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marew

(1,588 posts)
68. People are not in denial.
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 05:25 PM
Sep 2013

They simply want honest information.

Your fervent obsession with watching the same gore and human suffering over and over is not doing your cause any good. Borders a bit on the bizarre, quite frankly.

I would be much more impressed if you called for immediate humanitarian intervention but no- you just advocate watching suffering over and over and over... Do you have the same concern for those riddles with bullets or blown up by bombs?

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I don't watch that channel anymore. liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #1
There's nothing much else on Saturday. I switch between them and Al Jazeera now. Cleita Sep 2013 #3
However, at night, there's always that wonderful prison stuff, "Lockup." Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #31
I don't have cable tavalon Sep 2013 #61
Is Al Jazerra still streaming? I'd heard they went dark once cable and sat picked them up. Flatulo Sep 2013 #97
It's been a while tavalon Sep 2013 #150
In an age of manufactured news cycles... Chan790 Sep 2013 #70
I'm not into sports and that's mainly what's on or commercials to try to make you buy stuff. Cleita Sep 2013 #72
Caution on al Jazeera - it was established by the Emir of Qatar. leveymg Sep 2013 #102
I've been watching it a long time, even before they took over Current TV. Cleita Sep 2013 #104
MSNBC has become televised BOG mick063 Sep 2013 #2
and they were BOGGERS for Bush's Iraq war too? Whisp Sep 2013 #14
The BOG wants war. mick063 Sep 2013 #25
Oh BS treestar Sep 2013 #27
If nobody wants war . . . another_liberal Sep 2013 #107
If you're around enough you will see which posters treestar Sep 2013 #161
Blaming "the banksters?" I say! another_liberal Sep 2013 #171
bullshit. The BOG wants to hear the President out Whisp Sep 2013 #29
Completely agree. n/t FSogol Sep 2013 #37
You know as well as I do. mick063 Sep 2013 #77
well, then it's all settled, you know everything about everyone. Whisp Sep 2013 #81
So attacking Syria is Okay if Europe does it, Progressive dog Sep 2013 #121
The BOG is a very bad place, not sure I'd call it evil, but it is cui bono Sep 2013 #112
the Barack Obama Group on DU wants war? Care to back up that blatant bullshit? KittyWampus Sep 2013 #46
I apologize for my friends, they just did not know you guys were anti bombing Syria Dragonfli Sep 2013 #76
Problem is they don't know what their views are until Obama tells them. cui bono Sep 2013 #113
What does BOG stand for? Raksha Sep 2013 #114
Barack Obama Group (every day I find I am behind on some acronym or other) link below Dragonfli Sep 2013 #117
Well it has many meanings... officially it is Barack Obama Group. cui bono Sep 2013 #118
Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know BOG stood for Barack Obama Group, Raksha Sep 2013 #136
And in Britain OwnedByCats Sep 2013 #159
Well that applies then since the ideas that are floating around in there are... cui bono Sep 2013 #163
Yep lol OwnedByCats Sep 2013 #184
The way the BOG treats fellow DUers is "shitty" to use your words. cui bono Sep 2013 #109
if you come into the BOG all ready for bear Whisp Sep 2013 #115
See? Just like I said. Your last two sentences sum it all up. cui bono Sep 2013 #116
o yeh, I forgot the rule about 'being nice' Whisp Sep 2013 #119
Everyone else here does not let their denial of facts make them ban others from groups. cui bono Sep 2013 #126
you don't like the group system? Take it up with Skinner Whisp Sep 2013 #130
Nice try at deflecting the point. Doesn't change the facts, which you didn't refute. cui bono Sep 2013 #133
The purpose of the groups was to create a safe place for people fitting the charter of the group karynnj Sep 2013 #172
I answered your other post... see that. cui bono Sep 2013 #173
Try this experiment karynnj Sep 2013 #175
You know what? It's on both sides. DU simply does not have a good moderating system. cui bono Sep 2013 #177
I agree that the nastiness is inexcusable and counter productive karynnj Sep 2013 #180
"Spew the nasty shit about obama" Scootaloo Sep 2013 #181
don't you worry your little head about BOG business. Whisp Sep 2013 #182
Well, you don't recall correctly Scootaloo Sep 2013 #183
Why are you threatened because there is a group that by definition respects and generally supports karynnj Sep 2013 #169
I'm not threatened. Doesn't change the fact that it is a bigoted and discriminatory group cui bono Sep 2013 #170
I think that all the groups threads CAN go to the greatest page, karynnj Sep 2013 #174
I agree, there is far too much anger. I've alerted on OPs that agree with my position cui bono Sep 2013 #176
I agree with much of that, but I do think the groups have value karynnj Sep 2013 #178
That's great. I'm not against groups in general. Just bigoted, discrimanatory ones that are afraid cui bono Sep 2013 #179
Good description n/t LuvNewcastle Sep 2013 #16
At least two hosts have come against this adventure nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #105
