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Nominations Needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 | Kristinn

Posted on 04/26/2005 9:16:06 AM PDT by kristinn

Nominations are needed for Free Republic's Faux News Awards, which are to be presented this Saturday outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner by the D.C. Chapter.

10 winners will be announced. First Place will be awarded the Buckhead, the rest will get framed Sixty Minutes Faux Bush National Guard documents.

The criteria for nominees is as follows: A news reporter, editor, commentator, producer, executive or organization who has lied, fabricated, tried to dupe the public or stretched the truth so far that the truth is unrecognizable and called it news.

Please provide documentation for your nomination if possible. Links and/or excerpts are the best documentation for these awards.

Nominations will be accepted until Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. EDT. Voting will commence as soon as the nominations are sorted out.

Link to details of Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner freep.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awards; dcchapter; fauxnews; frauds; liars; propagandawingofdnc; propagandists; schadenfreude; tools
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To: kristinn
Time Magazine's editors/photo editors, for being so inept (or so colored by their visceral hatred of Miss Coulter) that they identified an obviously satirical "protest sign" photo as being part of a protest of Ann Coulter. Sheesh!
41 posted on 04/26/2005 4:19:00 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: tgslTakoma

One has to have some basic knowledge to understand satire. Obviously it's lacking at TIME.


42 posted on 04/26/2005 5:06:56 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Party affiliation merits mentioned only if unique not common place.... R = unique. D=common place)
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To: kristinn; Dog

Somebody HAS to answer for this:

Iraq Group Says Holds U.S. Soldier
Reuters ^ | 2/1/05 | Reuters


Posted on 02/01/2005 12:27:11 PM EST by 1LongTimeLurker


DUBAI (Reuters) - A little-known Iraqi insurgent group said on Tuesday it was holding a U.S. soldier and threatened to kill him within 72 hours if Iraqi prisoners were not released, according to an Internet statement.

"Our mujahideen ... have managed to capture the American soldier John Adam after killing a number of his colleagues," said the Mujahideen Squadrons in the undated statement.

It carried a picture appearing to show a U.S. soldier sitting in front of a black banner with a rifle pointed at his head. The authenticity of the claim, which did not say where the man was seized, could not be verified.

"We will cut his throat in 72 hours if our male and female prisoners in the occupation jails are not released," it said.

A group using the same name, Mujahideen Squadrons, last month claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Brazilian engineer in Iraq (news - web sites).

Insurgents in Iraq, including al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, have been waging attacks on U.S.-led forces since they invaded the country in 2003.









AP and CNN ran with this story!



Dog, do you have a link to that thread??


43 posted on 04/26/2005 5:19:31 PM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Howlin

That's got my vote. Hands down.


44 posted on 04/26/2005 5:24:42 PM PDT by nunya bidness (Remember, they hated Him first.)
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To: Howlin
Ah, yes. The media orgasms when an action figure doll was "captured."






45 posted on 04/26/2005 5:28:39 PM PDT by Bars4Bill
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To: Bars4Bill

I wish I had bookmarked that thread. It was fabulous!


46 posted on 04/26/2005 5:31:52 PM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: nunya bidness

It makes me laugh just to think about that day and that thread ......some days are just *good.*


47 posted on 04/26/2005 5:32:48 PM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Howlin

Oh, that one has my vote!! HA!


48 posted on 04/26/2005 5:37:16 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Howlin
Iraq Group Says Holds U.S. Soldier - Web (GI Joe doll?)
49 posted on 04/26/2005 5:49:30 PM PDT by Bars4Bill
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To: Bars4Bill

Oh, thanks, Bill!


50 posted on 04/26/2005 5:51:50 PM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: kristinn
I have two I remember:

1. How about all the reports that Yassar Arrafat had died. Did he ever really die? From what? Was it ever revealed? I gave up.

Yasser Arafat Dead Again

2. And then Fox news when Shepard Smith reported the Pope had died, and the word shot across the world instantly. That was horrible. And what was worse was how cavalier FOX was about the erroneous report.

