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Will CNN Bed Bug Infestation Cause MSM to Demand Lifting of DDT Ban?
NewsBusters ^ | August 15, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/15/2010 5:09:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Don't be too surprised to soon see CNN's Wolf Blitzer go from merely rubbing his beard to violently scratching his entire body. And please, Anderson Cooper, do try to refrain from incessantly touching yourself on camera. However, perhaps they can be forgiven. You see, according to TV Newser, CNN/Time Warner has a severe bed bug infestation and has sent out the following internal e-mail:

August 13, 2010
To: TBS, Inc. Employees
From: TBS, Inc. Human Resources

The Time Warner Center Facilities Department advises that bed bugs have been detected in Time Warner Center. This determination was made after testing was conducted on several floors of the building. In response, Time Warner Facilities is working with pest control providers to address the issue in an environmentally safe manner, and during non-working hours...


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bedbugs; cnn
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Bed Bugs are a MAJOR problem in NYC. Almost impossible to get rid of them EXCEPT with the use of DDT. Now it will be interesting to see how long before the call goes out to lift the DDT ban. Those itching Upper West Side liberals can't hold out for much longer.
1 posted on 08/15/2010 5:09:41 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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What are the beds for?


2 posted on 08/15/2010 5:14:22 PM PDT by mirkwood
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That would be just so normal.
Limo Liberals ban DDT as a pet cause.
Millions of Africans die because of bug carriers of disease.
Now bedbugs cause them angst so they find it’s not so bad.

And they call us racists?


3 posted on 08/15/2010 5:16:49 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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Liberals are the ones who banned DDT based on feelings and bogus science, let them itch!


4 posted on 08/15/2010 5:16:49 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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Simple, remove all the beds from the Time-Warner building. Problem solved.


5 posted on 08/15/2010 5:18:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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Yahoo! now reports that West Wing of White House now covered by a tarp. A bed bug problem there as well? Perhaps Obama will make a special call to Carol Browner to lift the EPA ban on DDT just for him.


6 posted on 08/15/2010 5:19:09 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Taking it to the next level with coupons)
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Bugs won't bite them.

Professional courtesy.

7 posted on 08/15/2010 5:20:05 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
What a mess this town’s in tatters I’ve been shattered


8 posted on 08/15/2010 5:20:16 PM PDT by dennisw (2012)
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Perhaps this also explains the tarp at the WH.


9 posted on 08/15/2010 5:20:27 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1fDL7x1Sg)
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ANYTHING is worth a try if it cuts down on their rate of reproduction... :-))


10 posted on 08/15/2010 5:20:59 PM PDT by bigheadfred (apoplectic purple)
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They would have to remove beds AND couches AND carpeting AND most of the furniture. Bed bugs were a big problem in the USA in the early 20th century but with the advent of DDT the bed bugs were almost completely eliminated...only to return in force due to the ban.


11 posted on 08/15/2010 5:21:35 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Taking it to the next level with coupons)
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Obama was probably smoking and set something on fire....

You know damn well he hasn't quit smoking. He must have loved Chicago...the saloons, the coke, the smoke....yeh...just a cheap Chicago thug

12 posted on 08/15/2010 5:22:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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Will DDT cause Democrats to become sterile?


13 posted on 08/15/2010 5:23:17 PM PDT by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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Time, August 6, 1945: Science: Homemade DDT
14 posted on 08/15/2010 5:23:17 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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Googling finds a number of non-DDT insecticides that are supposed to kill bed bugs and be relatively harmless to humans. However, at least one of them (Chlorfenapyr) can’t be shipped to New York... figures!


15 posted on 08/15/2010 5:25:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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That was when you could get Mickey Finns over the counter... whoopee!


16 posted on 08/15/2010 5:26:51 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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This is a true story. A friend of mine once took a course under none other than Doctor Heinz Meng, America's greatest expert on birds of prey, the first person to ever breed peregrines in captivity and the man who released peregrines into Baltimore to solve the pigeon problems.

My friend asked Meng about DDT point blank in the classroom in front of thirty other people. Meng replied that everything any of them had ever heard was a bunch of BULLSHIT, that DDT never harmed anything other than insects and was utterly harmless to hawks and eagles and/or their eggs. He said that the decline in raptor populations from the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s was due to farmers and rednecks using them for shotgun practice i.e. that they were dying from lead poisoning, and that after around 1960 farmers started keeping chickens in cages and nobody cared any more, and the raptors came back.

17 posted on 08/15/2010 5:27:10 PM PDT by wendy1946
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No self respecting redneck would shoot an eagle. Only hicks do that.


18 posted on 08/15/2010 5:29:46 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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Bed bugs . . . or crabs?


19 posted on 08/15/2010 5:29:53 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (NO MOS-que)
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What are the beds for?

Casting couch. How else do you suppose Elliot Spitzer got a job there?

20 posted on 08/15/2010 5:31:08 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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