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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 03:19 PM
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Newsweek, CBS, Guckert, paid reporters--the destruction of the free press.
Recent developments are extremely disturbing. People go to the news for their...news, and thanks to the Bush administration the news is experiencing a major downslide in credibility. "Reporters" are paid, fake reporters have access to the WH, the CBS story about Bush's guard duty is rescinded (even though IT IS TRUE), Newsweek is pressured to back down on their Koran story...

This in addition to the regular "We dum heer in de News Ruum" business of reporting runaway brides instead of the Downing Street memo, the Robert Blake trial instead of the genocide in Darfur...

Makes one feel VERY uncomfortable. What's going to happen to this country?
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Tesla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 03:21 PM
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1. I actually saw some woman one Faux news saying
that your sex life is noone elses business.....at least when your Bolton.
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 03:24 PM
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3. Yeah right..however, if your name is CLINTON..your sex life is
EVERYONE'S business.

H-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e-s
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 03:26 PM
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5. Won't someone think of the children!!
:silly:

Of course it's hypocritical.

Kind of like when it was wrong wrong WRONG to nation build, but now it's okay!
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 03:21 PM
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2. The free press has been more than complicit in this...
If they haven't been bought and paid for, then they've certainly held their tongues.

No sympathy here, when they complain that the internet is taking away their subscribers and viewers...

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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 03:26 PM
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4. Yes, This Is a DELIBERATE Attack On The "Free Press" W/ the Intent
to implement government CENSORSHIP. This a very deliberate and well planned attack on press freedoms.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 03:28 PM
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6. We are being hitlerized....or empired. Hello fellow slaves and serfs.
Edited on Mon May-16-05 03:29 PM by higher class
slaves - one master
serfs - one king

Know who gets a lot of the credit?

The NRA, the anti-aborition people, reverends and their follower-swallowers, some tradionalists, and some who knew what was going on, but didn't like Kerry for flighty reasons. Enough of them voted to provide a small base, then the cabal stole the rest.

Traditonal republicans can see what is happening; the first three groups above can't see anything because George is their lord.

It's not impossible to win them - there are only about 25% of them in the country. And more people are getting struck by the cabal each day. We need to go after less fervent 40 year olds.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 03:35 PM
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7. That is why a press or newsmedia is so important.
You are absolutely right about how few of them there are, which is why it's in their best interest to destroy the paths of communication/information going to everyone else.

Looks like the blogs will be our last hope. Until the internet is taxed and monitored. :(
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