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In reply to the discussion: Gotta love Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! ....... [View all]tuhaybey
(76 posts)56. She was just kind of hamming it up
I mean, that's kind of what all news media does is ham news up a bit to make it more exciting, but IMO, at least in regard to that protest, she was doing it a bit much for my taste... Like fundamentally, she was making it sounds like a terrifying place to be when in reality people were mostly pretty much having a good time. There was a lot of singing, dancing, etc... I've been to protests where there was a very different situation with a lot of teargas and all that kind of stuff, but that wasn't happening at all at this one really, and she made it sound like it was way worse than Seattle for example.
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RufusTFirefly
Oct 2014
#15
She's a troublemaker, a whistleblower, and has opinions. We need more like her. K&R
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2014
#17
With the few left for whom we can donate… DN will get our support this year...
MrMickeysMom
Oct 2014
#21
"Cop provoking"....what kind? Like Michael Brown provoking, or Kelly Thomas provoking?
U4ikLefty
Oct 2014
#33
Amy has been in some truly hairy situations like the midst of a genocide in East Timor
yurbud
Oct 2014
#57
You are one who said her show is "no better than Limbaugh on most days" am I correct?
U4ikLefty
Oct 2014
#36
Do you remember what happened to NPR when Bush was president and appointed their president?
yurbud
Oct 2014
#50
In terms of her role as an important public intellectual she's on par with Chomski IMO
Monk06
Oct 2014
#42