MSM Macabre Death Watch

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/01/execution.record.ap/index.html
from JoeUser Forums

Every since Gov. Mark Warner spoiled the Mainstream Media's death watch party, they have been getting more goulish waiting for the winner of the Death Penalty Lottery - the 1000 person to be put to death.

For weeks leading up to the planned November 30th execution of Robin Lovitt, the media did not really play up the convicted killere, but rather opined how the person to so win the lottery would go down in history! (does anyone remember the 100th convict put to death since 1976?).

So just a day after spoiling the party by not executing Robin Lovitt, now the Mainstream Media's attention has switched to our neighbors to the south, North Carolina and Kenneth Lee Boyd (no relation to Lee Boyd Malvo).  He is scheduled to die in about 12 hours.

While I am against the death penalty for personal reasons, I am not one to stand outside the prison on a death watch.  Nor am I one to  condemn those who support the death penalty as it is the law of the land and one we will live with until a majority of our citizens decide to change that law.

But I am highly offended by this ghoulish display by the mainstream media in what is by any rights a very somber act that should at least have some dignity for process!  Instead, they dont care if the accused is a beast, animal, or jealous lover.  They just want their pound of flesh and the asterisk in the history books.

And it is revolting.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
i didn't realize the mainstream media was in on the secret conspiracy to promote base 10...or humankind's fascination with milestones. are they the ones behind odometers too?

it's called news, doc.

the ghouls are the ones who enacted the laws and those who've greased the rails for that not-so-slow railroad to death row.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

i didn't realize the mainstream media was in on the secret conspiracy to promote base 10...or humankind's fascination with milestones. are they the ones behind odometers too?

it's called news, doc.

News is reporting that he was executed.  This is beyond that.  How much more value does this life have than 999?  Do you even know who that was?  I am sure you can google it, but I doubt you know off hand.

It is not news.  It is ghouls feasting on the flesh of the dead.  Since we were supposed to have the 1000 (Mark Warner Cheated them), we saw it a lot leading up to the commutation.  Perhaps you just have not been paying attention?

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Perhaps the MSM see this as a human interest story.

I am also offended, and just happen to be against the death penalty.

the ghouls are the ones who enacted the laws

...oh yes - they too...
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
News is reporting that he was executed. This is beyond that. How much more value does this life have than 999? Do you even know who that was?


in all honesty, i stopped being able to follow virginia exalting in its many executions after yall did the retarded guy in warrenton or culpepper county.

don't blame the messenger for pointing out your barbarism
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

in all honesty, i stopped being able to follow virginia exalting in its many executions after yall did the retarded guy in warrenton or culpepper county.

don't blame the messenger for pointing out your barbarism

First, it is not "your barbarism".  It is yours as well.  Second, " the retarded guy" was executed by the same Governor.  Third, Number 999 was not in virginia, and number 1000 will not be.  He may be in your state. Fourth, the only state that is "exalting" in an execution right now is yours.  The rest are resigned to it.

So get off your horse and either debate the issue or take that chip on your shoulder to another blog.

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

the ghouls are the ones who enacted the laws

...oh yes - they too...

Then we are all ghouls.  It is our laws.  But I disagree.  The ghouls are the ones that revel in it, not see it as a necessary punishment.  Most do not revel in it.  The MSM is now.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
ourth, the only state that is "exalting" in an execution right now is yours.


two states which revel in their many applications of the death penalty are virginia and texas. no californians i know personally are in favor of executing anyone.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wonder if the people these feks killed got this much sympathy from weepy liberals. I am sick to death of all this grandstanding. People who oppose the death penalty have no valid replacement. They don't give a damn about the prison staff and the other prisoners these people kill, maim, and abuse. It's just what's on the front page, and they'll bitch about it. If they weren't on death row they'd be right down there with the people who committed lesser crimes and have hope of getting out.

I'd be willing to bet that the average person outraged about this wouldn't even bother to check and see if this guy gets executed unless the news shoves the story in their face again. I wonder what people with loved ones serving prison sentences think about taking death row inmates and sending them back down to live with the general populace?
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
why would they be sent into population rather than some sorta high-security ad seg?
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

two states which revel in their many applications of the death penalty are virginia and texas. no californians i know personally are in favor of executing anyone.

