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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 09:24 AM
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Faux doing their version of the Nightline List of the Dead
Because Nightline didn't provide the context for why those people died for.

They call it "What we've accomplished". It started out with Saddam's abuses. How droll...how ironic.

Daily life has improved for the avg. Iraq.

Pollyannas, all of them.

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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 09:24 AM
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1. Oh, do I need to say that so far they haven't said the name of one
Edited on Sun May-09-04 09:25 AM by khephra
dead soldier yet, even though they said this was their version of the Nightline list of the Dead?
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 09:26 AM
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2. Ooooohhhhh...they now have Freedom of the Press
Even though the US shut down two...out of a hundred. You want to guess how many of those 98 are funded by the US or related sources?
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:17 AM
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3. Missed it
but I was wondering what they could possibly do considering the events of the past week.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:18 AM
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4. They basically provided the "context" to the Nightline list
without even showing a single name.

Their "context" was to list everything they thought was going right in Iraq, half of which you could tell was BS.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:21 AM
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5. So did they read or show any names? I try not to linger on those
channels more than the nanosecond it takes to surf by, to preserve my retinas.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:29 AM
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6. Nope
Not a name or face...they just had to do a suck-up job for the Bushies. The idea that their segment (which lasted 3 or 4 minutes) was supposed to provide any "context" (their word) to the Nightline show is laughable.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:33 AM
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7. I think the length of that segment got shortened significantly.
They had commited to doing it so they had to, but it was only last week that there was faux outrage over the Nightline show and FAUX intended to capitalize on it. They did not understand the gravity of the Taguba Report and the pictures being shown throughout the world. My guess is that their "success" segment got shortened considerably from its original concept.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:42 AM
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9. Hey did they mention no more rape rooms as a "success"? eom
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CastorTroy Donating Member (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:38 AM
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8. Words escape me . . . not a trace of irony
Freedom of the f***ing press!

Are - you - f***ing - kidding - me . . .

We are pumping in propaganda broadcasting and shutting down dissident voices AND now even cutting off the voices of OUR OWN TROOPS.

Fox is beyond shameless.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:54 AM
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10. Most of the Freeps were disappointed
They expected a whole hour.
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