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Old 06-11-2007, 11:34 PM
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Fox gives less attention to Iraq war study shows

NEW YORK - On a winter day when bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killed dozens and the United Nations estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraq had died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during the 1 p.m. hour. A CNN correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute report about the bombings.

Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour.

That wasn't unusual. Fox spent half as much time covering the Iraq war than MSNBC during the first three months of the year, and considerably less than CNN, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/...n_tv_fox_s_war
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Old 06-12-2007, 09:11 AM
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Who wants to hear about a war when I can hear about how Paris Hilton got released from prison because she MIGHT have a nervous breakdown.......then instead of treatment, she hosts a Paris' Pool Party and gets interviewed by Barbara Walters.
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Old 06-12-2007, 12:18 PM
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hey Daemon!

if i am correct, CNN and MSNBC are more liberal stations, while FOX is considered conservative. lets face it, the conservatives voted for Bush, who in turn started the war, and majorly screwed everything up. so if you voted him into office, why fill your evening being bombarded with the site of countless soldiers you helped to kill?

i didnt vote for him. i stood an hour and a half in a line to vote OPPOSITE him. so i make it my business to keep myself educated as to how many soldiers i tried to bring home, and pray for my family and friends who are still there...GO CNN AND MSNBC!! Hurray for the TRUTH!
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Old 06-12-2007, 01:35 PM
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hey Daemon!

if i am correct, CNN and MSNBC are more liberal stations, while FOX is considered conservative. lets face it, the conservatives voted for Bush, who in turn started the war, and majorly screwed everything up. so if you voted him into office, why fill your evening being bombarded with the site of countless soldiers you helped to kill?

i didnt vote for him. i stood an hour and a half in a line to vote OPPOSITE him. so i make it my business to keep myself educated as to how many soldiers i tried to bring home, and pray for my family and friends who are still there...GO CNN AND MSNBC!! Hurray for the TRUTH!


Wow, what an appalling, and idiotic post on so many levels. So the conservatives (Bush) started the war? It wasn't those guys that orchestrated the largest civilian attack in US history? Yeah, that makes sense, dumbass. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't an overwhelming majority of Congress approve of Bush sending troops to Afghanistan?.....and didn't the Senate vote around 77-23 and the House around 296-133 to attack Iraq in 2002??

Furthermore, I voted for Bush....and I am absolutely shocked that you would even think to claim the me, and people that did the same, HELPED kill our soldiers? How fucking dare you say that you worthless, liberal, tree hugging piece of shit.

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Old 06-12-2007, 02:33 PM
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Wow, what an appalling, and idiotic post on so many levels. So the conservatives (Bush) started the war? It wasn't those guys that orchestrated the largest civilian attack in US history? Yeah, that makes sense, dumbass. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't an overwhelming majority of Congress approve of Bush sending troops to Afghanistan?.....and didn't the Senate vote around 77-23 and the House around 296-133 to attack Iraq in 2002??

Furthermore, I voted for Bush....and I am absolutely shocked that you would even think to claim the me, and people that did the same, HELPED kill our soldiers? How fucking dare you say that you worthless, liberal, tree hugging piece of shit.


I could not agree with you more on so may levels!

These men and women are giving their lives to protect what could happen to us as Americans ergo 9/11! Who were these people who died and the many innocent people from bombs in Iraq.

Yes, I had to vote for Bush, why? All one had to do was look at Kerry!

If we pull out the troops now, waht does one think will happen not only in Iraq, but the whole middle east and then the rest of teh world!
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Old 06-12-2007, 02:40 PM
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How fucking dare you say that you worthless, liberal, tree hugging piece of shit.
I'm pretty moderate (ban abortion, ban guns, don't care either way if gay people get married), but I love this statement.
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Old 06-12-2007, 06:33 PM
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Wow, what an appalling, and idiotic post on so many levels. So the conservatives (Bush) started the war? It wasn't those guys that orchestrated the largest civilian attack in US history? Yeah, that makes sense, dumbass. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't an overwhelming majority of Congress approve of Bush sending troops to Afghanistan?.....and didn't the Senate vote around 77-23 and the House around 296-133 to attack Iraq in 2002??

Furthermore, I voted for Bush....and I am absolutely shocked that you would even think to claim the me, and people that did the same, HELPED kill our soldiers? How fucking dare you say that you worthless, liberal, tree hugging piece of shit.
Mac,

First, is there any chance you will ever clean up your language, stop your personal attacks and stop violating the Terms of Service?

You have read them, right? You had to agree to become a member.

You're a bright guy, you should be able to make a valid point without vulgarity.
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Old 06-12-2007, 07:08 PM
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Mac,

First, is there any chance you will ever clean up your language, stop your personal attacks and stop violating the Terms of Service?

You have read them, right? You had to agree to become a member.

