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Tony,
What did that mean???
Amanda;
You mntioned a video blog list. Whre is it?
Okay, what about this…
Gilligan is made famous by a hurricane but then dies “suddenly” after Katrina passes? Sounds fishy to me.
I swear he did that on purpose to steal some of the publicity placed on this other hurricane that wasn’t HIS hurricane.
Consider this: Even though he played “the fool”, he still managed to get the island named after him. Pretty crafty if you ask me. A personal favor from Karl Rove I hear.
Personally, I would have voted for “Professor’s Island”. The Professor had all the best ideas for leaving the island anyway, but Gilligan of course would arrange it for everyone to stay longer and longer. Gilligan was like Keyser Soze in the Usual Suspects… perhaps Gilligan Soze? What if Gilligan Soze staged his own death? Where could Mary Ann hide?
Sorry… in a weird mood again this morning.
Drew, ease up on Tony. All he is saying is your two interviews added nothing to our knowledge of Katrina and its survivors. There is really nothing you could do to top what cable and the networks have done already. Tony did not say that some people have no value. He said that the opinions you presented from those two people were not enlightening to the subject. Aw the hell with it. You wouldn’t believe me anyway.
Mr. Tony Boloney, another Bush “bobblehead” sniping at rocketboom, i’m glad to see they know how to type on a computer, now maybe those republican bobbleheads can reset their flashing “12:00″ on their ’80s VCRs.
Hey Mr. Tony Boloney! start your own version of rocketboom, so people can laugh at your feeble mind. and Bud go catch a fresbie!
Drew (aka the Red Barron), his rocketboom is as Merlin in Excalibur stated “A Dream to some, a Nightmare to Others!” (to Bush a nightmare negative to his agenda of ripping off the world and making a buck off his job as a public official, no matter how many get killed or hurt, long as not his family)…
I thought was amusing when another black man commented on that rapper putting down Bush next to Mike Myers on Katrina Aid show stated: “it’s not a Black or White thing, or that Bush hates Blacks, he [Bush] hates Whites too!”–so true.
Red Barron keep sniping back at Bush, he’s already showing black smoke, and looks like his kind are about to Crash and Burn!
–Snoopy
First Vidcast ..great coverage ..Nice looking New Anchor ;)
Tony and Bud: so you’re basically saying that the din of criticism over Katrina is so loud and so widespread, that adding a couple more person-on-the street interviews to the mix doesn’t necessarily gain us any more insight into the event.
I fully agree with you there, but stating this point without offering up an alternative doesn’t necessarily gain anyone anything useful, either. There *are* other interesting and insightful perspectives out there. We just haven’t found them yet.
As gutsy as I think the Anderson Coopers and Shepard Smiths of the world have been the past few weeks, their filters are still no match for the first person accounts I’m receiving in emails from family and friends who live and work in NOLA. They make for interesting email forwards, but don’t make for good video. The citizen video reports from Current.tv (or Ty’s RB posts from Houston) have been more engaging than the retread packages from ABC and CNN, but once again, they’re kind of similar in perspective and tone.
In either case, these are stories that speak to my emotions — and that’s fine, I guess. But I think that the more interesting perspectives soon to come will be the wisdom that comes from that rare mix of knowledge, empathy, and time. I don’t know who’s going to be telling and sharing these stories (RB or otherwise), but I hope to see them soon.
Tony,
You definitely have a problem.
Your criticisms are petty and you are, unfortunately, remarkably persistant. Zadi and Chuck are where they are, and that’s what’s happening there… and it’s valid.
Just sit back and enjoy and please lighten up! You’re boring the rest of us to tears.
Chuck
You said it so much better than I could.
I don’t understand why people like Snoopy are so quick to call someone a Bush “bobblehead” because they don’t agree with one vox. In my opinion Tony isn’t the one who is a “bobblehead”, you are. Believe it or not, he is the one that is thinking for himself and deciding whether or not he thought that the interviews were useful. You apparently don’t have your own opinions because you are so quick to jump based on your liberal point of view that is crammed down your throat by the doom and gloom media.
I’m going to side with Tony because I’m going to take a stab in the dark and guess that Rocketboom had more than two interviews to choose from. If not, why not? You are on the street getting interviews - so get interviews not an interview. That being the case, they chose to use these two interviews that were not any different than the mainstream media’s propoganda…and they weren’t even done in a new or fresh way.
Opinions and free speech are what make this nation great. Having an opinion doesn’t make you a Bush “bobblehead”.
Amanda and Drew:
Keep doing what you’re doing. We love it. We don’t always agree, but that’s what makes this world so much fun…Controversy.
OK. but what about Maynard Krebs?
Minnesotta stories was great. So is Rocketboom but it needs more bluegrass. The Pidmanula song was good though.
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Tony #2
Just click on the (extended interview)link and you’ll find multiple people giving their opinions.
to tony#1 and #2 (aka tweedle dee and tweedle dum and dummer), as a black man myself (liberal) i personally find your caustic comments offensive and feeble minded, typical of a Bush booblehead, in this free medium of internet broadcasting you are free to start your own website called BUSH BOOBLEHEAD IDIOTS to show the world you truly are as stupid as you look.
now go bother republican Oprah Winfrey’s site, in which she has billions of dollars, and one celeb with less money than her gave 5 million dollars (she said the relief agencies already have too much money!), she one time claimed to give all of her audience “free cars” which turned out to be a big scam a fraud (Oprah specialty), why doesn’t she give all or some of these victims “free cars”…hey Bush bobblehead tony#1/#2 (aka as DEVO calls “monkeys with eyes of blue and green”): why don’t you do a scathing report on why that idiot republican fraud Oprah (Okra) winfrey is being promoted all the time? what connections she has with the organized criminal elements of the republican media that they promote that republican Fraud idiot (looks like a damn Frog)…
Snoopy makes the Mark of Zorro (he, he)
Thanks for the link. The interviews were great.
Fun stuff :)
I think FireAnt is being overhyped. I constantly get error messages with the PC version.
Also how come it doesn’t display a clickable link to the site where the video is from? At first I assumed the ‘View Content’ panel might display the page, but no it doesn’t seem to.
Very nice for the surfer, who doesn’t have to visit several sites to see the videos. Not such good news for webmasters who rely on clicks on ads to pay the bills.
I would say, while FireAnt does show the link of the host site, it also does as much as possible to reduce the chance of anyone visiting that site. It that sense it is a cynical piece of software. It is almost like a site ‘hotlinking’ to images. At least when people find videos on Yahoo!, there is a clickable link and preview of the page.
So, this Ant is not so much an insect as a parasite which lives off other peoples’ content and removes their ability to earn an income from it. Just as search engines have made money on the backs of others by storing and displaying so-called thumbnails that are only slightly smaller than the original images.
The old argument that it is somehow ‘publicity’ for the originating website doesn’t hold water in the end. Steal enough of the content and display it elsewhere and people have no reason ever to visit the site itself. Something similar has happened with photography, where sites and publications constantly try to get professional photos for free ‘in exchange for a link’ and publicity. In the end someone has to pay to put food on the table for the content provider. Where is the mechanism for that in the likes of FireAnt? Or are we all expected to do photography and video in our spare time, put it on free hosting and have a non-creative ‘day job’?