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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 06:55 PM
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Carlson on MSNBC lying in promo openly...
They are promo-ing a story about a cruise ship outing with South American "Dictator" Hugo Chavez...

I thought I'd drop a line...

Tucker and Staff ([email protected]):

You can repeat a lie over and over. It still doesn’t make it true. Hugo Chavez is the popularly elected leader of a Democratic nation. He is not a dictator. Get your facts straight, if you want to claim any credibility at all.

RB Ham
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 06:57 PM
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1. Popularly elected people can be dictators
Peron in Argentina and Muscellini in Italy to name two.
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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 06:58 PM
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3. How about Bush?
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:12 PM
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7. It is arguable that he was elected
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:16 PM
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9. tee
hee
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:00 PM
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5. Mussolini was a dictator, Muscellini is some sort of breakfast
cereal or laxative.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:12 PM
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8. so I can't spell
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:31 PM
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10. That's not so bad, I can't tell breakfast cereal from a laxative. n/t
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pschoeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:37 PM
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11. Mussolini was never elected Prime Minsiter
He was appointed bY King Vittorio Emmanuelle III, upon threat of force of a coup and revolution.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:42 PM
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12. I thought he had gotten elected somewhere along the line
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pschoeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:47 PM
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13. He once was elected to a seat in parliament but that is hardly the same
Edited on Wed Mar-22-06 07:49 PM by pschoeb
Thing as being elected to head office, plus his appointment as Prime Minister was higly irregular. Peron is a better example, as he was popularly elected.
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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 06:58 PM
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2. Good catch. The right slips things by like this all the time. Anyone who
stands up to America will always be label something nasty.
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shenmue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 06:58 PM
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4. But can't you see...
no one must be allowed to actually win an election?

:crazy:

:dunce:
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:02 PM
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6. Unfortunately, you can repeat a lie over and over
Edited on Wed Mar-22-06 07:02 PM by depakid
and HUGE numbers of Americans will believe it's true (even after it's been repeatedly proven false).
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 07:53 PM
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14. But Musharraf is a president.
Edited on Wed Mar-22-06 07:58 PM by Marr
I remember the day Musharraf first started being referred to as "president" rather than "general" in the US press. They all started doing it at the same time. It started when the Bush Administration first began pushing their "spreading freedom" garbage. It was almost funny, because it was part of laying the groundwork for deposing one of their *old* brutal dictator pals (Hussein).

"We have always been at war with East Asia", you know. Same old bullshit. Truth it irrelevant- these outlets are about propaganda, period.
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