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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:43 PM
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Welcome to the Yahoo world of fictitious headlines. Such as...
"Obama's DNC bounce smaller than others and shrinking" (just what is a shrinking bounce, anyway?)
"McCain campaign: Obama spreading "smears" about Palin"

But of course their top headline is that Tiger Woods is expecting another child.

And we wonder why our public is so easily duped, so apathetic and so disconnected from reality???
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:45 PM
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1. Yahoo news headlines and stories are notoriously partisan
and if not that, then ridiculously frivolous. It's bothered me enough lately that I'm thinking about switching to a different email service provider.
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hasssan1 Donating Member (439 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:46 PM
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2. I know , Yahoo News is a POS , They just make shit up - FUCK THEM I don't read any shit from that s
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:50 PM
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4. The story's from a writer from Politico. I posted about him below. n/t
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-08 02:48 PM
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3. I was just going to start a thread on this subject! I checked out the bio of the author,
David Paul Kuhn, and here it is: http://www.davidpaulkuhn.com/ Seems like he's obsessed with the Dems. losing the "white working man" vote.
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