Tuesday, September 02, 2008

America at War...with the weather

Fox News talked up Gustav as much as they could, but by around 8am local time yesterday it was clear that we weren't going to have the pleasure of seeing Geraldo up to his neck in water in the French Quarter. Still, Hanna, Ike and Josephine are queueing up in the Caribbean...

Coverage of the US Open from Flushing Meadow seems to feature a lot of that patriotic music so beloved of the producers at Fox. Roger Federer may be No2 in the tennis world now, but the Argentinian commentators on ESPN still want to have his babies.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

One prominent christian-right preacher (James Dobson) was urging his congregation to pray for rain the night of Obama's speech in the stadium...

Apparently "god" had other plans for the republicans....