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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:09 PM
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Poll question: FAUX news will tone down their 'THEY will take away YOUR guns rhetoric'.
especially because of the terrible incident in Pittsburgh and because they don't want to be blamed for any possible future incidents.


As the gun nuts see it;

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-and-nras-lapierre-warn-insidiou

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/17/gun-advocates-ready-battle-federal-assault-ban/

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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:13 PM
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1. Damn, now I am REALLY confused.
I thought it was guns that were the cause of all these issues. Now it is fox news.

Next thing you know people will start blaming the person doing the shooting. Thankfully, most of us are too smart to do that.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:54 PM
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5. I'm just worried about them blaming us bloggers
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 09:45 PM
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8. well some posts here do make me want to go postal
if I ever do I have someone (du) and some thing (a gun) to blame :)
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burning rain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:16 PM
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2. My bet is,.....
they'll say the same damn things albeit in a more sober, reasonable-sounding way.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:41 PM
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3. Nope. Not a chance. In fact, they will continue to incite their loony audience,
cause more killings, then say, see! This is what you get for electing that marxist~
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:52 PM
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4. Does this post or poll make any sense at all to anyone? Can you explain it to me?
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 06:59 PM
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6. Nah, I'm going to take a nap.
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 07:00 PM
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7. did you see their little animated graphics last night?
Edited on Sun Apr-05-09 07:02 PM by Blue Diadem
We were flipping channels to hear about the North Korean missile and saw Cnn had a little animated graphic and so did Faux. They were small, in the lower corner of the screen. CNN's showed a map with Korea shooting the missile while two ships were in the Pacific and shot it down. Faux showed a map with Korea shooting the missile and showed the missile coming across the ocean hitting California! We were like WTF!


Faux isn't going to change. They get too much pleasure out of keeping people afraid and on edge.
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friendly_iconoclast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-06-09 02:17 AM
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9. They'll say anything for ratings and the greater glory of the owners
Edited on Mon Apr-06-09 02:21 AM by friendly_iconoclast
Fox has made billions jerking the chain of the RW. If the Murdochs thought
there was money in it, they would run the "Mao Zedong Hour", a la Network

Hell, if Rupe Murdoch thought it would make him money, he would offer a show to Amy Goodman.

You have to admire that kind of amoral greed, where a guy who makes nice-nice with the Chinese
has the right-wingers (mostly) thinking he's 'with them'.

RM is just doing what William Randolph Hearst used to do. The difference is, Murdoch's smarter
at making money than Hearst was. Hearst was more interested in throwing his weight around.

Hearst would ~never~ have let himself be parodied in one of his own papers like Murdoch
was parodied on The Simpsons (too self important). Murdoch was happy to do it, The Simpsons
have made him a trainload of money.
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