engfant

Like WHAT for instance? Do something about it. Please. I'll let HISTORY tell the truth cause that's all there is. HISTORY.

He will go down as a disgrace and that's all that matters.

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Ezliving_Jim

Voting for Democrats is akin to committing suicide as a cure for depression.

Bush isn't running in for reelection in '08. Stop driving while focused on your rear view mirror. Look forward.

Vote.

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"Voting for Democrats is akin to committing suicide as a cure for depression."

That would mean that voting for a republican is akin to killing the ENTIRE human race as a cure for ONE person having depression. :) hehe

mr belvedere

Very good! I like it! Just as absurd as the other analogy, but I appreciate the "one-upmanship"! hehe Frankly, "we're" screwed either way, IMHO. Give me a leader! Give me a person that is not beholden to private interests! Give me someone that is incorruptible and is unscesptible to ego, power and greed! A person with a vision for "us" and a passion for "right". While I'm wishing, could I get another beer?

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ecc30

engfant, I like your comment about these "news" organizations being held accountable for garbage they spew out to millions of mindless people ready to just absorb it as the absolute truth. A few months ago, when San Diego was having all the wildfires, Fox news reported for 2 days that it was the work of terrorist. I had idiot after idiot coming into my salon asking me... Did you hear those fires were started by al queda terrorist? Wake up people.

unity

Ya... the media SUX!

Journalism is dead, period. Hence its no longer called the "news" but the "media".

Fox is BY FAR the worse :(

I use DIGG a lot. False stories are shot down fast and inaccuracies corrected.

Ezliving_Jim

I watched alot of the CA fires coverage on FOX and never heard anything about terrorism. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Show me a source.

Journalists are lazy, not dead. They are mostly sheep, not lamb chops.

Digg reports nothing, only links to stuff their liberal majority readership likes. Most of it is bloggersheit, not news.

Drudge is reliable and actually does some original reporting on breaking news. MSM gets tonight's news from this morning's DrudgeReport.

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ecc30

I don't know how to just post a link to these reports so I copied the text and listed the websites. You can also watch the clip from Fox and Friends where the anchors want to make up the news instead of just reporting it. The slanted and fear based speculations are then broadcast out to the millions of mindless sponges who then interpret it as the truth. Then they call their mindless friends and family and say ...oh my god.. those terrorist started the wildfires...oh my god ...we should be afraid ....very very afraid. Then they come into my salon and say ...Oh my god... did you hear... those terrorist started the wildfires...oh my god... we should be very afraid...very very afraid. Raise the terror alert to level orange!!!!!!

Most of the news organizations are guilty of it and I try to keep that in mind while reading any of it. But, Fox is by far the worst. I think it's funny that anyone would even try to defend them.


Fox News: Al Qaeda is causing the CA wildfires.This morning on Fox News, hosts of the show Fox and Friends blamed the wildfires in California on a new culprit: al Qaeda. They pointed to a 2003 FBI memo, which raised the possibility that al Qaeda may try to set wildfires around the western United States. They also noted that men in a “hovering helicopter” saw “a guy starting one of these fires.” Watch it:


Later in the segment, host Steve Doocy acknowledged that in memo, al Qaeda didn’t even mention California. “They mention Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming,” he added


www. think progress.com


www. rawstory.com

Ill-informed Fox anchors spread fears of al Qaeda link to California firesDavid Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Wednesday October 24, 2007

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Questionable 4-year-old FBI memo presented as new to stoke terror fears
Did al Qaeda start the California wildfires?

As more than a million people escaped the flames, Fox News anchors couldn't help speculating about a terrorism link to the blazes ravaging southern California.

"I've heard some people talk about this a little bit to me, but have you heard anybody suggest that this could be some form of terrorism," Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy asked Wednesday morning.

Correspondent Adam Housley said he's received "hundreds of comments" from readers of his Fox News blog speculating about a link to terrorism.

Investigators have determined that one 15,000 acre fire in Orange County was deliberately set, and Housley reported that authorities arrested one man who set a hillside on fire. Causes of most other fires are still being investigated, and there has been little speculation beyond Fox News about a terror plot.

A review of Housley's blog posts about the fire reveals that his characterization of the terror fears perhaps was inflated.

Of his 15 posts on the fires, just two included speculation from commenters about a terrorism link.

"Is anyone asking how these fires started? I see no comments or speculations," observed "clyde teeter" in response to a post Tuesday. "Could it be linked to illegal alien misadventure on the border [...] Terrorism? ... If you are a journalist, then these questions need to be asked and investigated. Your coverage is admirable but the emotional journalism about the loss of peoples homes is not helping to find the causes."

Fox & Friends co-host Judge Andrew Napolitano tried to serve as the voice of reason.

"That's a fear, Adam, but is there any evidence of it?" the judge asked.

Such skepticism could not last, though.

Later Wednesday, Fox anchors returned to fanning the terror fears, digging up a four-year-old FBI memo and presenting it as new information relating to an al Qaeda link to the fires.

In June of 2003, FBI agents in Denver detailed an al Qaeda detainee's discussion of a plot to set forest fires around the western United States, although investigators couldn't determine whether the detainee was telling the truth, and his plot did not include setting fires in California.

Such small discrepancies in dates and details proved to be no obstacles for Fox anchors, who reported that the memo was from "late June of this year" and "is just popping up this morning."

The memo was first reported by the Arizona Republic in July 2003, although a Fox anchor said it was reported "five days ago." That confusion seems to stem from an inability to read the date on an Associated Press account of the memo from the time it was first reported.

A July 11, 2003, AP story, still available online via USA Today, reported, "The contents of the June 25 memo from the FBI's Denver office were reported Friday by The Arizona Republic."

On Fox, that information became, "The June 25 memo from the FBI's Denver offices was reported three days ago, excuse me five days ago, by the Arizona Republic."

Further distorting the report, Fox failed to mention a key caveat from the 2003 AP story they appear to have ripped from.

"Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn't see a need to act further on it."

The following video is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast on October 23, 2007.

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Fox News Runs With Al Qaeda Wildfires Conspiracy Theory:

http://www.infowars.net/articles/oct...7Wildfires.htm

Fox News: Al Qaeda is causing the CA wildfires.:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/...e-ca-wildires/

Fox News Fans Flames:

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/f...ans_flames.php

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There is no such thing as a lazy journalist.

"a style of writing for presenting bare facts to describe news events"

Bare facts, NOT speculation. Media speculates, journalists report. FOX speculates, A LOT.

sunsally

I'm not sure why a National Enquirer story about a presidential candidates supposed "love child" is one of the few active posts on an Indoor Tanning site for salon owners anyway!:)


That said -- c'mon Ez-living Jim --- I like you personally, and as a salon professional who is active in our industry, I have GREAT respect. But to say you had heard "nada, zip, zilch" about Fox reporting on this? I'd guess a seach on posts would find it here even -- probably something between you and Engfant!


If we're going to talk politics on these sites -- how about the politics that affect TANNING? Frankly - John Edwards always seems to have that 'healthy glow" -- I think he might be a tanner!! Perhaps that should be reason enough for us to all throw our support behind his campaign!!

"LOOK GREAT IN '08 -- A vote for John Edwards is a vote for a healthy dose of sunshine at your local indoor sun salon!"

Catchy, eh?

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