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In reply to the discussion: The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop has been disgraceful [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)74. I'm no expert on Paine, but I do seem to recall he was one of the
few "revolutionists" who was an outright abolitionist, when abolitionism was the fringiest of fringe ideas, kind of like women's 'right to vote' ca. 1815. So no surprise if two of Paine's mourners were African American freedmen.
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The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden scoop has been disgraceful [View all]
Jesus Malverde
May 2015
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Another Reporter has come forward to BACK UP his story. This is how it always happens with
sabrina 1
May 2015
#30
Raelynn Hillhouse, wrote this story back in 2011. She says Hersh's story 'is spot on' though she
sabrina 1
May 2015
#59
Anyone who seriously wants to know the facts, finds them themselves, rather than demanding
sabrina 1
May 2015
#81
Bergen's observation about bin Laden's relationship to Saudi Arabia is an important key.
OilemFirchen
May 2015
#94
Sure haven't seen any bin Laden videos lately, and AQ web sites themselves acknowledged
still_one
May 2015
#32
Seems to me the official 911 story is impossible and therefore must be false.
freedom fighter jh
May 2015
#28
K - N - R. Here's what we do know by the administration's own account: it
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#15
Multiple AQ sources came out saying he was killed. The only ones that don't are those that believe
still_one
May 2015
#34
Not his claim but the claim of a retired officer who was not privy to what occurred.
randome
May 2015
#40
Their logic runs in the opposite direction ... Obama IS a liar ... therefore ...
JoePhilly
May 2015
#47
What more do you need? It's a known fact that the Obama administration misinformed the public
DesMoinesDem
May 2015
#65
Hersh disgraced himself, he did not check his sources well enough, but then he would not have
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#78
If anything, the media gave his nonsense far too much airtime. Hersh is in truther/birther territory now
tritsofme
May 2015
#79
VIDEO: Reporter Seymour Hersh Discusses His Controversial Exposé on Killing of Osama bin Laden
nationalize the fed
May 2015
#88
You go on to say truth doesn't matter as long as he's dead and then say truth hurts..
Jesus Malverde
May 2015
#100
No, I think both Hersh's "story" is bogus, but also people who think there "must be more" to the OBL
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#102
The whole Hersh outrage reminds me a lot of the vitriol poured on Gary Webb
Jesus Malverde
May 2015
#103
It's not the first dubious assertion to come from S. Hersh in the past 10 years.
Warren DeMontague
May 2015
#104