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Inadvertent Truth? Short-Lived AP Headline: 'Obama Pledges Help to Riot'
Newsbusters ^
| April 27, 2015 | 8:17 PM EDT
| Tom Blumer
Posted on 04/28/2015 6:45:23 AM PDT by CptnObvious
The headline is already gone from the Associated Press's national site, but it's still present elsewhere. In the context of events in Ferguson and elsewhere since August of last year, one could argue that it contains more truth than the wire service and the headline's accidental creators will ever admit.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama
Wondering if Lynch is already advising Obama on how to help the rioters?
To: CptnObvious
They would charge Baltimore cops with civil rights violations — but they cops stood by and watched.
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04/28/2015 6:47:01 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe Obama and Lynch advised them to stand off and watch Baltimore burn.
To: CptnObvious
The regime walks a tight balance...
Fomenting the rioters as much as possible, while maintaining appearances, or at least plausible denialability that they are not doing so.
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posted on
04/28/2015 6:50:31 AM PDT
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: C210N
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posted on
04/28/2015 6:52:07 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: CptnObvious
That’s what the Mayor did. It’s been reported several times this morning....on Fox, and I think also on CNN.
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posted on
04/28/2015 6:52:18 AM PDT
by
milagro
(There is no peace in appeasement!)
To: Diogenesis
Obama has already fanned the flames. He doesn’t have to do anything else as far as he’s concerned.
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posted on
04/28/2015 6:54:02 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: CptnObvious
Actually...Valerie Jarrett was in contact with 'the Governor' about Baltimore....Obama spoke with 'the Mayor' Mon. ....In other words Jarrett's handling this no doubt.
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posted on
04/28/2015 6:57:59 AM PDT
by
caww
To: CptnObvious
Nah...he used his pen....
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posted on
04/28/2015 7:01:39 AM PDT
by
caww
To: CptnObvious
This post called for the obligatory and directly relevant Sharpton meme:
To: Diogenesis
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posted on
04/28/2015 9:29:22 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Some times you need more than six shots. Much more.)
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