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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 06:55 AM
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The pure, blatant fear-mongering and speculation on CNN is disgusting.
Edited on Fri Jun-29-07 06:57 AM by Atman
They are purely 100% just making shit up to instill fear in the masses. You should hear these clowns. They keep talking about the fact that there was "smoke in the car," but never expand on that...was the guy SMOKING, by chance? Was it thick white or black smoke, or just cigarette-y wisps? John Roberts doesn't bother to ask. Instead he asks "That smoke coming from the car; could it indicate this device was about to go off? Of course it would have had a devastating affect and certainly killed or injured many people (paraphrased)!" Not even and ATTEMPT to explain the "smoke," just drum-beating the fear tom toms.

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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 06:58 AM
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1. That's how they keep themselves in business, by playing on people's fears and ignorance
Kinda like the GOP!If they didn't make stuff up, they could cover the news in about 30 minutes a day, just like they used to.
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mediawatch Donating Member (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 07:08 AM
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2. was there really even a car?
and were those nails fake? It is not real
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Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 07:09 AM
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3. Cable News is a sewer and whorehouse
Edited on Fri Jun-29-07 07:09 AM by Vinnie From Indy
They never gave a crap about London's safety when the IRA was bombing.

TERROR TERROR KILL KILL DIE DIE followed by a mind numbingly irrelevant hour on Paris Hilton's first shopping trip after being in jail for a few days. America is coming apart at the seams.
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VWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 07:53 AM
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8. Wow, good point about the IRA
Puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 07:41 AM
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4. I watched about five minutes of CNN
Edited on Fri Jun-29-07 07:46 AM by C_U_L8R
and now I feel dumber for it.
Had to change the channel...
the breathless manipulative
bullshit was too much to take.

Whatever happened to the lost art of journalism?
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 07:42 AM
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5. Where were they and their cameras last weekend
when there was smoke coming from my propane grill on our patio? I had a slab of what appeared to be a dark meat on the grill. I also have nails stored in the garage.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 07:44 AM
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6. Such a fucking drama, and now the cable news outlets
will have something to babble about today. MSNBC already blaming this on Islamofacists.

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oldgrowth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 07:47 AM
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7. We need stop wasting time protesting DC and take it to them, there
Edited on Fri Jun-29-07 07:49 AM by oldgrowth
The same inbed aholes who drove polls for the iraq war to 60%!!Remember those new hummers !




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