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Re: Protests too much
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Wed, 11 May 2005 15:45:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   By the way, I suggest a five yard penalty for inopportune use of the word probe in a headline.

Well, it would certainly suck to be him right now! (Yikes, 15 yards from spot of ball?)

BTW, in general, is setting up sting ops a proper behavior of the press? I get a little wary when news stations play cops under the guise of “investigative reporting”. That stuff, along with “bubble-headed bleach blondes on the evening news” is everything that is wrong with the press.

JOHN



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  Re: Protests too much
 
(...) If you ask me it beats the daily 10 minute spot on a car bomb in Iraq... If it happens every day, it's not news folks... (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
  Re: Protests too much
 
(...) Hey, I'll take a daily 100 minute spot on a car bomb in Iraq, if only they'd air even one solid minute of footage of the innocent civilians that American forces kill each day. Why, at this rate, we'll only have to slaughter a few thousand more (...) (19 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Protests too much
 
By the way, I suggest a five yard penalty for inopportune use of the word (URL) probe> in a headline. Dave! (19 years ago, 10-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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