G=======Zuss! they're pre-empting the fricking NEWS for this BS!

[buycitgo]

all three networks!

can it get ANY more obnoxious than THIS?

[RobertSeattle]

1. Reminds me of that one horror movie

Where Satan (?) takes over every frequency on earth and broadcasts.

Anyone recall which movie that was?

[AntiCoup2K4]

11. StayTuned ?

with John Ritter...

Actually, it wasn't Satan taking over Earth broadcasts. It's that John Ritter's satellite dish only picked up networks from Hell :evilgrin:

[LittleApple81]

2. No. My TV is on hybernation. And so will this thread.Thanks for telling us

though. I don't think the TV is going to be semi-normal until Monday.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

3. I know buycitgo, I just switched the TV on

to catch the weather forecast in Chicago and it's all Ronnie. Will Saturday ever get here?

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. Reagan's on the weather now too?

And now, our extended 5 day mourning outlook....

Today's Reagan high will be near 70, as Our Great President was when he took the oath of office.

Tomorrow will be partly cloudy, with sunbreaks as God allows the Gipper to send us all a Divine message.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

18. No, stupid me thought our local news would be on WMAQ.

Should have known better.

[buycitgo]

4. there's a Doris Day movie on Turner Classic Movies

she's singing


also, Eight Men Out on Showtime; fantastic, realistic baseball movie about the Black Sox Scandal, with a wonderful cast

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Doris told a Gipper / dog story on O'Reilly yesterday. No one was bitten.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122138,00.html

DAY: And I was feeding the dogs over in my dog kitchen, and one of the girls said to me, Doris, it's the White House calling. The phone rang. And I said, which White House? What are you talking about? And she said, it's the White House. Get on the phone. So I went to the phone and I said, yes, who is this? Who's putting me on? And I hear a voice say, this is President Reagan's secretary, and he would like to have a word with you.

Oh. I said, you're kidding. And she said, of course not, here he is now. And he gets on and he said, well, that was a fine story about my dog and about me and Santa Barbara. And I said, oh, I'm sorry you read it. And he said, yes, I read every word. And he said, I was furious about that, and I'm calling you to tell you that he loves Santa Barbara. He loves the ranch. He has lots doggie friends there. And he was not happy in the White House. I said, no? He said, no. He couldn't run without a leash. He couldn't do, he couldn't play. He couldn't...

O'REILLY: So that was -- that's an interesting story because it just shows you that Reagan was on top of just about everything that happened, and a lot of people thought he wasn't. That he was...

[buycitgo]

10. gee........wondering......

did Ronnie rape her, too?

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. So Reagan loved his dog. Great.....

...doesn't excuse all his other crimes though.

[buycitgo]

27. you know what other leader famously loved HIS dog, too, right?

rhymes with play golf

[indigobusiness]

42. Booudreaux?

Adolf Boudreaux?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. I wonder if they get cable in the city shining on the hill?

...and to answer your question, "Wait Until Friday."

[buycitgo]

7. I know....just flipping around to see what's on....have stopped watching

the news crap for the most part

and.....can Aaron Brown possibly be more in love with himself?

it looks like he's about to HUG himself every few minutes.

the looks he gets on his face are so precious!

he's the Susan Stamberg of television

[sweetladybug]

6. Well now, I am sure they will do the same when President Clinton

passes on, but we'll see (hopefully Clinton will stay around for many many more years just to irritate the shit out of Republicans)
ELECT KERRY 2004!!!!

[Canuckistanian]

9. I live in Canada. We're normal here. What are they showing?

What could they possibly be showing for all this time? Is a guy with a camera following the casket 24/7?

[buycitgo]

12. do you get CSPAN? yesterday, they just had a camera on the casket

for hours and hours and hours......no sound

reminded me of Andy Warhol's movies

[Nevernose]

16. Yes.

Pictures of the casket, pictures of the casket being loaded onto the plane, sound of the Marine sorps band, discussion of the writing credits for "Hail to the Chief" and "Amazing Grace." Pictures of the plane taxi-ing, pictures of the plane taking off, pictures of the plane flying. Pictures of where the plane os going to land, pictures of the place where the casket is going to be taken.

[buycitgo]

25. ha! what ticket is Kinkster running on in Texas?

heard a bit of him on Teri Gros this morning

[Nevernose]

37. Campaign slogans:

"Kinky For Governor: Why the Hell Not?"

...and the new one...

"Kinky For Governor: How hard Could It Be?"



http://www.kinkyfriedman.com

[buycitgo]

39. Party of New Zion?

campaign song:

They Just Don't Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore?

or whatever the title is

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. I'm sure FAUX has the 24 hour coffin cam going

You never know, He just might rise from the dead :eyes:

[northofdenali]

24. Nah. He's already missed

the 3-day deadline........... :P

[Cooley Hurd]

13. Like it or not, a state funeral is news-worthy...

...and, if President Carter or President Clinton wish to have a similar state funeral, it'll be on all the networks as well.

Personally, I find it very fascinating, from an historical perspective. I barely remember LBJ's, and I wasn't born yet when President Kennedy was murdered by Poppy, so this is my first real chance to see an actual, bells & whistles state funeral.

On edit: I'm glad that - in this case - the president in the box is one I have little affection for. If this were Carter or Clinton's funeral, I'd be a mess...

[EndElectoral]

14. I heard Rather say that no one can say anything bad about Reagan

He said only later will his historical record be looked at.

This is just blatant propanganda!!!! And I'm afraid the news is complacent into creating a mythic figure out of this man. A man whose record is horrendous.

