AP can’t keep class warfare out of tragic airplane story
For crying out loud. Seven children, all under the age of 9, died in a horrific plane crash in Montana over the weekend along with their devoted parents and the pilot.
This is how the Associated Press chose to write its lead sentence reporting the tragedy:
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) – Three California families headed to a retreat for the ultrarich were among the 14 victims of a plane crash in Montana.
Was the reference to the “ultrarich” retreat necessary? What is the relevance of how much it costs to stay at the ski resort the families were headed to — and why does it belong in the lede? How dehumanizing. And gratuitously callous. You have to search out local coverage to escape the AP’s class warfare-tinged coverage. From the St. Helena Star:
Five members of a St. Helena family died Sunday in a Montana plane crash in which authorities say there were no survivors.
Dr. Erin Jacobson, his wife, Amy, and their children Taylor, 4, Ava, 3, and Jude, 2, were en route to Bozeman to visit friends and family.
“They were going to Bozeman for the week — (Amy’s) parents were already there,” said Elizabeth Naylor of Angwin, a close friend of the Jacobson family for the past three years.“They were extraordinary, wonderful, giving and kind. Our daughters grew up together. My daughter asked today if we could have their daughter over for a play date this week, and we told them we could after they got back.”
The Jacobsons, who lived on Pratt Avenue, were active in the Montessori Family Center in St. Helena.
“Erin was an eye doctor, a surgeon, in St. Helena and Napa, and Amy was a dental hygienist in Angwin, but she was a full-time mom to three children,” said Naylor. “Everybody in town knows them — they were really, truly an amazing family.”
More details you won’t learn from the “ultrarich”-obsessed AP come from the Napa Valley Register:
Six of the seven adults who died Sunday afternoon in a plane crash in Butte, Mont. had attended Pacific Union College, a Seventh-day Adventist liberal arts college in Angwin.
“We are deeply saddened by this tragedy, and our prayers are with the victims’ families. This is a very personal tragedy for Pacific Union College and our local community,” noted Dr. Richard Osborn, PUC president. “There are many on our campus who remember them as students. Our alumni are also grieving this loss, as are many in the St. Helena and Angwin communities who knew and loved the Jacobson family.”
Dr. Erin Jacobson graduated from PUC in 1996, while his wife, Amy Feldkamp Jacobson, attended PUC from 1993-95. The Jacobsons and their three preschool-aged children died in the plane crash. Erin Jacobson was an opthamologist with the Eye Care Center of Napa Valley and worked at St. Helena Hospital and Queen of the Valley Medical Center.
Vanessa Feldkamp Pullen, Amy Jacobson’s sister, attended PUC, 1989-90. Vanessa Pullen’s husband Michael attended PUC from 1988-91. The Pullens and their two children died in the plane crash. The Pullens lived in Gault in northern California.
Brent Ching graduated from PUC in 1993. His wife, Kristen Mautz Ching, attended PUC from 1996-97. The Chings and their two children died in the crash. Brent Ching was a dentist in Chico and the family lived in Durham.
And from the Chico Enterprise-Record:
“The kindest, sweetest people I’ve ever met,” is how four-year friend Jason Bougie remembers the Ching family. Calling himself a “close, personal friend that vacations with them,” Bougie got to know the family through his profession, became friends, and later began going to Ching for dental services…
…”We were going on a vacation with all the grandkids,” said Bud Feldkamp, who lost two daughters and their families in the crash. “They were all excited about skiing.”
Feldkamp leased the airplane that crashed. He said he, his wife and another daughter had driven to Montana for the vacation.
“We were at the entrance to the Yellowstone Club when I got a cell phone call” from a nephew, Feldkamp said. “He saw it on CNN. He said, ‘Nobody survived.’ And we knew it was our plane.”
Sweet, kind families. Hard-working parents. Beloved by their communities.
But most newsworthy, in the minds of AP editors: ULTRARICH.
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Ultrarich = anyone making more than the poverty limit.
Sleep well tonight, Matthew.
Success is the target.
Ultrarich=not for long under obuma.
R.I.P.
There will be no mercy for ultrarich dentists in The New America.
Seriously – this is a tragedy, good will to all the families.
And achievement.
I’m not sure what the warfare calculation would be. What, “they deserved it”? If anything, compassion would be gained for the ultra-rich. I dunnoknow. I do know I agree with MM that the term should have been left out by the editor. It serves no purpose, and looks bizarre in print, in this context.
Thoughts and prayers.
