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CNN issues apology for 'Stupid Girls' song before Palin story (Apology NOT accepted!)
cnn ^ | 7/30/2012 | fox news

Posted on 07/30/2012 12:04:57 PM PDT by tobyhill

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1 posted on 07/30/2012 12:05:03 PM PDT by tobyhill
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“The music selection was a poor choice and was not intended to be linked to any news story. We regret any perception that they were planned together,” a CNN spokesperson told the blog site Mediate.

SUUUUUURE it wasn't planned!

2 posted on 07/30/2012 12:08:11 PM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion, cigars and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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CNNObama is only sorry they got called out for it.


3 posted on 07/30/2012 12:11:25 PM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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“Apologies” are a dime a dozen these days. People are apologizing for apologizing. Everybody is doing it. Apologies are just meaningless drivel. Kind of like playing the race card.


4 posted on 07/30/2012 12:11:48 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
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The music selection was a poor choice and was not intended to be linked to any news story. We regret any perception that they were planned together

Their apologies would be a little more believable if a)the violations were not all slanted the same way, and b) they'd just stop LYING about what they did.

5 posted on 07/30/2012 12:13:09 PM PDT by chesley (God's chosen instrument - the trumpet)
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My ass they are sorry..and what the heck is a CNN..never heard of it..isnt it that network that gets 2 viewers


6 posted on 07/30/2012 12:13:27 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Liars.


7 posted on 07/30/2012 12:14:23 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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If I didn’t read it here, I wouldn’t know about it. I haven’t watched CNN for a decade, not since their disgusting and hysterical coverage of Israel’s 2006 Lebanon War. That was the last straw for me.


8 posted on 07/30/2012 12:15:56 PM PDT by marron
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To: tobyhill

I like the version by Garbage better.
It’s still all kinds of wrong for CNN to try to pull a stunt like that. This is why the news media is dead to me, except as fodder for ridicule.


9 posted on 07/30/2012 12:16:05 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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I missed CNN’s on-air apology. Anyone catch it? /sarc


10 posted on 07/30/2012 12:16:44 PM PDT by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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“The music selection was a poor choice and was not intended to be linked to any news story. We regret any perception that they were planned together,”

I'm sure they just shook their iPod, and that's the song that popped up. Purely random. Right.

11 posted on 07/30/2012 12:17:16 PM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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So glad they brought back Fox News at my local Golds Gym treadmill room.


12 posted on 07/30/2012 12:18:49 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Wonder if the apology came after Rush covered this today. Basically highlighted how unprofessional and juvenile they are.
13 posted on 07/30/2012 12:20:05 PM PDT by opentalk
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“The music selection was a poor choice and was not intended to be linked to any news story...

They are sorry?

Not really.

...We regret any perception that they were planned together,”

Yeah. That's the ticket. Blame the listeners.
14 posted on 07/30/2012 12:21:01 PM PDT by PA Engineer ("We're not programs, Gerty, We're People")
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Baloney! this is not the first time they have been caught doing this


15 posted on 07/30/2012 12:21:31 PM PDT by Mr. K ("The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum [of good]")
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I hope they keep pulling juvenile stunts like this. They think they are so “cool” and “slick” and probably snicker about how sharp and “intelligent” their little gimmicks are.

Every time they pull this kind of childish stuff they lose 10 more viewers.

And at their level of viewership, that’s a hemorrhage.

At this rate, by this time next year, they will be nothing but a memory, and a bad one at that.


16 posted on 07/30/2012 12:22:13 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimze, my handle is a Hate Crime. Hope they don't like it.)
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Did they remove Fox News from Golds Gym??

Man, liberals are nutso...

I travel a lot for work and you would not believe the number of times I found Fox News blocked or deleted from the TV in my room (I mean from the menu, meaning someone did it individually to that station on the TV itself)

So, I unblock it, and block all the others


17 posted on 07/30/2012 12:24:39 PM PDT by Mr. K ("The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum [of good]")
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To: tobyhill

I always thought that some real American would track down the little shit that thought this stunt was so cute and beat the holy hell out of him or her.


18 posted on 07/30/2012 12:26:34 PM PDT by Gaffer
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“...We regret any perception that they were planned together”

In other words they regret that YOU thought they were planned together. They’re apologizing for YOUR stupidity.


19 posted on 07/30/2012 12:26:43 PM PDT by aquila48
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a fake apology AND a big lie (no link between our music lead in and the story.....wink wink)

how much more despicable can this former news organization act?


20 posted on 07/30/2012 12:49:22 PM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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