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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:27 PM
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60 Minutes was freeped!
Stahl said the overwhemling volume of letters were strongly negative and then read three freep classics and one positive.

do you think someone should clue in 60 Minutes?

maybe a link to a thread promoting the email attack?
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:28 PM
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1. Yes, that would be helpful. n/t
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:16 PM
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17. Found one
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1102922/posts
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:31 PM
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2. 60 minutes was shut down on the Condi interview, IMHO
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:32 PM
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4. yes indeed..n/t
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:44 PM
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10. My feeling too. (n/t)
:kick:
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:31 PM
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3. When you get the link...
copy it so the freeps don't pool the thread as they're known for..they like to hide the evidence.
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nwstrn Donating Member (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:32 PM
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5. Unbelievable
"Dick Clarke should be tried for treason and if guilty face a firing squad and 60 Minutes should be tried as his accomplice and forced to pay a large fine . . . "

"Why can't you be fair and balanced like Fox News?" (This is hilarious)
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:37 PM
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7. They read that one?
I hope they don't take garbage like that seriously.
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nwstrn Donating Member (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:43 PM
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9. Here's the third one
"Where is your honor? Where is your integrity? Is it really true that you are a propaganda arm of the liberal elite?" Please. Wallace just finished doing a puff piece on Judge Pickering.

And the second letter started with: "Using 60 Minutes to promote a Bush-bashing book is reprehensible."
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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:48 PM
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12. Those mails were chosen on purpose
They truly reflect the feelings of the misinformed and the far right wackos out there. Frankly, I think they cast bush and his supporters in a terrible light. (albeit, a true reflection of the thoughts and feelings of the lunatic fringe!) I hope those mails inflame others who hear them to more actively support the cause of ousting Bush and pals on their collective arses next November!
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 09:06 PM
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14. i agree with you.... there was *something*
about her presentation that suggested that.

she chose letters that made the writers look VERY bad and ended up with a very sensible, positive one.

in a way she said: is this really the majority opinion?

maybe it's time for a 60 Minutes piece on FR. if the repubs are going to call the Dems "angry" - expose the real hatred.
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 09:16 PM
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15. Maybe she is trying to make Reichists look bad?
Hopfully she is.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 09:22 PM
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16. whether she was *trying* or not
she did.

I mean, 'drag him away and shoot him' ???

and the dig in using, 'fair and balanced like Fox News'

I think she knew exactly what she was doing and it was a big FU to the freepers - no matter how much they high-five each other over 'winning'....
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drhilarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 12:44 AM
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21. yes
i get the feeling that the freepers aren't sophisticated enough to appreciate something like irony.
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:36 PM
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6. That sucks
I sent an e-mail to MTP today, but did not send one to CBS last week. :(
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:38 PM
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8. Did CBS Ever Hype One of Clinton's Judges
like they just did for Pickering?
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:45 PM
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11. I sent a letter after the 60 minutes aired...
..showering 60 minutes and Leslie Stahl with praise. Guess it didn't count.
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 08:57 PM
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13. I know somebody who works on 60 Minutes
If you can get me the link, I will get it to her. Thanks.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:23 PM
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18. here it is!
but thank wonk in post #17, not me!


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1102922/posts


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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 12:40 AM
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20. Thank you and Wonk
I will get it out to her right away.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-28-04 11:29 PM
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19. I sent an email to 60 Minutes this evening
thanking them for airing the Clarke interview and mentioning the fact that some right-wingers like to overwhelm places and polls with negative emails. I didn't mention FR but I figured they got the message, which is that we know they know, so they have no excuse for saying that "the public has spoken!"

Over in freep-ville tonight they were talking about ganging up on the commercial sponsors of tonight's 60 Minutes. They didn't like the way it went.
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