Thursday, July 07, 2005

WWJD?? Buy!! Buy!! Buy!!!

Most people can at least fake some kind a humanistic response to senseless killings.

Not Brit "Conservative Values" Hume (from Media Matters)...

From Fox News' July 7 breaking news coverage between 1 and 2 p.m. ET:

SMITH: Some of the things you might expect to happen, for instance, a drop in the stock market and some degree of uncertainty across this country -- none of that really seen today, and I wonder if the timing of it -- that it happened in the middle of the night and we were able to get a sense of the grander scheme of things -- wasn't helpful in all this.

HUME: Well, maybe. The other thing is, of course, people have -- you know, the market was down. It was down yesterday, and you know, you may have had some bargain-hunting going on. I mean, my first thought when I heard -- just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, "Hmmm, time to buy." Others may have thought that as well. But you never know about the markets. But obviously, if the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm about it. But there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way that -- partly in the way the Brits handled all this, but also in the way that officials here handled it. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here, although there's no indication that we here had any advance warning.

2 comments:

Otto Man said...

What a humanitarian.

alex supertramp said...

when GOD is on your side you are always right, the infidels/sinners deserved to die, and really the jing in your pocket is the most important thing in the world -- it's in the bible, right next to the part about imminent domain and before the part on how rich white men are the true superior race and should rule the world -- Tom Cruise pointed it out, a few chapters before the whole alien section. ....What a bastard.....