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Wire Service Reporting-How to "spice up" the news
05/18/04 | vanity

Posted on 05/18/2004 8:55:11 AM PDT by genefromjersey

New Rules for Reporters:

1. If we are ever to effect a "regime change" in Washington,DC,we've got to stop being so bashful about working the phrase "Abu Ghraib Prison" into our reports !

2. From now on ( if you want to keep working at this Wire Service ) you are to refer to "Abu Ghraib Prison", or "Prison Scandal", or "Torture Scandal" in every report.
Here are some examples:

GAY MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED IN BOSTON

Hundreds of same-sex couples: most struggling to put the Abu Ghraib Prison Torture Scandal out of their minds,flocked to City Hall to apply for marriage licenses....

BEATRIX POTTER BOOKS FORESHADOW PRISON SCANDAL

Benjamin Bunny hopped: lippity-lippity into Farmer Mac Gregor's Garden.Little did the brave bunny know Farmer Mac Gregor-once known as Corporal Mac Gregor-was a disgraced former MP who tortured hapless Muslim bunnies at the infamous Kohlarabi Prison....

OK, people ! Got the idea now ??

If you don't, you might better start checking on how much cash you can get out of your 401-K...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: abughraib; allabughraib

1 posted on 05/18/2004 8:55:12 AM PDT by genefromjersey
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To: genefromjersey

Oh: Sort of like:

Tony Randall, 84, known as "Felix Unger" on the sitcom "The Odd Couple" died today after hearing of the Abu Ghraib Prison Torture Scandal while recovering from heart bypass surgery. Doctors believe he'd had a better chance if he'd never heard the words Abu Ghraib Prison or of the various tortures endured there.


2 posted on 05/18/2004 9:08:03 AM PDT by theDentist (John Kerry never saw a TAX he wouldn't HIKE !!!)
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To: genefromjersey
Nice. I have one:

NOW Offers Solution to Bush's Torture Tactics
Abortion advocates note that more abortions would mean less people to commit atrocities like those committed in Abu Ghraib Prison.
3 posted on 05/18/2004 9:21:06 AM PDT by Jaysun (If a person says that he enjoys the opera, that person is a liar.)
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To: genefromjersey

Where is the URL for this one? I want to see the article.


4 posted on 05/18/2004 9:57:49 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: sr4402

No url - it’s a vanity.


5 posted on 05/18/2004 10:01:01 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: sr4402

"sr4402, possibly confused from an overdose of Abu Ghraib Prison articles, requested a link for a vanity".


6 posted on 05/18/2004 10:01:18 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
Well, I've never done a 'vanity' before. I guess you put the word 'vanity' in for the URL and were supposed to know.

Then in that spirit, the press has been consulting their 'vanity' in Abu Ghraib Prison.

7 posted on 05/18/2004 10:07:45 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: genefromjersey

Jenna Bush, who was cited for underage drinking as a teen, was married today in Houston. Bush, the daughter of the former selected president, who authorized the torture of impoverished and wrongly imprisoned muslims at Abu Ghraib prison during the unjust occupation after the illegal invasion and toppling of a legitimately elected President Saddam Hussein, wed Mr. So-and-so, under sunny Texas skies.


8 posted on 05/18/2004 10:09:31 AM PDT by rabidralph (EPIC=Extra Pretty in Color)
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To: genefromjersey

Which wire service is this ..?? Reuters, AP, UPI ..??


9 posted on 05/18/2004 11:28:46 AM PDT by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: CyberAnt

Any/all. This IS a humor piece.


10 posted on 05/18/2004 12:28:16 PM PDT by genefromjersey (So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
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To: sr4402

sr: Do you grasp the concept of a humor piece ? That's what this was: whole and complete,and so key-worded.

In other words, you're AT the URL, Duke !


11 posted on 05/18/2004 12:31:15 PM PDT by genefromjersey (So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
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