[LosinIt]

20. Ticks me off that local news is pre-empted, severe thunderstorms

going across Lake Ontario and we get to see the RayGun parade. Truth be told, I am watching The Comedy Channel.

[Canuckistanian]

21. I like the idea of Muslim funerals better

Just whip that corpse into a hole in the ground ASAP, within 24 hours of death.

Speeches and mourning later. Much more civilised.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

22. Reuters: Jerry Weaver says "You BETCHA!"

""I think Ronald Reagan was the best kind of president we've had," said Jerry Weaver, 82, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania who waited under the hot sun for the procession to pass. "I loved him in the movies, and when he was running for president -- you betcha!"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/reagan_dc

Well...OKEE DOKEE, and thanks for sharing, Jerry!

:evilgrin:

[anarchy1999]

30. Pretty much just says it all! "I loved him in the movies........"

We're toast.....

It's like Lewis Black says .....

You hear something and it goes in your head and you can't get rid of it........

"if it weren't for my horse I never would have ....."

[BlueMole]

23. BBC News

Comes on here at 7PM EDT on New Jersey Network (PBS). Hopefully I can see some real news. Cable is running mostly the usual stuff, but the Spanish Telemundo has the same coverage as the networks.

:beer:

[Auntie Bush]

26. How do you know? Your TV should be turned off!

Show them/networks what we think of them. I have never watched so little TV in my whole life! Maybe next week I'll tune in.

If anything important happens...I'll get it from "Latest Breaking News". Thank God for DU. :bounce: :)

[buycitgo]

29. I wanted to see if they'd be covering any other topics of interest

switched over to other stuff

Daily Show rerun on now

[Jane Austin]

28. Yeah, we've had three days of steady rain here,

so I tuned in the local news to see if there was flooding anywhere, and danged if it's not all funeral cortege coverage.

I hope to God the networks take a huge hit for their wall-to-wall coverage of this semi-notable event.

You know . . . half of us didn't like him at the time, and a huge number of people alive now were just little kids then.

Who do they think is watching?

[BlueMole]

31. BBC Lead Story

Chirac throws cold water on *'s NATO plans.

HeHe

:beer:

[buycitgo]

34. what's the deal with THAT?

just turned it on.....G8 summit story

talking about UN needing to send at least 350 targets, I mean functionaries to Baghdad

thanks for reminding me that there is news out there

now they discuss the pipeline being blown up, as well as fire at a power station, affecting a large percentage of Baghdad power

[BlueMole]

40. * looked real hung over

so did Blair. Red, sweaty, tieless. BBC saying how hot it is. What, they can't pipe AC up his shorts? Who was the sheik??? Our newest Iraqi puppet. Now for ice cores in Greenland.

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[Kathy in Cambridge]

33. Don't you have anything more creative than personal attacks?

I guess that passes muster in freeperland.

:eyes:

[buycitgo]

36. nice kitties, Rose!

reminds me of how very very sad I felt when my own cat shuffled off his coil

contrast that for feelings on Reagan, which were,
"wonder what channel I can watch now, so I don't have to see any more of this?"

[Nashyra]

41. I think the coverage is over the top

but just maybe, just maybe some of this tradition will wake some of these idiots up that support the * and want to be proud of their country again. Who knows maybe. I have respect for Nancy Regan, she has had a tough road with ronnie and I know that all her money made it easier on her than with most, but she really did lose the person she loved dearly, was probably a relief after all the caretaking, and Ron Jr has never said a good word about chimpy and he loved his dad. I'm sorry but I'm opting for a bit of compassion and hoping that people will start to recognize all that we have lost under the *. History is history, he did win a second term in a landslide so there are alot of people who did like him. It won't hurt us, I think it will serve to make the * look only worse. Mrs. Regan looks very, very tired. They just said we respect the office of the President of the United States, remind people that the * does not measure up to the office.

[buycitgo]

43. agree with most of what you said, BUT

isn't it true that Sinatra was beneficiary in the WH of her very special talent, attributed during her days in Hollywood neophyte?

no disrespect intended, yunnerstan'

[buycitgo]

35. your comment shows incredible vacuity

say buh bye

[Nashyra]

44. Nice try with the big words

you can say buh bye yourself.

[Dover]

38. I can think of few things more gratifying than Reagan's burial, except

the burial of the Bush Regime.....which I can imagine will give Survivor, Millionaire, Fear Factor and American Idol a run for its money...seeing how it takes elements of each. Only this time the losers will pay dearly.

So I'll take a little time out of my day to savor the poignancy of the moment...and hope that this GOP burial is an omen.

[Name removed]

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[Dover]

48. I think this a rather fitting eulogy for Reagan

I think this a rather fitting eulogy for Reagan


too bad it won't be read

FATHER MIGUEL D'ESCOTO: First of all, let me start out by saying that, of course, Reagan is now dead. And I, for one, would like to say only nice things about him. I'm not insensitive to the feelings of many U.S. people mourning president Reagan, but as I pray that god in his infinite mercy and goodness forgive him for having been the butcher of my people, for having been responsible for the deaths of some 50,000 Nicaraguans, we cannot, we should not ever forget the crimes he committed in the name of what he falsely labeled freedom and democracy.

More: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/08/1453219

(this excerpt was posted by another DUer from another thread)

Hey, and WELCOME to DU. Enjoy your stay.

[hexola]

45. Damn...no 7:30 Sienfeld! (nt)

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

47. On Sunday

Will he resurrect and ascend heavenward like Jesus? I hope so, the buildup has been intense. Surely he won't stay dead after all this.