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panama hat

When that's your sole source of news . . . it must be the truth.

Like some on this board, Fox continuously repeats their mantra; 'fair and balanced' until there seems to be no option. Geobbels was a great proponent of this.

CNN has a wide international following
BBC has a wide international following
A-J has a wide international following

Fox???? I guess there are things that only fly in the US

AntRobertson

Good luck. There's a definate pattern and similarity with some of the posts/posters here.

Facts and ojectivity reality are very much secondary to shouting down your opponent, being disingenuous, constantly shifting the posts, and - if all else fails - attacking the poster not the point. Anything but actually backing up statements.

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britmaveric

Dunno - Fox News is perhaps the most watched news station in the world.

Ant wow I def see the shifting more and same patterns of ill conceived half truths from amazingly the other side. Unfortunately your opinion is nor more valid than your opponent.

ChiangMai noon

which goes someway to explaining why Americans are perhaps the most stupid people in the world.

AntRobertson

Dunno about that, but even if correct the Daily Mail is apparently the most widely read 'newspaper' in the UK. Both are pretty damning indictments.

britmaveric

Don't forget Aussies, and my countrymen - Sky is just as popular. hehehe

ChiangMai noon

do you have a nationality brit?

i sort of assumed you were simply a citizen of the world.

Texpat

Poms, short mongoloid taffy twats in particular, are the thickest, stupid fucks I've ever met.

Yeah, let's just get all the bile out there.

You feel better CMN, I do.

britmaveric

britmaveric

Tex - apologize we taffy's arent so bad.

ChiangMai noon

ahh, a resort to name calling when faced with the frustrations of being wrong.

i had heard about this sort of thing.

astasinim

I think FOX and SKY merged (or something like that) about 10 years ago.

Texpat

July 16, 2008
Wall Street Journal


In a recent interview with the Yemen Observer, David Remes, a Covington & Burling partner who was in Yemen working on his representation of 15 Yemeni detainees at Gitmo, told the journalist that he had “two missions” during the visit: “first to meet the families of the men that I represent in Guantanamo and second, to do what I can to promote the cause of these men.”

It was in the name of this zealous advocacy that Remes (Columbia, Harvard Law) removed his pants at a news conference on Monday. This morning, we caught up with Remes, who had just landed at JFK after a 14-hour flight from Dubai.

“I’d been to Guantanamo in mid-June,” explained Remes, “and there’s a certain amount of normalcy that has settled over the normal miserable conditions of confinement, which amount to solitary confinement without sleep and without sunlight and without anyone to talk to. So at the news conference, I said that, in addition to this torment, which has become so typical that we don’t even talk about it anymore, now the torment also consists of constant body searches in which the men are required to pull their shirts up to their chest, drop their pants, and then the corn-fed U.S. military sticks their thumbs under the prisoner’s underwear band and circles the prisoner’s torsos.” Remes said these searches can take place several times in the course of a day.

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Well, they are terrorist prisoners, Einstein.
With nutters like this defending you... a mate of yours Anty?


Good to see the scum are searched several times daily. They're hiding weapons in their Korans, you know...

ChiangMai noon

why haven't any of them been charged then?

chinthee

Just to be clear, BBC World & CNN Int'l are global news channels, with 300 million and I think around 200 million subscribers globally. A-J is the new kid on the block, with about 80 million I think. All three of these report global events and perspectives, with obviously A-J taking a more middle east view, and CNN with an American perspective and BBC as is obvious. All three are respected for their global coverage.

Fox is a purely US based news channel on a global mission to virtually give it away to cable and satellite stations globally. Everyone knows Fox is a right wing spin machine, nonstop propaganda source, and does not cover global news unless it's directly related to the US. It's domestic news is heavily concentrated on politics, and to a lesser extent tabloid crime coverage.

Nobody with a brain would rely on any one source for coverage, but to ignore the importance of any one of them and to belittle people for watching one because it does not agree with personal politics is nonsense.

ChiangMai noon

this whole war against terror shite is nothing but a political tool to exercise a new world order based on control and fear.

americans are now quite happy to have their liberties shit on in a way that they would never have been pre 9/11.

if you are happy to fall for it, more fool you.

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ChiangMai noon

nobody is denying the importance of Fox news in maintaining control over the blind.

take fox away and people might actually begin to see.

Texpat

Did the Nurenburg trials start before the fight was finished?

Not everyone watches FOX. I certainly don't. It's biased, just as BBC is.

American liberties, if lost at the current rate, might begin to resemble pom liberties in another 200 years.

britmaveric

Judge clears way for first Guantanamo Bay trial




By MATT APUZZO – 7 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. can begin trying Osama bin Laden's former driver next week at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a federal judge ruled Thursday, rejecting the defendant's plea to halt the historic first trial in the military system set up following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.


The Associated Press: Judge clears way for first Guantanamo Bay trial

ChiangMai noon