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Alhena Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:15 PM
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CNN Debunks Obama "Madrassa" Story
you mean Fox News wasn't really "fair and balanced?" Hard to believe. They should seriously be ashamed.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/obama.madrassa/index.html

There's video of this story on the main CNN page- scary footage of little children happily playing outside in short pants while teachers in Western-style clothing look on.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:16 PM
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1. And Fox will scream: "liberal media".
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:18 PM
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2. Keith said that Madrassa is for College or grad school. Obama was 6.
Throw that in the wingers faces and see what they say
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:32 PM
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8. I saw that !
Good for Keith :)
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CasualVoyeur Donating Member (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:25 PM
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3. No one has the story yet...


Both networks are on thin ice with this...here we go with these un-named sources and single source stories again....I want the press to get back to the basics and really do the work they used to do....
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:29 PM
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6. Umm, CNN sent an actual reporter to the school in Jakarta.
I know it seems hard to believe, but someone actually seems to have committed an act of investigative journalism.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:27 PM
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4. They've got a poll over there.
Who do you think is behind false reports about Barack Obama's time at a Muslim school?
Right-wing opponents
Left-wing opponents


Right now it's at:
Right-wing opponents 68% 785 votes

Left-wing opponents 32% 373 votes
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Lord Byron Donating Member (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:27 PM
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5. looks like it backfired on Ms. Clinton
Too bad.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:31 PM
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7. Is there any evidence at all that she or her people were behind this?
Apart from the unsourced claims of RWers that is?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:43 PM
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9. Exactly right.
As if Hillary would be stupid enough to corrupt the image of someone on her Veep short list.
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Lord Byron Donating Member (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:46 PM
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10. Is there any evidence that she's not?
If the Republicans had the information and perceived Obama to be such a weak candidate, don't you think they would have waited to release the information? However, for Hillary her time to act against Obama is now to keep him from gaining ground.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:57 PM
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12. If she wants him as a VP candidate (and you can be sure she does), it would be
extremely stupid.
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Epiphany4z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:03 PM
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13. The entire lie was
extremely stupid....duh..it was so hard to find the truth..Hillary is not a stupid woman....it sticks of over zealous right winger who thought they could top the not so swift dip shits.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:05 PM
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14. Is there any evidence that it didn't come from you?
Or maybe it came from Obama's own campaign. Maybe he's trying to make himself look like a martyr while making Hillary look bad. :shrug:

I think it's one of the cardinal rules of debate that you can't prove a negative.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:38 PM
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22. On Countdown tonight
once debunked, Faux News blamed on HRC*s campaign -- KO debunked that.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:42 PM
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24. I don't think for a minute that Hillary was behind it
but Mr Byron up there wants me to try to prove a negative. I was just trying to point out how fallacious that whole line of arguement is.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:45 PM
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27. I think sometimes
Edited on Mon Jan-22-07 10:45 PM by AtomicKitten
people just want to believe what they want to believe regardless of truth or reality.

Did ya know HRC puts live babies on spikes and drinks toilet water? I posted that earlier on DU so it must be true. Prove me wrong.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:50 PM
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28. I certainly can't prove that she doesn't.
That means that your argument must have some merit. :rofl:
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:21 PM
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16. Is there any evidence that you didn't do it?
n/t
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 08:29 AM
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30. Gosh, what logic!
Sorry, you're not convincing anyone.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 09:49 PM
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11. "Insight attributed the information in its article to an unnamed source
who said it was discovered by 'researchers connected to Senator Clinton.'"

And why did Insight believe the source? And why should we believe Insight? And what do they mean by "connected"--that the source and researchers work on the same block?

:headbang:
rocknation
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hijinx87 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:08 PM
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15. in politics, it doesn't have to be true.

it only has to be plausible to cause damage.

I am afraid Obama will have to put up with these baseless broadsides;
having never been in a national election, he has never been subject to
national media exposure. and the MSM will chase every little innuendo
that his opponents, left and right, leak.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:24 PM
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17. Moon, Fox News, Washington Times, Insight...........
all part of the engineered Republican media propaganda network meant to brain wash the American public.
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Alhena Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:26 PM
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18. You can watch the video at this link ... link
Heck, this school looks nicer than the elementary school I attended:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/22/cnn-obama-debunk/
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:30 PM
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19. Bravo! Kudos to CNN — that's the first real journalism I've seen from them in
a long time. I hope it continues.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:37 PM
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21. Did you see Countdown tonight?
Apparently once debunked, Faux News turned around and blamed it on HRC*s campaign.

KO calls them the Fox Nothing Network.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:38 PM
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23. No, not yet. I TiVoed it at 8PM, will probably watch in the morning.
Looking forward to it.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:43 PM
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25. What would we do without our DVRs?
Edited on Mon Jan-22-07 11:04 PM by AtomicKitten
I work at home and otherwise wouldn't get anything done.

Hey wait, I don't get anything done as it is because I keep clicking over to DU ...
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:00 PM
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29. LOL! I know what you mean. NT
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:32 PM
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20. Corpmedia can't address the elephant in the room - the source was Moonie.
.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 10:43 PM
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26. Anderson Cooper said that CNN sent a reporter to find the school that Obama attended
and that was the difference between reporting the news, or just talking about it.
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