Oh, let’s put class divisions in there. Who cares where they were flying to. Is it less tragic that 7 children and 7 adults died in a plane crash because they were headed to a retreat for the ultrarich? No wonder the ASSociated press has no credibility left. They have been reduced to schlock journalism. Want a different spin? 14 people died in a tragic plane crash while going to spend money that would help stimulate the economy in their own, small way.
Matthew Brown named Billings correspondent for AP in Montana
Go figger.
What a horrible story. Of all the words this clown could have used to describe these families, he chooses “ultrarich”. This guy is an “ultrajerk”, to put it quite a bit less vulger than what I started to write.
Prayers for their family and friends.
I ask God to be with all who died and comfort their families. The money they had has no input to their death. Those in the msm who put this in, you will have to give an account for your actions someday. Believe or not!
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This is a tragedy. My prayers for the family and surviving friends and family. The family’s economic status is not relevant to the story (except to explain the mode of transportation), but seems to be a disturbing trend in this country; the MSM and politicians in this country using well-to-do people as scapegoats. It is reminiscent of tactics used by other socialists in other countries previously.
Perhaps congress could pass a law requiring “rich” people to wear a patch on their clothing to identify them as such. Maybe a green dollar sign (after all the pink triangles and yellow star of davids were already reserved for other scapegoats in a previous socialist country).
Sweet. I just moved up 14 notches higher on the rich scale.
Now I dont have to slum it at Vail or Aspen anymore.
May God the Father Almighty rest their Souls and comfort their families and friends.
As for the rotting, putrid, hateful AP, I hope you go bankrupt.
The class warfare being waged in America by the leftists is really growing. A small but notable example came in the form of a “letter to the editor” in my local paper. The woman whined and concluded by saying:
“I have a better idea. Let’s put a computer chip in the bodies of all citizens earning over $250,000 per year so we can track their illegal activities such as fraud, embezzlement, tax evasion and white collar robbery”.
With this kind of nut she would say the same thing if BHO had picked $100K out of the air instead of the $250K. The leftists are sick and only want handouts and are jealous of those who succeed.
Sickening….just sickening.
Comrade Matthew
You’re so defensive. Suppose it had been three conservatives heading for a conservative retreat?
Petty comment from a POS “journalist.”
Amerikanski Pravda propagandist
What on earth does that even mean?
I didnt get it either.
Prayers and condolences to family and friends.
Shame on you Matthew Brown.
That’s over my head to LGM, and I speak liberalese pretty well.
Anyway, check out the writer’s history for a pattern. Maybe it’s nothing, or maybe he has a anti-wealth bent. I don’t know, but here it is.
A tragedy is a tragedy, whether the victims are rich or poor, black or white, conservative or liberal. The only aspect of this story that should have been covered is the human aspect. Shame on Matthew Brown.
My sympathies to the families of this awful tragedy.
What would the lead have been if they were “ultrapoor”?
On March 23rd, 2009 at 6:22 pm, lgm said:
Dude, do yourself a favor and actually read the maddog piece before commenting on it.
There is no supposition going on here, 9 children and 5 adults perished in this accident. You are a cold, sick b*****d, just like the AP hack and a typical leftist. Crawl back into the cesspool you came from you soulless cretin.
Meanwhile, ultra rich Nancy Pelosi complained that the Air Force was not breaking its back bowing to her every travel whim….
I wish all the comfort possible to the family and friends of everyone who perished in this tragedy.
I was waiting for the punchline, you know, an Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman walked into a bar……….
APObama: Get even with whitey everywhere you look. Support Rev Wright and his parishioner of 20+ years, ACTING president Obama and his lovely wife MaBelle.
No. “Ultrarich” = anyone who works and has the audacity to think he can keep his wealth for his family.
Surely the AP would work a few backhanded conservative digs in there.
But more to the point – answer MM’s question. Why is the adjective ‘ultrarich’ even necessary in this story?
Did the 2-year-old deserve to die because his parents had decent jobs and were taking him on vacation? Because, in my world, when a 2-year-old – rich or poor – dies, it’s a tragedy. My son JUST turned 2. He’s the light and love of my life. If anything happened to him…
Same with the other people on that plane. They’re dead. The last moments of their lives, no doubt, were terrifying and painful.
It’s a tragedy. All liberals want to do is figure out how to take away their money and shame them for making a decent living.
Of course not, but then why miss an opportunity to stoke the flames Dear Leader is encouraging. What a disgrace. Really makes me think what Mr. Brown was thinking as he wrote that. I can almost hear him sneering.
