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Maciulis of MSNBC: 'Wrong' Is a Relative Term, So I Won't Go There
MSNBC-The Most/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/12/2006 1:25:46 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

September 12, 2006 - 16:17

Latest dispatch from the MSM moral-relativism front.

MSNBC's Tony Maciulis appeared on the network's 'The Most' show this afternoon to report on a story dealing with Craigslist, the online classifed ad website. A man called Jason Fortuny had posted a fake personal on the Craigslist's Seattle page, posing as an attractive 27-year old woman seeking sex with men. The ad elicited numerous replies, many including explicit photos of the suitors.

Fortuny in turn posted the men's replies, including the photos, on another website, no doubt causing embarrassment if not more for many of them.

'Most' host Alison Stewart asked Maciulis whether the men who submitted the replies "were doing anything wrong?"

That's when Maciulis muttered his morsel of moral relativism:

"'Wrong' is kind of a relative term so I won't go there."

God forbid!


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: alisonstewart; craigslist; msnbc; tonymaciulis

1 posted on 09/12/2006 1:25:48 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

MSNBC-NewsBusters moral-relativism ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 09/12/2006 1:26:28 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: beyond the sea

Just checking that you received the ping list ping.


3 posted on 09/12/2006 1:27:15 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I wonder if he has something to hide?
4 posted on 09/12/2006 1:27:34 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is blowing yourself up in the middle of a wedding reception wrong, idiot?


5 posted on 09/12/2006 1:29:47 PM PDT by soloNYer
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

Drain this guy's gene pool.....quickly!!!!!


7 posted on 09/12/2006 1:35:53 PM PDT by shankbear
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If it embarasses evil males, whose sin is their genitals and not paying enough attention to the female viewers, it's good to these idiots who watch stupid TV shows, most of them frustrated women who read romance novels.


8 posted on 09/12/2006 1:36:17 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bring back the public stockade.
9 posted on 09/12/2006 1:40:11 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Yes ........ and yes.

;-) Thanks.

10 posted on 09/12/2006 1:42:45 PM PDT by beyond the sea ( Darryl Worley .......................... "Have You Forgotten?")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Stewart asked Maciulis whether the men who submitted the replies "were doing anything wrong?" ---

I think the guy who put in the fake ad did the most wrong.

11 posted on 09/12/2006 1:47:31 PM PDT by beyond the sea ( Darryl Worley .......................... "Have You Forgotten?")
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To: facedown

"I wonder if he has something to hide?"

Like his person? His car? Any valuables he may have? Forever?

There were some people really messed up by this. I saw the thread. It was pretty raunchy, but the surprising thing was that guys were using military and business e-mail addresses while posting full nude self-pics and describing in GRAPHIC detail what sorts of sadistic things they wanted to do to her. Turns out a number of them were married, and their wives are none to happy to find out.


12 posted on 09/12/2006 2:30:43 PM PDT by Kahonek
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The guys who sent the pictures are at minimum guilty of being really stupid. I am inclined to think they got off lightly.

They guy who posted the pictures doesn't win any awards either...but he ranks low on the list on online predators, so I cannot get too upset about him.
13 posted on 09/12/2006 2:54:18 PM PDT by goldfinch
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I'm beginning to get a glimmer of why the Nazis became the phenomenon that they did...


14 posted on 09/12/2006 7:56:38 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Hezbollah: Habitat for Humanity with an attitude)
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