You might want to back up your opinion with some facts since Va just commuted one.  And if "No californians" are in favor of executing anyone, then it should be a slam dunk for you to repeal the law.  Why Have you not?  Does that not show the epitomy of hypocrisy?

And I note, you did not contest the other 3 points.

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

I wonder if the people these feks killed got this much sympathy from weepy liberals.

This is not a blog for or against the death penalty.  It is one on the ghoulish nature that the MSM is treating their made up milestone.

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

why would they be sent into population rather than some sorta high-security ad seg?

I think he was referring to the general prison population, not the general non-prison population.

Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top


It is one on the ghoulish nature that the MSM is treating their made up milestone


Poldark Maximus suspects that is all they , as MSM, CAN report on. Wouldn't you suspect that most of the MSM have their own views on Capital Punishment no matter how dimwitted many of them are? The rules of engagement don't allow them to express such views "Directly" unless they are on the op-ed page. So they make up these ridiculous "events" like the 1000 hanging in order to sneek in a thier comments. Poldark Maximus suspects that most of the MSM go home, put on their blogging hats, let it rip for real, and pray for the day when the MSM dies in the ditch via an ugly and horrible death of its own.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
he was referring to the general prison population


which is why i was alluding to ad seg. there is no such thing outside of the institution.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
So they make up these ridiculous "events" like the 1000 hanging in order to sneek in a thier comments


yeah sorta like the way poldark maximus (as well as those who don't feel the need to pretend they're some sorta institution) celebrate ridiculous events like their 21st birthday...or their 25th and 50th wedding anniversary. the great and powerful oz thinks the same thing btw
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
25th and 50th wedding anniversary


Poldark Maximus never considered his XXth wedding anniversay on par with the 1000th hanging ... until today. Useful comment on the conventions of modern life. He actually bought a XXth Anniversary card the other day for $3.00. He didn't see any cards for "Happy 1000th Hanging" but then he was in a manistream card store.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

Poldark Maximus suspects that most of the MSM go home, put on their blogging hats, let it rip for real, and pray for the day when the MSM dies in the ditch via an ugly and horrible death of its own.

You are amusing, even if I cannot take you seriously.

Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top

which is why i was alluding to ad seg. there is no such thing outside of the institution.

Oh, I dont know about that!

Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top

yeah sorta like the way poldark maximus (as well as those who don't feel the need to pretend they're some sorta institution) celebrate ridiculous events like their 21st birthday...or their 25th and 50th wedding anniversary. the great and powerful oz thinks the same thing btw

I celebrate them all.  So why did they not celebrate the 999 the same way?

Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
celebrate the 999


you're the one characterizing it as a celebration. more correctly it's sorta like being appalled by watching an unending parade of cars run off the road and over a cliff due to a badly designed highway. maybe if enough people finally realize just how many have already disappeared over the edge, a new road can be built.

the last journalist capable of stopping that kinda thing can no longer find a proper phonebooth in which to change.
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
you're the one characterizing it as a celebration.


And you want to deny it was not? Ok, what term would you use? No one even knew there was 999 until Warner spoiled their celebration of the 1000.

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v. cel·e·brat·ed, cel·e·brat·ing, cel·e·brates
v. tr.

To make widely known;
v. intr.
To observe an occasion with appropriate ceremony or festivity.
To perform a religious ceremony.
To engage in festivities: went out and celebrated after the victory.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
No one even knew there was 999 until Warner spoiled their celebration of the 1000.


how many executions has warner stopped?

each time i've reread the linked article...and the article about warner's intervention to which it provided a link...i've become more convinced of the following:

a. the cnn article to which you linked can hardly be called a celebration of anything. yes, it makes mention of the fact that boyd was next in line to be the 1000th person executed since 1976. it quotes boyd as saying he doesn't want to be remembered for that. it's hardly celebratory in any reasonable application of the term.

b. there are at least two parties who seem to be deriving some benefit by exploiting the fact of this milestone. one of them may be warner.

c. if you'd were really outraged by the issue and you'd searched even a lil more, i'm sure you coulda found dozens of more appropriate targets. since you didn't, you'll excuse me for wondering if that was ever your intention. absent an agenda, i can see no reason why you locked on to cnn. perhaps you can take a few minutes to demonstrate the major revisions you woulda made if you'd suddenly been granted complete editorial control.