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Bill Maher wants Boston to shut up about the Marathon already
By adamg on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 2:02pm
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So the asshole got p0wned by
So the asshole got p0wned by a dick?
No, he was slapped by
... A. Weiner.
Again?
Do we really need to go out and find ridiculous things to be outraged about all the time? Is that what our Boston Strength has been reduced to? Driving Rolling Stone out of business* wasn't enough?
*we didn't, although some funny outraged people sent funny outraged tweets in the direction of the Rolling Stones at the time. Pity anyone named Bill Marr with a Twitter account this week.
It is becoming tiring
I agree with Maher that this one tragic event has been given way too much importance. It's the same reason I'm so sick of the expanding TSA presence, the NSA spying, etc all in the name of keeping us safe from TERRORISM, a real, yet massively overblown threat.
True...
...there are plenty of valid points with regards to the ongoing erosion of privacy and personal liberties for the sake of the pearl-clutchers.
On the other hand, NYC-Wossname up there has no reason whatsoever to piss on that one brief gesture.
Also agree with Maher
If one can see beyond Boston to what is happening in the world, Boston has no monopoly whatsoever on victimization. A day like that is a weekly or monthly event in Kabul, Islamabad, and much of Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Syria etc.. The Philippines, Japan, Thailand, Haiti, and Chile have had worse days from natural disasters. Time to pack up your Boston Strong T shirts and ship them to the Philippines where they can do some good.
I can't believe I tend to
I can't believe I tend to agree with Maher as well, I've just been afraid to say I'm so tired of Boston Strong outside of my house...
Trust me, I feel awful for the victims and their families but it's getting a bit overboard.
I saw Boston Strong bracelets selling and people buying them up. Upon research I see the sellers only donate $1 to the fund, yet people are so anxious to be part of it, they overlook they are actually helping someone make a ton of money off this tragedy.
The whole thing has gone too far.
He's right, but
He's still a dick.
Look, Boston Strong means something to some people. Me, I walk by one of the blast sites daily yet life goes on. I've been tiring of "Boston Strong" for months. If I were at the marathon, or heaven forbid injured in the blast, Boston Strong would mean a lot more. Therefore, I just grit my teeth and go on. Beyond the next marathon, we're at the stage of the people with Christmas lights on in February.
Just leave well enough alone, Bill. It's not hurting you. That's the difference between being right and being a douche about it.
Beautiful put.
Boston Strong™ has become a rather off putting marketing campaign.
I disagree
Maher is an a-hole. Except he gets a pass because his is a libertarian to liberal a-hole. The Sox parade was a ending for a period of trauma for this city. We were attacked, simple as that. Two nitwits thought it would be nice to destroy a day that much of the region comes together. Blah blah blah shootings in Roxbury, Dot, Jogger fondled in Chestnut Hill, These are unfortunately almost daily events. Little kids and 20 somethings watching a race, with cops everywhere around at the time of the bombings, and people getting their legs blown off doesn't happen every day. That is what makes things different here.
Secondly, as far the snippy remark about sending Boston Strong T-Shirts to Cebu, or Biafra, or someplace else, send them building code books and flood plain data instead. Might save more lives next time than your Gildan 90% Cotton / 10% Spandex mix.
I agree about building codes
Haiti has none, hence the much smaller loss of life in Chile for a stronger quake. We could also criticize our federal government on the wisdom of rebuilding a city below sea level, New Orleans.
Ahem
Innundation district?Ahem.
Flood plain data?
They could use that in the Innund ... um ... Innovation District.
The bombings were horrible ... but far more people have been injured or killed as a result of our terrorist drivers each year in memory. Maybe it should be joined to "Driving Strong" in a campaign to crack down on idiot drivers.
Why not put down ipods and cell phones?
These devices are killing people by both distracted users and distracted vehicle operators. Put down tired people for also being a major cause of death.
Overkill
I am a lifelong Bostonian, and I have nothing but empathy for the victims, but I have to agree with Maher. Enough is enough. In today's reality show culture, victims have become the new celebrities. No sooner does a tragedy happen when the victims are immediately on Good Morning America and are being interviewed by Oprah. We have been getting seemingly twice weekly updates on the minute by minute progress of the Marathon victims and how they are putting their lives back together. There have been commemorations of the "six month anniversary" of the tragedy. I've lost count of how many "runs" and tributes have happened. And not every Boston related event, Red Sox or otherwise, has to somehow be tied in to the Marathon tragedy. But the media will keep going and going, as long as there is something to be milked from this.
If these events weren't so
If these events weren't so dramatized by the media maybe there wouldn't be such an incentive for others to do the same.
Boston Whines
Boston Whines
I'm just as tired of Boston
I'm just as tired of Boston Strong as the rest of you are, and I look forward to when it's retired, but what Maher did is like telling kids there is no Santa Claus because he doesn't celebrate Christmas. It doesn't matter what YOU think about what amounts to nothing more but a somber and brief reflection on the very spot where the tragedy occurred only 6 months before (indeed, it would have been strange if there was no recognition of the bombings at all) - what matters is that many people (including myself) at the finish line and beyond had a great deal of emotional stock in those few minutes pause. If we're still doing this 6 years from now, Maher and his fellow kvetchers on this thread would have a valid point, but pissing on what to many was nothing more than a lovely moment is like a stranger telling a widow she ought to start dating again. If you can't say anything nice....
That Anthony Weiner.
That Anthony Weiner.