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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 11:59 AM
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Maybe Prez Obama will ask the MEDIA to not cover the Koran burning.
Edited on Thu Sep-09-10 12:00 PM by valerief
You know, so as to protect the troops. That way the idiot Jones can burn away but it will be just like it never happened. You know, like the massive, massive anti-war protests that were held but either not covered or barely covered.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:01 PM
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1. That would be a really really bad idea.
Think the MSM gives him a bad time now? I can only imagine what the reaction would be if he interjected himself into a freedom of the press issue.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:10 PM
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5. The media serves up Petraus who says "Don't burn or troops will get harmed" to Jones.
But the prez can't say that to the media to consider as an option.

Who told the press not to cover the anti-war protests?????????????? I'll bet it was the prez at that time.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:14 PM
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10. I have no idea whether or not
Bush told the media not to cover the anti-war protests. If he did he was way out of line and deserves to be criticized for it.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 02:20 PM
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14. Of course, we don't know. We just know a HUGE number of people turned out several times
to protest the war and the US didn't hear about it. There was barely a whisper. Now, how does something like that happen? Someone protecting the war's interests did it.
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m00nbeam Donating Member (125 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:14 PM
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9. This!
Obama has an uphill climb against the MSM to begin with, why make it more difficult?
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katandmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:01 PM
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2. The last person to be pointing fingers at Jones is "licensed to kill" Obama..
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:06 PM
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3. That would be like telling a child not to touch the shiny new toy
Will not happen.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:10 PM
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6. Yeah, like saying, "Don't cover the anti-war protests in 2003, 2004, and after." Like that. nt
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:07 PM
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4. Better yet he should order them not to cover it, for national security reasons.
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katandmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:27 PM
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12. Just like they shy away from covering troop atrocities against Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:12 PM
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7. He already has thru his secretary of state yesterday--she speaks for the administration
and when she said it the reporters laughed.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:12 PM
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8. The fire marshal and local police should deal with it.
Jones does not have a burning permit. If he breaks the law, that should be stopped and he should be arrested, or cited, or whatever.
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Nancy Waterman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 12:20 PM
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11. Pointless to block the media
They will put it on youtube and it will go viral in minutes. They don't even need the media, just a cell phone.

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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 02:19 PM
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13. The anti-war protests NOT covered by US media did not go viral.
Why assume the book burning would?
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