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18th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting
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Dec 28, 2005, 07:32 AM
 
     
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Dec 28, 2005, 08:57 AM
 
Some of those quotes are outrageous and funny. Some are basically benign or spot-on.

It's a shape it's such a slanted list. It seemed the standard for getting on the list was to be critical of Bush or the Republican party. Conservatives say dumb stuff too. A lot.
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Dec 28, 2005, 10:01 AM
 
I didn't want this to be a partisan political debate. It's just something to laugh at.

I guess if it gets too political, the mods can throw it in the PL
     
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Dec 28, 2005, 01:40 PM
 
Please explain how a Jon Stewart quote made the list. He isn't a real member of the "media" any more than Faux News is. sam
     
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Dec 28, 2005, 04:28 PM
 
Kevin, if this were me posting this thread, you'd be the first to respond with your giant red flag "THIS DOESN'T BELONG HERE!! OMGG... alert alert alert alert!! Beep beep... rotation of Earth.... changing.... Aahhhhh, the apocalypse nears! Lava flows.... erupting all over old people..... Robots emerging from Earth's crust...."

Just pointing this out.
     
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Dec 28, 2005, 04:39 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c
Kevin, if this were me posting this thread, you'd be the first to respond with your giant red flag "THIS DOESN'T BELONG HERE!! OMGG... alert alert alert alert!! Beep beep... rotation of Earth.... changing.... Aahhhhh, the apocalypse nears! Lava flows.... erupting all over old people..... Robots emerging from Earth's crust...."

Just pointing this out.
Uh, no, no I would not. Not this article.

And if the mods thought it was political, I said they could move it.

I would have NO problem with it.
     
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Dec 28, 2005, 05:22 PM
 
Originally Posted by SVass
Please explain how a Jon Stewart quote made the list. He isn't a real member of the "media" any more than Faux News is. sam
He's under the list of "celebrities".

Considering that Robert Novak is one of the judges, I can see why Stewart was chosen.
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Dec 28, 2005, 05:30 PM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin
Uh, no, no I would not. Not this article.

And if the mods thought it was political, I said they could move it.

I would have NO problem with it.

But you have problems when somebody else adds the same disclaimer to their posts... whatever.
     
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Originally Posted by besson3c
But you have problems when somebody else adds the same disclaimer to their posts... whatever.
Um, in the 3rd post?

Again, I don't care if they move it. I wont get mad.

There lies the difference.
     
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Dec 28, 2005, 05:49 PM
 
A lot of these quotes aren't particularly funny unless you think the sentence "Perhaps a conservative did something wrong" is funny.
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