William Rivers Pitt hits the mean streets in search of Journalistic Truth...

[asdf2231]

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WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)       Fri Sep-19-08 05:49 PM
Original message
Anyone hear anything about Bolivar Island near Galveston TX? Mass Ike casualties rumored... 
http://humidcity.com/2008/09/17/censoring-a-disaster /

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/18/18539573.ph...

CNN) -- Workers at a Galveston, Texas, laboratory said to contain dangerous biological agents secured the pathogens Friday ahead of Hurricane Ike, officials said. A patient at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is helped from the building Thursday. The pathogens, which include the deadly ebola virus, were purposely destroyed before the staff left the facility in advance of the hurricane, said Gov. Rick Perry's spokesman, Andrew Barlow. A Department of Homeland Security official concurred that all the samples had been destroyed, and the building was locked down, quarantined and "rendered safe." But a former student who worked at the Level-III laboratory while the Level-IV facility was being constructed and who knows the manager, said she would be surprised if all of the pathogens had been destroyed, since some of them are rare and extremely valuable.

...more...

Youtube video at second link above.

?

He starts out about three days behind the 900 BODIES FLOATING IN THE SURF rumors and comes to WHERE exactly to try to discover the real truth?!

tekisui  (1000+ posts)      Fri Sep-19-08 05:53 PM
Response to Original message
1. Prepare to be called a tinfoiler for asking.
 

 

SmokingJacket  (1000+ posts)      Fri Sep-19-08 05:56 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. People wouldn't feel so paranoid and tinfoily if there was some 
 transparency. Instead there's a media blackout. Of course people begin to wonder what the hell they're hiding... even if there's nothing.

I swear, I was not the paranoid type before the Bush years, but we've been lied to so often I don't even know what the truth looks like.

Wait for it...

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)       Fri Sep-19-08 05:57 PM
Response to Reply #1
6. Ah. 
 I was asked about this by my boss, who wanted me to see what I could scrape up. Baseless?  

Now we see why Will Pitt gets paid the big bux.  Someone awakens him from his usual drunken haze and asks him to run down a mass casualty story and he of course heads to DU. 

K Gardner  (1000+ posts)       Fri Sep-19-08 05:56 PM
Response to Original message
4. The HumidCity blog is frightening: "1500 bodies in trees"... whether or not this is true, the reason
 there is rampant speculation and "rumor" is that we're hearing, well, not much.

Cue the naysayers that nothing is "out of the ordinary" and those of us who are concerned are conspiracy theorists.

There follows a lot of idiot rumor mongers and the people who mock them.
 


 

[franksolich]

Actually, the Bostonian Drunkard made up the part about his boss asking him to look into the story.

The Bostonian Drunkard wants the primitives to think he's still relevant to his boss.

[GOBUCKS]

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)       Fri Sep-19-08 05:49 PM
Original message
Anyone hear anything about Bolivar Island near Galveston TX? Mass Ike casualties rumored...
 Advertisements [?]http://humidcity.com/2008/09/17/censoring-a-disaster /

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/18/18539573.ph...

CNN) -- Workers at a Galveston, Texas, laboratory said to contain dangerous biological agents secured the pathogens Friday ahead of Hurricane Ike, officials said. A patient at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is helped from the building Thursday. The pathogens, which include the deadly ebola virus, were purposely destroyed before the staff left the facility in advance of the hurricane, said Gov. Rick Perry's spokesman, Andrew Barlow. A Department of Homeland Security official concurred that all the samples had been destroyed, and the building was locked down, quarantined and "rendered safe." But a former student who worked at the Level-III laboratory while the Level-IV facility was being constructed and who knows the manager, said she would be surprised if all of the pathogens had been destroyed, since some of them are rare and extremely valuable.

...more...
Youtube video at second link above.
?

He will surely get the facts at the DUmp about 900 bodies washing up on the beach, and a Bushco lab allowing buckets full of Ebola virus to be scattered in the storm. Reporting all this should help polish his reputation as a hard-hitting DUmmy journalist, and confirm what everyone already knew about his accuracy and reliability.

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)       Fri Sep-19-08 05:57 PM
Response to Reply #1
6. Ah.
I was asked about this by my boss, who wanted me to see what I could scrape up. Baseless? 

Pitt has a job, a boss?? Did Jason Leopold take him on as a stringer??

It's astonishing to see how alcoholic DUmmy WilliamPitt has plummeted down through the ranks of the DUmmies. He's really now just part of the faceless mob, part of the squirming, howling DUmmy rabble. Or maybe just squirming - he hasn't howled much lately.

It will be interesting to see how he measures up in coach's next rating.

[asdf2231]

You've been Duped my good man!

[Lord Undies]

Whether 50 people or 50,000 people died, what's the point?  Where's the scandal?  Who benefits from hiding the news?  

I don't wake up in a new world everyday.  I remember the warnings to leave.  I remember the Nation Weather Service issuing the previously unheard of warning stating if people refused to leave, they faced "certain death".  If a bunch of people are dead, well, that was their choice.  I cannot imagine who the Little Goons think they can blame other than the "victims".

How can hundreds of people die and no one know it?  Don't these dead folks have families?  Friends?  Would these hundreds and hundreds of people who are missing friends and loved ones not be heard?

I've said it before and I'll say it again:  Idiots, all of them.

[franksolich]

It will be interesting to see how he measures up in coach's next rating.

Actually, the Bostonian Drunkard recently moved up a notch in my classification of primitives.

