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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 8 2008, 06:47 AM (90 Views) | |
| George K | Aug 8 2008, 06:47 AM Post #1 |
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A man was arrested for threatening to kill Barack Obama yesterday. Here's how the story was reported by two respected news outlets. ![]() ![]() Here's how the AP reported the story. Guess what didn't make the other two. Man held in Fla. on charge of threatening Obama
I wonder why that part didn't make the CBS and CNN. No I don't. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Aug 8 2008, 06:57 AM Post #2 |
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That may be the case. But the AP article's longer. Could be that the reporter there did a more thorough job getting into the story. Also, looks like the Secret Service are getting involved in the Obama threat, not the Bush threat.
So the story--if there's any story here at all--is about the Obama threat. Damning quotes are a reporter's crack, but maybe they didn't speak to the guy in the class that's accusing him of this, or maybe they found no substance to it. By the way, what's "boy armor"? |
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| Dewey | Aug 8 2008, 07:00 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Aug 8 2008, 07:02 AM Post #4 |
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I still have one of those!! I had the coolest house design than anyone else in my drafting classes because my house had a basement bar. |
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| George K | Aug 8 2008, 07:02 AM Post #5 |
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"Man quoted as saying he wants to kill Obama and Bush. Arrested by FBI" would have been an accurate headline. "Man quoted as saying he wants to kill Obama. Arrested by FBI" is incomplete. Both threats were heard by witnesses. One is published, one ignored. I fail to see the difference. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Red Rice | Aug 8 2008, 07:04 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Because EVERYBODY wants to kill Bush. It's not news.
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Dewey | Aug 8 2008, 07:06 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Actually, that exact template was the first one I ever owned; I bought it when I was in Jr. High School.
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Aug 8 2008, 07:06 AM Post #8 |
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Oh you mean just the headlines? Yeah that's definitely true. But surely you'd agree that the Bush comment's less important news-wise since Secret Service isn't charging him for it? (Also, I've been told by a couple police officers that it's only a crime to threaten someone with injury or death if there is evidence that a person has the means to carry out the threat. For example, saying "I'm going to stab John Dowe" isn't a crime but saying the exact same thing with a knife in your hand is. Quirt? JF? This right?) |
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