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Kokonoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:09 PM
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Fox News Buys Al-Jazeera
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6894936/site/newsweek "We took a look at their format and realized that it was almost identical to ours." Murdoch added, "If we really roll up our sleeves and make this merger work, we may wind up with the fairest and most balanced network mankind has ever known.”
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:12 PM
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1. Oh very funny.
"The media mogul said that changes to Al-Jazeera's programming would be "minimal" at first: "We'll be going through their news copy and every time they call President Bush 'Satan,' we'll take out the words 'President Bush' and replace them with the words 'Ted Kennedy.'""

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Mitt Chovick Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:30 PM
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10. As long as they don't put Laurie Dhue in a burqua
I don't know her politics, but I love her shiny lips.
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independentchristian Donating Member (393 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:49 PM
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12. I used to like
Edited on Tue Feb-01-05 10:50 PM by independentchristian
Kiran Chetry and Jane "Skins" Skinner.

from Fox News. They tend to not be so "blatantly" partisan.
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skylarmae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:12 PM
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2. just can't get over this one - life is so much better
than fiction sometimes.
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:13 PM
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3. Thanks LMAO!
"a broadcast entity whose slogan is "Death to the Infidels."
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theresistance Donating Member (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:13 PM
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4. Don't give them any ideas, please
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DemDogs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:22 PM
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8. Exactly
Nothing Murdock does would surprise me.
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independentchristian Donating Member (393 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:14 PM
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5. Whew!
I was really about to get angry. :crazy:
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Kokonoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:18 PM
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7. I second that !
I apologize
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 11:01 PM
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14. Scared the sh*t out of me!
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iwantmycountryback Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:18 PM
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6. "Hannity and Hussein"
To replace "This week in Jihad." :D LMAO
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No Exit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:24 PM
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9. Time for "Your World, with Bandar Bush"!
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:34 PM
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11. I actually believed that one, because it's conceivable
that murdoch would buy it...
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:57 PM
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13. I love how some people seem to get their knowledge of Al-Jazeera...
Edited on Tue Feb-01-05 11:00 PM by thebigidea
... from a 3 year old Jay Leno routine.

That was about as funny as... uh, a 3 year old Jay Leno routine.

Borowitz seems to have forgotten the "funny" part when constructing his Onion ripoffs.
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