDT, the CNN Headline News anchor read the results of the latest CNN/Time news poll. Each question and poll results would be flashed while she read the question and results. When question that basically asked if Bu$h knows what he is doing in Iraq (with 51% answering NO) was flashed it wasn't on the screen more than half a second. The next question and result came up while the anchor was still reading the other question. Could have been a technical glitch. Could have been orders from above. It all happened in what the Germans call Ein Augenblick (a blink of the eye).

[Grey]

1. RV buyers

Sometimes an rv is the only "home" some of us can afford, not that we will be driving very far. I know you didn't mean anything by the comment and some of those RV's are pretty fancy. It's just like the suv I drive for my work, it's a 4 cyl, toyota,and I still hear comments about gas guzzleing suv's. don't mean to be smart @ss

[DemoTex]

2. Elective RV-ing is what the program was about.

If an RV is the only home one can afford, then it really isn't an "RV." It is a home. It is shelter. It is a precious necessity in a country obsessed with frivolity.

Man, I've done volunteer work with the homeless for too long to bust anyone's chops for living where they have to live.

BTW: Welcome to DU!

Mac

[izzie]

3. If people drove less and small cars they could stop a lot of this.

We did it before and we could do it now but people wish to live in the way they like.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I saw the report on NBC also.

The juxtapositioning was interesting. And some of those RVs must have cost the earth, considering all the luxuries. One showed a refrigerator larger than mine!

I found the Camp Pendleton thing extremely difficult. No protestors.

Did you see numbnuts at the beginning of that broadcast? Was he wearing TWO flags on his lapel? I could not figure out what the second thing was.