Storm Porn

Just a quick rant...

Shepherd Smith was on Fox News a moment ago, 'reporting' on the massive hell-storm that God is about to visit upon the good people of south Texas. (That is assuming, of course, that it doesn't mysteriously veer north and finish off New Orleans for good.) It's shows like this that give liberals just cause to slam Fox. Right now the storm appears to be headed straight at Galveston, site of the worst hurricane disaster in US history. (For those of you who don't know, a storm in 1900 washed over the island that the city is built on and flattened the town, killing something like six thousand people.)

Shep was trying to 'interview' an historian and and draw comparisons to this storm, except that Shep was factually wrong about the details of the event. Not that he gave the guest much time to correct him, it wasn't that kind of an interview. What's wore, Shep almost seemed to hope that this would be just as bad. He kept looking for reasons why we should be devastated now in the same ways that we were over a century ago. You could almost see the anticipatory excitment in his eye.

And it dawned on me that a story like this is practically pornographic. We have a long, intense buildup of emotion, anticipating the main event. This is followed by a sudden, violent outburst, a 'stormgasm' in which we release all of that pent up energy. Finally, we all collectively sigh as we look at the aftermath and start to get worked for the next one.

Ron Jeremy should get a job as a broadcaster, but he might consider it beneath him.

Disgusting.

Now back to your regular programming...

... oh, that was regular programming.


Sigh.