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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 08:58 PM
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FOX executive walks into a bar....
and tells the truth.

Unfortunately this is not a joke.





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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:16 PM
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1. Randi Rhodes has said she knows people there who absolutely hate what
they're doing, but they need the paycheck.
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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:46 PM
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2. Even if I had children to take care of...I think I'd rather clean port a potties
I'm not sure I could reconcile doing .... that.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:49 PM
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4. I feel the same. I couldn't sleep at night and I'd end up despising myself. nt
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TheMadMonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 01:45 AM
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17. I do clean the bogs on public transport. It's honest work. /nt
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:50 PM
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5. Time to unionize the whores....
There's a limit to how much debasement any human should be subjected to. Even if they choose to work for Faux.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 10:01 PM
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11. I like that. nt
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:49 PM
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3. "True believers" is what this is known as
It's not based in fact, it's not even based in faith anymore, it's based in "I WANT to believe!"

K&R.
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LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:50 PM
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6. Reddit's now saying Vish is a professional scammer and this didn't happen.
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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 10:21 PM
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12. Reddit can read minds too? How about you? You are 100% certain this didn't happen?
Not saying it did or did not happen. I can't know that.

The man says it happened. Him saying it did not make me want to know more about him or what he does. So if his purpose was to increase his business, he has failed (obviously on several fronts).


People on this site will often relay apocryphal stories that "happened to them". If it has a ring of truth, I accept that they have touched upon a core truth without judging whether they are promoting themselves in businesses I have no interest in.



I accept that people will say things other people want to hear, just like I accept that they believe things as "true" because they want to. The difference between this guy, people on DU and FOX? Individual people who tell tall tales are not a News Corporation that has pretensions of neutrality.
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:51 PM
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7. K & R
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:51 PM
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8. My partner's cousin works at the local FOX station
I can confirm this - she says that's pretty much the attitude there.
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:55 PM
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9. If there are any lawyers out there, is there a way I can sue Fox News for alienating
me from my sister? Maybe a lawyer that needs publicity and would do it for very little money? The devastation of the economy by the party they are the propaganda machine for has devastated my wallet. I would seriously consider a lawsuit. Their lies are easy to disprove and my sister's family swear by FOX. I remember when the network first started. She asked me if I had seen it. She said the other liberal media channels and Dan Rather in particular were just not truthful.
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 09:59 PM
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10. This should be at the very top of the GP. Really.
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gort Donating Member (567 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 10:22 PM
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13. Satirist Lee Camp got Fox the best way a couple of years ago
Right on the air live when they couldn't cut away:

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/78148/

Why I Called Fox News "Propaganda" While Live on Fox News
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xfundy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 10:55 PM
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16. "video unavailable"
got another link?

Thx.
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One of Many Donating Member (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 10:25 PM
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14. Might be a scam ...
All, a quick look at the reddit posting for this image shows it was posted by the guy from his own screenshot. Look at some of the links posted in the comments here, guy does not seem to be the most reliable source.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dctja/

YMMV
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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 10:30 PM
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15. And neither are you.
And neither am I. ONE individual with an agenda is not a huge media conglomerate with an agenda AND political power.

If he's some kind of "guru", I've never heard of him or any of the lies he may or may not have told.

I can't say the same for FOX. Can you?

Welcome to DU
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 08:00 PM
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18. Since you whited out the last names, you may want to
delete the author's last name from the Friday 7:47 "Heather" post. ;)
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