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OUTRAGE - CNN PUTS "SWAPPING SPOOKS" ON TV SCROLL REGARDING POWELL & RICE
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Posted on 11/15/2004 7:31:49 PM PST by KE

THE SCROLL BAR ON THE BOTTOM OF CNN'S AARON BROWN SHOW SHOWS "SWAPPING SPOOKS" !!!!


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KEYWORDS: aaronbrown; cnn; powell; rice; spooks; statedept
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To: Nexus
I just watched again the re-run of Aaron Browns show at 1:00 am Eastern. The segment with Powell in the uniforn was at 1:18. Earlier at 10:18 I saw it say "SWAPPING SPOOKS" on the bottom scroll. At 1:18 during repeat, it was not there! Instead, it had a long line of weather temps. across the bottom during that exact segment he was talking about Powell and Rice That was not there at 10:18.

I am not nuts, and I am not seeing things....I know what I saw. But, now I'll look like a fool to half the people who read and posted here, so I will be calling CNN in the morning till I get to te bottom of it

Does the scroll keep up with current headlines even while showing a re-run?

And, please don't tell me to get a grip, or lighten up, or let-it-go, or that it was referring to the CIA shakeup.....people resigned at the CIA - there was not a SWAPPING OF SPOOKS !

It's 2 am and I'm Mad and Tired. Will check back in tomarrow after my calls to CNN - (404-827-2600).

Karen

121 posted on 11/15/2004 11:00:24 PM PST by KE
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To: smonk
I do indeed remember the "niggardly" comment. I brushed the ensuing controversy off as the ravings of the overly sensitive and/or borderline illiterate. but I do believe the person was canned.

Not canned; he resigned. And was hired back in a day or two. Even Julian Bond, head of the NAACP, thought everyone overreacted. The whole thing was a tempest in a teapot.
122 posted on 11/15/2004 11:49:20 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: Parley Baer

Can't you see a tape (hope there is one) played on
Sean Hannity's Show or Bill O'Reilly.

Can we expect to hear from the ACLU?


123 posted on 11/16/2004 12:35:21 AM PST by AnimalLover ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?))
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon
In Texas in the 50's and 60's and in New York in the early 60's every time I heard the term spook it was a black referring to a white. Spook - ghost - white .....

I've always heard it applied to blacks instead. But I think we all need to quit trying to hang everyone over table manners and general deportment, when Al-Q'aeda's out there trying to buy a nuclear weapon.

124 posted on 11/16/2004 12:44:16 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: KE

Remember growing up in the Army, my dad had friends that were "spooks" ... later to learn they were CID. Neither Dr. Rice or General Powell are in the CID or CIA or any of the above. Bad cnn, bad cnn.


125 posted on 11/16/2004 12:50:32 AM PST by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: KE; BigSkyFreeper
but I do wish others might call or write them also and ask. And I repeat, it has nothing to do with the CIA and spooks.

Dr. Rice, as National Security Advisor, is a sort of in-house, mini-DCI to the President, so that she could conceivably be given that label as an intelligence officer, which she obviously is (as opposed to a line officer or executive, which she is only with her own staff). Colin Powell got the job at State precisely because he'd been National Security Advisor to President George H.W. Bush. Ergo it becomes salient to the story, that President George W. Bush has nominated two former National Security Advisors in succession to the post of Secretary of State. This tendency is remarkable and newsworthy, since the only other president I can recall to move a former national security advisor to State was Richard Nixon, and now President Bush has done it twice.

Moreover, the scroll could have referred to the CIA, where a body rain is in progress, and the head of the CIA task force on Osama Bin Laden recently resigned in protest of the changes being implemented by former Congressman and now DCI Porter Goss. There was a segment on this on PBS's The Newshour earlier this evening (Monday night, the 15th).

So there are a number of alternative explanations.

126 posted on 11/16/2004 12:58:59 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: mhking

bttt


127 posted on 11/16/2004 2:52:07 AM PST by lainde
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To: KE

The liberals' talk about "tolerance" is just that -- talk. They are, in my extensive experience, exceptionally racist. What you saw on CNN is par for the course for them.

They're probably mad that so many blacks voted for Bush.


128 posted on 11/16/2004 4:28:00 AM PST by WaterDragon
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To: FreedomCalls

You read my mind!!! Have you ever read the Mark Steyn column on that event?


129 posted on 11/16/2004 4:31:21 AM PST by GraceCoolidge
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To: InvisibleChurch
why are you watching cnn? turn it off...

thank you!

130 posted on 11/16/2004 5:34:22 AM PST by martin gibson
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To: InvisibleChurch

Powell and Rice both serve the republican president, therefore
the usual deference shown to blacks by the media do not apply.


131 posted on 11/16/2004 6:29:19 AM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick)
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To: billhilly
the usual deference shown to blacks by the media do not apply.

that just rung a bell... isn't the word 'spook' a derogatory term for African-Americans?

132 posted on 11/16/2004 6:32:42 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Good ol' Coney Island College. Go WhiteFish.)
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To: billhilly

Excuse me, "..Does not apply."


133 posted on 11/16/2004 6:34:19 AM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick)
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To: billhilly

Excuse me, "..Does not apply."


134 posted on 11/16/2004 6:35:07 AM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick)
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To: billhilly

Bump. Anything new on this?


135 posted on 11/16/2004 7:17:06 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: 7mmMag@LeftCoast
Worth repeating:

Spook is an old 50's racist term for Negro's. It shouldn't surprise anyone, the left HATES succesful conservatives African-Americans.

As long as the Left can keep African-Americans oppressed they can manipulate them as a voting block. Liberalism is the ultimate racist policy.

136 posted on 11/16/2004 7:24:31 AM PST by null and void (Yes. He is YOUR President. Deal with it!!!)
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To: mhking

CNN . . . yep.


137 posted on 11/16/2004 7:42:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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To: wizardoz
Whoa. I know "spooks" is a term for spies/CIA types, but in this case, this just seems like an astoundingly ill-advised use of slang.

So true: Let me tell you a little story.

Once upon a time in a former life I worked on classified programs where we had as our long time Security Officer an absolute salt of the earth black gal who in my opinion was the better at that very difficutl job than anyone I ever dealt with. One day she asked me a question that I no longer remember but it related to something that puzzled her in some way about our program and why we were doing some of the seemingly crazy things that we were doing.

I remember my answer to her like it was yesterday: "Just think about it, you're a spook, you'll figure it out."

Well needless to say, I felt badly about that comment. The good news for me: She didn't even blink an eye but I'm not sure to this day what she might have actually been thinking. The fact of the matter is that my comment was intended as compliment. I think she took it as one but who knows for sure?

138 posted on 11/16/2004 7:58:19 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: InterceptPoint

LOL... I know how you feel. When I'm around blacks I am terrified that I'm going to accidentally offend them. It's such a phobia I actually kind of avoid them, not because I dislike them, but because I'm so paranoid about race relations. I just don't want to screw up (because I screw up a LOT in general. If there's room in my mouth for another foot, I always find a way to stuff it in there.)


139 posted on 11/16/2004 8:03:48 AM PST by wizardoz (straight, sedentary, and average)
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To: FreedomCalls
White DC Mayoral Staffer Loses Job for Saying "Niggardly"

I think that is just plain "despicable."

140 posted on 11/16/2004 9:30:37 AM PST by albertp (Malice in Blunderland, The Wizard of Odd, Gullible's Troubles! Steal the wealth, spread the poverty.)
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