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blue2helix Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 10:26 AM
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J Hopkins Students' Questions put MSM Press To Shame! (Q&A with Bush)
Edited on Mon Apr-10-06 10:42 AM by blue2helix
Bush is having a Q&A at Johns Hopkins. I have had the pleasure of listening to a few of the students' questions and I would like to comment on how fearless, direct and informative the questions have been.

My point is, why haven't we gotten this type of expertise from the press?

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videoplayer/newVid/small_player/cbsnews_videoplayer.shtml?clip=LiveWebCast&BaseName=livenews&title=Live$@&castNum=2&mediaType=wmv
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thinkingwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 10:30 AM
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1. the answer to your question
is anthrax.
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blue2helix Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 10:31 AM
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2. Or cash
$$$$$
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thinkingwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 11:00 AM
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8. Well the corporate owners get cash
the reporters/anchors/talking heads just get the constant threat of white powdered mail.
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blue2helix Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 11:02 AM
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9. Sounds like an offer you can't refuse
!
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 01:20 PM
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15. I think to believe that none of the "reporters" are getting $$$ themselves
from some source is naive, think Armstrong Williams.
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thinkingwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 04:56 PM
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16. Armstrong Williams is the exception
Edited on Mon Apr-10-06 04:56 PM by thinkingwoman
not the rule.

Having spent 25 years of my life in the newspaper biz I'm not terribly naive.

edited typo.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 11:22 AM
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13. Or Dan Rather-ed (the verb)
Or Swift-Boated. Bu$hco is in total control of the MSM.
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thinkingwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 01:18 PM
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14. Very true
You are absolutely right about that.
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Plaid Adder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 10:34 AM
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3. Been a long time since I listened to him live.
The guy reminds me of a televangelist. Maybe that's his secret.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 10:41 AM
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4. I don't know -- sounds more like a car salesman to me
I keep expecting him to try and sell us the undercoating package and special extended warranty...

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blue2helix Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 10:47 AM
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5. Not a very good salesman at that
He has the benefit of owning all the dealerships.
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Jigarotta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 11:05 AM
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10. Anyone remember Norm Crosby?
Edited on Mon Apr-10-06 11:06 AM by Jigarotta
the king of the misspoken word?

http://www.laugh.com/main_pages/comicpage.asp?cid=14

King of the malaprop, Norm always speaks from his 'diagram' and drinks 'decapitated' coffee. His confusing word play and twisted speech has been an audience favorite since his days on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Crosby for President!
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 10:52 AM
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6. the video isn't working for me?
I'm not on my normal computer... can you summarize?
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blue2helix Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 10:54 AM
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7. The Q&A is over
It was a live feed, not a playback, and it just ended.

I'm sure the highlights will get posted later today on Crooks and Liars or Canofun etc...
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 11:09 AM
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11. I think the Press is afraid of loosing access to ANY info if they
get though with Shrub. These students have nothing to loose, and nothing at risk.
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Armstead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 11:17 AM
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12. Their questions were impressive
Perhaps because they actually know things.

Like the woman who asked about how military subcontractors are held legally accountable for their actions in Iraq.

Compared to these students, the MSM Reporters are just showboating dumnmies, all hopped up oin whatever the syory of the day is.
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 05:03 PM
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17. I saw a clip of him on the news at Johns Hopkins
you can be pretty certain that the M$M will NOT cover any of the good exchanges, for obvious reasons, just as the refused to cover the exchange between Al Franken and Scalia, when Franken displayed MORE KNOWLEDGE of the legal ramifications of recusal than did that fat, disgusting, orgy loving, obscentiy flasher.

not to mention our own Demgirl, who put it to him just as smoothly as a cottonmouth sliding into a Lousiana bayou
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