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Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Swish Long Live the King Since: Jan, 2001
Long Live the King
#33252: Oct 17th 2012 at 9:43:16 AM

[up]Republicans never called Obama spineless because he was incredibly subdued in the first debate... I mean, they call him spineless all the time...

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
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#33253: Oct 17th 2012 at 11:24:51 AM

I know internet comments are cancer but I can't help but wonder if the GOP or superpacs hire sock puppets to just go and comment on news sites anti obama spam.

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#33254: Oct 17th 2012 at 11:38:01 AM

Come now Thorn, you know common regressionists can spam all on their own.

Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
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#33256: Oct 17th 2012 at 11:58:48 AM

Doesn't work.

Also I loved how offended Obama sounded when he was talking about how he had to greet the caskets of the dead.

Like he was telling Romney "You have no idea what it's like to deal with something like this, you cheap politicizing hack."

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Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
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#33258: Oct 17th 2012 at 12:27:44 PM

When Obama said "Proceed governor" I was like "OH SHIT"

Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
#33259: Oct 17th 2012 at 12:31:03 PM

Romney's "Binder full of women" story turns out to be bullshit.

I think I'm beyond laughter. He tells a condescending story about how he's sooooo supportive of women's rights and equal wages, hitting on many really bad stereotypes in the process (and furthermore resulting in him de facto claiming that he practices affirmative action, which a large portion of republicans hate), and it turns out to be a lie.

There was nothing in that story which will help Romney. [lol]

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johnnyfog Actual Wrestling Legend from the Zocalo Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
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#33260: Oct 17th 2012 at 12:37:33 PM

Apparently some of Romney's answers were so bad, Fox removed them from the transcripts. He was wallowing in centrism toward the end.

I'm a skeptical squirrel
Thorn14 Gunpla is amazing! Since: Aug, 2010
Gunpla is amazing!
#33261: Oct 17th 2012 at 12:39:06 PM

Like the protectionism?

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#33262: Oct 17th 2012 at 12:44:00 PM

Ha, so Fox outright omitted his lines from the transcript? That is bad.

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#33264: Oct 17th 2012 at 12:50:05 PM

Someone had to make this joke.

Who is an empty chair now?

The Reaper Games starts anew.
Psyga315 Since: Jan, 2001
#33265: Oct 17th 2012 at 12:51:42 PM

... Wow. That's some 1984 shit right there.

edited 17th Oct '12 12:52:33 PM by Psyga315

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#33266: Oct 17th 2012 at 1:29:45 PM

THEY CAN'T FUCKING DO THAT!

Ugh! They need to be crucified for that!

On the bright side this means even the Republicans think he's full of shit but my God that is just the most contemptible thing I've ever heard of.

Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#33267: Oct 17th 2012 at 1:35:36 PM

That HAS to be illegal.

I'm baaaaaaack
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#33268: Oct 17th 2012 at 1:38:55 PM

In the UK, Ofcom would be all over that so fast, you would hear a sonic boom. True, it doesn't have much in the way of teeth, but that allows other media arms to seriously have a field day ripping the offender to more shreds than you can make tatting out of.

Enough breaches like that, however, and the channel can get their licence to broadcast revoked.

edited 17th Oct '12 1:42:12 PM by Euodiachloris

Psyga315 Since: Jan, 2001
#33269: Oct 17th 2012 at 1:41:30 PM

Hey... Um... is there some place we can report this to? Or at least expose them on a wider scale?

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#33270: Oct 17th 2012 at 1:47:05 PM

Unfortunately, no, it's perfectly legal to falsify news in this country, mainly because we don't have a law against it. We can make a petition, but that's about it.

edited 17th Oct '12 1:47:29 PM by rmctagg09

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Enkufka Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ from Bay of White fish Since: Dec, 2009
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#33271: Oct 17th 2012 at 1:48:01 PM

Not really. It's not illegal to lie like that on tv or radio, so long as it's not slanderous, and whenever any news group tries to call fox out, they stamp their feet and act like they're being persecuted.

CNN definitely won't help, they keep hiring fox news castoffs.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#33272: Oct 17th 2012 at 1:50:35 PM

[up][up][up]I guess you could send emails to MSN, CNN, etc. but I doubt they'd report on it and even if they did people that actually watch Fox News wouldn't care since it's "liberal bias."

Now this is why we need some kind of government authority that regulates whether or not news organizations are telling the truth. I know, police state, but whatever. They can't be allowed to do this! Any other system we institute will have problems true but it's not like this current system doesn't have terrible ones too.

[up][up]Didn't some court give Fox News the right to lie under free speech or something?

edit: About the only thing I can think of who would have some authority to stop them is the government but we all know what Fox thinks of that.

Now this would be a lot easier if they were just some fringe news station but they're not. They have tons of people that treat their word as gospel. About the only thing we can do is make individual people realize.

edited 17th Oct '12 1:52:40 PM by Kostya

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#33273: Oct 17th 2012 at 2:00:17 PM

[up]

Now this is why we need some kind of government authority that regulates whether or not news organizations are telling the truth. I know, police state, but whatever. They can't be allowed to do this! Any other system we institute will have problems true but it's not like this current system doesn't have terrible ones too.

Britain has Ofcom*

, Advertising Standards Authority, and the Press Complaints Commission, and I'm sure other countries have other similar regulatory bodies. And that's fairly normal for quite a few industries — almost every single one has a Regulator.

edited 17th Oct '12 2:05:39 PM by Greenmantle

Keep Rolling On
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#33274: Oct 17th 2012 at 2:09:36 PM

[up]You don't seem to understand. Regulations lead to police states in the right's mind.

Also those are perfect examples of why we can implement this without it turning us into a police state.

edited 17th Oct '12 2:10:07 PM by Kostya

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#33275: Oct 17th 2012 at 2:12:53 PM

Our lack of governmental regulation of media is a really big cultural thing. The laws protecting it were made during a time when the government shutting down presses that opposed them was fresh in everyone's memory. And then shortly after, Adams passed the Sedition Act, which sort of proved exactly why we needed that protection.

The problem is that these days, the situation has reversed. Government documents tend to be pretty solid and open to review, but the presses are run by huge transnational entities that can't be held accountable for anything.


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