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Old 09-19-2009, 05:20 AM   #1
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Default How did Fox News get so fast and loose with the truth?
CNN claimed they were 15 thousand people at the mall.

With journalists like Wolf Blitzer it's a good thing they pay top dollar.
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Old 09-19-2009, 05:29 AM   #2
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15k is a low ball, but much closer to truth than the 2 million some were claiming.
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Old 09-19-2009, 05:30 AM   #3
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Maybe you should look up the word "relative media coverage" in your phone book. Not all coverage is equal. You can argue that stupid things like this column are a disgrace for Murdock's giant Jewish penis. But not this
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Old 09-19-2009, 05:54 AM   #4
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You're going to get yourself banned again for doing this **** in my threads. You've been warned many, many times.

I can't wait.
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Old 09-19-2009, 06:23 AM   #5
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Maybe those networks should get together and sue FOX for libel.
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Old 09-19-2009, 09:08 AM   #6
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Although I do not agree with Napolitano's viewpoint, it is a legitimate one to advance, especially in light of the Supreme Court's striking down the Violence Against Women Act.

Napolitano's constitutional argument is weak because he perceives the current health care bill as regulating health care instead of providing a system to PAY for health care. "Pay" implies "commerce," whereas no such implication arises from violence against women.

[It'd also be interesting to see him try to explain how Congress's banning of partial-birth abortion is constitution. ]
It's weak for a lot more reasons than that, girlfriend. "One does not go to the doctor to engage in commercial activity" is probably the dumbest sentence I've ever read. So is his complete and blatant misreading of Lopez.

Keep ****ing that chicken
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Old 09-19-2009, 10:03 AM   #7
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So, a guy who shot a friend in the face while being drunk is "american" ?
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Old 09-19-2009, 10:42 AM   #8
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Obama's latest favorability rating is at: 66%. Wake us when the real numbers get released.
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Old 09-20-2009, 09:18 PM   #9
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Wake us when the real numbers get released.
I don't think the number you are refering to has an imaginary component, not only that it also appears to be quite rational at first glance.
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Old 09-21-2009, 12:59 AM   #10
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Wake us when the real numbers get released.
Oh, great, now he had multiple personality disorder.
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Old 09-21-2009, 02:14 AM   #11
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I don't think the number you are refering to has an imaginary component, not only that it also appears to be quite rational at first glance.
Well in fairness, I think what he was getting at was that it depends A) on the pollster, B) whether likely voters are sampled, and/or C) whether "favorable" or "approval" is used in the question. Not that I particularly trust Rasmussen, but it does vary:



Wait, did I just defend BK? *brushes shoulder*
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Old 09-21-2009, 04:12 AM   #12
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It's actually quite similar: http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Ga...-Approval.aspx

He's at 52% on Gallup not 66% as Zk claimed.
Oh. Sounds worse off than Bush was at 7 months.
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Old 09-21-2009, 05:11 AM   #13
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blah, blah, blah
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Old 09-21-2009, 05:25 AM   #14
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Read the damn post you quoted. "Favourable" is not synonymous with "Approval".
True. I shudda looked at job approval, not favorability.

At this point in Bush's Presidency, I would have voted "favorable" for him because he seemed like a nice, down-to-earth guy. I would not have given him a positive job approval rating because he was trying to resurrect Star Wars to the exclusion of other military and diplomatic efforts, and was squandering our budget surplus on tax breaks for the ultrawealthy.

Something similiar is probably going on for Obama. He's a charming, upstanding guy, so people think favorably of him. But the economy is continue to worsen, and people are becoming concerned by the constant cried of the Republican'ts who are shocked, shocked that the budget is facing huge deficits. So his job approval is declining.
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Old 09-21-2009, 06:45 AM   #15
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Well ok then, let's say 8 days ago.
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Old 09-21-2009, 07:34 AM   #16
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My favorite part of Fox coverage was their claim that the tea party crowd was in 7 figures, going so far as to attribute that claim to ABC News, which said no such thing. (A lie so blatant and provable, even Fox had to retract it.)

Nate Silver and the DC pollce both put DC attendance at 70K-100K. Good enough for me.
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Old 09-21-2009, 08:45 AM   #17
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Who cares if they believe in God or not anyway, and why is it relevant?
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Old 09-21-2009, 02:16 PM   #18
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Who cares if they believe in God or not anyway, and why is it relevant?
True christians shouldn't swear 'In God's Name'.

Matthiew 5:34-37 specifically says

But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

According to Matthiew, any oath in something's name come from the evil one.

So certainly those taking an oath and sealing it by anything are satanists!
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Old 09-21-2009, 02:58 PM   #19
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The also don't appear to believe in the "Necessary and Proper" Clause.
Given the fact that it doesn't help Clyburn's case, he had enough respect for the document not to mention it.
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Old 09-22-2009, 05:20 AM   #20
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_292529.html

Fox News producer caught rallying the 9/12 protest crowd:
Fox News Producer Caught Rallying 9/12 Protest Crowd In Behind-The-Scenes

A Fox News Channel producer has been caught in a behind-the-scenes video rallying the crowd during last weekend's 9/12 protest in Washington.
The Huffington Post has confirmed that the woman in the below video — seen raising her arms to rally the crowd behind Griff Jenkins, who was reporting from the scene for Fox News — is Fox News producer Heidi Noonan.
"The employee is a young, relatively inexperienced associate producer who realizes she made a mistake and has been disciplined," Bryan Boughton, Fox News Channel Washington Bureau Chief told the Huffington Post.
The video shows the producer on her cell phone as she urges the crowd behind Jenkins to cheer louder. An "I'm A Foxaholic" poster appears nearby.
The 9/12 movement has been championed by Glenn Beck, and is designed to "bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001" when "we were united as Americans, standing together to protect the values and principles of the greatest nation ever created."
Fox News heavily promoted the protest event, and took out an ad in newspapers Friday asking how other news networks could "miss [the] story," only to have competitors hit back with proof that they covered the protest extensively.
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