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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 01:33 PM
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Did the MSM bother to fact-check anything Rev. Wright said?
A lot of other people here have said that just about everything he has said is true, except the AIDS deal, and of course, white people always hate it when you say something nice about Farrakhan.

But other than those two things, I have no problem with the guy.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 01:35 PM
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1. Look at how quicly they moved to squelch the Cantor video vs Wright
The MSM might as well just be on Clintons payroll.
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dbonds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 01:38 PM
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3. might?
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 06:30 PM
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10. Look how quickly Clintons people were ready to sue someones ass off if they didn't back off
Got them blog reporters and radio personalities checking the veracity of the phony story they were reporting real quick didn't they?

Thats the way these BS attacks are supposed to be handled.

If our candidate is going to win in November that is.

Don
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 01:37 PM
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2. Nope.
Edited on Fri May-02-08 01:37 PM by cliffordu
Actually he was quoting a white politician of some sort who had written a book about America's hegemony.....
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 01:42 PM
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4. LOL!!
Of course not. The MSM doesn't want an uppity negro like Wright speaking the truth about US foreign policy. The media is controlled by the military industrial complex.

General electric owns NBC. General Electric is a major defense contractor for the Pentagon. They are making a killing off the Iraq war. No way in hell would fact check Wright and get people to actually think about US foreign policy.

The same goes for the other 3 media organizations. Sad but true.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 08:48 PM
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6. ''uppity negro''--we must have listened to the same hour of Malloy
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dbonds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 01:43 PM
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5. Its not whether the audio interpretation of this video is accurate or not.
That can be debated either way. Its the fact they aren't going to debate it when it could be relevant. But when it comes to Obama, they ran with every piece of crap Clinton threw on the wall and beat to death the pieces that stuck. They didn't care if any of the Obama attacks were real or relevant - so why isn't this video worthy of debate.
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Yossariant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 08:51 PM
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7. LOL! You simply don't get it.
Opinions like Wright's --or anybody's OPINIONS -- are not facts.

That's why they're OPINIONS.

:wtf:
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 06:10 PM
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8. No, he made some statements of fact to back up his opinion. If they are true
and support his opinion, no one has grounds to criticize him.

If they are false, his opinions are even less valid.
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uponit7771 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 06:24 PM
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9. Rev Wright is a black guy, more money in demonizing black people
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TeamJordan23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 06:32 PM
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11. Speaking of Wright, guess who is on the front page of cnn.com right now?
the MSM just does not stop.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 06:34 PM
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12. They're Scared Shitless To
Which is what makes Obama's denunciation all the more shameful.
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