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Warpy

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7. Like everybody else with a microphone

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:55 AM

Jun 2014

they're shoving it up their butts trying to find their heads.

Thirty years ago, all news departments would have correspondents with death wishes on the ground there talking to people in the region and dodging bullets, trying to bring some sense to the stories. Now, their budgets have been slashed too far to get anybody plane tickets so they're waiting for press releases from the inside-the-beltway crowd to drop into their laps.

Thanks, guys, but I'll tune in to the BBC and Al Jazeera. I really don't give a shit what the insider crowd says, they're as clueless as you are.

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Yesterday, MSNBC reported that the oil in Iraq is safe because the oil fields are in southern Iraq.. [View all] ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2014 OP

The Execution Claims, Sir, Came First From The I.S.I.L. People The Magistrate Jun 2014 #1

Yesterday, MSNBC said the bulk Iraq's oil was safely in the South and that we didn't have to worry ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2014 #2

As if the oil companies needed a reason to jack up prices rurallib Jun 2014 #3

Perhaps they actually googled where the oil was in the meantime. hughee99 Jun 2014 #4

Possibly Someone Consulted A Map, Sir The Magistrate Jun 2014 #5

I think we're seeing the execution of yet another script, sir. nt ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2014 #6

I See No Need To Assume That, Sir The Magistrate Jun 2014 #8

That's not what I think, no. I am thinking that MSNBC has become suspect in their reporting. I am ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2014 #9

Like everybody else with a microphone Warpy Jun 2014 #7