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B2G Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:28 PM
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You aren't going to like this post
But where the hell our *our* media watchdogs? It's just getting worse and I see nothing from our side.

http://michellemalkin.com/
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:29 PM
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1. You are right....
No rebuttal to all the bullshit....
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Baselinereality Donating Member (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:32 PM
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2. Oh Don't You Go Telling Me What I Will Like or Won't Like!
Unfortunately, I have no idea what you're talking about. Who are the "our" in your question? And anyone who would link to Michelle Malkin's website has a fetish that I couldn't begin to examine in my own perverse nature.

Am I the ONLY person who has noticed that that woman is wasting away faster than Star Jones? Who ever she and Ann Coulter sold their souls to is obviously eating them.
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skids Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:33 PM
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3. snort. "captured." Two of them turned themselves in...
...not much of a "capture" there.

Anyway, in answer to your question, our media watchdogs are here:

http://mediamatters.org/
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Bjorn Against Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:34 PM
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4. We are the media watchdogs, not Michelle Malkin
People like Malkin pretend to be watchdogs of the very organization that they are a part of. She gets all kinds of airtime to spew her filth, she could not possibly be a watchdog of the very people who pay her salary.

We can not expect the corporate media to police themselves, we have to do it. We have the power of the internet lets use it.
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:35 PM
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5. Media Matters is an actual media watchdog. Malkin is a RW hack
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:36 PM
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6. Thank you!
:rofl:
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:37 PM
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7. Are you guys clicking the Malkin link? You will see what the OP means
I agree- what the hell right does she have posting that?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:38 PM
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8. Are you kidding me? And give her the traffic? I don't think so.
Edited on Wed Aug-09-06 07:38 PM by sfexpat2000
:shrug:
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:47 PM
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11. 4 paragraph limit seems to be
beyond the effort for some. So, if they can't take the time to provide the minimum/maximum, i don't even take the time to look at it.

:eyes:

dp
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:49 PM
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12. It is the pictures of the Egytpian students
that the FBI wouldn't publish

:eyes: yourself
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B2G Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:51 PM
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13. No, it's not the Egyptian students
Edited on Wed Aug-09-06 07:52 PM by B2G
It's the Israeli/Lebannon photos. More & more questionable ones are coming out. I would have far preferred to post a liberal link to them, but I couldn't find one. That's my point.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:53 PM
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14. Oh
OK- I'm confused. nevermind.
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Baselinereality Donating Member (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 08:30 PM
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15. A Freelance Journalist Manipulated Some Photos of Bombings In Lebanon.
This, apparently, is a plot against conscientious Americans and Israelis. Reuters discovered them prior to them being released for publication in America. After they found the second one, (in one, more black smoke than was actually emitting from a bombed building was added and in the second, an Israeli jet was shown to be firing three flares when it was only firing one), they fired the freelancer and informed the public at large.

I heard about it on NPR.

I'm not quite sure why two manipulated photos of a well-documented incursion in southern Lebanon isn't generating a lot of news. Or, wait. Maybe because it's not all that newsworthy, in the grand scheme of things?

But, let me again state: I HEARD ABOUT IT ON NPR. And, oh, I read about it at my Yahoo headline website.

Is Madame Malkin trying to insinuate that there isn't actually a war going on in Lebanon, or that it's not nearly as bad as the media wants us to believe, and all the proof she needs is that a freelance photojournalist doctored some photos, (note: these were "doctored" photos, not staged or faked), so that proves it right there?

One of the reporters on NPR told the audience that he watched rescue workers pull a woman's scalp from the wreckage of a demolished apartment building. I didn't see a photo, though.

Does that mean it didn't happen? Or that it definitely wouldn't have happened if I HAD seen a photo?

You know, I have GOT to give right-wing conservatives credit:

It takes an awful lot of work to remain that stupid. I mean, to keep avoiding logical, plausible, reasonable answers EVERY SINGLE TIME! The odds alone are just mind-boggling.
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Baselinereality Donating Member (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:45 PM
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10. Oh, I'm Sorry, No. I Just Ate, and I Always Wait an Hour Before Clicking
On a rabid right-wing "pundit's" site.

And, anyway, I don't need to click on her website to know what Michelle Malkin is thinking. All I need to do is watch what happens to raw ground meat in 100 degree heat after flies lay eggs on it. After a short incubation period, I can see precisely what Michelle Malkin is thinking.
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 07:43 PM
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9. We'd need a 24/7/365 rebuttal
channel to cover all the lies, smears, swiftboatings, falsehoods, character assassinations, misstatements, cover-ups, corruption, malfeasance, treachery, ineptitude and all of the other awfulness that emanates from the right. But I do hope to hear the righteous indignation from our leaders to these propagandists that the right hires to trash its enemies. (That would be the majority of Americans BTW) And the louder the better.
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