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MattNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:46 AM
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Simpson Upset About Missing Iraq Footage
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Oreo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:47 AM
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1. Jessica Simpson that is...
Here's some text in case anybody can't access that site

JESSICA SIMPSON wants to know where missing footage of her and husband NICK LACHEY's harrowing trip to Iraq got to - because she thinks Americans would like to see just how bad conditions are there.

The pop singers-turned-reality TV couple travelled to the war-torn nation to visit US troops as part of a recent ABC TV variety special, and they were both left shellshocked by what they saw.

But all the controversial moments and harrowing footage of the trip didn't appear in the fun-filled TV show.

Simpson says, "It was unbelievable. They didn't show a lot of what really went on with the enemy attacks and the shelling. There was so much stuff that went on and somehow the tapes got mysteriously misplaced.
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 09:04 AM
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9. Going to Iraq to film a 'fun-filled TV show'
Yep. It's high on the list of fun-filled destinations.

Agh - my head. my head.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:48 AM
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2. Thank your hero Smirk, Jess
he's the one who runs the media.
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 09:04 AM
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8. Actually...
Harris Inc. controls all news into and out of Iraq.Kathren Harris's company recieved a 16 mill.contract about 2 yrs. ago to handle this disinformation.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 03:23 PM
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22. And you don't think Katherine Harris's company
Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 03:23 PM by TOJ
does what the WH wants?

I have some property in Baghdad you might want to buy.
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:50 AM
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3. Who is she asking this to? The producers of the show?
Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 08:51 AM by bushisanidiot
I wonder if the footage was confiscated by the military..

i'm surprised "chicken of the sea" gives a shit, but I'm glad she is at least asking the question. good for her.

'course, she'll buy the excuse hook, line and sinker.. :P
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:55 AM
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4. Well, Duh! You campaigned for the Monkey, bit late to be shocked
now isn't it???

Golly Gee, things are really bad in Iraq!
What a revelation!

And who would've thunk it that our gov't might not share that with it's citizens - why that's UnAmerican - ain't it?

:dunce:
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:57 AM
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5. I think the recent attacks on her from the "Christian" Right...
...has opened her eyes a bit to what these people really are.
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bspence Donating Member (406 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:59 AM
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6. She's so hot
Have you seen her latest video? For the Dukes of Hazzard? I can't believe the right wingers got so mad at Janet's boob, but don't care about that video. It's amazing.

I liked it, but I'm all for free speech and hot girls on TV. :)
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 09:06 AM
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10. Anyone who appears at the RNC gets a pass
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 09:09 AM
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11. They have been attacking her for that video.
Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 09:19 AM by tanyev
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4195031

Interesting that the Iraq footage "went missing". Now's her chance to prove she's not as dumb as she's been portrayed.

I wonder if the right wing radio hosts who went over there will have a similar epiphany? Probably not.
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 12:33 PM
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16. Speaking of the right wing radio hosts
has anyone heard anything on that? I've tried searching, but I can't find any of that "good news" that they were going to be reporting.
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 12:42 PM
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19. Yeah--they are saying it's great over there.
Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 12:48 PM by tblue37
They hid out in the Green zone, of course. This is from http://www.jameswolcott.com

Michael Graham, a rightwing radio host who has just returned with his fellow full mooners from the "Truth Tour" of Iraq, brought home the gospel he had heard in that troubled land to the readers of National Review Online.
"Again and again, from 'white-collar' soldiers working in the relative safety of Camp Victory at the Baghdad airport to the "real" soldiers patrolling Route Irish (a.k.a the 'Highway of Death'), I heard that America and their Iraqi-army allies are winning the war against the insurgents. I was told again and again by the soldiers themselves that their (our) cause is just, the strategy is working, and the enemy they fight represents evil itself.

"In other words, I heard things seldom heard on CBS or read in the pages of the New York Times."


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dhinojosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 09:03 AM
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7. Wow, if Jessica realized all the bad shit by going to Iraq
maybe we should send all the republicans over for a little show.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 09:23 AM
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12. Is she that naive or that stupid?
Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 09:29 AM by rocknation
Simpson says, "It was unbelievable. They didn't show a lot of what really went on with the enemy attacks and the shelling. There was so much stuff that went on and somehow the tapes got mysteriously misplaced..."

Is she serious? She expected to see that footage on HER "entertaining the boys" show? And is she under some delusion that SHE owns that footage?

:rofl:
rocknation
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 12:54 PM
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21. "Is she that naive or that stupid?"
Yes.

mikey_the_rat
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 09:47 AM
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13. Welcome to reality blondie. You voted for him, sign up! No sympathy, none.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 11:34 AM
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14. The image of her family fun special that I have is...
That scene from Apocalypse Now when the playboy bunny's are dancing at the USO show and the soldiers rush the stage.

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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 11:36 AM
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15. OJ: see? All I did was cut off some heads. Show the damn pics so I don't
look so bad!

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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Moochy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 12:40 PM
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17. That DirectTV Pirate!!!
I know OJ was framed and all, but this most recent frame-up is beyond the pale! :sarcasm:

The Man, Oh what won't you do to frame up poor poor OJ? :rofl:

OJ Simpson fined for pirating TV


http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-simpson27jul27,0,4984178.story?coll=la-tot-promo
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 01:09 AM
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24. it's hard to believe that's the worst crime going on in Florida.
Although one good thing about global warming is that gator-filled cesspool will sink into the ocean.

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 12:41 PM
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18. Wait 'till she sees what happens to her for speaking of this.
She is is for a world of hurt. (To her career, of course. I don't mean literal hurt.)

I'm sorry for her, but if it takes something like this to open her eyes, then so be it.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 12:49 PM
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20. Down the memory hole is the answer Jessica
like many things the Government elites don't
want the American people to see your missing
footage is down the memory hole .

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Sven77 Donating Member (645 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 04:54 PM
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23. what a hoar for the military
Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 04:57 PM by Sven77


well at least she's giving the peace sign, i hope she finds the video footage.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 01:44 AM
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25. [ABC/USO] Show was ‘charade,’ ‘phony’
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=28859

I, like everyone else I spoke with who went to the Nick and Jessica show, felt used.

Unlike all the other United Service Organizations shows where the stars are there to entertain the troops and to boost morale, this show was not created for us. It was created to give the ABC television network ratings and to make a few bucks off of us.

The whole show was planned and scripted. Before and throughout the entire show, we were even coached and briefed on how to behave, when to applaud, and what to say. They even had us chant “ABC.”

Everything about it was a charade. It was so phony that the producers had planned to do a surprise reunion between a husband and wife (the husband had been deployed for a long time); however, the husband’s plane did not arrive on time. Instead, they had the woman go on stage and Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson said their scripts and the woman pretended that her husband just walked in and she ran toward him excitedly. The actual reunion was to take place at a later time and will be edited into the show.

I was so embarrassed to even be a part of this masquerade. They had to stop and do retakes over and over. People stood for five to six hours for the entire ordeal. A lot of people left because they were disgusted by the whole thing and those who stayed were waiting for the promised surprise guest that never came. Maybe the surprise guest will also be edited into the show to make it look like he or she was there.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 03:49 PM
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26. Randi Rhodes considers this good news
Edited on Thu Jul-28-05 03:49 PM by rocknation
She's been saying that the only way the anti-war movement will get mainstream attention is if Jennifer Anniston or Angelina Jolie tattoos "BUSH SUCKS" on their bellies. If we can radicalize Jessica, Randi just might get her wish!

:headbang:
rocknation
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-28-05 04:39 PM
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27. Angelina would do it
She's like that.

:evilgrin:
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