When the AP-Obama crowd point at people and call them “ultrarich”, always remember that three of their fingers point back at themselves….hypocrites!
I don’t think you guys understand.
How are we going to justify putting all the Doctors, lawyers, and professors on the Collective Farms in the next Great Leap of Progress (Great Leap Forward was taken already)if we can’t begin to demonize them now?
I know that med school is a breeze once you have won life’s lottery and all the ill gotten gains must be redistributed to the less fortunate.
Aren’t you on the JournoList?
Didn’t you get the memo, or the tingle?
lgm #18- it doesn’t matter who they were or from what economic circle. They were loving children to their parents, well educated, loving parents to their own children, and cherished friends. People of every socio economic group are killed every day, and we as human beings, as children of the Almighty, choose to mourn those that leave us way too soon.
I know the areas well where each of the families lived, and also know the area where they were going in Montana. The Yellowstone Club is as close to heaven, scenery wise, as you’re going to find. It is stunning. And anybody, rich or poor can visit that part of the world. Take the Cook City Hwy. out of Red Lodge sometime into Wyoming. You’ll truly see God’s wonders.
In the meantime, pray that you don’t meet fate and someone accuses you of being on a conservative retreat. I’ll say prayers for this family and their loved ones left behind.
Ultrarich = Anybody making over the Maximum Wage.
Maximum Wage = $250K/year as a family.
Yes, the use of that word is tasteless and unnecessary.
Could be that AP has an agenda, or it is part of their ’style book’. Instead of naming the actual place, AP shortened it, because that is what they do. The AP is a wire service and sells their stories to other outlets, often from other outlets. Brevity is their watchword. It is the outlet that chooses to run the provided story in whole, or in part, edited or unedited.
I understand how the AP is taken to task, but it is important to understand how it works. That being said, who here does not use tasteless, or unnecesary, words to describe another blogger?
Not saying it is the correct thing to do, but that it is done.
Who is going to take the nationaly syndicated radio host that called the Obamas ‘trash’ to task? It may not be done here, because taking someone to task is also an agenda.
And, before I catch any grief, someone no doubt will suggest that the Obamas truly are ‘Trash’ and that it is a fact. Very well, then also address whether it is a fact that the retreat is for the ‘ultra-rich’. Then re-read my first sentence again, nothing about true or factual, it is about tasteless and unnecessary.
disgusting. Journalism is dead. It likely starts in the J schools.
I bet if I looked for one second I could find an AP article that describes the 4x Oakland cop killer as a disaffected, disenfranchised, an oppressed kid.
There’s a name for enviro-weenies like Matthew Brown: Jackass.
Here’s what gets me about this stupid lede: was there a single news report anywhere about the tragic death of Natasha Richardson that said anything about “ski resorts for the ultra rich?” No. Class envy doesn’t apply as much to celebrities, less so to the ones people like. But the rich and not-famous are subject to the irrational, jealousy-driven loathing of a disturbing number of people.
What point are you trying to make?
Imagine if this were a planeload of studio execs on their way to Sundance.
The headline would read: Brave filmmakers die enroute to world-changing festival.
Ultrarich?
Well even if they wre church-mouse poor, atleast they earned their bread –
Which is more than can be said for AP.
They just repeated the term on a new story on the investigation.
Are you stuck on stupid? The tragic deaths of these families (yes, entire FAMILIES died!) is no less tragic because they were wealthy. When an AP reporter feels the need to add that they were going to a resort for the “ultra-rich” for no reason, there’s a reason. It had no bearing on the story, the events, and the outcome.
It is not defensive to point out the truth. You might be in denial about the way non-libs or wealthy people are presented in the media these days…but I’m not. And I’m not putting up with it any more.
It means lgm is a stoned and/or stupid boob.
ECS
All those most important of values/ethics/morals are of zero importance to libs, unless they had been gay.
That’s not a slight on gays, just a fact about
progressiveregressive liberals.Guys:
Look at the things lgm posts and has posted.
Run a semantic correlation program over the body of his posts… and what it will tell you is:
lgm is an early AI “phrase-response” geneator!
The first of that type of AI was a program mimicing a psychologist, and it ran on an IBM 370 or on a VAX under VM. It was originally written as a thesis work concerning what computer scientists call the “Turing test” (named after Dr. Turing).
Obviously youall’s arguing with some old software, folks!
Mike, I’m way ahead of you on that but I called him a bot months and months ago.
