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Igel

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10. It's not intended to inform.
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 04:14 PM
Jul 2012

It's intended to outrage.

Same for "Karcher, who died in 2008, had been a supporter of anti-abortion causes for decades." Probably used dividends for the last number of years of his life when he was retired and just owned part or most of the company. Perhaps he was in Depends and demented. Hard to know. But because we're authentically enraged and outraged over something, let's kick the current shareholders and employees because of what some guy, now dead, last did at least 5 years ago. Let's all kick the living while shouting, "I'm glad you're dead!" Could talk about current corporate policies, current shareholders, but no. That's information that might not have a liberal bias and all Phakts (tm) shall have a liberal bias.

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