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Poor Matthew Cooper! The former Time reporter and current Josh Marshall slave or Atlantic slave or whatever has made the mistake of comparing the atmosphere on Martha’s Vineyard right now to that of New York City on 9/11. He will be apologizing on Twitter all day, so stop on by! We feel sorry for Cooper, though, if he thinks of freaking 9/11 every time a famous person dies on a nice weather day. [Twitter]
This most recent twitter fiasco is WORSE than 9/11.
To be fair, he’s only repeating something Scooter Libby told him
Until I see T-shirts worn by fatties with airbrushed crying Eagles and Ted Kennedy, and the inevitable Senator Day Sales honoring Ted you have NO RIGHT TO SAY THAT, MATT COOPER! 9/12 Forever!
this unforunate misunderstanding feels a bit like the holocaust
When the compound comes tumblin’ down, THEN we’ll have a valid comparison….and more batshit conspiracy theories.
Fuck. I’m quoting John Mellencamp.
Yet another reason why Twitter will destroy civilization.
Why does the MSM (if Cooper’s still a member) adhere to the “9/11 was a beautiful day, weatherwise” meme so tightly? Would it have made any difference if it had been a rainy day?
Maybe they could recycle it for Katrina: “August 29th was a beautiful day in New Orleans. Until the hurricane slammed the shit out of it.”
Using his definition, you know what else is like 9/11? The last episode of Saved by the Bell: Malibu Sands.
To be fair, every fall when we get our first beautiful, slightly cool but brilliant sunny day here in NYC, I think of 9/11. Even without any dead people to remind me. So I get what Matt is trying to say, and think this is just further evidence that Twitter should be killed, the end.
Maybe he meant to say “7/11″. That place melancholies the fuck out of me.
accidental 911 comparisons are my favorite.
V572625694: Why do you hate America’s beautiful weather?
HoboNutz: Mazel tov, mattiz coop!
V572625694: or they could try, “9/11 was a beautiful day in Manhattan, until it started raining bodies and buildings.”
does this reporter person maybe not know that at every beautiful moment on every beautiful day, someone dies? they do live sheltered lives. someone should tell them, if it wouldn’t prove too much of a shock to their gentle systems.
It was also a nice day, in Hawaii, when Pearl Harbor went down.
watching the live video feed on CNN of teddy’s car going down the highway and listening to nirvana’s “oh me” from the unplugged performance is the definition of absolute melancholy.
/sigh
In Cooper’s defense, there are similarities. For instance, we were warned this was going to happen and yet we did nothing about it.
american mutt: “Smells Like Ted Spirit”?
Twitter is the greatest invention ever. It does and will always expose teh stoopid with greater immediacy than ever before. Hail to Twitter.
american mutt: This Teddy-worship is wearing thin, even for a leftie. Imagine the brain damage it’s causing the wingnuts.
So maybe it’s a good thing. And we had to suffer through The Royal Funeral of King Ronald Reagan I. And the papist nonsense when J2P2 punched out.
V572625694: It was the beauty/horror contrast. Trust me, it sticks with you, especially if you spent a long time walking home in that beautiful weather because hey, the subways weren’t running. Yes, it would have been different if it was raining. Please don’t ban me for sounding like an earnest troll.
The sadness I feel as a result of his sadness would only equal the sadness I would feel if my never born child died on 9/11.
SayItWithWookies: Are you referring to the August 6 presidential daily briefing memo titled: “Ted Kennedy Determined to Die in U.S.”?
“It was a beautiful day” ranks right up there with “he (the murderer) was kind of a quiet guy.” Writers like that are giving us 110 percent.
V572625694: well, i’ve not been watching the news for the past day or so. also, its a bit of a boston thing. yankees suck and all that.
Achingly? A GUY is describing a day as “achingly beautiful”??
When are these people going to fucking learn?
To all you stupid Twats On Twitter:
Your ’stream of consciousness’ is so polluted, a single tear is rolling down the face of an American Indian as he reads the foul, stinking garbage of your mind that you post on Twatter every 10 minutes.
Take a deep breath, now.
Pull over, write a comprehensive blog entry of at least 1500 characters, use a spellchecker, then get back to us, assholes. Or, keep bashing yourself in the head with the ‘Pet Rock’ of the internet, your choice.