’splains a lot.
I suppose the reporter for the AP never goes on vacations, never goes to resorts…in fact, had it not been for the AP, would probably just sit in his studio flat and never go anywhere.
What makes it worse, is the AP guy probably has children…unless he follows the Uber-Liberal creed and decided that to have children would make him selfish and destructive to the planet or whatever BS they spout. And so being never takes his/her cildren on vacations or trips or anything such as that.
To sit there and make that statement only makes the reporter appear to be petty and jealous. Forget about who these people were, forget about any deeds they might do, it is their wealth…that evil, evil wealth that is important.
But tell me something Liberals…after you have destroyed all the wealthy people in this country and the world, who will you all get your handouts from? Who is going to donate to all those charities? Who is going to care for people? You???
That is something they never really think about. Do they think that the people who are too lazy to make anything out of themselves, those on perpetual welfare, the junkies and addicts, the alcoholics and other associated what used to be called “bums” will suddenly make a turn around and think maybe it is their turn to take care of people?
The people who are a drain on society and society’s wealth will still be a drain. Those that once were wealthy will simply stop caring. Those that took will still take and their demands will increase as those who donated and gave stop.
However that thought never seems to enter their minds. The poor do not donate to charities. The rich do, and when you penalize and get rid of the rich…then what? Maybe you should call one of those ‘Christian Children’s Fund” orgs. and ask them what they will do without the haves giving to the have-nots.
Go with God.
Say “Hi” to some of those other “Ultra Rich” people in Heaven: Abraham, Job, King David, King Solomon, et al.
mike.musculus,
You might be right about lgm. Except for his one post about most of the “intelligentsia” being liberal on a blog about going Galt, most of his posts are of the variety: republicans/conservatives/Bush/Cheney are bad/stupid/worse/did worse things. No backup links, no reference to data or facts, just the verbal equivalent of a kid who tosses a turd into the swimming pool to watch the reactions. Won’t stay to try and defend his point, which is usually not much of a point. I have no idea why someone would read this blog and make these kind of posts – it achieves nothing except to reinforce the perception among readers that liberals don’t depend on facts, just emotions to make their judgments. I suspect Michelle hires someone to make inane comments under the lgm label, just to get people riled up and increase the number of responses.
It’s obvious that the “journo” was disparaging those killed because not only were they wealthy, they were a FAMILY. And, a multi-generational one, at that.
The AP just HAS to attack the family unit, especially one that represents close-knit, successful families.
What is your point? You are completely insane.
Our prayers to the families, I cannot imagine the pain this must cause. A time for fun and joy with friends and family gone terribly wrong. Such a tragedy.
And LGM, WTF man?
If they had been on their way to a conservative retreat, that would have been mentioned too, except it would have been called a neo-con retreat for the ultrarich.
If they had been on their way to a lib retreat, the AP would mourn that their lives were tragically cut short while they pursued a better future for our country.
It’s called a double-standard lgm. I guess in your alternate universe it doesn’t exist. Tell Alice and the White Rabbit I said hello.
Hopefully those families are at least together in God’s arms. How horrible it must be to approach death knowing your children are with you and you can’t do anything to save them.
As many times as I’ve taken you to task for troll posts, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out your humanity here.
Thank you.
Thoughts and prayers from the Deaux family as well.
*I shall lift those families up in my thoughts and prayers.
*As for the AP and this reporter, along with most of the MSM, we must continue to call them out for their lack of credibility as professional journalists; These rat bastards will go down with the ship that is the USS P-BO; Good riddance.
Who’s to say they weren’t? Let me see…ultra-wealthy…isn’t that the Liberal definition of Conservative to begin with?
And what would happen if they had been Conservatives heading to a Conservative retreat? Well, for one thing all the little Liberals would be doing some sort of sick and depraved victory dance and posting all about how they deserved it and how their wealth made it happen and if they weren’t so rich blah blah blah. Sound about right? After all, go ahead, you can admit it…you thought all that anyway just because they said they were heading to a resort for the ultra-rich. You know you did…just won’t man-up and admit it. Instead, just more inane comments.
Man, I shudder at the thought of how black your heart and soul must be.
If they were “ultrarich” they wouldn’t have piled 17 people into a Pilatus PC 12 designed for 10 passengers. And for God’s sake we’re talking about families and children here. This lead is absolutely disgusting. This is heart breaking. A new low for AP, which I had thought would be hard to achieve.