Story of false report of Pope John Paul II's death

51 posted on 04/26/2005 6:46:12 PM PDT by CitizenM ("Rise, let us be on our way" - Pope John Paul, II (noted in Ratzinger's Homily@ PJPII's Requiem ))
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To: kristinn
executive or organization who has lied, fabricated, tried to dupe the public

*****

If by " organization who has lied, fabricated, tried to dupe the public" includes organizations such as Viacom, I suggest this classic dupe -- Removing Hillary Boos.

http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/hillaryf.htm -- (excerpt) There was something missing when VH1 rebroadcast Paul McCartney's Oct. 20 Twin Towers relief concert on Christmas Day. The music video cable channel edited out the infamous 20 seconds where firefighters, cops and their friends in the crowd booed New York Senator Hillary Clinton off the stage. "The boos were ... replaced with general crowd noise," reports the New York Post's Neal Travis, adding, "the cable channel evidently wants to keep on Hillary's good side."

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020830.asp ---- 3) A video for the holiday weekend: Booing of Senator Clinton replaced by applause. Senator Hillary Clinton was booed when she walked on stage last October at a rock concert to benefit 9/11 victims. It was shown live by VH1 but, as ABC's John Stossel illustrated in a July 20/20 special on media distortions, when the cable channel replayed it sound technicians replaced the booing with cheering and applause.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4029 — (excerpt) THE NEW YEAR ARRIVED in Times Square and elsewhere across America without any apparent terrorist incident. But an act of media terrorism during the holidays took New York City’s heroic firefighters and police hostage and abused them badly. On Christmas Day the cable network VH1 re-broadcast the "Concert in New York City" in which musicians and actors performed to raise money for these heroes’ families. But what VH1 re-aired was a perfect example of the revision of history George Orwell portrayed in his dystopian novel 1984. At the moment in that concert when now-New York Senator Hillary Clinton was booed off the stage by outraged firefighters and police, those watching this manipulated re-run heard only dubbed-in ordinary crowd noise – no boos, no shouts from the audience of "Go away! We don’t want you here!" at the Leftist politician who had courted votes by calling cops "murderers" while her husband pardoned convicted cop-killer Puerto Rican terrorists to win votes for her. "The cable channel evidently wants to keep on Hillary’s good side," wrote Neal Travis of the New York Post. "VH1 is owned by Viacom, parent company of Simon & Schuster, the book publisher that awarded Clinton $8 million last year for a book she won’t even have to write till next year," wrote Carl Limbacher of Newsmax.com. "Perhaps VH1 was just protecting Viacom’s investment."

52 posted on 04/26/2005 7:29:33 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Advanced Directive -- don't step on my blue suede shoes.)
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To: Bars4Bill

Cody Lives


53 posted on 04/26/2005 7:32:14 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Advanced Directive -- don't step on my blue suede shoes.)
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To: Polybius; nutmeg; dirtboy; GeronL; Critical Bill

Cody ping ..........


54 posted on 04/26/2005 7:36:49 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Advanced Directive -- don't step on my blue suede shoes.)
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To: kristinn

Mitch Albom for making up "facts" in his editorials.


55 posted on 04/26/2005 8:16:29 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("This will help you with the pain - POW!!" - Jack Bauer)
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To: Bars4Bill; Howlin

Thanks. That's one of my favorites, too.


56 posted on 04/27/2005 4:33:14 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: Dan from Michigan

Good one.


57 posted on 04/27/2005 4:33:38 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: Howlin

MY sides hurt for days after that thread!


58 posted on 04/27/2005 4:34:58 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (If you think pushing 40 is hard, try dragging it!)
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To: Bars4Bill; Dog; kristinn; tiredoflaundry
Here is the original thread where the "doll" was discovered. (Thanks to Dog for finding it.)

Web Site Claims GI Captured in Iraq

59 posted on 04/27/2005 7:49:13 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Howlin; Dog

Thxs!


60 posted on 04/27/2005 8:00:26 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (If you think pushing 40 is hard, try dragging it!)
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