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(vanity) Long past time we substituted "Journalist" for "Lawyer" in jokes
Self | 11/9/2016 | Vanity

Posted on 11/09/2016 2:57:27 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Hey guys, it's time we give the lawyers a break ... at least for a few hours anyway. These past few months have decisively proven that lawyers are NOT the bottom feeders we thought they were. How can they even REACH the bottom when the journalists have crowded them out from that zone?

Some examples.....

Q: What's black & brown and looks good on a journalist?
A: A Doberman

Q: How do you know when a journalist is lying?
A: His lips are moving.

Q: What do you call 5000 journalists at the bottom of the sea?
A: A good start.

Q: What do you call a field full of journalists buried up to their necks in concrete?
A: Not enough concrete.

You get the picture....


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: humor; journalists; lawyers; vanity

1 posted on 11/09/2016 2:57:27 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Q: why do they all wear neckties?

A: to keep the foreskin from rolling over their faces


2 posted on 11/09/2016 3:01:37 AM PST by Cannonball Bill
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Q: What’s the difference between a dead journalist and a dead snake, laying on the road?

A: The snake has skidmarks in front of it.


3 posted on 11/09/2016 3:06:46 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
I am a longtime blogger. Before that I was an investigative reporter, and a general assignment writer. And an op-ed columnist.

As someone who has devoted a lifetime to journalism I am appalled and disgusted by the mainstream media.

Journalism is supposed to be a sacred trust. It's a self-discipline. You are constantly examining yourself, being held accountable, so as to cultivate a mind without bias. To report the news with as little partiality as you can and let the chips fall where they may

Today's "journalists" are no such thing. They are a propaganda organ. And they have violated that trust in every way it can be violated.

4 posted on 11/09/2016 3:11:41 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Take it a step farther - rewrite the famous Shakespeare line.


5 posted on 11/09/2016 3:12:21 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

it’s odd though, seems almost every “journalist” on cable TV is or was a lawyer.

Seems to be the odd one that is not now-a-days.


6 posted on 11/09/2016 3:24:35 AM PST by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

The only group lower is bureauRats.


7 posted on 11/09/2016 3:25:09 AM PST by chb
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8 posted on 11/09/2016 3:29:11 AM PST by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: Gaffer

That Shakespeare line is misquoted/misinterpreted all the time. It was a complement to the way that lawyers and judges keep law and order in the land. Here is a good summary: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/17/nyregion/l-kill-the-lawyers-a-line-misinterpreted-599990.html

Journalists have played an important part in this election. The bad ones need to go. The good ones need to stay. I see no need to start smearing all journalists, especially when the efforts of many of the good ones are what led to Hillary Clinton’s crimes being exposed.


9 posted on 11/09/2016 3:54:45 AM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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Yes, I fully understood that. Because the rest of the context doesn’t accompany it. In my most simple terms it means “if you want to take over a country, first you have to incapacitate its lawyers.”

My use was solely because it is so WIDELY accepted as a slur against lawyers, and I just carried that onto Journalists.


10 posted on 11/09/2016 3:57:47 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: ReagansShinyHair

Name to me one “good journalist” you think worthy of your caution.


11 posted on 11/09/2016 3:58:41 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

As a lawyer, I agree.


12 posted on 11/09/2016 4:06:44 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ReagansShinyHair

yeah both of the good ones


13 posted on 11/09/2016 9:57:29 AM PST by rolling_stone (not this time!)
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