…he needs a straight tjacket. This should be embarrassing to NBC, but then, Olbermann is still on the air.
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…he needs a straight tjacket. This should be embarrassing to NBC, but then, Olbermann is still on the air.
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I think the cut of his jacket is less important than the length of its sleeves — perhaps you meant straitjacket? 😉
Remember what Tom Wolfe said about reporters in “The Right Stuff.” When it comes to the space program, the press is The Victorian Gentleman, whose job is to “convey proper feelings” — not necessarily accurate facts.
For Barbree and many other reporters, the proper feeling right now is that any change represents The End Of American Manned Spaceflight.
Wait… are you somehow disputing the notion that Constellation is an “close to completion” program designed by the “best rocket engineer in the world” Michael Griffin? 😉
Usually news reports have a few verifiable facts. I’m not sure there was one in this piece.
But, at least, his numbers are all within one or two orders of magnitude of the actual ones. 😉
Who?
And what’s an NBC?
This is the first truly hilarious thing to come out of the space program since the ESAS.
On a totally unrelated note, another guilty plea by a former top-level NASA official relating to corruption down south – a case reported linked to WH-liaison-turned-dish-washer Courtney Stadd.
The plot thickens….
Yeah I was watching thisguy and shaking my head in amazement:
“..since they spent $10B on constellation it would only take another $5B to finish it – and they weer going to spend that much closing down Constellation”.
….But Orion alone was supposed to cost $20B to finish, and $30B for Ares-1?
He said 70-100 thousand folks will be laid off by closing this? Previous numbers we 5-10 K on closing down shuttle?
“Griffen was the greatest rocket engineer alive” ==
I think my brain shorted out but then I came to and he said
===and that “Bolden and Obama had no part in this horible plan to turn it all over to commercials — it must have been lower level NASA bureaucrats.”
Yeah – Obamas such a softy he’ld just go with whatever a lower level bureaucrat was pushing…
One wild thing, the guy mentioned in passing calling up Niel Armstrong and a couple other astrounauts. Thats having connections.
😉
Jay Barbree is still alive? Didn’t he provide live coverage of Columbus’s voyage to America?
That was a pretty painful interview, even worse was the way the MSNBC talking head just gobbled it all up like it was gospel. Jay has become a name-dropping, doddering old fool, regardless of his glorious past. They just roll him out a couple of hours before each launch and try to pass him off as the Edward R. Murrow of spaceflight coverage.