It doesn’t matter who or what these precious families did or how they lead their lives. It’s that they had the audacity to succeed and be contributing members of their communities that caught the ire of the AP.
There are a lot of doctors out there who work their butts off, pay a lot in malpractice insurance, and have to keep current in both their licensure/practices that doesn’t necessarily indicate that they’re rich. What I don’t undersand is that they’re being villified because they took a flight to a ski resort. Why is the AP making so much of their destination?
AP is just over the line. It’s pathetic that they’re using dead families (and children) to make some larger, class warfare point and that’s just wrong.
That’s not liberalese.
Chimpanzee 999 is hard at work.
It’s disgusting. I graduated from college with a degree in journalism, and my last news writing gig was with The Associated Press, 26 years ago. I have to tell you, I don’t recognize the organization today, or the product. I would have been fired back then if I’d written half the trash the wire service puts out today. I always loved journalism, but its dead in most places today. I don’t mourn the passing of the newspapers that have violated the public’s sacred trust.
Does the AP mean ultrarich as in Barbara Streisand, the Dixie Chicks, Snoop Dog (or Dawg), John Stewart, David Letterman, Keith Olberman, Jane Maddow, Chris Matthews, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, George Sorros, Sean Penn, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and a host of politicians, and music and entertainment industry members, actors, producers, directors, “rappers,” and others?
When the AP uses the word “ultra rich” do they include Hillary Rodham Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton, Ted “the Drowning Man” Kennedy, and, the Penultimate snob and ultra rich, over rated, underwhelming Chosen One, Barrack Hussein Obama and his mean spirited, “Let them eat cake” wife, Michelle Obama?
A typical statement from the UltraLeftist Marxist Tools at the Absolutely Pathetic AP.
Will someone please give us a way to contact AP and express our disgust with their reporter? That way we can actually do something instead of just talking about how terrible this story was written.
So after many years of making the grade, long internships in their fields, the writers for the AP, whose jealously flows so naturally it seems, can only describe them as “ultrarich”? Unless they cheated their way through school, I’d say they’ve earned every dime they’ve earned, including the money it cost for this trip.
I do believe lgm is no more than a rabble rouser making idiotic statements to gain a reaction. I say that mainly because of the true stupidity in his comments, so here’s my response to the above…”you lgm are one insensitive, ignorant, a$$wipe whether a troll for reaction or out of shear stupidity.
Already did, and I encourage others to do likewise. The author of the piece was Matthew Brown, AP writer.
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lgm is an even bigger turd than I thought. The point of this post is that tragedy is an inappropriate time to engage in politicking. But he is such a db that he can’t even see that.
I had a pretty low opinion of lgm before. Now, it’s subterranean.
No, those are your “concerned, enlightened, caring, talented Beautiful People, and do not leave Barbara-Pug nose- Boxer, Snoop Doggie Dog Feinstein, Splash Kennedy and Herr Kerry-America’s only legitimate veteran- out of the Hall of Shame.
United Press International is gone, AP next, the envious Love Child? But I would not want to seem offended and bother lgm’s sensibilities-the twit.
But these are the same people who cheered Pat Nixon’s death, Ronald Reagan’s and others. Despite their talk of “compassion” they are truly incapable of empathy. They enjoy pain and death and lie about it.
Well said RetFireman.
Reason 975,897,865,495 why I ignore the MSM and their “news.” It is no better, actually worse than the National Inquirer.
I have noticed that lgm has been call quite a few names at various times in this thread. So I feel that I have to point out that he has the right to say what he wants and that I don’t think he is stupid. Uh, and probably not a cretin.
The writer is just following Rahm Emmanuel’s example. Never find a situation you cannot exploit for political purposes.
Just the kind of guy I’d want living next door to me…….ya right.
I began viewing the AP with a skeptical eye about a year ago, when I realized the “writers” and “reporters” (using the words loosely) were nothing more than Obama shills and Democrat party hacks with laptops. These days it’s nothing more than an offshoot of the NY Times, and I don’t buy into what that rag says either.
I’ve been a habitué at this site for several years, and my take on lgm is that he is sinking into dementia.
I’m dead serious.
His postings are becoming more and more bizarre — far too much so than can be explained by, say, him simply getting himself outside a bottle of Jack Daniels every day.
We should just let him post and ignore him.
It’s unlikely he has too many “lucid intervals” left.
p.s. to lottadawg: lgm has NO rights to post whatever he wants at this site, which is MM’s property. Neither do I, and neither do you.
