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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Rbg dead" story retracted -- faux news throwing their graphics team under the bus.
that team lives under the bus ...
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unblock
(52,579 posts)But normally they just quietly live there. The on-air "talent" doesn't normally bash them.
walkingman
(7,733 posts)rurallib
(62,514 posts)rurallib
(62,514 posts)Curious
Denzil_DC
(7,293 posts)Fox supposedly reported her death back in January, then retracted. Certain trolls have been re-posting about it ever since. She's had more comebacks than Sinatra at this point.
LaurenOlimina
(1,165 posts)Large Man: Here's one.
Dead Collector: Nine pence.
"Dead" Man: I'm not dead.
Dead Collector: What?
Large Man: Nothing. [hands the collector his money] Here's your nine pence.
"Dead" Man: I'm not dead!
Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Large Man: Yes he is.
"Dead" Man: I'm not.
Dead Collector: He isn't.
Large Man: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
"Dead" Man: I'm getting better.
Large Man: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
Denzil_DC
(7,293 posts)That troll from earlier should watch out for The Curse of Bader Ginsburg:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg to former critic who predicted 'with glee' she would die: 'He is now dead and I am very much alive'
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a scathing message for at least one of her haters youre dead and Im not.
The liberal judicial icon made the remarks during a recent interview with NPR, in which she addressed ongoing concerns about her health following a cancer diagnosis last year.
There was a senator, I think it was after pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months, she said. That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.
It turns out that Ms Ginsburg was referring to former Kentucky senator Jim Bunning, who died in 2017.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead-senator-jim-brunning-npr-interview-alive-supreme-court-a9021476.html
Welcome to DU, by the way.
LaurenOlimina
(1,165 posts)unblock
(52,579 posts)Foxnews probably came first, but not clear.
Thehill has details the Fox news graphic didn't have, such as that it was a heart attacking after experiencing chest pain at home, so maybe that story came first. Then again thehill might have embellished because that's what some of these sites do....
StarryNite
(9,487 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)And these are the same people telling us we're sick for wishing for a recession.
walkingman
(7,733 posts)investigate if it was REAL. Although I hate to admit it - there really it a lot of fake news these days. What a world we live in. I'm beginning to believe that SOCIAL MEDIA is a curse to humanity.
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