Will they show the people the US Bombs kill? NoOneMan Sep 2013 #4
Me neither. n/t Cleita Sep 2013 #5
exactly. liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #6
They wouldn't dare show the victims of the white phosphorus dropped in Iraq. Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #19
I thought the heroic Edward Snowden leaked that? treestar Sep 2013 #34
So you're defending Snowden? progressoid Sep 2013 #73
The person is objecting to seeing photos, or others seeing photos treestar Sep 2013 #160
Not that I am aware of NoOneMan Sep 2013 #100
How many deaths from chemical weapons are you willing to accept? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #49
If that's how it works, then you were willing to accept over 100,000 Syrian deaths Bluenorthwest Sep 2013 #98
+1 cui bono Sep 2013 #127
Take it up with the UN and international community treestar Sep 2013 #162
About the same as deaths from US bombs NoOneMan Sep 2013 #103
Well said! The horrors of what we do are always sanitized. As someone in a post RKP5637 Sep 2013 #128
Or white phosphorous (used in Iraq to burn flesh off people) NoOneMan Sep 2013 #129
In a nation we destroyed for no reason and had no business being in the first place, yet we RKP5637 Sep 2013 #132
That's one*leak* that won't be investigated n/t Catherina Sep 2013 #7
No kidding. n/t Cleita Sep 2013 #20
I quit watching years ago LittleBlue Sep 2013 #8
They were pipi_k Sep 2013 #9
You are right, that is despicable. Whisp Sep 2013 #10
They put the first ones on the show before Karen Finney with no disclaimer. I forget Cleita Sep 2013 #13
You know they posted that for a reason... dixiegrrrrl Sep 2013 #11
Don't forget the shooting of Germans in a radio station on the Polish border to Cleita Sep 2013 #17
I did not know that. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2013 #33
You're asking the media to liberalhistorian Sep 2013 #12
Yeah, it's funny but it will lead to tragedy. Cleita Sep 2013 #22
Thanks for the warning. It's awful being "played" by the media. Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #15
Exactly. This is just such crap. n/t Cleita Sep 2013 #18
I wonder if Finney from MSNBC covered the Honduras coup Whisp Sep 2013 #23
Yep, you can bet on that, it's a given. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #36
exactly right G_j Sep 2013 #47
Completely agree! marew Sep 2013 #21
Humanitarian aid? Medicine? Food? Cleita Sep 2013 #24
There I go again! marew Sep 2013 #32
That would be the BEST thing to do Politicalboi Sep 2013 #44
You cannot be on the wrong side of the UN when you are a permanent member of the Security Council TheKentuckian Sep 2013 #69
There is a lot of hype on many news medias, does not occur only on MSNBC and CNN Thinkingabout Sep 2013 #26
Actually, most people don't do searches and do critical reading. Most DUers do, Cleita Sep 2013 #35
One should not that showing the equivalent US jimlup Sep 2013 #28
Don't look. treestar Sep 2013 #30
Remember... Regarding dead American soldiers... marew Sep 2013 #40
I remember that fetid old bag saying that. I doubt if there is much of a mind up there Cleita Sep 2013 #74
Perfect word choice for that person, "fetid old bag!" Couldn't be better. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #82
Then airing films of the effects of felix_numinous Sep 2013 #38
I am all for that. It's what fair and balanced really is. If we are going to show one camp's Cleita Sep 2013 #39
EXACTLY!!! nt marew Sep 2013 #42
Cleita, I've been also listening to the discussion on MSNBC. Skidmore Sep 2013 #41
I don't think they are discussing the real issues here, just the problems Obama is Cleita Sep 2013 #43
If they could find enough remains to photograph ... GeorgeGist Sep 2013 #45
you SHOULD see it... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #48
I have seen it over and over. I don't think it's necessary for what they are trying Cleita Sep 2013 #50
I think it IS necessary... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #51
You're not winning friends here trying to smear others. Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #53
I am not here to win friends...I am here to support Democrats...thus the name "Democratic Undergroun VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #56
Supporting Democrats right or wrong. Right? totodeinhere Sep 2013 #96
I support democrats because I hate republicans.. VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #137
Hating Republicans is no good reason for wanting to attack Syria. In fact the opposite just might totodeinhere Sep 2013 #143
can you accept 2 different concepts at the same time? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #144
LOLOL Skittles Sep 2013 #135
that's exactly right.... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #145
Not my mind. How about others, like children, who don't need to see those images on a channel that Cleita Sep 2013 #54
I grew up watching Viet Nam.... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #58
I grew up in a mining camp and when there was an accidental explosion, I saw them Cleita Sep 2013 #60
