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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:08 PM
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Faux news making up fan letters
Im guessing these arent real. Not even Freepers are that stupid.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214537,00.html

I do not watch any other news channel since I found yours. You tell the truth and don't take sides, and that's a much-needed commodity in this country. I have recommended your show to all my family and friends. I was a Democrat but crossed over to the GOP when Clinton threw his last tirade. I want to hear both sides of the issues not just one side. You do that very well and I do hope you will never surrender your integrity and dignity for any party. Keep up the great work, and I will keep watching!" — Margaret (Illinois)


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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:11 PM
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1. They do this in their spare time when they are not busy making
up the "news."
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april Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:19 PM
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14. so lets do it give them some letters
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april Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:22 PM
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16. lets flood them with letters
just do it pretend you watch...and all of us just send and see what happens ...it could be great fun! the Bastards...
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:11 PM
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2. ROFL!
Who wrote this POS? Sean, Bill, Alan, Brit.......
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:11 PM
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3. In my experience,
people who espouse those ideas are incapable of expressing them in a coherent sentence, or spelling more than 30% of the words in that sentence correctly. I'm sure those people are out there- and that may even be based on an actual fan letter. But I'd bet you $50 that's it's been very heavily massaged.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:11 PM
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4. October Suprise????
Is this the October suprise rove is talking about. The content of the email is really a suprise..I did not think anybody could be as stupid as this.
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:11 PM
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5. Someone read that with a straight face??!! Those FOX "reporters"
have surely sold their souls.

What a bunch of on air mind control sluts.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:12 PM
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6. LOL oh yeah she's been watching FOX only for years, but was a Dem right
up until this last Clinton interview... :rofl:

BTW I'd like to see the collection of "emailed" requests to Chris Wallace to ask Clinton why he didn't do more to get OBL. I'm sure they'd be of similar quality and authenticity as this email.
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:14 PM
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7. Uhh yeah. Exactly ONE email - from Rupert Murdoch telling the
Chris Wallace weenie to ask Clinton that question.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:15 PM
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8. I watch faux, out of morbid curiosity
like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

:popcorn:
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nam78_two Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:16 PM
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9. you know you don't have any fans ....
when you have to go around advertising the fact....
I have also seen O'Lielly et al read out "fan" letters....
losers....
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:16 PM
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10. No, she's real.
Here's a picture of her.

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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:17 PM
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11. shhhh.. someone's culture jamming
enjoy it for it's absurdity
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:18 PM
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12. They must have software that writes those letters
They are all so noticeably pre-fabricated, like a search-cut-and-replace program.

I've seen the same thing on a few left websites, too, but only a few. A very few. Probably just a couple of smartasses with the same software. But on Fox and other big RW websites, it's entirely out of control.

--p!
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:19 PM
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13. i guess they've been reading the Onion.
they seem to be taking more and more cues from that humorous rag.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:20 PM
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15. Unfortunately, freepers ARE that fucking stupid.
...
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:23 PM
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17. there is the option that some episodic freeper really dreamed he was a Dem
there are a lot of marginal types in the Freeper Flying Monkeys Corps

sort of the Munchhausen by political party condition
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:23 PM
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18. Sounds like the same kind of "mind" set as Harriet Miers...
if "Margaret" thinks Fox Fraudcasting "doesn't take sides" it's kind of like Harriet saying * is the "most brilliant man" she's ever met.
:crazy:
So yeah, there ARE people that stupid out there...but I doubt this is any more real than *'s "winning" any presidential elections.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:25 PM
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19. Dear Margaret in Illinois, you are out of your fucking mind.
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:27 PM
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20. No one who would have really written that could spell all the words right.
They also wouldn't have used a twenty-dollar word like "commodity." It's got to be a fake.
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kiteinthewind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 08:35 PM
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21. Here's my Faux fan reason!!
You KNOW you're a FOX "news" fan when your IQ is below 50!

:rofl:
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