You're a bright guy, you should be able to make a valid point without vulgarity.
Point taken on the vulgarity, but I'd argue that maybe OneTimeSBX's comment was worse. Vulgarity is frowned upon and all, but saying that if you voted for Bush, you were responsible for the deaths of troops, is pretty awful stuff.

I believe the exact quote was "so if you voted him into office, why fill your evening being bombarded with the site of countless soldiers you helped to kill?" While it might not be exactly in the TOS, statements such as that should probably be restrained as well.
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Old 06-12-2007, 08:20 PM
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I'm pretty moderate (ban abortion, ban guns, don't care either way if gay people get married), but I love this statement.
I don't understand why people want to ban guns...Just take a look at D.C. and tell me it would honestly reduce crime. As for Fox News, the only channel I get at work so I watch it daily, IMO is just a very small step up from E! News.
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Old 06-12-2007, 08:37 PM
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Wow, what an appalling, and idiotic post on so many levels. So the conservatives (Bush) started the war? It wasn't those guys that orchestrated the largest civilian attack in US history? Yeah, that makes sense, dumbass. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't an overwhelming majority of Congress approve of Bush sending troops to Afghanistan?.....and didn't the Senate vote around 77-23 and the House around 296-133 to attack Iraq in 2002??

Furthermore, I voted for Bush....and I am absolutely shocked that you would even think to claim the me, and people that did the same, HELPED kill our soldiers? How fucking dare you say that you worthless, liberal, tree hugging piece of shit.
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Old 06-12-2007, 08:37 PM
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Point taken on the vulgarity, but I'd argue that maybe OneTimeSBX's comment was worse.
That may be, but I'm not commenting on the argument in this case, just the TOS violations.

Appreciate the comment, though.
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Old 06-12-2007, 09:08 PM
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That may be, but I'm not commenting on the argument in this case, just the TOS violations.

Appreciate the comment, though.
You're welcome, always glad to be of service.

I will request, though, that if the moderators see fit to erase Macallan's statement, that they do the same to OneTimeSBX's as well.
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Old 06-13-2007, 12:30 AM
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Mac,

First, is there any chance you will ever clean up your language, stop your personal attacks and stop violating the Terms of Service?

You have read them, right? You had to agree to become a member.

You're a bright guy, you should be able to make a valid point without vulgarity.
You know what? No buddy, I won't. I find that post ridiculously offensive and extremely uncalled for. Sweet God, can we go one day without someone exhibiting 8th level nerd tendencies by bitching about TOS "violations"? What's next, are you going to start calling for e-tickets and fines? This is an INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD......chill out.

You're a bright guy Delt, perhaps you should remove your head from that pile of sand it's buried in and realize why I commented the way I did in the first place. I don't especially appreciate being legitimately told that I helped cause the death of United States soldiers because I voted Republican. Frankly, I feel perfectly entitled to respond to that kind of nonsense in whatever manner I damn well choose.

If the moderators want to delete my post.......then so be it..........but they better delete that horse shit of comment as well.

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Old 06-13-2007, 09:05 AM
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Wow, what an appalling, and idiotic post on so many levels. So the conservatives (Bush) started the war? It wasn't those guys that orchestrated the largest civilian attack in US history? Yeah, that makes sense, dumbass.
Sorry macallan while the rest of your post has some valid points, you're dead wrong here given the context of the post. Did the Conservatives/Republicans (Bush) start the 'War on Terror'. No. Did they start the War in Iraq (which the thread is about). Yes. The former was in response to an attack (9/11) while the later was pre-emptive.

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Furthermore, I voted for Bush....and I am absolutely shocked that you would even think to claim the me, and people that did the same, HELPED kill our soldiers? How fucking dare you say that you worthless, liberal, tree hugging piece of shit.
Fine then I'll say it too... because of your political support for an illegal war, and the continued political support for the administration that completely dropped the ball in the war planning, peace, and reconstruction, you share in some small part the responsibility for these soldier's deaths - it's the nature of living in a democracy/republic that the people give the government the poltical power, and if that government does good or bad the public shares in the prasie or blame.
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Old 06-13-2007, 10:18 AM
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Fine then I'll say it too... because of your political support for an illegal war, and the continued political support for the administration that completely dropped the ball in the war planning, peace, and reconstruction, you share in some small part the responsibility for these soldier's deaths - it's the nature of living in a democracy/republic that the people give the government the poltical power, and if that government does good or bad the public shares in the prasie or blame.
I think you'll agree that each 'step' away from the actual decision in the democratic process reduces 'responsibility' by a large degree, correct?

Because you missed a few steps (notably, it seems much more correct that the administration "dropping the ball" leads to the soldiers being put into a particular situation, then that situation may or may not result in injury).

Representative democracy, furthermore, should really assuage any of these concerns. "Responsibility" carries a connotation that is likely incorrect here, whereas its denotation might carry some small weight in your argument as posed.
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