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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/01/2010 : 11:50:37
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This is asinine but typical of a certain mindset that is all too common amongst those who claim, loudly, to be "patriots." Fox, to hear them tell it, is nothing if not "patriotic" -- as long as that "patriotism" doesn't infringe upon the rights of Republicans to despoil the governance of the country.
Anyhow, here is their latest teapot-tempest -- the teabaggers, heh, are, no doubt, loving it:
Police in a Boston suburb are investigating threatening messages sent to members of the Arlington School Committee, following what school officials said were incorrect reports by Fox News that they had banned the Pledge of Allegiance in Arlington schools.
According to the Boston Globe, a police spokesperson described the messages as "offensive and hateful and potentially criminal" and said that some of them were anti-Semitic.
The Pledge hasn't been recited at Arlington High School in decades, although it is said voluntarily in the elementary and middle schools. When the school committee recently deadlocked on a student-led proposal to introduce a voluntary recitation in high school classes, Fox leaped on the controversy with a story headlined "School Officials in Mass. Town Won't Let Students Recite Pledge of Allegiance."
"It is unfortunate that the national media has chosen to distort this very serious debate in a manner which so badly misinforms the public," School Committee Chairman Joseph Curro stated in a press release. He told the Globe that the messages were coming from "all over the country." A few "included indirect threats and one said the members should go to North Korea, where their throats would be slit."
The controversy began when Arlington High School junior Sean Harrington presented the committee with a petition calling for the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited in every school. Harrington is an associate member of Arlington's Republican Town Committee and the founder of a high school Teenage Republican group. He refers to the Pledge emotionally as "a living and breathing statement that basically strengthens a bond a person has with their country" and says he has been called a "Nazi" and a "Fascist" by his fellow students for his beliefs.
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The scumbaggery of Fox News(?) knows no bounds. They have become expert at distorting facts in favor of their point of view and inciting idiots to compromising themselves as in this case, where charges could be brought.
And, I think that we can look for young Master Harrington to be running for Congress, a decade or so down the road.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 07:44:44 [Permalink]
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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Ebone4rock
SFN Regular
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 08:12:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
Add MSNBC to the scumbaggery.
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Agreed. I find every news source to be equally full of shit at times. |
Haole with heart, thats all I'll ever be. I'm not a part of the North Shore society. Stuck on the shoulder, that's where you'll find me. Digging for scraps with the kooks in line. -Offspring |
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 09:16:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ebone4rock
Originally posted by Robb
Add MSNBC to the scumbaggery.
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Agreed. I find every news source to be equally full of shit at times.
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The free press used to be what kept America great. Freedom needs an unbiased media. |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 12:03:42 [Permalink]
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Once upon a time, every network that had a new shows understood that the news would lose money.
Now, news has to turn a profit. That's what's turned news into entertainment. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 12:53:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Once upon a time, every network that had a new shows understood that the news would lose money.
Now, news has to turn a profit. That's what's turned news into entertainment.
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Exactly. The news department was once a matter of prestige for networks, and corporate was mostly hands off on editorial decisions.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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sailingsoul
SFN Addict
2830 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 15:01:24 [Permalink]
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| Someone said," America's got the best government money can by". SS |
There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 15:30:07 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
Add MSNBC to the scumbaggery.
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Why?
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
 Posted - 07/04/2010 : 01:31:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by Robb
Add MSNBC to the scumbaggery.
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Why? |
Because of "The fallacy of false equivalence".
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"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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The lies of Fox News(?) and a prick in training.
