It’s always about events that happened and not about things that didn’t happen.

This conversation and the above quote in particular remind me of this article posted here a while back: "Why the world is not falling apart" (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...)

  We never see a reporter saying to the camera, “Here we are, live from a country where a war has not broken out”—or a city that has not been bombed, or a school that has not been shot up.

I'm all for the right for free speech, but that doesn't mean that deliberate fear-mongering shouldn't be reprimanded.