You know how you can tell how the media hates us?
Because they'll take any side against something we love, no matter how farcical, unfair or flat out untrue.
They will deftly shade what we love to be villainous and evil at its core.
You know what Americans love?
The Blue Angels.
The Blue Angels make people who hate all things America crazy with rage, and will blame their once-a-year, few hours of notice for murdering their beloved elderly family pets.
I can easily imagine the same woman who would rage profanely and repeatedly on a Navy website might also have stood screaming in her living room as a jet made a pass overhead, shrieking helplessly at the ceiling whilst waving a tiny, progressive fist. I can also imagine her foaming and maniacal rage at the noise having an equally, if not more, profound deleterious effect on said aged feline than the jet zoom-zoom itself.
NBC News, in its sneering contempt for all things red, white, and boomity, chose a side as opposed to straddling the American center.
To no one's surprise, the network came down firmly on the side of Team 'Stop the Cat Killers.'
The final days of a Seattle cat were spent in "terror" due to Blue Angels fighter pilots, before squadron leaders blocked the feline's human mother on social media in an act of "cowardly censorship," she says in a lawsuit. https://t.co/MDawhpS234
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 25, 2025
My cosmic twin Kcruella tagged me on a Facebook post yesterday, with a 'First the Blue Angels are killing cats, and now Buc-ee's is killing baby turtles?'
WAIT, WHUT
According to the link, this is so.
Did they put a Buc-ee's on a shore drive?
Surely not.
What's the story here, and what's wrong with Buc-ee's corporate brains?!
During the first week of July, the popular travel center and gas station chain Buc-ee’s opened its largest location in Georgia, just off coastal Interstate 95. But it’s not the beaver-branded merchandise or the smell of barbecue that’s attracting Georgia’s sea turtles — it’s the harsh glare of towering high-mast lights.
Under normal conditions, the soft glow of moonlight guides newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles from the beaches of Little St. Simons Island to the ocean. But this summer, brighter and taller lights are disrupting that instinct.
Instead of heading toward the sea, the hatchlings are being drawn miles inland, where they risk falling to predators or dying from exhaustion before they find the water, said Scott Coleman, ecological manager of Little St. Simons Island.
Oh, the little turtles are dying. Buc-ee's lights are killing the baby turtles - getting them all turned around and headed for the dunes instead of the drink.
OMG, THAT BASTARD BEAVER!!
And frankly, I find this really baffling. Here in Florida, we are required to have turtle shields on any beach street lights (and beachside porch or deck lights in many places), which are also a different shade than standard highway lights. These are specifically designed to direct the soft light straight down onto the roadway, instead of the wide field of illumination you normally see.
I can't believe they didn't require Buc-ee's to do so, or, really, that Buc-ee's didn't think to do so, being right on the beach and all.
As you can imagine, the Facebook post is packed with mountains of anti-Buc-ee's vitriol for their callousness to an endangered species. They're damn near calling for a boycott of the all-American chain for choosing brazen, bright, heartless capitalism over tiny turtles' lives.
So everyone read those first couple of paragraphs, is all pissed off at the beaver, telling their friends about the beaver killing the baby turtles on the beach, and will never stop there again. That's how emotional appeals work, and I'm guessing that's why CNN set it up that way.
Because it takes until the 6th paragraph to find that the explanation for the light situation completely exonerates Buc-ee's.
It kind of makes you wonder if the all-American rest stop everyone used to love until CNN said it killed baby turtles would have ever been mentioned had CNN not despised things Americans love like Buc-ee's.
And, oh, by the way - the frickin' lights are twelve miles from the beach, to boot.
...A previously dark stretch near I-95’s Exit 42 in Brunswick, Georgia, is now flooded with intense, artificial light from the high-mast light fixtures illuminating the Buc-ee’s exit. The lights were there before the proposal and construction of Buc-ee’s, according to Brittany Dozier, Glynn County’s director of communications. Buc-ee’s itself is not responsible for the lights.
The county is choosing to keep them on “for the safety of the motoring public,” Dozier said.
However, the set up casts light far beyond the highway, extending onto beaches even 12 miles away, including Little St. Simons and Sapelo.
The state of Georgia had already installed and was operating high-mast light fixtures at an open highway exit where Buc-ee's just happened to eventually put a store. Nothing was added for the Buc-ee's. The county has made the decision to continue operating said 12-mile-inland lights as they always have.
Buc-ee's owns none of the light fixtures, has control of none of the light switches or dimmers, and yet CNN casts its entire story and lede as if Buc-ee's is wantonly slaughtering tiny turtles.
...The Georgia Department of Transportation owns the high-mast lights, but by agreement, Glynn County is responsible for ensuring the lights are operational, said Dozier, the county’s communications director.
The same high-mast lights exist at three other I-95 interchanges in Glynn County, according to Dozier, and the lights near Exit 42 do not violate any county ordinance.
The county’s public works department said the county and state transportation department discussed turning the high-mast lights off after street lights were installed at roundabouts, according to emails between Glynn County Public Works and a Georgia Department of Natural Resources biologist in May and June, shared with CNN by Ridley.
The standard streetlights have since been installed, Ridley said, but the towering high mast lights remain in use as of late July, except during maintenance. Despite pleas from conservationists to dim or turn off the lights during the loggerhead hatching season, which began on July 15, county officials have not committed to shutting them off, Ridley said.
Dozier told CNN on Wednesday the “lighting installed at the roundabouts or near Buc-ee’s was never meant to replace the high-mast system that serves the interchange.”
The Georgia Department of Transportation is currently evaluating the installation of an alternative lighting system, she said. CNN has also reached out to Buc-ee’s for comment, though they are not responsible for building, operating or maintaining the high-mast lights.
I think I summarized pretty clearly, no?
It was nice of CNN to ask Buc-ee's what they thought of being called baby turtle killers, though.
Kind of a shame that people don't read past the first three paragraphs when they get mad.
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