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Originally posted by Greenguy
Hey TP - did his visit take over basically every media outlet (TV, radio, Newspapers, etc) for basically the entire day?
When he came to Buffalo a couple months ago, every fucking TV & Radio station covered the event - even the silly morning shows soouted off aobut him for a couple hours.
As if we have to drop everything that we're doing because his plane lands 
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Yup he preempted everything and it's not like it was a slow news day in San Diego
1, A Battle group deployed yesterday (San Diego is a Navy/Marine town a deployment is usually very well covered)
2, Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor (Their were two ceremonies in town, the number of living survivors is getting pretty small
3, A Swordfish Boat went down Saturday night 50 miles off point Loma
Coast Guard called off the search both men presumed to have gone down with the boat (this one really hurts the boat was from my marina)
4, Dick Murphy sworn in as Mayor
Donna Frye wife of legendary surfer Skip Frye and Surf Store owner, was damned near elected Mayor of San Diego off of a last minute write in campaign