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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:38 AM
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Nazi Propaganda? Fox News logo looks like 3rd Reich poster (Jon Stewart asks....)


See the video here
A Farewell to Arms
Fox News wants you to decide if the Nuclear Security Summit logo looks similar to the flags representing Muslim nations. (05:53)
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-14-2010/a-farewell-to-arms

or maybe......
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ChicagoSuz219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:40 AM
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1. YIKES!
That's my last name!!
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 04:17 AM
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2. What, your last name is Nazi?
Don't think I've seen that before.
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ChicagoSuz219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 04:26 AM
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3. LOLOL
No... Danzig. Think I should change it to Gdansk, now?
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 04:51 AM
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5. Hee hee! Sehr gute Suz219
Edited on Thu Apr-15-10 05:06 AM by Lasher
I think you're just fine the way you are.



Edit: History behind the Nazi poster here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk#The_inter-war_years.2C_and_World_War_II
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whistler162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 04:49 AM
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4. No it doesn't....
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John1956PA Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:47 AM
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6. As Jon pointed out, inverting the Fox frame makes it look more like the propaganda poster.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 06:20 AM
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9. you have to watch the video to get what he is saying. nt
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 06:35 AM
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10. Agreed, it's a stretch. But good for a joke. The two lines on the Fox News logo
are stylized searchlight beams adapted from the old 20th Century Fox logo.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 07:23 PM
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12. Both, basically, reflect the poster art of the time
Large- reaching or coming from the heavens
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:48 AM
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7. Where is the one he turned upside down & backwards?
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John1956PA Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:54 AM
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8. Here is a link to it, but I can not get it to load here automatically.
Edited on Thu Apr-15-10 05:57 AM by John1956PA
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John1956PA Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 03:51 PM
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11. Here it is:
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 07:27 PM
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13. That was funny as hell!
Good show last night.
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