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Martin Bashir on Moore, Oklahoma: 'Perhaps the Worst Tornado in the History of the Planet'
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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,


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: dumbass; oklahoma; oktornado; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: chessplayer
He should've seen the one in 1789 -- it blew away a heap many teepees.

Where do these brainless, uneducated idiots come from? This storm sadly did a lot of damage and killed/injured many people. But there were gigantic tornados before the region was heavily populated and media fools like Bashir around to display their own ignorance.

41 posted on 05/20/2013 7:01:25 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: .45 Long Colt
This is how you can tell an f5. Here is a picture from Jarrell Tx. The asphalt and grass have been sucked up. An f5 is like a huge vacuum cleaner.


42 posted on 05/20/2013 7:02:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: chessplayer

It doesn’t even come close the the 1925 Tri-State tornado.


43 posted on 05/20/2013 7:05:25 PM PDT by Spirochete (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: Amberdawn
I wish Bashir was hit by a tornado. Perhaps he’ll get deposited in Yemen or somewhere.

He looks like he would fit right in!
44 posted on 05/20/2013 7:06:37 PM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian Black Man!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

think he;s from India who was brought up in America and now moved here and thinks he is smart and should be heard.

Think it’s him anyway.

If so then the man is a fool , an elitist fool who has no idea about the real world and works at a station which has only one purpose and that is to cover for their messiah like the rest of the cult of oabma


45 posted on 05/20/2013 7:08:13 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: RedMonqey

I mentioned the Tri-State too, but I used slightly different stats, but that is beause the stats differ slightly based on the reference source. Some in 1925 believed more than 1,000 died. It was hard to get an accurate death count because it traveled over such a large area. Plus, there were places so utterly destroyed it was impossible to know if some of the people were blown away or if they left after the storm to look for work elsewhere. Some of the injured people were hastily put on trains and they never returned home. Because of inefficient communication, chaos, and the tremendous area involved, it was simply impossible to get precise figures.


46 posted on 05/20/2013 7:10:38 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: napscoordinator

The Tri-State tornado, March 1925 was massive:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/natural-disasters/4219866


47 posted on 05/20/2013 7:10:56 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: lonestar

Yes...a much stronger tornado could have gone through the plains and done little damage...but this one hit a highly developed area.


48 posted on 05/20/2013 7:14:53 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: chessplayer
Cf. Wikipedia article on the Tri-State Tornado


49 posted on 05/20/2013 7:16:24 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: napscoordinator
Tri State back in 1925 had 700 deaths.

Depends on how you measure these things ~ bodies, dollars, square miles of devastation, what?

50 posted on 05/20/2013 7:18:00 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: chessplayer

Yes and at 6’1”, I am perhaps the tallest man who ever lived.

Perhaps, Martin.


51 posted on 05/20/2013 7:18:21 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: chessplayer

Hyperbole is the main communication means for the left.


52 posted on 05/20/2013 7:18:54 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: central_va

“You can tell an F5, even the grass gets sucked up. Learned that a the ‘97 Jerrell Tx tornado....”

Grass gets scoured in F-3 F-4 tornadoes. F-5’s scour asphalt and concrete. The Jarrell tornado did that. People in basements without concrete roofs were killed in Jerrell


53 posted on 05/20/2013 7:18:55 PM PDT by Figment
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To: dr_lew

Imagine how terrible it must have been back then without any advance warning systems.


54 posted on 05/20/2013 7:19:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Martin Bashier: Perhaps the worst talking head in the history of the planet.


55 posted on 05/20/2013 7:31:11 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: muawiyah; RedMonqey; Wiser now

Thank you so much for the information on the tri-state 1925 tornadoes. That is what I love about this site!!!!! You learn something all the time.


56 posted on 05/20/2013 7:33:03 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: chessplayer

Did he look at these?

http://www.epicdisasters.com/index.php/site/comments/the_deadliest_us_tornadoes/

http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/591130


57 posted on 05/20/2013 7:33:45 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: lonestar

yep, everybody is moving to the south where their are tornados and hurricanes, so we should expect too see more of this.


58 posted on 05/20/2013 7:36:49 PM PDT by scbison
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To: napscoordinator
You learn something all the time.

Soo True

59 posted on 05/20/2013 7:38:13 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: .45 Long Colt
Liberals suffer from a silly modern conceit.

From the cited article:

If this happened today it would be the F'n end of the F'n world.

60 posted on 05/20/2013 7:47:38 PM PDT by dr_lew
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