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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:47 AM
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CNN has backslid bad
To use a fundamentalist christian term. Wolfie just had our favorite "call to assassinate" preacher Pat Robertson on discussing last years tsunami and the recent hurricanes and their possibly being signs of the end times. I know it's sunday CNN but WTF!!. You report on this guy's comments proving him to be no less than a right wing terrorist/extremist then invite him for sunday brucnh to tell us all that God is coming. Blitzer must fuking go.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:48 AM
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1. DU rules prevent me from saying what I'd love to see happen to
him on during his 'Situation room'
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:49 AM
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2. Blitzer is a tool just like Novak and Miller.
I have zero time for him.
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nvliberal Donating Member (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:49 AM
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3. Why are they even giving this crackpot a forum?
He's always been a few decks short of a full card, and CNN wants to give this fool legitimacy, even if they think by giving him airtime he's discrediting himself?
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AirmensMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:50 AM
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4. Yeah, I just posted in the lounge ...
my kitty was right next to me asleep on the remote and I couldn't change the channel. It was pretty hard to listen to that nonsense.
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sallyseven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 01:36 PM
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23. Don't you hate that!
My kitties think that my sitting on the couch or the bed indicates to them that I should give them full attention so they play hid the remote. It is always a fight. Wolfe is not fit to be TV person. But then not many are.
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AirmensMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 08:07 PM
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28. Yeah.
I always throw the remote on the sofa next to me and one of the cats falls asleep on it and nails me in at the same time. I can tolerate Wolfe, but I just about puked when Pat Robertson came on. :puke:
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:50 AM
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5. Let's write CNN and tell them what we think
How about it?
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gademocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:04 PM
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12. I have emailed corporate news network
many times voicing concern about Leslie's show.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:51 AM
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6. The day Jesus made news.
That is bias at its best. "End Times"? Is that a scientific fact?
Like GLOBAL WARMING? Oh no. Let's go ahead and talk about Judgment Day, not wake the f*ck up and preserve our planet!
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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:51 AM
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7. Blitz
"How mant are dead?" seems to be the number one question, followed by "How did that make you feel?"
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 02:46 PM
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27. Welcome to DU panader0
:hi:
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:51 AM
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8. Turn it off and turn on PBS
The Mclaughlin Group is skewering Bush from all sides.
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:18 PM
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16. traitors!
how dare they abandon geeb (brother of john ellis bush, or 'jeb') when his needs are greatest! they should fall on them kneelers and pray to satan that the bush ship, which they have kept afloat with outright fibs and mclaughlin malarkey for years, dinnae sink! traitors are so booring.
------
The :shrug: named titanic, there she blows!
The good ship bush
sunk like an untold story!
And we all watched sadly
as bush took
a flying saucer?
To safety...
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enid602 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:53 AM
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9. end times
The sad thing is if all the major countries elect leaders who believe in an 'end times' scenario, it will probably happen based on their actions.
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 11:55 AM
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10. I think Blitzer believes that drawing out things like that will reveal
the nutty and that people will see it for what it is :shrug:
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:12 PM
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13. Agreed...
...Wolf seemed genuinely shocked at what Pat Robertson said, and asked him a clarifying followup.
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:24 PM
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18. So true...
Let the nutcase spew his filth for all to hear!!
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:01 PM
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11. This fool reminds me of the Ted Baxter character from the Mary Tyler Moore
... Show... so full of ego he needs another body to contain it all... and the fool takes himself seriously! At least Ted Baxter was entertaining.

For entertainment purposes, I prefer Lon Chaney's 'Wolfman'.
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:14 PM
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14. I disagree...
...Wolf seemed genuinely shocked at what Pat Robertson said, and asked him a clarifying followup. I think he was deliberately giving him just enough rope to hang himself.:patriot:
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:23 PM
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17. Yup, I see it as allowing this buffoon to hang himself.
As sickening as it is for us to watch, it has to make the right wingers feel a bit squirmy in their seats as they see this nutcase spew his insanity for a broader audience.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:48 PM
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21. I admit I didn't watch it that closely
regardless they're still giving this guy a voice. If you or I went on TV saying we should assassinate world leaders they'd lock us up or hospitalize us.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:15 PM
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15. Leslie is Leslie.
He's always been like that.

Does anybody know if Jack Cafferty is on any shows that Leslie is not on?
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:30 PM
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19. Cafferty has a new show on CNN on Saturdays. Around noontime..edt..
I saw it yesterday and it was really good. I don't have the exact time though. It was "discussion."
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:44 PM
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20. Thanks. I'll have to check it out. n/t
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durablend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 01:58 PM
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24. A lot of talk about the economy and energy prices
Was good stuff and didn't seem like any "carrying *'s water" either
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 08:43 PM
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32. Cafferty hasn't turned back into a RW hack yet?
Hmmm, he was always such a RW appologist and made fun of liberals before - and now he's our friend? I wonder what's gotten into him?
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 12:50 PM
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22. Radical Cleric Robertson?
Praise God for the American Taliban!

/sarcasm
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 02:25 PM
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25. CNN plays whatever sells at the moment. It's entertainment, not news.
A Sham.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 02:43 PM
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26. My dad knows Wolf Blitzer personally
Maybe he can talk to him.
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 08:38 PM
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29. My sympathies.
nt
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 08:39 PM
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30. Unless your dad can pay more than CNN
Blitzer isn't going to change his mind.
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tlsmith1963 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 08:41 PM
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31. I Think We Should Demand CNN Back
Edited on Sun Oct-09-05 08:42 PM by tlsmith1963
For our side. If the righties don't like it, they can go watch FOX News. And if Daryn Kagan (Rush Limbaugh's girlfriend) doesn't like it, she should go *work* for FOX News!

Tammy
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-05 09:26 PM
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33. I am not a TeeVee watcher, but do any of the movie channels
ever show Elmer Gantry? I haven't seen it in years, but if memory serves me, that movie should play 24/7.
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