All 3 Networks lead with Amish shooting..Foley who?

[edhopper]

I guess the Repug leadership in trouble isn't news.
Maybe they can talk about Clinton's penis?

[iamahaingttta]

1. Sorry, ed...

... but the school shooting is "news." Foley isn't. This is the kind of thing they lead with. Foley will come 8 minutes into the newscast.

[Connie_Corleone]

2. A shooting in an Amish schoolhouse doesn't happen every day.

The Foley scandal is still big news.

[WI_DEM]

3. I actually agree with the networks on this

Foley has been a top story all weekend and it will continue to be. This shooting is a tragedy and deserved to be the lead story.

[RamboLiberal]

4. Give me a break - sometimes there's too much whining

here and :tinfoilhat: whenever a bigger story take the lead over the latest Republican scandal.

The school shooting was the biggest news story today! I just watched NBC news. The shooting was followed by the Foley scandal, then the Woodward book with Woodward providing hard copy proof to refute the Bushies madly trying to spin it as lies.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. Rove hired the shooter.

[Redstone]

6. What, DEAD CHILDREN aren't more important than politics?

Nice priorities, there.

Redstone

[bobbolink]

11. .

:thumbsup:

:cry:

[Poppyseedman]

7. A shooter kills three innocent girls and critically wounds eight more

Kills himself, all over a twenty year old "issue"

Yes, your right, this is crap, Foley should lead the news every night regardless of what other horrific news is happening everyday.

Like I said, you are right. All republican perverts all the time

:crazy:

[kestrel91316]

8. And not just any girls. Harmless, pacifist Amish girls.

In a one-room schoolhouse, minding their own business.

I am especially disturbed by this probably because I have some Amish ancestry way back and have studied them.

On edit: people should know that the Amish are SOOOO nonviolent that they will not raise a hand against anyone even in SELF-DEFENSE. You can hit one all you want.They won't hit back.

[AZBlue]

10. I agree with you 100%

Any shooting of anyone, especially schoolchildren, is horrific. But, the fact that they were Amish makes it even more deplorable - and who thought that was even possible?? And, who the eff has a grudge against the Amish?? We have some seriously sick people in our society and Foley is just one of many...unfortunately.

[Poppyseedman]

12. Only some of the Amish are that non violent.

I used to live within a block of the Sarasota Amish / Mennonite community. I used to shoot hoops with the teenagers at their B-Ball court.

More than once I had to break up a fist fight and they cursed like sailors to boot.

No kidding

[kestrel91316]

14. The teenagers are not formally members of the church, so they

are allowed a significant amount of deviation from community standards of behavior (during the time they call rumspringa). Once you join the Amish church formally, as over 80% of them do, they are quite strict in their pacifism.

Strictly speaking, "Amish" children are not yet Amish.

[Poppyseedman]

15. I lived there for seven years and never knew that..

I actually lived next door to an Amish family for two years.

Very nice people, but very closed about "who" they are.

[kestrel91316]

16. The reason they are "closed" about themselves is because talking

too much about ONESELF is considered self-centered and not appropriate. Sort of akin to bragging.

They really don't like to engage in anything that brings attention to themselves as individuals. Or even as a group. That's why they don't allow their photos taken. It's not unfriendliness, as many think, but modesty. They surprisingly don't mind if their children are photographed, again, because they are not technically members.

There is an excellent book out there called AMISH SOCIETY, and the author's name escapes me for the moment but he was raised Amish and became a Mennonite and univ prof. John Hostetler, maybe. You would probably get a lot out of it, and understand them better.

[AZBlue]

9. "All Republican perverts all the time"

Isn't that the tagline for Fox News??

[cynatnite]

13. They said all eight wounded are in grave condition...

This just breaks my heart :cry: