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Mark Steyn: According to Script
National Review Online ^ | April 11, 2005 issue | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/29/2005 6:40:49 AM PST by Constitution Day

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21 posted on 03/29/2005 7:37:37 AM PST by eureka! (It will not be safe to vote Democrat for a long, long, time...)
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To: aculeus

The best button on tv when the alphabet networks are on IS OFF. Gradually, gradually, liberalism crumbles and disappears with the likes of KKK Byrd, Swimmer Kennedy, and Miss America Pelosi. But there's still lots of work for us to do in balancing government. Judiciary has way too much power. Supreme Courts, federal and state, should be abolished. We don't need them to interpret the Constitution. We're quite capable ourselves. More local control!


22 posted on 03/29/2005 7:44:00 AM PST by dimmer-rats stealvotes
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

You may be interested in reading this column.


23 posted on 03/29/2005 7:47:17 AM PST by Tares
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To: Constitution Day

Love Steyn bump!


24 posted on 03/29/2005 7:48:49 AM PST by lawgirl (Please support me as I walk 60 miles in 3 days to support breast cancer research! (see my profile!))
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To: Red Badger
They offer two versions of the truth? One is real, the other is a painted lady........

Not quite correct, they offer two versions; neither of which are even remotely similar to competent and objective reporting.

Waiter: We have two menu choices, dog poop, or horse poop.
Customer: Yuck! I don't want either!
Waiter: But you have your choice you ingrate!

25 posted on 03/29/2005 7:49:24 AM PST by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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To: Constitution Day
"... as their latest contribution to the death spiral of American journalism, ..."

So true! The old-timey TV media simply can't compete wth 22 minutes of news a day, most of which is health news or anti-Bush/Republican material. Even the Spanish language stations talk about stuff from around the world.

The newspapers are no better. They protect their massive other assets and NEVER risk alienating ANY local boss. Here in Texas, Belo (Dallas Mourning News) will NEVER talk about the black thugs stealing the city blind as crime again makes it the murder capital of the country. To do so might alienate the next thug elected to whatever board who will order HIS minions to picket Belo's TV station or refuse to issue a permit to double the profit on an aging office complex.

Even CNN does a better job with the "news" than do the old=timey, non-competitive profit centers.

26 posted on 03/29/2005 8:00:27 AM PST by Tacis ( SEAL THE FRIGGEN BORDER!!!)
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To: Constitution Day
It is pre-scripted. The good folk of Basra and Kirkuk don’t spring out of bed each morning saying, “Ah, another day of hope,” only to trudge off to dreamland 16 hours later wondering why yet again the day of hope turned into a day of tears, daring to sing yet another chorus of “The Sun’ll Come Out Tomorrow” but knowing deep down chances are the Sunni’ll come out tomorrow and blow up the schoolhouse.

Sick humor, but funny still! Can't someone convince Styen to run for something?

27 posted on 03/29/2005 8:08:41 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Constitution Day

The Associated press is like the very fat, ugly, girl.. who thinks the best way to attract guys is to wear a smaller bikini.


28 posted on 03/29/2005 8:46:07 AM PST by Common Tator
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To: Constitution Day

Geeze I hate the press.


29 posted on 03/29/2005 8:46:23 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Does my American flag offend you? Dial 1-800-LEAVE THE USA!)
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To: Constitution Day; PhilDragoo; devolve; Grampa Dave
But in the midst of that unreadable sludge of clichés, the AP’s desert bard came up with one unreadable sludgy cliché that gets the gist of their Iraq coverage better than anything: “almost as if scripted.” Isn’t that precisely the problem? It is pre-scripted. The good folk of Basra and Kirkuk don’t spring out of bed each morning saying, “Ah, another day of hope,” only to trudge off to dreamland 16 hours later wondering why yet again the day of hope turned into a day of tears, daring to sing yet another chorus of “The Sun’ll Come Out Tomorrow” but knowing deep down chances are the Sunni’ll come out tomorrow and blow up the schoolhouse.

bump / ping!


30 posted on 03/29/2005 8:49:52 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: lafroste

Okay, one is a painted lady, the other is a tattoed lady.....


31 posted on 03/29/2005 8:49:54 AM PST by Red Badger (The South seceded over refusal to end slavery. Blue states want to secede for the same reason......)
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To: Bar-Face

The choice is whether or not to have a cherry on your turd.


32 posted on 03/29/2005 8:54:26 AM PST by Flashman_at_the_charge (A proud member of the self-preservation society)
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To: Pokey78

My day is now complete. Thanks the for ping, Pokey!


33 posted on 03/29/2005 8:55:39 AM PST by alwaysconservative (Have we become a society that allows a man to kill his wife by starvation instead of bullets?)
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To: Bar-Face

I notice that there isn't a single numeric figure in the second story.


34 posted on 03/29/2005 8:59:40 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Red Badger
They offer two versions of the truth?

Two versions of a lie - a lie, and a flowery lie.

35 posted on 03/29/2005 9:19:39 AM PST by stinkerpot65
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To: Constitution Day; MeekOneGOP; Pokey78; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Liz; BOBTHENAILER; PhilDragoo; ...

When we invaded Iraq in phase I of the Iraqi war, the doomer and gloomer posters on Free Republic loved to past AP and Reuters BS to discredit our troops.

Most of them eventually got banned, there are a few left. I used to tangle with these pushers of gloom and doom via the AP/Reuters bs. Their reason for posting the gloom and doom bs was that it was news. Of course they had voted for GW since he was 2 years old.

For more clarification where most of the AP so called reporters are coming from, do a search with their name with Gay added on Yahoo search. Often they have been pushing the Gay Agenda for years, hate GW and conservatives 24/7.

The most revealing search was on Tom Hays, the Ass. Plick, who lied about republicans cheering when GW announced that Clintoon had been admitted to the hospital.

Below is that search. Hays is an long time out of the closet gay, who pushed the Gay agenda. One of his lovers was on the flight crew of one of the planes that took out the Towers on 9/11.

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Tom%20Hays%20Gay


36 posted on 03/29/2005 9:25:25 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: kennedy6979
"Suicide" implies that the attack is all about him; "homicide" implies exactly what it is: it's about the people who died who didn't choose that option.

I like the term "Suicide Murderer" better. Every bomber is a homocide bomber, but I think the term suicide murderer is more correctly descriptive.

37 posted on 03/29/2005 9:42:45 AM PST by Family Guy (I disagree with what you said, but I'll defend to the death your right to shut up.)
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To: Grampa Dave
bump!


38 posted on 03/29/2005 10:11:26 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Constitution Day
Dualistic propaganda, WHAT A CONCEPT...
Propaganda Lite or Propaganda Heavy.. from the same anal opening..
Course it could all be Bull Sperm... from a different opening..
40 posted on 03/29/2005 10:52:28 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed by me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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