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Wow what an ordeal for those miners suck down in the mine for 69 days. I watch as they pulled miner after miner up yesterday. Then I notice what a photo op people were making it out to be. I'm glad they made it out alive but am pissed by the governmental photo ops. I also seen that each miner had a new Tee Shirt I'm not sure what it said but I am hoping it didn't say \"I was stuck in a mine for 69 days and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt.\"

All in all a very happy out come.

It doesn't really bother me that it was a photo-op, because frankly, I can't recall the last inspiring thing that I saw in the mainstream media.

And hopefully, it will bring attention to the situation more world wide.

An average of more than seven Chinese miners died each day last year, totaling 2,631, according to official figures. That makes their profession 100 times more dangerous than it is in the United States.

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Personally, I think it was awesome they got out alive and glad America was portrayed in a positive light for a change.

The american political media isn't missing their chance to do a virtual photo op either. Chris Mathews from MSNBC managed to work the Tea Party angle into it by suggesting that if those miners practiced Tea Party politics 'they would have never got out alive' and instead 'would have killed each other of within a few days.'

I wonder if Chris can possibly come up with a less clever way to shove his nose any farther up the democrats butt?!? Maybe the next time an Amber alert works out he can report on it and do a child rapist angle on the Tea Party?

I dislike the tea party as much as the next guy, but that does seem a little ham-handed and stupid.

Something has been bothering me about the whole media circus atmosphere surrounding this thing and it finally hit me! I saw this movie years ago and if they ever put this movie back on TV or the net, watch it. It damn near parallels the Chilean Mine disaster, except for the ending of course, and it was a pretty good movie too!

The Big Carnival

Will Robinson wrote:The american political media isn't missing their chance to do a virtual photo op either. Chris Mathews from MSNBC managed to work the Tea Party angle into it by suggesting that if those miners practiced Tea Party politics 'they would have never got out alive' and instead 'would have killed each other of within a few days.

Only conservatives watch Chris Mathews. Stop paying attention to him, hes just a conservative heel to keep you voting for republicans.

LOL!

Yes, very awesome rescue.

Remember, we did it first here in Pennsylvania, back in 2002. (not taking anything away from this one, just blowing our horn)

Heretic wrote:I also seen that each miner had a new Tee Shirt I'm not sure what it said

They're from the "Jesus Film Project". The group that produces the film had some contact with the Chilean miners (sent them audio bibles and such). The miners asked them to send the custom t-shirts, which they wore during the rescue.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/1 ... -t-shirts/

http://www.ccci.org/ministries-and-loca ... miners.htm