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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts) Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:05 AM Jun 2014

I'm announcing today that I'm starting my own news website called "Tommy Carcetti News".

It will feature statements of base opinion, as well as wild unsubstantiated conspiracy theories with little to no evidence to support them.

But, you see, it will be called Tommy Carcetti News. News. So you can all feel free to cite to it as a completely legitimate news source. Because "news" is right in its title, you see! You can't get any more reliable than that!

My first article will be on how on September 11, 2001, C.I.A. agent Elvis Presley detonated a bomb inside World Trade Center 7 in order to destroy secret documents proving that the moon landing was a hoax. I mean, everyone knows this to be a fact already! It's not even a matter of debate anymore.

So cite away to Tommy Carcetti News! (c) You'll be sure to win every argument that you make. Because in the end, you're always right.

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I'm announcing today that I'm starting my own news website called "Tommy Carcetti News". (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 OP

Will there be a subscription fee? bluesbassman Jun 2014 #1

Just $100 a month. And if you act now.... Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #5

Can I just have the Chuggo autograph? bluesbassman Jun 2014 #6

Close. It's actually just a slab of mayonnaise on a cocktail napkin. nt. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #7

Ok, that sounds legit. Sign me up then. bluesbassman Jun 2014 #8

You can pm your credit card info, but you'll have to post your Social Security Number here. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #9

The name just doesn't zing for me. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #2

You funny! JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #3

Come on. The man was mayor of Baltimore once! Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #4

In other Tommy Carcetti news, he's also a Dublin gangster muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 #11

And he's in this really weird music video. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #21

I was actually thinking of doing something similar. Xyzse Jun 2014 #10

I'll send you scoops from the wildest CT imaginable! You'll be rich! n/t freshwest Jun 2014 #12

DU rec... SidDithers Jun 2014 #13

Can I repost your news on ENEnews and other great informative sites? zappaman Jun 2014 #14

Only if you post it on NaturalNews.com first! Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #16

TCN... sounds credible to me 0rganism Jun 2014 #15

Tommy...can I be reporter-ette at large ? nt clarice Jun 2014 #17

Sure. Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2014 #18

You mean like L.A. ? nt clarice Jun 2014 #20

.... Behind the Aegis Jun 2014 #19

bluesbassman

(19,371 posts)

1. Will there be a subscription fee?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:09 AM

Jun 2014

You get what you pay for you know.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)

5. Just $100 a month. And if you act now....

Reply to bluesbassman (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:13 AM

Jun 2014

...you'll get a free Chuggo autograph and a $5 off coupon for Olive Garden.*

*Breakfast only. Expires June 17, 2013.

bluesbassman

(19,371 posts)

6. Can I just have the Chuggo autograph?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #5)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:24 AM

Jun 2014

I wasn't aware he could read and write.

Hey, wait a minute. It's not just a big "X" scrawled on a cocktail napkin is it? I didn't just fall off the taturguy truck you know!

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)

7. Close. It's actually just a slab of mayonnaise on a cocktail napkin. nt.

Reply to bluesbassman (Reply #6)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:27 AM

Jun 2014

bluesbassman

(19,371 posts)

8. Ok, that sounds legit. Sign me up then.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #7)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:34 AM

Jun 2014

I'll pm you my credit card info. Can't be too careful on the innertubes. At least that's what Great Grandma bassman used to say when we'd go down to the swimmin' hole.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)

9. You can pm your credit card info, but you'll have to post your Social Security Number here.

Reply to bluesbassman (Reply #8)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:38 AM

Jun 2014

And find at least three character witnesses that knew you from preschool.

It's sooooo worth it though.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

2. The name just doesn't zing for me.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:09 AM

Jun 2014

And it makes me expect that it will be news about Tommy Carcetti.

After the disappointment of never seeing a single story about foxes on that other site, I'm a bit leery of '___ news' sites.

JustAnotherGen

(31,813 posts)

3. You funny!

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:10 AM

Jun 2014

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)

4. Come on. The man was mayor of Baltimore once!

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:11 AM

Jun 2014

On a TV show.

And now he's like some creepy Middle Earth pimp. On another TV show.

And then he had some schlub steal his name for posting on Democratic Underground.com.

That's integrity right there.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,308 posts)

11. In other Tommy Carcetti news, he's also a Dublin gangster

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:17 PM

Jun 2014

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1625724/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_8

Worth catching if it makes it over to the USA.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)

21. And he's in this really weird music video.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #11)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 02:25 PM

Jun 2014

True story: I was on a plane and the person in front of me was watching this video and thinking, "Wait...what's Mayor Carcetti doing walking around the woods with a fox and a snail on his shoulder?" And then I got really bummed out at the end, even though I couldn't hear what was going on.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)

10. I was actually thinking of doing something similar.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:48 AM

Jun 2014

However, the news will only feature:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025125539

Secondly, it would have 2 different view styles.
Side by Side : 3 Tab

Basically each article will have 3 features, which would be done by tab
The Article - Which would be dry and factual
The Opinion - To Provide Context
Links and Sources - To Show that it is credible

Comment section would be handled as another page.

The secondary view style would be the article and opinion placed side by side.

I just don't have the time, even if I have the technological know how and I have a site and domain name that I am hardly ever using.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

12. I'll send you scoops from the wildest CT imaginable! You'll be rich! n/t

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:35 PM

Jun 2014

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)

13. DU rec...

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:40 PM

Jun 2014

this is brilliant. Hosts will never lock anything from a legitimate news source like Tommy Carcetti News, or Storm Clouds Gathering News.

Watch out for juries, though. They seem to be doing what Hosts refuse to do.

Sid