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radiclib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-31-07 06:26 PM
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Can there be any remaining doubt that the MSM is worthless?
Or complicit. Or both. Is it not newsworthy that, a few weeks before her assassination, one of the most important and influential political figures in the world's most volatile region stated in an interview with one of the most venerable and respected interviewers of the past quarter century that she felt potentially threatened by the individual who had "killed Osama bin Laden"?
This was not Mike Malloy questioning Webster Tarpley, or Drudge chatting up Richard Mellen Scaife, this was David freaking Frost interviewing Benazir freaking Bhutto. We all saw it and heard it on YouTube, and it was a damn sight more convincing than the succession of bogus OBL videos, the latest no doubt intended to remind us of the al-Quada boogeyman who, after all, had her killed.
Maybe she "mis-spoke"? Is anyone making that claim? Do you believe the video was somehow photo-shopped a la Forrest Gump? I mean, :wtf: Where's Olbermann on this?
Or maybe I'll go back to my corner and forget it ever happened. :tinfoilhat:
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-31-07 06:36 PM
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1. No, it's NOT newsworthy.
There have been stories about Bin Laden's supposed death for six years. It's not news unless there's something more than hearsay, which there isn't.
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radiclib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-31-07 06:43 PM
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2. I didn't hear Ms. Bhutto use the word "allegedly"
She appears confident in her statement, and I think she has some credibility on the subject. She's not talking about "stories" she had heard. Maybe it's not newsworthy in the Bush White House.
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-01-08 02:12 PM
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4. And being human, she's just as likely as anyone else to believe things that aren't true. NT
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radiclib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-01-08 08:24 PM
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5. Excuse me, but being a rather important, reasonably well-connected
and at least half-bright Pakistani politician, Pakistan being where Osama allegedly lives, she may be just a tad less likely to believe things that aren't true about him than the average "human" who gets information from GE, Viacom and Fox News.
Question: What would it take for you to suspect that bin Laden is dead? Would his head have to be served on a pike for Idiot Boy to wave around at a press conference? Do you think he does Grecian Formula on his beard for his new videos because his vanity outstrips his fanatical religiosity? Are you waiting for the worldwide screaming headlines which must of course(!) accompany his demise? Here's a hint--don't hold yer breath.
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Cheap_Trick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-31-07 11:49 PM
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3. remember
if you didn't see it on the nightly news, it didn't happen.



















do i have to add :sarcasm:?
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