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HardWorkingDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 02:50 AM
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Watching MSNBC - Carlson show on lies of poor fighting our wars...
Carlson has been blathering in promos that it is a lie that the poor join the military and he has the numbers to prove it. Does anyone have any information on this episode? Checked MSNBC's website but it's not there.

He said he has studies to prove it. Frankly, I think the study will be fraught with errors.

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thefloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 02:54 AM
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1. Carlson is full of shit
I would love to see his numbers.
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 02:55 AM
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3. Yeah, really.
He acts as if the whole world is watching his show.
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HardWorkingDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 02:59 AM
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4. It's getting ready to come on, but think show is a rebroadcast...
of earlier tonight and I was hoping someone had crunched his numbers all ready....
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HardWorkingDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:02 AM
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6. Sorry, Mathews' Softball is on....thought Sy Hersh is on in a bit..
he's a national treasure.

Also, I'm enjoying David Shuster's reporting more and more.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 02:55 AM
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2. Joining the military is not the same as fighting the wars.
Most people who join see no combat. And sure, you'll definitely see lots of middle and upper class kids in the officer ranks and plum enlisted jobs.

But Tucker, please try to tell us that most of the infantry troops on the ground in Iraq aren't from poor families. Go ahead and try you lying sack of chickenhawk shit!
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:00 AM
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5. It's some worthless Heritage Foundation study that I saw on Fwee Wepubwik
earlier today. It uses numbers from before Operation Iraqi Fiefdom, and they are very selective in what numbers they use, and how they use them.
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