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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 05:24 PM Original message |
CNN Reporter Detained in China for Holding Anti-Obama T-Shirt |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm not sure that, in China, those shirts are necessarily anti-Obama. n/t |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I suspect the reporter wanted to make a negative association with Obama regardless |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
29. CNN was taught a lesson |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. You mean Glenn Beck didn't have them printed for the occasion? |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. Anti-Obama shirts? |
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ThatPoetGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. This is stunning, and that reporter should be fired. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 06:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. why should she be fired exactly? |
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DRoseDARs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 06:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Don't bother. People have convinced themselves that a pro-Obama t-shirt is anti-Obama... |
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hileeopnyn8d (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 06:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I didn't convince myself of anything |
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ThatPoetGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. You are right. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 11:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. "we already knew that"? |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 06:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Yeah--those shirts, while rather offensive to me, really aren't to millions |
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ThatPoetGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 07:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. The creators' intentions are irrelevant. |
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DRoseDARs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 08:17 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. But you're projecting US politics onto Chinese culture and she blogged about her run in getting one |
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ThatPoetGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. What does Chinese culture matter to the shifting debates here? |
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ThatPoetGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. What was she "reporting"? |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 11:03 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. bull. |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 11:44 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. My questions about all this would be.... |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 11:54 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. the fact that security guys in china are trying to suppress information from being reported |
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rebel with a cause (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 01:00 AM Response to Reply #27 |
30. That the security person took the shirt would be news worthy |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 05:37 AM Original message |
+1 |
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hileeopnyn8d (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
6. If she could write |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 06:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. I certainly does make it sound like they killed her hands. |
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DRoseDARs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. *sigh* Herd mentality in this thread... |
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ThatPoetGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. It's so interesting to hear the sheep bleat "you're all a herd" amidst their baa-ing. |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 04:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
31. I think the person you are responding to |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
10. That isn't an anti-Obama shirt. Weird. n/ |
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DrToast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
20. What the hell was Lou Dobbs doing in China? And I thought they fired him! (nt) |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
21. Is this a parody? |
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Garam_Masala (711 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. Why is OBAMAO anti-Obama when Mao has God like status in China? |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-16-09 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
23. Clearly, different cultures view this shirt in different ways. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-17-09 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
28. Just what we need. How long before Cafe Press has one of these in its anti-Obama section? |
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