Posted on 02/14/2013 4:02:02 PM PST by Libloather
RUSH: Now, the poor Carnival Cruise Line. They've got the cruise ship out there that's lost all power. Apparently it is a floating sewer. It's a floating pigsty. I'm sorry, I just can't help it. The media is focusing on this ship. They've actually been focused on it for the last three days as it has been drifting aimlessly out there in the Gulf of Mexico. But now it's got a tow. They're towing the thing and it's heading to Alabama.
CNN is gonna anchor the arrival of the sewer, the floating sewer live tonight. Erin Burnett at seven o'clock will actually anchor the arrival of this floating sewer. It's like this thing is returning from a great war with a bunch of wounded soldiers, except we don't treat wounded soldiers with this much respect. Now, why is the media obsessed with this? Okay, this is a cruise ship, and it's lost power and we're hearing really, really gross accounts from some of the passengers about conditions on board this ship.
I don't feel comfortable repeating some of it, like sewage actually running down the walls of people's cabins. It's really gross stuff. The media is obsessed with this. Now, it has some ingredients that would qualify for media obsession. Suffering. You've got suffering in the midst of plenty: A cruise ship. You have suffering in the midst of opulence. It's a cruise ship. It's a vessel made by the private sector. It's a vessel that operates in the private sector.
It's a vessel that operates for profit, and it's become a floating sewer. As such, it does represent, whether you agree with me or not... I hope you've learned by now never really to disagree with me. But it's an opportunity for the media to make subtle, read-between-the-lines digs at the unfairness and lack of concern by corporate CEOs and owners and profiteers. "They don't care that their ship's a floating pigsty!"
Have you heard what they've offered the passengers? They have offered... (interruption) Did they offer the refund? (interruption) Okay, hang on. (interruption) Calm down in there. It's not worth an adrenaline rush. They have offered a refund and a 15% discount on the next trip. Of course, this is insulting to people like CNN and others who think that the cruise ship company ought to donate the ship to the passengers because of this... (interruption)
No, I'm not defending Carnival. I'm not defending anybody. I'm just trying to perform a service here, a little moderate amount of education as to why a floating, out-of-commission cruise ship makes the media so happy. They're ecstatic with this! They're ecstatic with the suffering. They're ecstatic with all this because it offers them an opportunity to blame somebody, to blame capitalism, to blame the private sector. (interruption)
What's wrong with the offer? (interruption) What, the refund and 15% discount? I'm not commenting on the offer. I'm just telling you what it is. If I ran the cruise ship, I will say it'd be more than a 15% discount. I'd give everybody a comp trip. After refunding, I'd comp 'em. If I ran the cruise ship, I would comp 'em. I would eat the profit on this trip. I would comp the people on board, and then I'd thank God that they trusted me to go on another one of my ships after this.
But that's just me. I don't run this outfit, but if I did, I would comp 'em. I'd refund them and I'd comp 'em on a trip on a whatever they wanted to go, on whatever ship, within the next say two or three years. And if they accepted, I would thank God that I had a chance to get 'em back as customers. But that's just me. And if they did that, then they'd confound the media and everything, but they're not.
Mr. Hankey Cruise Lines
In addition to the full refund and 15% discount, they are gettig hotel rooms, meals and $500 when they’re getting off.
If it had been an Italian cruise line the crew would have abandoned ship by now, leaving the passengers behind.
Bush’s fault?
Who is going to get on a bus for a long trip to N.O. or Galveston after their experience? I want A SHOWER NOW and a proper meal ...
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Amen to that. I’d get a cab and head for the nearest hotel then a plane ticket or car rental home. I went on one cruise and hated it! Never again.
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Misspelled crabby?
I have just one question.
Why werent they putting the sewage over the side of the boat? Why were they not putting potties out doors with privacy screens and then pitching it overboard?
I dont get it. A whole ocean out there and a big emergency.
Thank you
Because dumping it overboard would probably result in fines for pollution.
Regulatory bureaucracies that work in this country should be eliminated.
10 knot north wind dragging the dead weight = little to no forward movement. Without the building wind, at least a 10 hour tow from Fort Morgan to Brookley Field.
The west shore is almost close enough to swim for it — but just almost.
“Risking people’s lives by exposing them to raw sewage is a poor thing to do.”
See that red bag? Its a biohazard bag. Certainly not optimum but not any different then thousands of people use while camping.
Can’t disagree about the bureaucracies though.
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Wow.
See that red bag? Its a biohazard bag. Certainly not optimum but not any different then thousands of people use while camping.
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Thousands of people camping in the woods is one thing, thousands of people living in what is essentially a floating hotel is another. Overboard.
Shit arriving at port 9:30 or so tonight. Then 4-5 hours to disembark and then off to hotel for a shower..
“Being aboard any ship is like being in prison with a risk of drowning.”
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Absolutely, my wife can’t understand why I don’t want to go cruising but I tell her that I cruised for about nine months once courtesy of Uncle and I am all caught up on cruising. I was not claustrophobic then but I am now.
Why werent they putting the sewage over the side of the boat?
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Wind blowing it back at you or dumping on your neighbors head?
Maybe they did on the “POOP” deck.
Imagine living in a densely packed “eco” city when the power goes out. Yep, something like this.<<<
Carnival Triumph, allegory for SOTU, the Shining Floater on the Hill... Barackville
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