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indianablue Donating Member (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 03:57 PM
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Indianapolis Star: What a right wing rag.
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 03:58 PM by indianablue
Our new governor and long time Bush crony Mitch Daniels on his first day in office ended state workers collective bargaining rights. His lame excuse was he needed to protect children.

Now he has declared he wants to raise taxes temporarily for people who make over 100 K a year.

The Star said he had visionary ideas.

This is the same rag that whenever a Democrat proposed the same thing was pretty much labeled a communist.

To show you, the Star before the election endorsed all Republicans except for a few offices that where Democratic but had no viable opponent.

This paper used to be owned by Dan Quayle’s wife’s family. Now it is owned by Gannet I think but Gannet is worse.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:05 PM
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1. Late in the week during the Indiana primary in 1968 --
-- Robert Kennedy was urged by his campaign staff to hold a rally in downtown Indianapolis, as their momentum appeared to be growing, but Kennedy said no, they had not applied for a permit for a rallly and he felt he would certainly be arrested if he held an unsanctioned rally.

He told his staff it wasn't the arrest that concerned him per se, it was the realization that he might have to spend time in jail "with nothing better to read than the Indianapolis Star."

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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:10 PM
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3. *snicker*
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secedeeconomically Donating Member (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 04:09 PM
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2. I wonder what ever happened to the idiot Quayle?
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 04:46 PM
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4. He moved to Arizona
Edited on Sun Jan-23-05 04:46 PM by LiberalFighter
Couldn't stand living in a small town like Huntington with the small town values that he ran on.

Before he moved to Arizona he lived in Carmel after being defeated in '92.

Arizona was his between home when he wasn't living in Indiana.
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DrGonzoLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-23-05 06:01 PM
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5. Well, yeah
Always has been, always will be.
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Gemini Cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 01:03 AM
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6. I discovered that when I moved to Indiana. nt
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SpeedwayDemocrat Donating Member (339 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 03:44 PM
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7. Russian Roulette with Business Editors
Indianapolis Business Journal stated that the Star just fired their fourth business editor since 2000. They're ramping up to try to kill off the IBJ, just like they tried to kill NUVO Newsweekly with InTake a couple of years back. Look for more articles sucking up to big business and the big advertisers. And watch as they hire someone from outside the Central Indiana area to write about local businesses that they know nothing about...GANNETT sucks - I know, 'cause I worked for them! It's all about the bottom dollar folks...
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Ouabache Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:17 PM
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8. the indystar website is also a cesspool of cookies, spyware & popups
Make sure you have a big old prophylactic pulled over your pc when you surf there.

I had a friend who said he always read the Star at night before bedtime, so he could go to sleep with NOTHING on his mind.
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indypaul Donating Member (896 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-29-05 04:14 PM
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9. No matter, but believe
it was Quayle's mothers family that owned Indianapolis
Star and Arizona Republic. Paper still the equivalent
of the old Washington Times Herald, however.
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Felix Mala Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 12:26 PM
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10. Actually, it was owned by Quayle's mother's family, the Pulliams
If there's one thing those Quayle men do, it's marry well.
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