Yes lottadawg lgm has his right to say what he will and we have the right to call him on it. And MM can cut off any of us- her blog.
Just now on the news I see the Congressional Black Caucus is all outraged because the Republicans would not allow a memorial praising President Obamas Integrity.The Congressional Black Caucus has the right to be outraged all they want-they always are–and we can tell them to take a flying leap if we wish-and I do, daily.
The Right to Free speech is not the right to demand acquiescence. It is what we call a two way street.
And lgm is almost a cretain, with a little effort he’ll rise that far
Six of the seven adults who died Sunday afternoon in a plane crash in Butte, Mont. had attended Pacific Union College, a Seventh-day Adventist liberal arts college in Angwin. There is the reason for the tagging, if they had been Johnny Walker Lindh types they would have been Al-Pazeera’s salt of the earth.
I think it’s referred as ‘Jim Jones Koolaid’ toxicity. Catches up with you after a while.
As far as the Jacobsons and extended family – why would the MSM conclude any other way? Nobody left from the family to complain about it.
Liberals are liberals first…and to hell with everyone else.
Apparently, this is Matthew Brown’s AP blog
Click here to get to his entry for the plane crash news article. Looks like comments can be left but I didn’t see any. Also, looks like Brown is an enviro-wacko.
Al-Pazeera has a follow up. Apparently they have toned down the language instead of an resort for the ultrarich it is now just an exclusive resort.
The follow up’s focus is ice on wings bringing the plane down.
As I said, drinking a bottle a day of Jack Daniels isn’t enough to explain lgm’s mental stupor.
But you are right: frequent guzzling of Grand Cru “Chateau Jonestown”, 1978 would account for it.
Thank you Swede.
I e-mailed them a letter expressing my opinion of their sorry work on this.
Well I see Little Goosestepping Moron has already weighed in with his usual idiocy. He must be applying for a press job.
Class warfare is the next frontier now that we are “post-racial.” You CAN’T be innocent if you are rich. You MUST have deprived someone of an amount equal to what you have stolen from the working class. This is where class warfare and socialism leads. The next thing you know Obama and friends will be calling for “the elimination of the Kulaks as a class.”
My heart goes out to the families and friends who have lost a loved one. This is a tragedy. I’ll say a prayer for them tonight.
A suitable prayer for Little Goosestepping Moron would be that he develops a conscience and a soul soon enough to recognize all the vile things he has said here and lives a long life to regret those words. His comment was truly and remarkably vile.
RetFireman had it right:
Thou shalt not covet. There is a reason the left needs to get rid of any strand of morality. It gets in the way of their class-warfare.
Beyond tacky. This is the kind of thing that makes me not view AP as any kind of serious news agency.
Unfortunately, this type of “reporting” has been going on, probably, since the 2nd newspaper opened up to compete with the 1st newspaper. We rarely have “reporting”. We have commentary. Every bit of news put out to the public view must have a “slant”, to fit the editor’s opinions. This little stoking of the class warfare “fires” is typical, at the expense of the relatives and friends of the dead. It’s disgusting, but it seems everything now is about politics and money. Personally, I feel very sad over the deaths, especially the children. To use them to advance any political agenda is nauseating.
Are you new? You must be either fairly new, a screaming Obama worshiping Liberal, or someone who does not read many posts that contains comments from the little troll who is constantly overcompensating for his short-comings in ways even Freud could not imagine.
It is the only way I can see that anyone could say what you just did about that hypocritical, loathsome minion of Der Fuhrer.
Or could it be possible that his mom finally looked to see what he does on her computer when she isn’t home and actually got on MM’s site? Hmmmmmm…
Over the weekend, people were taking bus trips to protest in front of AIG employee homes. (Talk about people with nothing to do!!)
Anyway, in front of one home, there were two security guards. The guard informed that the person they were trying to protest had already forfeited his bonus. The group leader then said “We don’t care, this employee isn’t doing enough for us.”.
The local reporting of the incident was at least 75% slanted toward “yeah, those rich guys aren’t doing enough for us”.
our president and most of his staff belong to that ultrarich class. his wife belongs to that class. the clintons have ammassed 20 million bucks being public servants, ultrarich? why would we classify doctors as ultrarich when class action attorneys fly the skies in g5s. how about our wonerful legal profession who sues ford when a drunk driver falls asleep at the wheel and hits the median of a highway and flips the car, and her paralysis (no seat belt) is ford’s fault (16million).
lawyers cut, 5million. ultrarich?