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Coltrane Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:57 PM
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Jerry Falwell hosts CNN's Crossfire, then praises FOX!/Video Clip
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ has a video clip of Mullah Falwell on Crossfire.

It's not bad enough that we have to see these radical cleric fundamentalists as supposed experts on "moral values" on shows like Meet the Press, but CNN sinks to a new low with allowing him to become a talk how host! You can see how uncomfortable he is as he tries to tone down his anti-hate rhetoric to appear moderatley sane!

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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:58 PM
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1. Is it April Fools already? You have got to be kidding me..
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:59 PM
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2. They let him host?
Edited on Thu Dec-02-04 07:00 PM by Khephra
When's Chomsky or Zinn's turn?
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 06:59 PM
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3. The very idea that this BIGOT gets any air time says it all
Not once have I ever seen anyone call this anti-christ a bigot. Instead, they all fawn over him.
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Nag Champa Donating Member (271 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:10 PM
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5. I have been thinking the same thing...
Treated as a man of virtue and holiness, Falwell has said some of the most outrageously bigoted things and has gotten a pass every single time. Replace this the words gay, lesbian or liberal in this guys rhetoric with black or Jew and see what it looks like. Yet another example of the crazy shit this country will accept so long as it's cloaked in Christianity.

I'm not into boycotts and have never participated in one... but I'm done with CNN.

That's just too much.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:01 PM
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4. I haven't watched Crossfire in ages
Edited on Thu Dec-02-04 07:02 PM by Khephra
but that's because I just haven't been watching that much tv news lately. I was just now getting back into monitoring the news again so I might have ended up watching again.

However, that's all changed now. With this move, I'm now boycotting the show.
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Fla Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:15 PM
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6. When I heard he was on I turned it off. Can't stand looking at his
big puffy dough boy face. Man is he huge. He wants abstinence to be taught in school, just say No until married. Someone should teach him abstinence from food. Just say NO to that 3rd helping of mashed potatoes.
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dummy-du1 Donating Member (111 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 04:36 AM
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10. It's the deadly sin of Gluttony...
Strange, that nobody tells him.
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Sara Beverley Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 07:31 PM
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7. I stopped watching cable news. Only watch network news now and then.
It's a much better life that way.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 08:15 PM
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8. Crossfire is a JOKE
all of that cable news(?) crap is propoganda and right wing SWILL


for the sake of your sanity , turn it OFF
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 03:59 AM
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9. kick
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skysurfer Donating Member (41 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 05:30 AM
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11. You know
There was a time when Falwell and his ilk were marginalized for being the lunatics that they are. Now you can't turn around without seeing or hearing their hateful rhetoric. What is going on exactly?

Right now I don't believe that the majority of the public would go along with this nonsense BUT the media has a way of creating reality simply by repeating the same thing over and over again. Since the sElection, there's been a nonstop barrage of stories about the "Christian" extremists and inroads they are making. What happens if more and more people see Falwell and co. on TV and begin to take that as a validation of his agenda? I'm not a fan of censorship but I am also not a fan of giving airtime to those who rant about killing innocent people in the name of religion. I will be contacting my cable company and having CNN blocked.
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