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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:12 PM
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Hate TV: Fox News complains about "lesbian" Rachel Maddow

Summary: Asked on Fox & Friends about the "damage done" by having Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews anchor MSNBC's election coverage, the Media Research Center's Tim Graham responded, "Not only is the damage already done, the damage continues. I mean, not only are they keeping these people on for an hour a night, they're adding this lesbian Air America radio host, Rachel Maddow, on every night."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090008
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:15 PM
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1. They're just more openly bigoted every day. n/t
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:22 PM
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22. You would think this was impossible, but alas. n/t
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:15 PM
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2. lovely.
Rachel is smarter than all the TV pundits put together. I thought she did great last night, especially the "It's Pat" segment.
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 01:02 PM
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9. I actually thought the Reverend she had on did a better job
I thought She was wrong in suggesting Palin had some control over guests the church invites to speak. Rachel tried to imply Palin somehow shared those beliefs and needed to be raked over the coals for them. The Reverend brought some common sense to the interview. IMO. I agree with him that Palin needs to be questioned on all matters, but not made guilty by association when she didn't even know the person that spoke or have any control over what he said. Other than that though I found her show to be very good and IMO destined for a bright future.
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FatDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:01 PM
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24. I respectfully disagree.
Edited on Tue Sep-09-08 05:01 PM by FatDave
I thought Rachel's point was "if she's in a church where these things are being said, then the press should be able to ask her if she agrees with the things said." If I remember right, the reverend even agreed with her when she phrased it that way.

Look at how they went after Obama for things said in his church. Ever the double-standard with republicans though, huh? Liberal media my ass!

(Edited for punctuation.)
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psychmommy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:24 PM
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28. i know it killed pat to be on her shoe.
it gave me as much joy as it gave him discomfort. she was way more mature than me. i would have tortured dude on air and loved it.
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Binka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:41 PM
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50. Pat Was On Her Shoe?
I know what you meant but it cracked me up.
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FatDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:31 AM
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51. The underside of it. (nt)
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psychmommy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 11:12 AM
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57. it was a really big shoe. hahaha
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:20 PM
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3. Wow......How long before the burning crosses appear on air?
Not even trying to hide it anymore.
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jesus_of_suburbia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:48 PM
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4. Amazing. What an asshole this Tim Graham is.
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:50 PM
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5. I think that is how the Nazis became more and more emboldened.
They were more and more open with their profound hatred, Anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:43 PM
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38. That is exactly right. The Geogia state politicians who referred
to Barack and a black reporter as "uppity" code N*&*^^^ers.

Now brazenly disrespecting Rachael...

Not a surprise they have no shame.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:53 PM
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6. Just when I think I'm shock-proof
:wow:
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:54 PM
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7. A lesbian!!!1



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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:16 PM
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21. No, it can't be! Not a lebanese! I mean Lesbian!!!
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:23 PM
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23. Better a Lebanese than a Saudimite. n/t
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 06:37 PM
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36. Whut will we tellz teh childrunzez??
:wow:
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:56 PM
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8. lol! And Rachel's male viewership will soar!
:rofl:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:01 PM
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15. Yup.
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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 01:03 PM
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10. So, her sexual-orientation prevents her from being objective?
Then maybe he shouldn't be allowed on-air because one would suppose that he has a sexual-orientation, as well.

Clearly, anyone having sexual preferences of any kind is incapable of separating their personal life from their profession. :sarcasm:
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:09 PM
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45. Someone should ask this douchebag Tim whateverhisnameis
if he masturbates and does that skew his judgement since it is considered "bad for spilling your seed or some such" according to the thumper types. You know he's lying if he says he doesn't masturbate, and does he think that should be a private matter? Some people just need to be bonked over the head with a clue stick.
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 01:44 PM
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11. They sure are concerned with other people's private lives
Too bad they don't shift their focus to healthy eating or proper hand-washing. Then they might actually do some good with their nosy-Nelly attitudes.

