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maynard Donating Member (514 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 03:21 PM
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Fox News Ticker full of errors
Since I am not an Olympic watcher, it was time to spend a few moments seeing how the up-tight, morally self-righteous freepers are doing. I am an English teacher. I am disgusted at how many errors there are in the news crawl at the bottom of the screen. Yes, I know they are not using complete sentences. It is the mechanics of abbreviations, spacing between words and poor verb usage. This person loves to use quotation marks around items that do not need quotation marks. They should hire someone with skills rather than their love and devotion to Bush.
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skids Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 03:24 PM
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1. That assumes...

...someone with love and devotion to Bush that also has such skills exists...
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 03:35 PM
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4. Anybody who can spell "nuclear" couldn't tolerate working there.
so there's a really tiny pool of possible job candidates.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 03:27 PM
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2. There are no people with skills that are also devoted to Bush
So, you leave FNC in a quandary.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 03:30 PM
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3. Well there's a surprise.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 03:40 PM
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5. Murdock is a low wage Republican employer, and it shows
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