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CNN Suspends Reporter For Biased Twitter Post on House Refugee Vote
NewsBusters ^ | 11/19/15 | Matthew Balan

Posted on 11/19/2015 6:33:45 PM PST by Nachum

Politico´s Hadas Gold revealed on Thursday that CNN suspended correspondent Elise Labott for two weeks, after she decried the 289 to 137 vote on Syrian refugees by the House of Representatives: "House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish". Gold cited an unnamed source at the cable network in her short item, "CNN reporter suspended after tweet on refugees." She pointed out that "several critics, including the Washington Post´s Erik Wemple, said the tweet showed bias," and noted that "Labott did not respond to a request for comment." Wemple spotlighted in his Thursday

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Hey Elise- It's the "Statue of Liberty", not the "Statue of Liberalism
1 posted on 11/19/2015 6:33:46 PM PST by Nachum
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2 posted on 11/19/2015 6:37:15 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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It's also not the Statue of Suicide, the Mother of Ignorance, or Doormat to the New World.

Keep your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I lift my finger beside the golden door.

3 posted on 11/19/2015 6:38:10 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Nachum

What’s two weeks gonna do?


4 posted on 11/19/2015 6:38:58 PM PST by uncitizen (Trump: Saying what we are all thinking)
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To: Nachum

LOL, no liberal bias in the media............no....no...no...no....no......isolated incident...end of discussion.....LOL!


5 posted on 11/19/2015 6:39:22 PM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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Keep your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I lift my finger beside the golden door.

We're gonna need a new statue for that one!

6 posted on 11/19/2015 6:41:17 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: PROCON

I have a ready-made solution to this.

Just sayin’ ;)


7 posted on 11/19/2015 6:42:43 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Nachum

Sad that many consider the statue of liberty plaque poem a founding principle all while ignoring the clear language of the constitution and the federalist papers...

Ironic that the statue was a gift from the French and many claim it’s symbolism should be embraced to secure a fate similar to that of Paris?

Further, the poem was not an original part of the statue... it was added 17 years after she was dedicated.


8 posted on 11/19/2015 6:51:12 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: IronJack

Amen!


9 posted on 11/19/2015 6:51:22 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: Nachum

CNN Reporter Probably Wishes She Didn’t Say That Out Loud

CNN’s Elise Labott was speaking about the situation in Iraq on “CNN Newsroom” on Friday. She said that the United States is talking to its allies near Iraq about how to proceed.

The reason? To gather resources for a response, or as Labbott so aptly puts it...That shit....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/cnn-reporter-shit-stuff-elise-labbott_n_5493346.html


10 posted on 11/19/2015 6:52:12 PM PST by kcvl
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Im sure some one could put lady liberty in a burka


11 posted on 11/19/2015 6:52:17 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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CNN Reporter Lists All the “Sh*t”- Er, Stuff - U.S. Might Need in Dealing with Iraq

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-reporter-lists-all-the-sht-er-stuff-u-s-might-need-in-dealing-with-iraq/


12 posted on 11/19/2015 6:54:40 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Nachum

Move the Statue of Liberty to the state that takes in the most refugees.

California and NY have both not committed to taking any!

Zero, none, nada!


13 posted on 11/19/2015 6:57:20 PM PST by NoLibZone (I voted for Mitt. The lesser of 2 evils religious argument put a black Muzzi nationalist in the W.H.)
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Nachum :"..limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish".

I believe that was a paraphrase of what Andrew Cuomo said earlier that day.
NO mention that the US had no immigration from 1929 -thru 1965 to prevent anarchists from comming here .
..and 40 years afterwards , we elected one !!

14 posted on 11/19/2015 6:57:35 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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Norm, your solution would solve many of the country’s problems, but do they listen to you...........NOooooooooooo!


15 posted on 11/19/2015 6:58:22 PM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: al baby

Hey!, Crosses, Ten Commandments and any other symbol of our culture are coming down all over the place. Your idea of the burka may not be too far off, and it’s in New York, so you know they are liberal enough to do it, if nothing else to show “diversity”.


16 posted on 11/19/2015 6:59:05 PM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: PROCON

Nobody loves a Prophet ;)


17 posted on 11/19/2015 6:59:07 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: IronJack

It’s a poem, not law you liberal morons.


18 posted on 11/19/2015 7:00:37 PM PST by The Toll
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To: IronJack

Yearning to freeload you mean.


19 posted on 11/19/2015 7:00:49 PM PST by kalee
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CNN Suspends Reporter For Biased Twitter Post

CNN, if they were to be fair, should be suspending the whole of itself for being biased.
20 posted on 11/19/2015 7:01:18 PM PST by adorno (w)
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