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Tue Dec-28-04 10:11 PM
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Tucker Carlson in for Aaron Brown on Newsnight, |
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reporting on the tsunami catastrophe. If there's anything unbearable for me to watch it's asshole, seemingly-incapable-of-compassion Tucker reporting on a huge catastrophe like this. So I switched channels.
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:12 PM
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1. Yeah I do not watch cable news at all if it is I watch some CNN.. |
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Edited on Tue Dec-28-04 10:12 PM by indianablue
When I saw that freak on there I groaned and turned the channel quickly.
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:13 PM
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2. He was on last night also. This must have something to do with the |
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:14 PM
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3. I hate that fucking prick |
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He's so uncaring and arrogant in the way he presents the story. I'm changing channels as we speak.
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:16 PM
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5. I figured it would be difficult for him even to fake compassion |
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:19 PM
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when you don't have a heart.
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:32 PM
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10. oh but there was compassion... ;) |
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;)
he was talking about the orphans created by this disaster, a very tragic story. he shows one picture of a swedish boy (blond hair, blue eyes) looking for his parents, then a german girl (blond hair, blue eyes) looking for her parents. very sad. then he said multiply this by 10 to 20 thousand orphans. cuts to tucker looking a bit choked up and then cuts to next topic and commercial.
being the cynical bastard that i am, i was next left with a ludicrous image of only blond haired, blue eyed, white, orphan children in the tens of thousands wandering the beaches of the bay of bengal... and then i realized that surreal mental image is probably what made tucker 'veclempt.' gee, CNN, are there only blond haired, blue eyed, white orphan children going through this hell? guess so, because they are the mainstream media, and whatever they show must be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
yes, i was insulted by the 'spin' on that orphan story, be it unintentional or not. guess what world, south and southeast asia is as lily white as the aryan nation! better turn up them waterworks and pass the plate -- these are our folks suffering. i'm glad compassion has room for all types of people... :eyes:
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:39 PM
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14. The boy is in good hands now, with his grandmother, thank |
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goodness. I think that the western media will always look at any news story from the "western" point of view. The blond-haired child fit the bill well.
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:16 PM
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4. I just changed channels too, I can't believe anything he says |
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He is a commentator, not a reporter. He has his right to be his rightwing self as a Crossfire host, but this line shouldn't be crossed.
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:19 PM
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:26 PM
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8. There are still places to get news ... |
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But you need a satellite dish to get most of them:
"Democracy Now" on Freespeech TV/Link TV Deutsche Welle English-language news on Link TV BBC News on BBC America
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:30 PM
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9. This is part of CNN's "bone-throw" to little Tucker |
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to try and keep him from defecting to MSNBC. Or it's a try-out for MSNBC. Either way, he's horrid.
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:32 PM
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11. Whatever show he ends up with, I hope it doesn't last a season. |
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:35 PM
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12. I only have cable. Even that I'm thinking of cancelling |
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because they keep increasing their rates. CNN now has their British edition late at night where I am, covering the disaster. They do a good job, and that I can watch.
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:36 PM
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13. That pompous little prick |
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must have something on somebody...
Cause he has no talent, no brains, just a little brat...
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:41 PM
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16. And he even has a regular PBS show now. |
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:40 PM
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15. Aaron Brown has the "fake concern" look mastered... |
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Carlson, Brown...
Same shit, different pile...
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:43 PM
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18. I noticed that the regular anchors, Aaron, Lou, Wolf are not |
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on the air. What's the matter? Huge disaster like this not enough to get them out of their luxurious vacation?
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Tue Dec-28-04 10:43 PM
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17. If it were not for cable; |
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what would fucking pricks do for a living?
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