Posted on 05/20/2013 6:24:46 PM PDT by chessplayer
As NewsBusters has reported over the years, America's media love to hype every serious weather event.
On Monday, shortly after an F4 tornado demolished the town of Moore, Oklahoma, MSNBC's Martin Bashir called it "perhaps the worst tornado in the history of the planet" (video follows with transcript and commentary,
Probably not in the history of the planet, possibly in the history of recorded history.
There have been F5’s.
Fatalities are going to exceed 100 by the time all is done.
It could not have been a more unfortunate confluence of events.
I'm guessing the President will deign to show himself in the situation room for this "incident."
Ah, he’s on MSNBC. No wonder I didn’t know who he was.
We need more gas taxes, property taxes, fines, fees and government regulation...raise the electric rates!!
Those with even addresses should ride bikes to work on odd numbered days...
Bike pool with your neighbor with using tandem bikes!
Nothing else will stop the global warming
in terms of area of damage, he might be right...astonishing
If those “people” in OK had given up some of their wealth...this would have never happened./s
Liberals suffer from a silly modern conceit. This was a devastating storm, but hardly the worst in the history of the planet. He needs to study the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, among others. The Tri-State Tornado was an F5 that was on the ground for 3.5 hours and traveled 234 miles across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, which is the longest continual tornado path in the recorded history of the world. It killed at last 747 people and injured thousands, making it the deadliest in U.S. history by far.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado
Out of curiousity I tuned in to MSNBC. Heard Chris Matthews and didn’t last 20 seconds.
You can tell an F5, even the grass gets sucked up. Learned that a the ‘97 Jerrell Tx tornado....
Libs are ECSTATIC about the destruction and deaths this thing caused. They really are. Now they are actually claiming (DUer’s) that the Earth NEVER had tornados or hurricanes until humans showed up.
if there are no humans how would they know?? I'll bet they are ecstatic that the IRS is off the front page, though..
The History channel did a program on that in their Wrath of God series
Bttt....excellent comment!
One of the many things my grandfather said about the F5 Tri-State Tornado was that blades of grass and pieces of straw were driven deep into tree trunks like nails. I’ve got dozens of old photos of the devastation from the communities in Southern Illinois. If I told someone they were pictures of Hiroshima or Nagasaki they would believe me.
Any lib that is happy about this I hope that karma gets them..it may not be today, or tomorrow..but it will happen..because scum bags like that who relish over the misery of others are NOT human beings
Yep, I have a copy. There is a scene with a truck in a tree. That was my great-grandather’s truck.
Gotta to the “Tri-State Tornado” killed 695 people and injured 2,027, traveling more than 300 miles through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, 1925. It was rated an F5 at the top of the old Fujita scale (with winds of 260-plus mph).
Those Liberals -- they just like to say stuff.
Same is true with hurricane damage. Damage is worse than in storms of the pastdecades because there is a lot more development...everywhere.
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