Saturday, February 02, 2013

Clint Van Zandt, Saint

     So here's Clint, Subject-Matter Expert on the morning news; and here's the Network News Guy, going on and on about the police response to the hostage over footage showing .mil-looking SWAT teams swarming over the location.

     Clint: "...He's got a TV in the bunker, so we may be talking to him now, while negotiators are building trust...  The little boy is unharmed.  This man is a veteran, he probably didn't mean to shoot anyone..." (et calming cetera.)

     TV News Guy muses aloud that this sort of thing usually ends in gunfire, "and not like in a TV show."

     Clint: "The hostage-taker and child are safe right now and let's have faith in the talking cure; he may have some statement he wants to have heard..."

     TV News Guy continues in the whole shot-by-policemen vein/only one possible ending to this, oblivious, and then cuts to commercial.  If Van Zandt didn't grab that dimwit by the throat and give him the what-for as soon as the "On Air" lights went out, then he's even more of a saint.

     Hey, stupid: he's got a TV in the bunker.  And you're on the TV.   Possibly even on that TV. Whyn't you refrain from from making things worse by idle talk and instead follow your hired expert's lead?

4 comments:

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

Because it's in his side's political interest.

"Crazed Vet gunnut dies in a hail of reighteous police bullets"

Good for rations. Good for moving the ball on the citizen disarmament political gridiron.

BobG said...

I agree with T-bolt; the reporter would love to have it end in gunfire so as to give a better story.

Anonymous said...

If it bleeds it leads!

Somebody go kick his ass.

Gerry

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

rations? RATINGS. Gah!