Remember, there's these categories, in descending order of quality:

(a) non-primitives
(b) first-tier primitives
(c) second-tier primitives
(d) third-tier primitives
(e) the unterprimitiven, the faceless lynch mob (which is circa 95% of Skins's island)
(f) bottom-of-the-barrel primitives
(g) drek primitives

After the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher, the "Proud2BLib" primitive, re-defined drek, I had to promote the Bostonian Drunkard up from (g) to (f); no matter how scummy and slimy and sleazy he is, the Bostonian Drunkard's still eons above the skumbag primitive (the "IanDB1" primitive), Doug's ex-wife (the "sfexpat2000" primitive), and most especially of all the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher.

And so now the Bostonian Drunkard's rated alongside the subway cat and the worthless freeloading bum the wily primitive and the lying titty primitive and somesuch.

The Bostonian Drunkard's maternal ancestress, the "Raven" primitive, still has a near-unshakeable grip on first-tier primitivedom, though.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Kinda like steering Diogenes toward Joe Isuzu.

[asdf2231]

Do NOT underestimate the Power Of The Pitt!!!

He knows things.  He knows People.  He remembers.

And within 48 business hours he will sing the songs of the tens of thousands of dead the Bu$hHitler regime are covering up and unleash his specially trained Ninja Monkey Internet Lawyers to extract his just and terrible vengence.

But for now it's time for him to go to work!!!

Excelsior!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111oneoneoneoneone

[Texacon]

I watched the national news tonight.  There was less than 2 minutes on Ike on ABC with Charlie.  I live in the Houston area.  We have a BUNCH of news about the hurricane here.  I have seen the beaches on our broadcast news.  There is no black out other than national.  We are not New Orleans.  I put a post on another thread before the hurricane hit saying you wouldn't hear about this hurricane for long.  WE are TEXANS and WE are putting things back together.  'Nuff said.

Oh, by the way, there were no bodies lying on the beaches.  That if for any lurking dummies.  Now I'll go collect my check for posting the VRWC official story. 

KC

[GOBUCKS]

It will be interesting to see how he measures up in coach's next rating.

Actually, the Bostonian Drunkard recently moved up a notch in my classification of primitives.

Remember, there's these categories, in descending order of quality:

(a) non-primitives
(b) first-tier primitives
(c) second-tier primitives
(d) third-tier primitives
(e) the unterprimitiven, the faceless lynch mob (which is circa 95% of Skins's island)
(f) bottom-of-the-barrel primitives
(g) drek primitives

After the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher, the "Proud2BLib" primitive, re-defined drek, I had to promote the Bostonian Drunkard up from (g) to (f); no matter how scummy and slimy and sleazy he is, the Bostonian Drunkard's still eons above the skumbag primitive (the "IanDB1" primitive), Doug's ex-wife (the "sfexpat2000" primitive), and most especially of all the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher.

And so now the Bostonian Drunkard's rated alongside the subway cat and the worthless freeloading bum the wily primitive and the lying titty primitive and somesuch.

The Bostonian Drunkard's maternal ancestress, the "Raven" primitive, still has a near-unshakeable grip on first-tier primitivedom, though.

But...but...he was an icon! He was a demigod! He was the magic man! He...he..he coulda been a contendah!

[franksolich]

But...but...he was an icon! He was a demigod! He was the magic man! He...he..he coulda been a contendah!

The distinction between a bottom-of-the-barrel primitive and a drek primitive is that while both are a waste of skin and oxygen and other resources, bottom-of-the-barrel primitives are harmless, their main utility to the rest of mankind being they give us something to laugh at.

While drek primitives are actually poisonous, almost as if a contagious sort of gangrene that eats away at the body and soul of all who touch it.

[jinxmchue]

The only time Wee Willy "hits the mean streets" is when the bars close and he has to go home.

[Miss Mia]

we'll know the answer in 24 business hours

[TheSarge]

ArmPitt wouldn't know what "journalistic truth" was if it was written out on a brick that hits him on the back of the head.

[LC EFA]

But a former student who worked at the Level-III laboratory while the Level-IV facility was being constructed and who knows the manager, said she would be surprised if all of the pathogens had been destroyed, since some of them are rare and extremely valuable.

Oh yeah ? Well my dogs friends owners sister has a friend who says he was told by the managers brothers poodle that they only said that because they're covering up selling the SuperDuperFule bug to the grey aliens.

 

Beat that.

[Chris_]

ArmPitt wouldn't know what "journalistic truth" was if it was written out on a brick that hits him on the back of the head.

Which is a pretty good plan

[Chris]

Authorities had blamed the storm for 26 deaths in Texas and 61 total in the U.S., including a utility contractor from Florida who was electrocuted Friday while trying to restore power in Louisville, Ky.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080921/D93B2QV80.html

Even when they try to act smart, they fail miserably.

[Chris]

Oh yeah ? Well my dogs friends owners sister has a friend who says he was told by the managers brothers poodle that they only said that because they're covering up selling the SuperDuperFule bug to the grey aliens.

 

Beat that.

My favorite headline of the season has to be "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Joe Biden pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious." 

[Splashdown]

They did find an old subpoena wash ashore after Ike...Something to do with Rove and Fitzmas...

[LC EFA]

They did find an old subpoena wash ashore after Ike...Something to do with Rove and Fitzmas...

Washed up exactly 24 business hours after the storm.

[BlueStateSaint]

They did find an old subpoena wash ashore after Ike...Something to do with Rove and Fitzmas...

Washed up exactly 24 business hours after the storm.

H5 for both!