| | Alright, it's time to play the morbid media circus drinking game.
This game can be played immediatly after a morbid event that the national media circus will cover, and is best to play in the 24-48 hours timespan after it happens, but can be played later. It's not much fun earlier because the media needs time to make stuff up and get their wonderful "expert advisors" into place to explain to average joe american what really "happened", and what "they were thinking".
For those who don't know, the tragedy this time around was a shooting at I believe Virginia Tech. A very unfortunate situation, my heart goes out to those involved. However we now have the opportunity watch the media circus in anction. So without further delay....
Take a drink IF:
1. Jack thomson talks on any national network.
1a. If he blames the violence on video games
1b. Without any evidence whatsoever
2. If anyone comes on national news and speaks of a "suspected terrorist link"
2a. Due to circumstantial evidence, such as friends or religions of ex-roommate's brother.
2b. If they mention that it was because he "Once had a beard". <- You laugh, but this was said on cnn national news as evidence that a person was a terrorist. If ya doubt, ask and i'll show you the clip.
2c. No evidence at all.
3. If the national news says that the person is asian and shows a cop cuffing him to the ground (That was a reporter)
4. Your university institutes a worthless policy that does not help security at all and the measures are unrelated to this incident in that the incident happened in a different manner.
5. Your public school system institutes a worthless policy that does not help security at all and is unrelated to this incident.
6. The news show contains 5 minutes or less of actual information for every 30 minutes of discussion of the incident.
7. Every time the incident is used to promote a tangent using a logical fallacy.
Take two drinks if:
1. The national government institutes a worthless policy that does not help security at all and is unrelated to this incident.
2. A "forum" on gun control is held on a news syndicated talk show.
2a. 5. In the "forum" on gun control, you do not hear mention that virginia
tech recently shot down a bill allowing certain protection personel to
carry defensive weapons.
3. Jack thomson is on said news syndicated talk show, and talks about GTA.
4. President Bush decrys the act and uses it as an excuse for illegal domestic surveilance.
5. Religion is involved, anywhere.
6. Police describe as an "isolated" incident.
7. Any public group in your general area releases a new bulliten of "self defense" or "social awareness" seminars.
8. Your business institutes a worthless policy that does not help security at all and is unrelated to this incident.
And i think that's about all I can be sarcastic about tonight. The media circus is being slow on this one, but it's already getting pretty disgusting. Feel free to post your own so we can get a more complete list. Or flame what a horrid person I am, that always works too. But if you can't laugh at the media circus, then that means you take them seriously. And that, my friend, is scary.
Peace
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| | Posted 4/17/2007 1:25 AM - 6 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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