If Dubya had a Greg Stillson moment, how do you think the MSM would react?

raccoon

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Wed Jan-16-08 01:09 PM
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If Dubya had a Greg Stillson moment, how do you think the MSM would react?

My guess is they'd downplay/minimize it.

"At the rally, Greg Stillson begins his speech, when Johnny...begins to fire at Stillson, but misses several times. Stillson's bodyguards open fire on him, but don't mortally wound him. Johnny has Stillson in his sight and is about to pull the trigger when Stillson grabs a young child, and holds him up as a shield. Johnny pauses, not being able to shoot, and is shot twice by the bodyguards, falling off of the balcony, breaking his legs and back. Meanwhile, the young photographer Johnny met earlier gets a few pictures of Stillson using the child as a shield, and runs off..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Zone_(novel)

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Birthmark

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Wed Jan-16-08 01:20 PM
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1. Look,

In view of Bush's chicken run on 9/11, they'd most likely claim that the Secret Service *made* him hold the hypothetical kid up to protect himself on behalf of the Free World.

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raccoon

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Wed Jan-16-08 01:22 PM
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2. Smart thinking, birthmark. nt

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NWHarkness

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Wed Jan-16-08 01:27 PM
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3. They would claim Bush was protecting the kid. n/t

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lurky

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Wed Jan-16-08 01:30 PM
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4. The kid was in on it.

B* was bravely restraining an assassin. What a hero.

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elehhhhna

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Wed Jan-16-08 01:31 PM
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5. I've often thought that that book could not be published today, under the BA...

it might give people ideas.

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