Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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drone
LOL! That represents the truthers so well, and I love the end.
CR
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Another funny thing is that the NYT or ABC or whatever medium right-wingers dont like are called 'main stream' or 'corporate' media'. For crying out loud, Fox is owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation and broadcast into 85 million American homes.
Another funny thing is when they say they don't watch Fox news.....then list other News Corp outfits they get their news from instead.
Its like a brit saying they wouldn't read the rubbish in the Daily Mail/Sun as they got their news from the Standard/Times
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
I'm sure Tribesman's last reference is hilarious if you live in the U.K. But for us yanks? Whooosh ...
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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I'm sure Tribesman's last reference is hilarious if you live in the U.S. But for us yanks? Whooosh ...
Where do yanks live?
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Adrian II
That's a blog posting. I thought I acknowledge that one, but looking over the current state of my post, I guess I wasn't clear on that. Yes, they mentioned it in a blog posting- if you want to count a mention on their blog as them giving adequate coverage to the unfolding controversy, I guess you can do so. :shrug:
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Another funny thing is that the NYT or ABC or whatever medium right-wingers dont like are called 'main stream' or 'corporate' media'. For crying out loud, Fox is owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation and broadcast into 85 million American homes.
"corporate media" is a pretty redundant term, but I don't really know of many right-wingers that use it. I mean, the corporate claim implies that there's something wrong with being a corporation and that would run counter to most right-wing ideology. :yes:
"Mainstream media" is a term that's still widely used, but as you point out, the lines separating what's mainstream or not are pretty blurred these days. If they've gotta call it something "traditional media" probably works better, and "state-run media"(yes, it's an inaccurate term, but it's supposed to poke fun at how closely they're allied with the administration) is also gaining popularity. My personal favorite has been the "drive-by media". :clown:
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Lemur
The attacks of 9/11 already had an
independent review, and it was pretty darn thorough. The folks who claim that 9/11 was some sort of inside job are much the same as the people who declare that there's something "wrong" with the
moon landings, or the birthers who claim that President Obama is an
Indonesian Muslim.
Does that sorta explain it?
Forgive my ignorance then. What I have been told is that "truthers" simply wanted an independent review which being totally honest, doesn't sound bad at all. I remember when I saw the attacks on television, I thought something was weird, since the Twin Towers were actually built with safeguards against such an attack, with the Empire State building incident as an example. Then there was talk of World Trade Centre 7 (whatever that is) getting destroyed and it was a block away.
So if they did investigate it and done a report like you just linked to in the two posts, then I see no issue, as it has been done.
Personally, if it was part of a controlled demolition done because it posed a great danger to the greater area, it wouldn't have been such a bad thing anyway.
Also, a couple of pictures around the time of 9/11 did make me think and wonder why somethings happen, such as this one:
https://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8292/jengafb2.png
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Strike For The South
These guys got found out. If you have a sneaking suspicion about someone go do what these guys did.
:inquisitive:
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Husar
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Germans don't understand the complexity of me.
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Strike For The South
Germans don't understand the complexity of me.
I understand that you are referring to different "these guys" but it's not very clear from the sentence so I thought I might point that out in a vain hope to make this planet a better place, just a tiny little bit...
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Lemur
Politically, being a truther is suicide. Also, please note that the "few facts that don't make sense" about 9/11 are about as legitimate as the few facts that don't make sense about President Obama's birth certificate.
Stare at
any set of facts long enough and you can start to see problems. But the 9/11 commission did a
very thorough job, and there just aren't many unanswered questions about the attacks anymore.
Concur with this fully.
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
I posted this is the backroom thread, but here we have Jon Stewart of the Daily Show asking where the media was on the whole acorn-is-corrupt-and-supports-pimps story:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-epi...009-matt-damon
Funny bit starts at 3:15, Stewart's lines against the 'traditional media' begins at 7:45.
CR
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Crazed Rabbit
I posted this is the backroom thread, but here we have Jon Stewart of the Daily Show asking where the media was on the whole acorn-is-corrupt-and-supports-pimps story:
That was a funny segment. And Fox News didn't even get ripped. The CNN lines were great.
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
Five years ago, conservative America was outraged that the press dared question the government. Dissent was considered unpatriotic, treasonous, turning America over to the terrorists.
Currently, conservative America is outraged that the press does not question the government enough. Not dissenting is considered unpatriotic, treasonous, turning America over to a fascist-communist dictatorship.
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Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Louis VI the Fat
Five years ago, conservative America was outraged that the press dared question the government. Dissent was considered unpatriotic, treasonous, turning America over to the terrorists.
Currently, conservative America is outraged that the press does not question the government enough. Not dissenting is considered unpatriotic, treasonous, turning America over to a fascist-communist dictatorship.
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And vice versa for the left. Alas that we don't all admit that dissent can be out of genuine care for the country and be very patriotic.
CR
Re: How Glenn Beck is beating the snot out of "The Old Grey Lady"
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Crazed Rabbit
And vice versa for the left. Alas that we don't all admit that dissent can be out of genuine care for the country and be very patriotic.
CR
We all do - when we are the backseat drivers.
