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Fri Sep-02-05 10:45 PM
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What is with Aaron Brown on CNN? |
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I've been watching CNN the past couple nights, and he has just been on a friggin' roll. He is so fuckin' pissed, he can hardly contain himself. What was he like BK?
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:46 PM
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1. He has his moments where he can appear lucid, but I am not sure |
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:47 PM
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4. Sorry to admit it but he's my favorite seems genuine to me |
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:50 PM
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9. Brown is a man whose fundamental decency is easily side-tracked by... |
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Edited on Fri Sep-02-05 11:05 PM by Jade Fox
his ambition and his class background. But under extremes that decency pops out of him, almost in spite of himself. And he has a temper too, which he can't hide when something gets to him.
That's my take on Brown.
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Fri Sep-02-05 11:34 PM
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20. I'd say that's a very accurate description |
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:46 PM
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2. Phlegmatic...this is a change for the beter. He is disgusted w/* |
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Wonder why? The press in NOLA has, by and large, become radicalized.
This will create a bunch of malcontents at CM (corporate media) which is good for everybody!!!
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:47 PM
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3. Brown,Cooper,Cafferty have been off the hook lately......... |
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:57 PM
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13. And don't forget Soledad O'Brian... |
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Our "spunky" Soledad went after Baghdad Brown this morning with a vengeance...I was sooooo fucking proud of her, and believe me - I NEVER thought I'd ever say this about her, but...I just did!!!
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Fri Sep-02-05 11:31 PM
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19. I have to agree, she should be recognized as well for her excellent |
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reporting standards she exhibited today...
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:49 PM
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5. Was just going to post that....each talking head that starts... |
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spinning and excuses brings annoyed breaths and Aaron looks plain irritated. I've emailed him twice tonight thanking him for reporting the truth, and enouraged him to have the courage to keep it up...we may have turned the corner. Too bad it took thousands and thousands of deaths and a national embarrassment to finally show that the emperor has no clothes.
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:49 PM
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7. Hey - that was my 600th post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 |
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:49 PM
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6. He really is irate. Seems like at least few of these guys are waking up. |
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Edited on Fri Sep-02-05 10:50 PM by ocelot
Brown, up until this week (at least for the last couple of years or so) has been a rather self-absorbed guy who seems really impressed with his own sensitivity and insightfulness. Apart from a few times when he went off-script (for example, he had a wonderful hissy-fit when Hastert refused to extend the time for investigation by the 9/11 Commission), he's been a pretty unquestioning 'ho like the rest of them.
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:50 PM
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8. Aaron Brown is CNN's best |
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and that fact is lost in the general rage against media. He's quieter that many buy his analysis is good, his humour dry, he is almost Canadian in his outlook.
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:52 PM
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10. my husband likes him too |
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because he's an old coast guardsman... he said that right before Katrina hit last week. Seems like months ago. He really does seem sincere.
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:52 PM
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11. Randi Rhodes lurves him... I like him, most of the time... |
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He's a very thoughtful reporter, and asks very good questions...
I wish I could see him.
"Picked the wrong month to stop ordering cable...(sniff)"
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:54 PM
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12. He was uneven, often pretty good, at times an enabler |
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but he always had it in him to be excellent because he is very smart when he lets himself go.
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Fri Sep-02-05 10:58 PM
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14. PS Today's show was probably the best he has ever put together |
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Edited on Fri Sep-02-05 10:59 PM by Bumblebee
and what an essay to end it with. I was riveted for all two hours.
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Fri Sep-02-05 11:21 PM
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has promised a politician he was interviewing that the causes of this disaster would be "a story we WILL be covering". Miles, too, has been kicking ass.
The decency threshold has been broached. I think this means that we, as a country, may be on the verge of deciding that we will sink no lower. We will not completely surrender our humanity to the corporatists.
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Fri Sep-02-05 11:27 PM
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16. His show last night was bad, but tonight he turned it around |
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He hammered home some good points tonight.
I judged him too early last night when I was mad at him.
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Fri Sep-02-05 11:30 PM
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17. Aaron was passed over as top CNN anchor for Wolf Blitzer. |
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Blitzer became top dog with 9/ll. Blitzer is a neo-con. Brown is not.
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Fri Sep-02-05 11:31 PM
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18. He's telling it like it really is |
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Not like the administration would like him to. :woohoo:
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