I do.... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #62
Which brings up the question, maybe we should not have treestar Sep 2013 #164
why? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #165
The OP doesn't want us seeing the photos from Syria treestar Sep 2013 #166
hmmm by that analogy...why do they give us news that happens in any other country? VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #167
My analogy may not be working out treestar Sep 2013 #168
That is NOT what Cleita was saying! marew Sep 2013 #63
we SHOULD see this... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #64
People are not in denial. marew Sep 2013 #68
Not one person pecwae Sep 2013 #139
the whole "death = death" crowd VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #65
Tell that to someone... marew Sep 2013 #71
Oh, so naive... Democracyinkind Sep 2013 #83
White Phospherous is... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #155
Maybe we should also see footage of the the US military's use of white phosphorus munitions totodeinhere Sep 2013 #93
I bet it give you a WARGASM! RetroLounge Sep 2013 #154
MIC war atrocities would take a long time felix_numinous Sep 2013 #52
It could take up more time than people have to watch it! n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #55
Actually, that could replace the voyeuristic prison videos so popular these days. n/t Cleita Sep 2013 #57
These videos show the facts. wisteria Sep 2013 #59
And the Dead "Little Ones" sleep...vicitims of Violence...New Ones Every Day! KoKo Sep 2013 #90
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says OnyxCollie Sep 2013 #149
This message was self-deleted by its author Jesus Malverde Sep 2013 #66
I think it's good they show it I think the American people need to see this not only when they do it Arcanetrance Sep 2013 #67
You are dead wrong. bluestate10 Sep 2013 #85
The source of the films has been made clear BainsBane Sep 2013 #75
Wow! You do not believe it is a bit of a leap... marew Sep 2013 #84
She is objecting to it being shown on television BainsBane Sep 2013 #108
facts? MFM008 Sep 2013 #78
This message was self-deleted by its author malletgirl02 Sep 2013 #79
Why shouldnt people know? iamthebandfanman Sep 2013 #80
So you equate not wanting to watch suffering with 'ignoring'? Wow! marew Sep 2013 #91
Still waiting on pictures from all those dead Iraqis. Democracyinkind Sep 2013 #86
I'm waiting for all the pictures of those live Iraqi and Afghani babies that are being Cleita Sep 2013 #88
Exactly. nt Democracyinkind Sep 2013 #89
Me too! nt marew Sep 2013 #92
Many pictures have been shown by the media, and guilty Americans have gone to jail. bluestate10 Sep 2013 #94
To claim that the US media has equally considered Iraqi deaths is Democracyinkind Sep 2013 #99
At best . . . another_liberal Sep 2013 #120
Absolutely! nt Democracyinkind Sep 2013 #138
The clips of the videos shown on CNN were the ones that CONGRESS has been given... Tx4obama Sep 2013 #87
Wrong answer- anyone who pretends to have a political opinion about Syria JCMach1 Sep 2013 #95
Very interesting research on Iraq/Kuwait war buildup delrem Sep 2013 #101
I remember the non-existent babies being tossed from non-existent incubators. Cleita Sep 2013 #106
The pitiful dead children videos have lost their effectiveness for swaying public opinion. another_liberal Sep 2013 #110
Thank you. You put it more eloquently than I did. n/t Cleita Sep 2013 #111
How is that "showing these videos to gin up the war drumming being done is really not cool" 4bucksagallon Sep 2013 #122
When you figure out how to write in complete and cognitive sentences expect a response, Cleita Sep 2013 #124
Obama doesn't have to mess with Syria. mimi85 Sep 2013 #123
Pressure from his Wall Street buddies. War supplying company stocks are slowing down. Cleita Sep 2013 #125
The will of the people is peace polynomial Sep 2013 #131
You are so right about the aid the refugees need. The countries that have opened their Cleita Sep 2013 #134
yes cash__whatiwant Sep 2013 #140
why not ? they made a big deal out of that Rebel eating the soldier Heart JI7 Sep 2013 #141
Sick, just sick. DiverDave Sep 2013 #142
You can't handle the truth, or that Obama is trying to stop this atrocity from happeneing again. baldguy Sep 2013 #146
I'm all for intervention and stopping the atrocities but not Cleita Sep 2013 #147
Right. Let's do nothing more than sent Assad a strongly worded letter. That'll stop him. baldguy Sep 2013 #148
Really? Is that all you've got, a strongly worded letter? Cleita Sep 2013 #151
I actually wish our brave media would show nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #152
Also MSNBC continues to say that the authenticity of the videos Cleita Sep 2013 #153
I have zero issues with them showing them nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #158
So, you would be against the horrors of Vietnam that the media started showing that chelsea0011 Sep 2013 #156
Those films were authenticated and shown in context. These aren't. Cleita Sep 2013 #157
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