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CNN issues apology for 'Stupid Girls' song before Palin story (Apology NOT accepted!)
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| 7/30/2012
| fox news
Posted on 07/30/2012 12:04:57 PM PDT by tobyhill
CNN has issued an apology for playing a song titled “Stupid Girls” before a segment about Sarah Palin.
“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.
The song by Pink was the lead-in to a story about the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate supporting Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy, who is facing public backlash for opposing same-sex marriage.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apology; catfight; cnn; dhimmis; dhimmitude; doublestandard; misogyny; nowmia; palin; palinbashing; stupidgirls; timelies; waronwomen
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:05:03 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
“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!
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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!)
To: tobyhill
CNNObama is only sorry they got called out for it.
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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)
To: tobyhill
“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.
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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.)
To: tobyhill
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.
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:13:09 PM PDT
by
chesley
(God's chosen instrument - the trumpet)
To: tobyhill
My ass they are sorry..and what the heck is a CNN..never heard of it..isnt it that network that gets 2 viewers
To: tobyhill
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:14:23 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: tobyhill
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.
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:15:56 PM PDT
by
marron
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.
To: tobyhill
I missed CNN’s on-air apology. Anyone catch it? /sarc
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:16:44 PM PDT
by
hollywood
(Stay on topic, please.)
To: NRA1995
“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.
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:17:16 PM PDT
by
Lou L
(Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
To: tobyhill
So glad they brought back Fox News at my local Golds Gym treadmill room.
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:18:49 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: NRA1995
Wonder if the apology came after Rush covered this today. Basically highlighted how unprofessional and juvenile they are.
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:20:05 PM PDT
by
opentalk
To: tobyhill
“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.
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:21:01 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
("We're not programs, Gerty, We're People")
To: tobyhill
Baloney! this is not the first time they have been caught doing this
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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]")
To: tobyhill
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.
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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.)
To: Huskrrrr
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
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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]")
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.
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:26:34 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: tobyhill; Old Sarge; FlingWingFlyer; Sarah Barracuda
“...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.
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posted on
07/30/2012 12:26:43 PM PDT
by
aquila48
To: tobyhill
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?
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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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