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BlueStreak

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8. That is the ONLY thing that separates them from Faux at this point.

Reply to Rex (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 04:53 PM

Nov 2013

And it wasn't a firing, just a slap on the wrist -- a month after the fact. So that boundary line is pretty darned fuzzy.

They aren't punishing these two because they went with a one-sided hatchet job. Hatchet jobs are what 60 Minutes is all about. They are being punished because this time it was so obviously fraudulent as to be a big embarrassment.

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