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RiverStone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-12-07 01:02 PM
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Did Faux News mention anything about Al's Nobel Peace Prize?
- or did they talk more about Britney Spears?

Just curious? Never watch em... :shrug:
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-12-07 01:02 PM
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1. Who?
Or, more to the point, who CARES?
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me9399 Donating Member (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-12-07 01:08 PM
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2. I heard this morning
that it should gone to General Petrayus :nopity:
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-12-07 01:10 PM
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3. Yep, as soon as it was announced they were griping
CNN even pulled some stuff and had some talking heads claiming he was still too stiff.
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MagickMuffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-12-07 01:12 PM
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4. Fox News And Right-Wing Bloggers Attack Gore’s Nobel Prize
I don't watch Faux News but this is from Think Progress:

On Fox and Friends this morning, co-host Steve Doocy wasted no time in attacking the announcement that Al Gore has been named a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. “Here’s something extraordinary,” Doocy sarcastically said. “What do Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, and that crazy Jimmy Carter have in common?” Co-host Gretchen Carlson responded, “They all won the Nobel Peace Prize?”

Fox then displayed a chyron of the last few winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, causing another co-host Brian Kilmeade, to complain: “There’s the last five winners — see Mohamed El Baradei. What do they have in common? I don’t know about the 2006 winner, but I will say 2005 and 2007 both anti-Bush.”

The Fox panel then turned its attack on An Inconvenient Truth, noting a recent court ruling by a British judge that Gore’s film should be accompanied by “guidance notes” when shown in schools. That ruling is now being challenged by schools and teachers. After reporting on the British controversy over Gore’s film.....

More at link with video:
http://thinkprogress.org/

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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-12-07 01:14 PM
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5. They were lobbying for Bush's "green" initiatives ...
Healthy Forest and Clear Sky Initiatives!

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