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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-02-07 08:21 PM
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17. When he sincerely apologizes and loses the "some people can't take a joke" mode I might
reconsider...But for now, he is like everyone else caught making an insensitive remark - blame the people who were offended for being offended so easily. Journalist or commentator, he should know better.
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  -Any updates on Jeff Greenfield's little "joke" about Obama and the Iranian president? yellowcanine  Jan-02-07 12:34 PM   #0 
  - Greenfield can eat shit...  Cooley Hurd   Jan-02-07 12:38 PM   #1 
  - All WHITE also, I might add. Maybe it is only when a BLACK man loses the tie that Jeffie's sense of  yellowcanine   Jan-02-07 12:41 PM   #4 
  - Greenfield plays to the stupid  twilight_sailing   Jan-02-07 12:40 PM   #2 
  - You mean THIS Jeff Greenfield? The one with shirt, coat, and NO tie?  MADem   Jan-02-07 12:41 PM   #3 
  - Context was the "Situation Room" here.....  yellowcanine   Jan-02-07 12:46 PM   #5 
     - Oh yeah, his apology was crap  Wickerman   Jan-02-07 01:00 PM   #6 
     - I have followed Jeff for years, and he is not a conservative by ANY stretch  MADem   Jan-02-07 01:01 PM   #7 
        - Jeffie should know that a joke that ties someone's name to Islam is not going to play well.  yellowcanine   Jan-02-07 01:11 PM   #8 
           - He's really more of a commentator than a journalist, but, whatever  MADem   Jan-02-07 04:05 PM   #10 
              - When he sincerely apologizes and loses the "some people can't take a joke" mode I might  yellowcanine   Jan-02-07 08:21 PM   #17 
                 - If you've ever heard him on Imus, it's clear this kind of snark isn't new to him  MADem   Jan-02-07 10:52 PM   #19 
  - He is a corporate news network all mouth marionette.  higher class   Jan-02-07 01:15 PM   #9 
  - He was RFK's speechwriter, but, hey...whatever.  MADem   Jan-02-07 04:08 PM   #11 
     - As we've seen with Tweety, it doesn't seem to matter who they  higher class   Jan-02-07 05:14 PM   #12 
        - Tweety worked for Ed Muskie, too...but he has the same problem that Timmy Russert has  MADem   Jan-02-07 05:54 PM   #13 
           - I don't see it quite the same as you do. I believe  higher class   Jan-02-07 07:28 PM   #16 
              - I am not suggesting that CNN is a paragon of virtue, but they aren't "in it" for the dough in the  MADem   Jan-02-07 10:46 PM   #18 
  - True  MrRobotsHolyOrders   Jan-02-07 06:04 PM   #14 
     - But still  MrRobotsHolyOrders   Jan-02-07 06:05 PM   #15 
 

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