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CNN Anchor Can't Remember the Last Shooting at 'U.S. Military Facility'
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Posted on 09/16/2013 10:48:23 AM PDT by chessplayer

During CNN's live coverage of Monday's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, anchor Carol Costello asked when the last time was that a gunman wreaked "havoc at a U.S. military facility." In 2009, a jihadist killed 13 in a mass-shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.

"I used to work in Washington, live in Washington. This seems so unusual to me that a gunman could create this kind of havoc at a U.S. military facility," Costello stated. "Have you ever heard of it happening before, Brian?" she asked correspondent Brian Todd, reporting live from the vicinity of the shooting.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Texas; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aaronalexis; airhead; carolcostello; cnn; cnncarolcostello; forthood; fthood; ignorantmedia; navyyard; navyyardshooting; shooting; usmilitary; washingtonnavyyard
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To: VerySadAmerican
No, statists don't wait for facts - it never suits their purpose.

They come right out of the gate spinning and the facts never quite catch up.

21 posted on 09/16/2013 10:58:15 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: chessplayer
This shows the same mentality as Obama:



They are just not Americans.
22 posted on 09/16/2013 10:59:11 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: chessplayer

News readers can’t remember to come in out of the rain.


23 posted on 09/16/2013 11:01:06 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: chessplayer

What was “Brian’s” response?


24 posted on 09/16/2013 11:01:28 AM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: Red Badger
Which is why I wonder why Romney let Obama get away with his line about: “The 80’s are calling and they want their foreign policy back.”

Should have responded:

“That dismissive, naivete, makes you unqualified to be Commander in Chief!”

25 posted on 09/16/2013 11:03:05 AM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: chessplayer

Of course she can’t remember it; after all it was just a workplace violence incident.


26 posted on 09/16/2013 11:09:09 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: chessplayer

And the reporter she asked couldn’t remember either?????


27 posted on 09/16/2013 11:11:40 AM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: clintonh8r

“Mediots” Like it!


28 posted on 09/16/2013 11:13:40 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: chessplayer

There are a lot of shootings on military bases.

For example, there was a shooting right here in her back yard at Quantico in March of 2013. 2 people killed, and the perp committed suicide. That wasn’t long ago and far away, like Fort Hood.

There was the guy who was shooting up military facility entrances. There’s been multiple domestic killings that took place on military living facilities and work facilities.

Military facilities are mostly gun-free zones, and make good shooting ranges.


29 posted on 09/16/2013 11:16:03 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: chessplayer

All that reveals is what we’ve long suspected....these people truly DO NOT BELIEVE that a world exists outside of the D.C. Beltway.


30 posted on 09/16/2013 11:18:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: G Larry

I think he tried to bail her out. He said he couldn’t remember the last time one happened in DC area or something like that. He limited to a smaller area, trying to help her out that OOPS!.


31 posted on 09/16/2013 11:18:45 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: chessplayer

More and more
“you can’t fix stupid”


32 posted on 09/16/2013 11:18:58 AM PDT by Leofl (I'm from Texas, we don't dial 9-11)
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To: newfreep; G Larry

Brian tried to cover for her:

TODD: Well, we haven’t either in this area, Carol. This is the first time we’ve seen something like this, at least in many, many years. Now you remember the Fort Hood shooting in 2009, where that was a member of the service who was convicted eventually of doing that shooting.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2013/09/16/fort-hood-2009-cnn-anchor-cant-remember-last-shooting-us-military-facili#ixzz2f55VkjE4


33 posted on 09/16/2013 11:19:39 AM PDT by rwa265 (Compete well for the faith, lay hold of eternal life (1 Timothy 6))
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To: chessplayer

What does it matter!?!?!?!


34 posted on 09/16/2013 11:21:32 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: chessplayer
They apparently have quite a set of standards for the "journalists" they hire over at CNN.

Are they "written" or simply "understood"?. Id guess if there are written standards...getting a look at them could be VERY interesting indeed.

Would Arrogance or Ignorance of recent history top the list?



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35 posted on 09/16/2013 11:23:40 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: chessplayer

Another example of MSM exceptionalism. Surprised they even remember what country they woke up in.


36 posted on 09/16/2013 11:37:50 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (I think Obama and crew feel that time is being wasted and that we need to get the jump on Russian sh)
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To: Hulka; All

D.C. is the last jurisdiction in the nation that completely bans the carry of firearms for defense outside the home:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/09/justice-deniedsecond-amendment-case.html


37 posted on 09/16/2013 11:39:56 AM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: marktwain

Want to send a comment straight to CNN?

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/show/success.html


38 posted on 09/16/2013 11:48:40 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: chessplayer

What difference does it make? It was a looooong time ago!


39 posted on 09/16/2013 12:22:55 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: chessplayer

As Sandy was bearing down on us in the NYC area, I was watching a local weatherman pointing at a map and describing the areas he thought the most vulnerable, “And if you look at the map here, you can see that Staten Island is virtually surrounded by water...”


40 posted on 09/16/2013 12:26:36 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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