Fox News Host Refuses To Talk About Russia-Georgia War, Insists On Covering Edwards’ Affair »
Posted By bluetexasvalley 11 months ago in NewsYesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called “a state of war. Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war. Also yesterday, former senator John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair in 2006.
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bluetexasvalley11 months ago
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"Throughout the segment, Jarrett refused to talk about anything except for Edwards’s affair:
ERBE: The American public have told pollsters, this political season they want substance. Both these candidates have expressed support for allowing Georgia into NATO. … We could have been on the verge of nuclear war. Those are the kinds of the things that the American public wants to see discussed.
JARRETT: Right. You know, but getting back to Edwards, during the Monica Lewinsky affair, Edwards absolutely ripped into Bill Clinton. "-
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mesodude11 months ago
Wow...This reminded me of the telling front page of the Washington Times the day after Obama's historic speech in Germany. Washington Post, NYT and almost every other major paper in the country had the expected money shot (albeit from different camera angles) of Obama speaking in front of hundreds of thousands of Germans as far as the eye could see) above the fold. The Washington Times? Nada.
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hyperbola11 months ago
Probably many reason why Fox News would not want to talk about NeoCon puppets in Georgia.
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A Dirty Adventure
Turns out the that Israelis have been supplying the US trained Georgian army with weapons.....
.... Hence, we now see a Georgian invasion of South Ossetia about a week after the Russian announcement of its natural gas agreements with Turkmenistan. The invasion of South Ossetia may well be a strong signal that the US prefers confrontation with the Russians over negotiating a new commercial relationship with the Iranians. In other words, it suggests that the US still sees war as the ultimate solution of its disagreements with them.
The invasion also suggests that the US is incapable of choosing an ally in the region, and persists in the hope that it can economically and militarily dominate both the Russians and the Iranians, and through them, just about every country in Central Asia. Such arrogance is likely to be ruinous for all involved. A dirty adventure, indeed.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/a-dirty-adventure-part-2/
Plucky little Georgia? No, the cold war reading won't wash
The clash between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia has more in common with the Falklands war of 1982 than with a cold war crisis. Like Galtieri in 1982, Saakashvili faces a domestic economic crisis and public disillusionment and has used internal repression and external war to try to rally support.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/08/10/plucky-little-georgia-no-the-cold-war-reading-wont-wash/ -
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hefaa111 months ago
Fox Noise, how bout' a talking point on Republican State Rep Scott Muschany raping his mistress's 14 year old daughter. That was in the news for about a half-a-day. Democrat John Edwards has consensual sex with a 40-year old women and were closing in on day-3 of that beauty. So much for the pro-liberal media. Since both these men's political careers are now in ruins anyway, how bout' given Muschany equal time.
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/08/07/republican-state-rep-charged-with-raping-his-mistress-14-year-old-daughter/
Who cares if Bushy sent 150 American troops to Georgia (by the Black Sea) which could involve the U.S. in a whole new conflict, I want to hear about Edwards and some old broad again and again. Fox news in just running this tired old Edwards story to cover-up of the fact that we may be getting involved in Southern Russia (formerly Georgia) and downplay the fact that "W" may be getting us involved in another costly conflict.
However, knowing Bushy's acute sense of Geography, the good people of Atlanta are now wondering, "What are all these troops doing here?" -
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Tcaros11 months ago
The Faux Fox News has seen it's hayday.
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The only time I see Fox News is when I'm flipping through. (I think I might even program it out of the remote now.) -
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nikkibabe11 months ago
Here is a McCain skit from a Swedish comedian>
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. McCain is ready to bed but could not find his viagra bottle.
. He screams at Cindy asking where his viagra bottle is gone.
. She says I don't. Suddenly she realizes. She says the dogs and the cats were playing with it.
. McCain walks in to the pet room
. He is astonished to see all his cats and dogs sitting with their tails in "SOLID UPRIGHT" position.
. He could not help himself from screaming "you bit%$#S".
. He calls his campaign staff.
. He says "make a TV Ad immediately to say Obama sneaked in to my house and stole my viagra bottle.
. The campaign manager says Obama has no ED.
. McCain says, who cares. Wait a minute. HA HA HA
. OK. Change the commercial.
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sieben1311 months ago
If this doesn't convince you that Fox news is a PIECE OF CRAP run by the republican party then your hooked on drugs . "ONLY IN AMERICA"
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amazed11 months ago
Thursday (or Friday) when this whole Georgia thing was started, i was beginning to think that the people who were bringing it up on the threads -- (I saw it on the Edwards' thread), because not only did there seem to be nothing posted here (this seems to be the first story I've seen ), but CNN, MSNBC and the networks were all talking about Edwards and Caycee and nothing about Georgia.
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Tcaros11 months ago
I saw Bush tonight on TV at the *******. He was talking about human rights.- really The man is not believable. It's almost like he doesn't give a crap about human rights, but he just brings it up because he knows it pisses someone off.
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Do you realize we have a President who used to burn people with a hot hanger on the small of the back? -
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doggammit11 months ago
Well - here we are, stepping all over Russian toes in a cat and mouse game of some extraordinary potential and the news gives us "what?" As if the Washington Times and Fox actually qualify as news media... Hyperbola has the ramifications sewn up and it does not take a genius to see why neo-con foreign policy endorses a steady state of wars and conflicts - or why so little is said of this in general. And no, it's not about democracy or freedom. iI's about the money and using Janissary forces as moles and shock troops for expansionist dreams of a one world banking empire. US foreign policy and it's powerful links to "corporate globalization" implicitly endorses a totalitarian movement. Due to a combination of asymmetrical military tactics, our news media and the isolation of facts from the American people, one could say that the last eight years or so have provided us with the quietest world war ever fought. However, the potential for WW escalation is extremely worrisome - hardly a trite or dead issue - like Jon Edward's adulterous past....
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Fox and Co. have a ready made necropolis built especially to house American parochialism and the zombie caste, There is no point or profit in trying to wake the useful dead. Dead minds ask no questions, tell no tales - and persist in silence even though we are on the brink of something potentially explosive and have played a key role in it's instigation. In this case, silence is once again, " golden".... and obfuscation "silver" - "The Gold and Silver Waltz".
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