Scouts update

At the risk of appearing to have extraordinarily bad taste, I simply have to post excerpts from today's AP story on the Scout leaders that were killed on Monday..

BOWLING GREEN, Va. - The National Boy Scout Jamboree reopened its gates Wednesday for a somber visit by President Bush and a memorial for four Scout leaders electrocuted in front of stunned children.

That's nice of chimpy to do. Of course he's never been to a funeral for a service member killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Some scouts watched in horror Monday as the four men lost control of the towering pole at the center of a large, white dining tent, sending it into the power lines. Screams rang out as the tent caught fire and the men burned.

Holy crap! That's unusually graphic language for a MSM report. Clearly that's not something you expect you're going to see when you get up in the morning for a scouting function.

Organizers said the 10-day event would try to return to normal Wednesday. Scouts clutching water bottles in the morning swelter hustled off to events and kicked around soccer balls.

No.. I'm sorry.. I'd cancel the event and send everyone home. To carry on something as trivial as a scout jamboree after 4 men burst into flames is just too strange.

Call was thrown when he was jolted with electricity, and although he remained conscious, he became paralyzed and unable to speak, his wife Paula told CBS' "The Early Show." He could see that the other leaders weren't doing as well.

Weren't doing as well? Good lord they had just been electrocuted and set on fire. Not doing as well? oh my god...

Call was released from the hospital and "of course he went back to the Jamboree, which was his wish," Paula Call said.

Of course he did.. as if this was all in a normal day's event at the big Jamboree..

People began realizing something had gone terribly wrong when the shrieking sound of sirens pierced the air, said scout adviser David Tracewell, 54, of Kansas City. As rumors spread of the deaths, the mood "became very somber," he said

This entire story has really weird language in it.. "became very somber"? How about - "holy shit, this is really fucked up"? Pardon me for being vulgar, but "somber" is when the 95 year old grandma passes away.. not for 4 middle aged guys dying at the same time in a wickedly weird freak accident.

"It took my breath away this morning when I heard," Kamler said. "How can you feel joyful and celebrate after that?"

Uh.. you can't.. k? It's two freaking days after 4 men turned into human fireballs right in front of a bunch of little kids, and she's wondering how to be joyful?

I'm sensing a trend in the MSM where language is nearly calm and serene, where it in fact calls for something more appropriate to the gravity of the event.