I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

1Athena1

Trust Cretin News Network!

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

gardengumby

They can't get things right - why????  Being the first to break a story doesn't seem as important as getting the bloomin' story right!!

pupmom

That is disgusting! News media need to check their sources BEFORE reporting! 

gardengumby

Blue - that chocolate cake looks so good.

Enjoyful

I want to roll around in that chocolate cake.  For now, I'll make do with steak strips and hard cider.

1Athena1

And John King's oh-so-PC protestation of how "these are not my words" in describing a suspect as "a dark-skinned male" is pure puffery - an insincere attempt at PC-ness. He should apologize for shoddy reporting only.

I'm sorry. If the FBI says, "the suspect is a black male from the inner city" then that is what you report!

If the FBI says "the suspect is a white blonde female with blue eyes" then that is what you bloody well report!

I almost prefer Fixed Noise. The only thing worse than propaganda on the list of sins against the truth is stupidity. Stupidity is a crime against humanity. IMO.

Thank you for listening to mini rant.  

For anyone interested, here is John King's puffery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQJGXv4rvBA

rosemary-b

I am so sorry E. i don't get here as much as I would like but believe me, I am one of the ones who has your back.

1Athena1

According to the Huffpost, this time it was Cretin News Network, Fixed Noise (both of "The ACA has been overturned" fame) AND the AP!

More here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/cnn-boston-arrests-media-nbc_n_3102680.html

1Athena1

For E:

Imagine a sea of chocolate....

bluedahlia

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1Athena1

Edited.

1Athena1

I ran into this obit of Richard Jewell - he died very young! Cretin News Network was one of the offenders back then as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/us/30jewell.html

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Back to Boston

CNN no longer apologizing:

UPDATE: A CNN spokesperson defended the network's handling of the story in a statement sent to HuffPost's Michael Calderone:

"CNN had three credible sources on both local and federal levels. Based on this information we reported our findings. As soon as our sources came to us with new information we adjusted our reporting."

ETA: Source: Huffpost

crazy4carrots

Guess those "credible" sources aren't so credible after all.  Time to find new "credible" sources, CNN!

gardengumby

Blue - the link you posted is showing up as a probable malware site - please take it down.... 

RetiredLibby

In law enforcement, what was done to Richard Jewell is actually now a verb - to "Richard Jewell" someone, or to falsely accuse someone through unofficial "official" leaks and to focus on a suspect because they are easy, not because they are an actual suspect.



In the Foreign Service, there is also an expression to "April Glaspie" someone. April Glaspie was the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq before Gulf I. She followed instructions from the Bush the Elder's White House to tell Saddam Hussein that the U.S. would not interfere in regional disputes. He took that as a signal to go ahead and invade Kuwait, and she was fired and pilloried for supposedly telling him to go ahead, we wouldn't care. To be "April Glaspied" is to convey messages that you are told to convey from further up the food chain and, when things don't turn out satisfactorily, blame the messenger.



L

1Athena1

HL - I remember the Glaspie story - I read it in the erstwhile wonderful New Yorker!

bluedahlia

Sorry about that GG.

1Athena1

Thank you from me too!

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

gardengumby

soooooo - no expanded background checks for the purchase of guns - unless CNN got that wrong, too.

Belinda44

No....I wish they had gotten it wrong.  A father of a Sandy Hook victim just spoke.  He is heartbroken.

Sad, sad, sad......

gardengumby

Did any part of the bill pass - or did the whole thing (whatever it was) die on the floor?

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

Obama is pissed and rightfully so!

Anonymous

think the whole bill went down - SHAME on all of them....

RetiredLibby

Utterly disgusting. I am sickened and revolted by the cowardice of some senators and the mendacity of others. The lies of the NRA are more important to them than the truth of the 20 murdered babies of Newtown, of the teachers and staffers who gave their lives trying to protect them. The lies of the psychopaths of the NRA and their money are more important to the political whores in the Senate who care only for their jobs and not the hundreds of thousands of people murdered by guns. And do.not.come.here with your specious arguments and false equivalencies shilling for the NRA murderers. Just shut up and stay away.

Belinda44