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sandensea

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30. Good point.

Wed Sep 6, 2017, 03:26 PM

Sep 2017

As serious as any news about Irma are, the sad fact is that these GOP miscreants can always be counted on to use ongoing news stories like these in the most cynical way imaginable: to distract from their wrongdoing.

And by no means does it have to be a natural disaster. It's no secret that the months-long media circus following the Laci Peterson murder - as heinous as it was - helped contribute to Dubya's reelection by massively shifting attention away from the Iraq War during the 2003-04 campaign season.

Were calls made to CNN and the other news outfits? I doubt it - but they might as well have been.

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No kidding. I'm not sure where s/he is getting that. catbyte Sep 2017 #39

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