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11-09-2015, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by scottw
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wow. You're amazing. |
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11-09-2015, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulS
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Paul, does it seem likely to you that Politico lied about getting an admission of guilt from Carson's campaign? As soon as Casron asked them to prove their claim, they withdrew their statement. Politico is no longer saying that the Carson campaign admitted to lying.
What do you think happened there? Something other than yellow journalism?
Or what CNN did? Just because the few people CNN interviewed from his chilhood couldn't recall a violent temper, does that give CNN the right to claim that Carson lied about it? Isn't it responsible journalism to conclude that not every single person he ever met, will have identical recollections of him, 50 years later?
I can say "I loved fishing when I was in high school". If you pick 1 kid from my class, and ask him, he might say "I remember Jim, I don't recall him saying anything about fishing". Does that mean I lied? Or does it mean what we all know is true, that not everyone will recall identical details, decades later? Do you see how crazy that is? That's what CNN did to the man. That's not yellow journalism? |
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11-09-2015, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Paul, does it seem likely to you that Politico lied about getting an admission of guilt from Carson's campaign? As soon as Casron asked them to prove their claim, they withdrew their statement. Politico is no longer saying that the Carson campaign admitted to lying.
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Politico didn't "lie" they made an inference based on the Carson campaign validating their story. It was sloppy journalism but not necessarily a lie.
People throw the word lie around so much I'm not even sure what it means any more. |
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11-09-2015, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by spence
Politico didn't "lie" they made an inference based on the Carson campaign validating their story. It was sloppy journalism but not necessarily a lie.
People throw the word lie around so much I'm not even sure what it means any more.
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"they made an inference based on the Carson campaign validating their story"
If no one on Carson's team ever spoke to Politico about it, then how did they make that inference? Bassed on what?
"People throw the word lie around so much I'm not even sure what it means any more"
A statement that only a Hilary supporter could possibly make. Every clear-thinking person over the age of 6 knows what it means. |
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11-09-2015, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
"they made an inference based on the Carson campaign validating their story"
If no one on Carson's team ever spoke to Politico about it, then how did they make that inference? Bassed on what?
"People throw the word lie around so much I'm not even sure what it means any more"
A statement that only a Hilary supporter could possibly make. Every clear-thinking person over the age of 6 knows what it means.
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BREAKING
Jim in CT admits he's not clear thinking!
See how that worked? Did I lie? |
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11-09-2015, 03:27 PM
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Carson said this too...this guy is freekin' nuts...
“So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama.” In March 2007, he claimed the 1965 events in Selma inspired his parents to get together. He was born in 1961. The media chose not to notice.
no wait....sorry...that was Obama
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11-09-2015, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by scottw
Carson said this too...this guy is freekin' nuts...
“So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama.” In March 2007, he claimed the 1965 events in Selma inspired his parents to get together. He was born in 1961. The media chose not to notice.
no wait....sorry...that was Obama
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If you read what he actually said, rather than just some right wing blog with the "you'll never believe what this celebrity said..." advertisements you'd see that Obama was speaking about the broader civil rights movement that had been building for some time.
It's actually a very good speech. |
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11-09-2015, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by spence
BREAKING
Jim in CT admits he's not clear thinking!
See how that worked? Did I lie?
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I do see how it worked. I wouldn't say you lied, I might say you are wrong.
Anyway, in the end, it will be Hilary against someone. The whole campaign will be as exhausting and unpleasant as thi sthread has been. I do have to say, that on the other threads, anything other than politics, you and Paul have been awesome to me. It's too bad that politics does this.
I have to say, if we could split the country in 2, I wpould vote for that and move to wherever my conservative bretheren are. This stuff is incredibly divisive, and I am as guilty of that as anyone.
Spence, in Chicago, the ACLU sued a school district, AND WON, because they said it was discriminatory to tell a boy that he can't shower in the girls' locker room.
Are we really that divided now, where which bathroom you use, is a controversial question? I honestly don't kno wwhat unites us anymore. |
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11-09-2015, 10:14 PM
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time to go
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Originally Posted by spence
People throw the word lie around so much I'm not even sure what it means any more.
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Look it up it cums after Clinton in the dictionary.
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