If "lesbian" Rachel Maddow bugs them, I say, Bring on the lesbians! Lots of 'em! Boatloads!
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:42 PM
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12. Rachel and her big, sexy brain
put every last one of the bloviating gasbags on Fox--Kristol, Krauthammer, Hume, Wallace, O'Reilly, et al.--to shame. If there were more people on TV like her, countering the blatant right-wing propaganda put forth by FauxNews, we might have a country where more people actually know what's happening in the world.
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:44 PM
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13. NBC, which some have referred to as the "National Barack Channel."
What fucking lunatics.
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 02:59 PM
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14. The party of exclusion promoting bigotry and hatred. nt
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Fluffdaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:05 PM
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16. I thought the GOP/Wingnuts wanted to leave people personals alone?
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FatDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:04 PM
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25. That only applies to money.
What people do with their bodies, well, that's the republicans' business!
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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:37 PM
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33. No, it only applies to Democrats!
What *Democrats* do with their bodies is the Republicans' business. But not the other way around, of course. Just ask 'em if you don't believe me!
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FatDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 06:46 PM
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37. I stand corrected.
You're absolutely right. Republicans can have all the gay bathroom sex they want and their teenage girls' pregnancies are hailed as family values. How could I have been so blind?
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 03:11 PM
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17. Rachel Maddow would make dog meat out all of the FOX pundits (Wallace on down)
Rachel politically, forgot more then any of them will everknow combined...!
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:00 PM
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18. Just when you think they cannot sink any lower....
Edited on Tue Sep-09-08 04:01 PM by BrklynLib at work
How sad...very very sad that they are so insecure, and so stupid and ill-equipped to have an intelligent conversation that they have to stoop to insults that show them for the idiots they are.

As my son once said "IT DOES NOT PAY TO HAVE A BATTLE OF WITS WITH AN UNARMED ENEMY."
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:02 PM
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19. RWing gets away with everything--no shame, no apologies
ever.
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The Gunslinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:01 PM
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44. It's only going to get worse.
if they win the election. I seriously think it will be the end of a free America.
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:03 PM
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20. how many people, i wonder
do not hear how bullshit that statement is. hell in a handbasket...
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:06 PM
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26. Geez...I've just been reading up on Mr. Graham.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/bios/graham/welcome.asp

I'm trying to find a snappy word that conveys "Orwellian pigboy" but I'm at a loss here.

MPK
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:18 PM
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27. Is she really a Lesbian?
Edited on Tue Sep-09-08 05:22 PM by YOY
That's kinda tragic for some guys to hear...didn't know that.
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vanderBeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:25 PM
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29. Faux News just manages to sink lower and lower.
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Political Tiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:27 PM
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30. What would Mary Cheney say?
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BlueInPhilly Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:46 PM
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40. Mary Cheney would say nothing
but her closeted lesbian mother would say that "this is not a nice man" (after GWB / Kerry debate).
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BrainStorm Donating Member (922 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:52 PM
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41. Word.
:)
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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:32 PM
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31. Since when is it any of Fox Noise's business?
Do they think they get to call the shots at MSNBC?
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:32 PM
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32. the best that FOX can offer in terms of substance
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kitkat65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:40 PM
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34. OMG! Rachel is Lebanese?!?!?!?!
Terra! Terra!
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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 05:54 PM
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35. Wait till election week
Faux will go overboard, how can human beings disgraced themselves so much, I almost feel sorry for them.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:44 PM
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39. I guess we really can't complain to the FCC because that
organization has been gutted by the Facists.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:56 PM
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42. Yeah well, wait until you hear what I have to say about that falafel-fucking Bill O'Reilly!
He's such a LOSER that he can't get a chick, so he fucks chickpeas instead!

;)
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:57 PM
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43. I didn't even realize till recently that she was a lesbian
you can't tell from anything she says when she's on TV. :shrug: Some people need to get their heads out of other people's crotches.

I'm straight and I LOVE Rachel, she's TERRIFIC! :loveya:
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:15 PM
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46. I wonder how Shepard Smith feels about this?
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Riddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:16 PM
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47. Imagine that....2-bit common whores complaining about someone's sexual preference.
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Waiting For Everyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:17 PM
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48. Like that will cut into her viewership at all - how dumb are they?
Nevermind, I already know.
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Festivito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:31 PM
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49. Isn't he the one not too timid with the graham crackers?
Edited on Tue Sep-09-08 09:32 PM by Festivito
Say no more. Winks as good as a nudge. Yup yup. Gotcha.

You didn't hear that from me.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:40 AM
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52. "THIS LESBIAN!"
OMFG! A LESBIAN! Aren't they supposed to be locked up in closets? Every woman must bow to the penis. :sarcasm:


buffy/
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:40 AM
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53. They're just pissed she is better than faux...
Maddow is actually intelligent and does not make shit up.

BIGOT FASCIST FUCKING PIGS!
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 02:24 AM
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54. What about Anderson Cooper being allegedly gay?
Huh???

CNN has turned into right wing propaganda as well.

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TaffyMoon Donating Member (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 02:29 AM
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55. We're not in court - so "allegedly", not necessay, lol.
I heard he can't discuss his sex. orien. has a clause in contract which stops him. Coward.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 02:54 AM
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56. I'd bang Anderson Cooper...LOL
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 11:22 AM
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58. and yet the big Media outrage surrounds lipstick
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