[ale] Celebrate - Usama killed!

[Greg Clifton]

Jeff,

 Nice for a channel that likes to pretend it supports conservative values.

As I recall, the FNN tag line is "Fair AND balanced", I don't recall any
mention of conservative values ever, but then I don't watch much TV. Sounds
like you are creating a "straw man" argument.


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> "Homicide bombers" is just plain stupid and is an attempt at a political
> correctness that is unnecessary.   All bombers that kill people are
> "homicide" bombers by definition and "suicide bomber" merely meant the
> dumb@$$ killed himself at the same time as he killed others.  Fox
> decided that somehow "suicide" meant the idiots were being "honored" by
> other news networks and thereby proved themselves to be idiots instead.
>
> Do you really suppose the people that support these idiots really give
> any credence to how False News Network describes them?   No - it is
> simply sensationalism masquerading as journalism.  I tried to watch FNN
> last night to see how they were reporting it compared to CNN but once I
> saw Geraldo taking the lead there was no way.   Every time I see
> "Geraldo at Large" I can't help but think "Why the hell is he still at
> large?"  This is the same guy that wrote a memoir (long before Fox hired
> him) in which he claimed to sleep with every woman in the News and
> Entertainment industry.    Nice for a channel that likes to pretend it
> supports conservative values.
>
> More interesting to me was that when I went to the broadcast networks
> they didn't even have a scroll at the bottom of the screen indicating
> the President was about to speak.   They did come on by the time he
> spoke and may have had bulletins at some point before that but you'd
> think they'd have had such a scroll or notice for those who were just
> tuning into them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Damon Chesser
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 9:05 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Celebrate - Usama killed!
>
> Astounding.  We went in three emails from Bin Laden is dead to Fox
> Sucks.  What one has to do with the other is beyond me.  After having
> watched the breaking news on FNN, I never once saw anybody guess on what
> Mr. Obama would say, other than The President is scheduled to speak
> soon.
>
> I don't care what news source you prefer, btw.  I am merely objecting to
> three emails to go from first post to political/biased/fox sucks.
>
> I happen to LIKE the description of homicide bomber vs. suicide bomber.
> I think Homicide is more honest.  Suicide implies other people died as
> an after effect of the suicide.
>
> Am I stupid?
>
>
>
> Damon Chesser
> dchesser at acsi2000.com
> damon at damtek.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Lightner, Jeff
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 8:56 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Celebrate - Usama killed!
>
> I liked the fact that CNN refused to speculate on what the President was
> going to say even when they had one source.   They waited until they had
> 3 sources confirming it and the President had delayed for quite a while
> before they reported it.
>
> Fox knows how to mispronounce things.  While most reasonable people
> understand that "suicide bomber" simply designated that the murderer
> killed himself instead of doing a remote detonation Fox decided everyone
> was too stupid to understand that.   Accordingly they came up with
> "homicide bombers".   They also showed how reliable a news source they
> are by continuing to employ Geraldo after he claimed to be in the midst
> of a battle he was 300 miles away from and called it a "mistake".   How
> the heck does someone not know the difference between bullets wizzing
> past their ears and NOT wizzing past their ears?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Scott Castaline
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 12:40 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Celebrate - Usama killed!
>
> On 05/01/2011 11:02 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > I'm ecstatic to say the news is reporting Usama Bin Laden has been
> > killed by the USA and his dna verified!
> >
> > God Bless the USA!
> > =====
> >
> I have to note though that it seemed that FOX was the only one that
> spelled it with a U, while all the others were spelling it as Osama.
> Doesn't matter as long as he's dead, bullet to the head from the
> President's announcement.
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