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rocktop15 Donating Member (376 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:05 PM
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OMG!!! Bush staged fake news!!
Is anybody watching the Daily Show?!??!?! They just showed a staged "news event" regarding the Medicare Bill. This is fucking rediculous. Why haven't I heard about this!?!?!?!
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liberal72 Donating Member (405 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:06 PM
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1. compares it to 1984. Shit yes!!!!!
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:12 PM
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2. What a great show!
Why isn't the rest of the media all over this story like flies on shit???

WHY!~
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Sugarbleus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:27 PM
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8. What is the Daily Show??? I don't watch much TV except for
C-SPAN. I also don't get premium cable service...just the basic. Is this Daily show on basic cable?
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Nomad559 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:38 PM
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12. Is this Daily show on basic cable?
Yes, It's on Comedy Central
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:18 PM
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3. Damn. I missed it.
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 03:34 AM
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18. It'll be on again
at 9 am Central time and 5 or 6 pm Central tomorrow.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:19 PM
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4. it was reported in the news a few days ago
of course, the "liberal media" failed to make a big deal out of TV stations showing GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA.
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bunk76 Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:19 PM
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5. The story...
Edited on Wed Mar-17-04 11:20 PM by bunk76
is about five days old,give the "liberal media" a chance to pick it up dude, it takes them a while to get the memo.

:evilgrin:
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:22 PM
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6. You can find out more by searching with the word "Medicare" at
You can find out more by searching with the word "Medicare" at
nytimes.com

or

washingtonpost.com

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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:22 PM
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7. Makes you wonder what else he staged, like 9-11 maybe?
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:27 PM
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9. OMG!!!! n/t
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:30 PM
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10. Lemme get this straight. A staged news event...
WTF? I dont get this. So everyone had a script?
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 03:38 AM
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20. And they aren't even the least bit apologetic about it.
Say they are supposed to educate the folks about new laws.
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dad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:36 PM
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11. 1
Damn, it is getting scary. Fake letters to the editor from soldiers. Now this.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:39 PM
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13. Irony? The Daily Show IS a fake news show.
Life imitates art.
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 02:05 AM
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16. The End of Irony! Bushit
Down with Bush! End this evil cabal now! If not now, be it in November! Blessings to the enemies of the Dark Lord George II of the Bush clan.

http://www.veryverygay.com/elijahwood/photos.html
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:44 PM
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14. Fake reporters covering a fake news event manufactured by a fake
administration....sounds about right.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:48 PM
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15. Actors playing the part of reporters to promote
a bad medicare bill paid for out of tax dollars.
It borders on having our tax dollars pay for Bush campaign ads.

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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 03:35 AM
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19. Borders on?
Shoot, that's exactly what it is!
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 03:32 AM
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17. Because
You don't watch CNN? They ran it all day, I think.
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 03:45 AM
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21. staged "productions"
recently it came to light that the medicare "NEWS" story featurer "reporters" who were actually actors posing as reporters and reading from a bush* admin "script"

Prior to that - the controversial 9-11 campaign ad featured firemen who were also actors

----

other instances of HOCUS-POTUS come to mind:

-- 2000 Florida re-count: a now fairly known photo shows a group of "voters" storming the re-count room. these voters were GOP stooges of various ranks within the GOP machine

-- 2001 taxcut: at a rally to shove the taxcut through Congress, bush* appeared on stage with a group of "reg'ler 'muricans" . Turns out these "reg'ler 'muricans" were part of the bush* team and were instructed to play dress-up like a "reg'ler 'muricans"

-- 2002 Made in where?: at yet another "rally" to push a taxcut through - bush* appeared with a staged backdrop of boxes that were stamped "made in USA". A behind the scenes look, showed that these boxes were actually marked as "MADE IN CHINA"

-- 2003 "Mission Accomplished" banner: First story cited that the crew of the Lincoln made the banner and put it up. Later we find that bush* inc. provided the banner

-- 2003 Lincoln Jet Landing: Originally we were told that the Lincoln was "too far out to sea" to accomodate another ship transporting bush* to the Lincoln - hence he was "flown" in on a jet.
However, we then find out that the coast line was easily in site when bush* "landed". Meanwhile it was never adequately explained that if the Lincoln was sooooo far out to sea - then how did the bush* advance crew get on the ship?

-- Thanksgiving 2003: the faked turkey platter
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 04:05 AM
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22. Kinda like the pigfarm
Just like the photo-op "ranch" the production boys threw together for that down home thang.

The reporters all just giggle.

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JackDragna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 04:35 AM
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23. This is an old thing, actually.
Countless political and advertising spots have appeared in local news broadcasts for years as "real" news. More slime by the same snails.
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