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HardWorkingDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:22 PM
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CNN's spiral into trash reporting - James O'Keefe piece
Wish we had someone to ask about this -

Yesterday around 3 pm there was a CNN piece on the turd James O'Keefe - the "gotcha" muck raiser who keeps secretly videoing on people - ACORN, NPR - and it was done like this guy is a serious reporter/journalist. It was sickening. Instead of treating this guy at the rightful level of a Johnny Knoxville or Steveo of Jackass, they actually treated like he was legitimate newsperson.

Now, here's what made me want to puke - THIS is the man who tried to lure one of CNN's female reporters, yes, CNN's employee, to a boat in some sort of bizarre sexual story.

Not once did I hear the female host or the CNN journalist explain, "why are we even following this disturbed person?"

Hell, I guess the next step is for CNN to start asking Charles Manson for his reporting on spree killings.

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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:27 PM
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1. The same reason as the fixations on Charlie Sheen. n/t
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NoTimeToulouse Donating Member (204 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 01:03 PM
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7. Distract and confuse.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:28 PM
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2. Turn Off CNN.
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Erose999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:32 PM
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3. Shows the sort of regard CNN has for its own employees, no? They have been trying to get the Glenn

Beck audience back ever since he was stolen away by Faux News. Remember, they didn't fire Beck, they got outbid for Beck by Faux.

They also did a "bus tour" with the TeaBagger Express, and they are promoting a 2012 presidential debate with the TeaBagger Express as well.

CNN's "spiral" is more like "circling the drain".
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:33 PM
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4. MSNBC just had a story on women wrestling in cole slaw.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:45 PM
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5. Well, yesterday they had a guy on that said James O'Keefe is a crook and outta be in prison.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 01:21 PM
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8. Yeah, I saw that, I was trying to get the latest on WI, so turned to MSNBC and their
feature was women wrestling in cole slaw. This morning I got better coverage on WI from AJZ which I watch via Roku. http://roku.com on Newscaster, a live stream to the TV.



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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:46 PM
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6. Isn't O'keefe a criminal?
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