Cavuto: Take Nothing For Granted In Life, Not Even Life Itself

There are times to put aside differences and the tragic shootings in Aurora, CO is one of them. In that vein, we liked what Neil Cavuto said today about these horrific events in his commentary segment: “Sometimes on days like this, life just stops, right? The arguing over politics. Maybe the arguing, period.”

He continued:

All part of the drama of life, usurped by something otherwise mundane in life.

The stuff we maybe take for granted in life. The stuff we don't even think about. The stuff we don't much fuss or worry about.

Like going to a theater, watching a movie, and when it's done, leaving the theater, probably talking and arguing about the movie.

But we all know now that familiar routine was broken in Colorado overnight. And it's all anyone's been talking about since.

For good reason. We just can't fathom a reason. How people can go to a movie theater, and some of them, never come out of that theater alive.

It jars us to our core because it's so outside the norm, and the predictable, and the routine.

It's why financial channels joined news channels this morning going wall to wall on this story.

And even traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange couldn't stop watching news reports of this story.

The folks all about getting rich in life jarred by the fickleness of life. And reminded yet again there are no guarantees in life.

Or ways to explain the senselessness of some things in life.

The child shot at point blank range, and we wonder why. The couple who thought it would be fun to see a midnight showing of a movie for the first time in their life, now dead, and we wonder how.

I guess none of my insights are very profound today, just a business anchor musing about the routine business of life upended today.

It was almost as if those in business didn't know what to do today because none of what they did or usually obsessed about mattered today. Not even to them

No one much cared about the spending in Washington or the latest saber rattling in Iran.

Just what happened in a non-descript movie complex in Aurora, Colorado.

A state all too familiar with life's little shocks. Reminding us again to take nothing for granted in life. Including life itself."

Well said, Neil.

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Brian M commented 2012-07-21 11:05:58 -0400 · Flag

Yep, once our short attention-spanned media and population gets over this and FoxPAC gets their nasty memo from the NRAPAC to cease and desist on talking about it at all, it’ll be back to business as usual (pun intended) for Craputo.

mlp ! commented 2012-07-21 10:03:00 -0400 · Flag

Personally, I believe that a person should be judged by the total work product. Anyone that 99.9% of the time uses his or her soapbox to preach ANY far right mantra doesn’t deserve any credit for doing the correct thing once.

Richard Santalone commented 2012-07-21 09:27:48 -0400 · Flag

From Jon Toomey’s comment:

“Unlike Hannity.”

That’s because Sean KKKlannity worships ONE AND ONLY ONE master:

THE ALMIGHTY $.

’Nuff said.

aussie onlooker commented 2012-07-21 08:13:18 -0400 · Flag

newshounds talks about hannitization and fox rehab, me thinks this a bit the same lol.
in a nice way though.

aussie onlooker commented 2012-07-21 08:11:17 -0400 · Flag

why is it when ever some jerk on fox says something resembling normal human emotion and rational thought (with suitable dead pan face) they are singled out for praise. wtf.
like the naughty kid in school who becomes a hero for being good for an hour.
as an aussie i am bamboozled lol.

Jon Toomey commented 2012-07-21 05:30:17 -0400 · Flag

I don’t remember ever agreeing with Cavuto. I’m sure I have but the instances have been few and very far between. This statement by him gives me heart that he’s actually a human being beneath what is usually,to me a snivelling, water-carrying exterior. Kudos to you Mr. Cavuto. I have said a great many things about your lack of character and humanity in the past,and am pleasantly able to admit that you do have a soul inside that suit.

Unlike Hannity.

doors17 commented 2012-07-20 19:56:45 -0400 · Flag

Well said Neil.

What I also find disturbing about this is that we don’t seem to be shocked by these shootings anymore.

Brian M commented 2012-07-20 19:53:58 -0400 · Flag

Oh, and Cavuto’s remarks were indicative of him actually being a human, for once. Good on him.

Brian M commented 2012-07-20 19:53:19 -0400 · Flag

I sincerely appreciate President Obama and Mr. Romney’s pulling of their TV ads in Colorado. A class-act move on both their parts.