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In reply to the discussion: Fox News: Obama used wounded soldier as a prop & human shield [View all]Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)8. Might as well include links to the threads that you're referring to
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and on the same but slightly modified to appeal to the left talking points as Fox News. nt
arely staircase
Jan 2014
#153
Here's one DU post that refers to "props"...written after Obama's SOTU on Tuesday.
Cali_Democrat
Jan 2014
#100
People like it as long as wounded vets are used as props for the right talking
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#7
Twisting words doesn't work either, just so y0u know. I prefer plain speaking. So let me
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#25
I don't give Fox or those who share their general mentality any credit. nt
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#40
Well that was my point, 'Fox or those who share their general menatality' I don't even
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#80
I wasn't the one who read off the same page of talking points as Fox News. nt
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#86
Please name these people 'who agreed with Fox' or you are lying, as far as I am concerned.
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#110
do you disagree that Obama was cynically exploiting that soldier and using
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#113
Well, put it this way. Every time I saw soldiers brought to the SOTU since the beginning
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#37
Unless that point was made clearly, NO. What it does is make the public feel they HAVE to
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#83
I would quit while I was this far behind, if I were you. But I'm not you and have never called
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#109
I posted a statement of Fox making some excrable comments about the President.
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#111
Thank you, I am not a stupid person which is why I know when someone is calling out a
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#119
Nope. What I objected to was use of soldiers to deflect criticism from an illegal war of aggression
stevenleser
Jan 2014
#97
Why are you watching Fox? Most Democrats here have been boycotting that propaganda
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#182
there have been a lot worse, more hysterical reactions to the SOTU speech.
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#26
Very transparent isn't it? If I wanted to make a point against someone else's view, the LAST place
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#29
Well, given that a bunch of y'all agree with Fox News on this point . . . nt
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#35
that Obama was cynically using the soldier to deflect criticism/recognition
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#65
when you are able to articulate your disagreement with at least parts of what Pitt wrote, go
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#99
Hey, misrepresent what Pitt wrote all you want. he said Obama's speech made him "sick to my soul"
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#89
No, the Fox News criticism is much more rational and less hateful of the President.
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#34
People compare Obama to Republicans all the time...I doubt you object to that
Cali_Democrat
Jan 2014
#36
i'm not just talking about DU members, and i never saw any of those as being on the left
JI7
Jan 2014
#62
Oddly enough far fewer caught on to LZ, that poster was only obvious to a few of us
Fumesucker
Jan 2014
#103
No, LZ was a Zen master of trolling, a few carefullly chosen words for maximum effect
Fumesucker
Jan 2014
#112
If you agree with any conservative ever about anything you buy the whole conservative line
Fumesucker
Jan 2014
#41
Sure, because we hated Dubya personally and inexorably. He hated everything he did.
geek tragedy
Jan 2014
#69
Like the way the far left trashes President Obama and reject Hillary Clinton when they do?
TheMathieu
Jan 2014
#50
I think you've hit the nail on the head, but that won't stop today's Two Minutes Hate. nt
Electric Monk
Jan 2014
#144
I have as much regard for Gutfield as the others who made similar arguments regarding this soldier.
gordianot
Jan 2014
#156
Fox news.. garbage in Garbage out. It's all fucking bullshit that only faux/limbaugh,
Cha
Jan 2014
#166
Should make this clear that this was the Facile Five. Then we could ignore it.
yellowcanine
Jan 2014
#201