V572625694: Well, practically speaking, rain may have helped to keep some of the toxins out of the air and reduced the long-term casualties of the attack.
teebob2000: it’s power to expose teh stupid is why i stay as far far away from it as possible. i do enough playing with fire here and whenever i try to say something intelligent to my girlfriend.
ella: Yeah, that kind of emo shit is best reserved for letters to your Argentine mistress.
problemwithcaring: oh god, that was funny. i swear
#weather/whether
Atheist Nun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a7K2uCJvvg
(For reference)
Someone remix this for those twats on twitter!
Extemporanus: at home. godd on him for that for gods sake.
All big spread dew point, clear weather days around day 254 of the Gregorian Calendar, Common Era have been banned.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
Early fall weather often feels this way. And people die all the time. Melancholy as the leaves turn color and die. *sigh* Guess I’ll go drink now.
If Teddy’s funeral is like 9/11, does that mean we’ll be invading John Kerry soon?
V572625694: That’s mainly why I like it: drives the wingnuts crazier.
Around here, the weather is like a sheep with a secret sorrow.
Atheist Nun: Still works for me. Note the final title frame: “advertising for the public good.” The Public Good. Hm.
Coop, we know Noonington. And you are no Noonington.
Atheist Nun: Not even 1400+ character posts are safe from twats.
I give you fucking WOOFER.
slappypaddy: its. qed
Hooray For Anything: Bravo
Feels a bit like the blitzkrieg of Poland in NYC today. Cooler, slightly muggy and partly cloudy, but the mood is melancholy because of mosquitos in my backyard.
At long last, has it come down to this?
WadISay: Well, I suppose that’s better than a sorrow with a secret sheep.
I gunna have my own private irish funeral for him this weekend: http://newyorkette.com/wp-content/crow.jpg
DoctorCulturae: The Public Good. Oh, yeah… that. You just have to rip the band-aid off quickly, then give them a tiny lollipop and a copy of Highlights® Magazine, for children.
Extemporanus: All the tears of 9-11 won’t wash away the pain.
/snark off
You know, there is something to 9/11 “weather.” If it’s a warm, but not hot, early September day, the angle of the sun is just right at around 9:00, and it reminds me of exactly where I was when I hear the first news of the first plane crash, on the Howard Stern Show, god help me. I’m glad I moved further south so that we don’t have that kind of weather in the fall. I know it’s a bit odd, but I know exactly what this cat is talking about.
But twitter is perhaps not the medium best suited for subtle thoughts like this. I cannot imagine what good twitter is for anything, frankly, except for chronicling the movement of one’s bowels.
/as you were
Does no one remember 3/11/04?
Atheist Nun: Yeah, and that Indian dude crying in that PSA of old weren’t even a real Injun. Though he succumbed to a kind of Stockholm Syndrome of sorts, pretending to be one for much of his adult life.
In the first comment, it says “Power Twitter” WTF is that? No, I don’t really want to know. I’m also afraid to click on those new Wonkette Twitter things as it may make me a real twat
I will not accept his apology until he promises to fly to Chicago and hurl himself from atop the Sears Tower, in solidarity with the victims and their families.
Note to Matt: Next time you try to catch the vibe at the Vineyard, wait until cocktail hour.
well, rainy days and mondays always get me down.
I dunno about nice sunny fall days. On the real 9/11 I was sleeping late in Tucson and was supposed to go to mexico and buy pills, but my roomate woke me up to say the border was closed. So I went and got drunk instead. And there was a guy in the bar going on about how we had this coming to us because of our policies and I was shaking with the desire to break my glass and stab him in the neck. i guess I feel that way a lot LOL. anywho, times like that remind me of 9/11.
and I remember 3/11/04–wasn’t that when bush bombed spain so that he could scare the shit out of us until november?
What exactly was Jack Dorsey drinking/smoking/snorting/injecting when he created the decline of Western Civilization also known as Twitter?
WadISay: +1
JIM NEWELL are you now insulting us British Peoples’ National Day Of Fear, for a cheap laffs and Statist Idolatry? THIS WILL NOT STAND.
“So other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
CorkPopper: I get it too. Certain sunny, crisp fall days = 9/11. And I’m on the west coast.
My basement flooded, one day, when my washer broke while running. Now I know what Katrina victims feel like.
A group of kids a few years back where I live were found playing with liquid mercury in an old abandoned house; now they know how Hiroshimians felt after The Bomb.
A local family died after their house blew up suspiciously, here, a few months ago. Now, I know what it’s like to live in Baghdad.
…
jimmynail: Surely our National Day of Fear is “Whenever Millwall play West Ham”?