Priceless! Scarborough talking w/ John Stossel about media bias!

[milkyway]

On msgop 10:24 pm est talking about CBS. I'm trying not to listen. Is this a great country or what?

[salinen]

1. Stossel & Scar

Hitler & Mussolini, or, Abbot & Costello?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. That should be entertaining.

I'm sure they'll explain how the liberals totally dominate and control the news these days. By the way, Stossel totally blows. I think I dislike him even more than Scabrous.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. Maybe they can explain why

the librul media gave so much coverage to Chandra Levy's disappearance, and no coverage at all to Lori Klausutis' death. I mean, that's a huge indication right there of librul bias.

Inadvertantly running into a John Stossel program was one of the things that scared me off the tube permanently.

[Samantha]

3. Scarborough called Rather a liar

Then he smiled and tried to softpeddle by asking Stossel if HE was calling Rather a liar.

Most of the discussion centered around the technicalities of whether these documents could have been prepared on a typewriter or a word processor. None of this discussion proves anything. Forms such as the ones that were displayed were often created on technology designed for "forms design" -- even in the 70s. Word processing existed in the 70s. So even if those disputing that they were typed but were in fact word processed do not without further evidence establish anything.

Oh and this is a "scandal" now? What scandal? It's a controversy its critics are trying to balloon into a scandal.

[NotTooSimpleSimon]

4. Word processors, typesetters, fancy typewriters etc...

Why on earth would a CYA private memo be created on such expensive and unnecessary equipment rather than a handwritten memo? If I were to write a CYA it would be handwritten, signed and dated in ink. Why all the fancy documenting typesetting?

[Vickers]

5. Every MFR I produced in the military had to be typed

I didn't have a secretary, so I typed my own.

How did they do MFRs when you were in?

[NotTooSimpleSimon]

6. How many CYAs did you type up?

All mine are handwritten.

[Vickers]

9. Never did a CYA

All MFRs all the time, baby.

[karlrschneider]

10. Well, I was in the USAF in 1967, and amongst my various duties, did a LOT

of inter-squadron correspondence. Hand-written notes were (if not contrary to AFM) highly discouraged. I recall one time I actually did write one and caught hell for it. I even got some shit for writing out a typewritten memo in response to a verbal query from some fatass Colonel who wanted to know "what time our lunch hour was"...I shit you not. I couldn't get back to him on the phone so I typed out a short memo saying "11:30 - 13:30" (or whatever it was)...the General I worked for ragged on me for answering that stupid question by correspondence.
I told him "Yeah, I should have just told him I had no fucking idea."

I don't know much about the military right now, but back then it was run by morons.

[Samantha]

12. It's a lot cheaper and a lot quicker

to produce these forms on technology with the ability to design forms and quickly replicate them for duplicative use.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with your method either! I love writing things in longhand, and there is a certain authenticity about it that cannot be denied! However, I have done extensive word processing on a lot of different equipment for many years, and I am giving you the official explanation as to why one would use this method.

[AlCzervik]

8. Can joe dead girl explain what particular bias was

involved in hiring a disgraced former congressman they may or may not have killed his intern? Or did they skip that part?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

11. What about the intern you killed Joe???

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