Yeah, I’ve talked about this before. Like the weather, it’s a perennial subject. Today the CBC website has a story about an investigation into a rough sailing for the Northern Adventure as it weathered a vicious storm after leaving Prince Rupert, eventually having to return. Here is the first reader comment posted by someone named “justaviewer”. Note that comments are pre-moderated, which means they get screened first by CBC staff before going up:
Send Obama out there to calm the waters – after all he can walk on them can’t he?
This has pretty much become a meme on the CBC site. Find news story, make completely unrelated comment attacking personal pet issue/person. The reader who posts next is wise to this, though and calls out the practice:
And let people start blaming Gordon Campbell, Steven Harper, and the 2010 Olympics for all of this… now!
You posters on the BC CBC Message Boards are really starting to sound like a broken record. Doesn’t it get annoying repeating the same thing over and over again?
Doesn’t it get annoying repeating the same thing over and over again?
Doesn’t it get annoying repeating the same thing over and over again?
Doesn’t it get annoying repeating the same thing over and over again?
Posted by “Dude Man”. Despite the call-out, the third comment, by “lobjob” is:
I am sure Adrian Dix will find the storm was caused by HST panic, an NDP generated condition.
I hate being cynical concerning the intelligence and thoughtfulness of the average guy but these people, I tells ya, they test me!