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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN guest jokes that Chelsea Manning will get "good practice" at being a woman while in prison
At the end of the segment, they then joked about Manning's appearance.
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/08/cnn-guest-jokes-chelsea-manning-will-get-good-practice-being-a-woman-in-prison/
Fox is bad of course....but CNN has really gone down hill over the years and it's getting worse.
Raine
(30,540 posts)slapper! That is just disgusting and makes me sick!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)I've heard horrors like this frequently on cop shows, and I personally heard a cop issue it as a threat (to someone else): that part of your punishment will be prison rape.
Jimmy Carter was reported recently to have said that, "America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time."*
But are we even a decent country any more, let alone a democracy?
To tout rape, to promote rape, to brag about rape, to threaten rape, in our hellish prisons!
On an alleged 'news' show, talking about a real person! On TV!
WHAT HAVE WE BECOME? Or, more accurately, what are our corporate rulers trying to convince us that we ARE?
Thugs? Scum? Pea-brains? Rabble?
It's like they're smearing shit in our faces.
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* http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/16043-jimmy-carter-defends-snowden-says-u-s-has-no-functioning-democracy
dtom67
(634 posts)That Manning is a hero. By tapping into latent hatred in the population, they hhope to discourage further praise.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)get the red out
(13,458 posts)That would be bad for Fox! Does CNN even want to be taken seriously?
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)I hope that asswipe never returns.
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Chelsea is likely to be raped in prison unless she's kept in isolation...and that's a psychologically harmful thing in its own right, at least for most people. I'm hoping for some form of early release, preferably a pardon.