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   Ken Warren said, 14 days ago

   Well I got lucky and am the first, so I will go off on a personal rant.

   First this was a terrible thing.

   But the media made it worse – while acting like they really cared, when all they cared about was ratings, they went on and on.

   Please, please stop this 24/7 coveraged of everything. Save it for those things like earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and major disasters where we need vital information on what to do or what is happening.

   Don’t make matters worse with wrong information, guesses, speculation, and talking heads that have no real information but blatter on. Give us the headlines, and go on to other stories, and then come back to this one to give updates.

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   fennec said, 14 days ago

   Ken, you got in ahead of me with the same rant. I turned off the TV “news” tonight because I couldn’t stand the salivating media on this “story”, and that was all there was (except for the Norts Spews”). There is something indecent about the obsession with stories such as this one in the media which trivialize the very significant human tragedies that have occurred.

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   dtroutma said, 14 days ago

   Sadly, the news is nothing but carrion feeders.

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   scottfreitas said, 14 days ago

   Never in the entire history of the United States military has an active-duty commanding officer deliberately mass-slaughtered his fellow troops.

   You gd Leftists with your “political correctness” and bee ess about “racial profiling” need to go wash your hands now, they’re covered in fresh blood.

   As if all the millions of human beings murdered daily inside their mom’s bodies aren’t enough for you…

   The Lord rebuke every one of you!

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   dtroutma said, 14 days ago

   Hmm, speaking of carrion.

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   Magnaut said, 13 days ago

   carry on carrion

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   PlainBill said, 13 days ago

   Ken, fennec, would you prefer the newscasts limit themselves to ‘Oh, something happened at some Army base in Texas. Big deal.’?

   scott, as usual, you lie read about Civil War General Burnside), and your reasoning is flawed.

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   Ken Warren said, 13 days ago

   The old rule for a news story was WHAT, WHEN, WHY, AND HOW.

   The current media tells us what happened, when it happened, how it happened, and then goes off in all direction on the Why it happened.

   What we want and need is news, what we get is the same story over and over and hours of speculaton.

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   DrCanuck said, 13 days ago

   Or as Faux News reported this morning: “A Muslim officer with a Muslim name and a Muslim upbringing from his Muslim family shouted Muslim slogans as he shot many non-Muslim American soldiers with a Muslim gun filled with Muslim bullets. But his religion had nothing to do with it.”

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    parkersinthehouse said, 13 days ago

    so why do you watch?

    sherffius, damm powerful sentiment

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    oldlegodad said, 13 days ago

    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=511702

    It did not have to happen

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    scottfreitas said, 13 days ago

    Great article, oldle. But you will NOT get the current crop of Girl Government bureacrats infecting our military to ever listen…

    Some GOP politician(s) will have to make it a campaign issue (we all know the Demoncrats would never side against Islamo-fascists).

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    motivemagus said, 12 days ago

    oldie, scott, from the AP, article quoted directly:
    The Army chief of staff says it’s important for the country not to get caught up in speculation about the Muslim faith of the alleged Fort Hood gunman.
    Gen. George Casey says he’s instructed his commanders to be on the lookout for that reaction to the killings at the Texas post.
    He says focusing on the Islamic roots of the suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, could “heighten the backlash” against all Muslims in the military.
    Casey says diversity in the military “gives us strength.”

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    DrCanuck said, 12 days ago

    Why do I watch, parker? To know what the forces of ignorance are up to so I can combat them in the classroom.

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    parkersinthehouse said, 11 days ago

    good deal Dr - nothing to fight about here - don’t get indoctrinated dude - i believe that whatever you allow in can change you

    which is why i may just have to give up reading these posts

    ºO
    U

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    DrCanuck said, 11 days ago

    Ha! Well, I like to think I’m immune to stupidity but you never know.

    I do, however, believe that it is the responsibility of intellectually honest people to give a fair hearing to what the “other side” is saying. I do, and then see if I can dispute it with reason and evidence. And if I can’t, then I must accept it.

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    pbarnrob said, 11 days ago

    Hard to dispute until there *is* some evidence. I’ll wait for judgements until we know a lot more from the investigation.

    This guy, as a shrink, has been hearing horror stories from his patients for quite a while, and doubtless getting a bellyfull of ‘smoked that Haji’ stories from the indoctrinated (after all, that’s how you get these kids to go to exotic foreign lands, meet interesting people, and kill them) in between. Probably already been getting some of that same hooie that was featured after OK City. “Muslims are the Enemy; you are Muslim, therefore…”

    Joseph Goebells lives on, wrapped in Old Glory. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

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    d_legendary1 said, 11 days ago

    Here we go again with the scare tactics. MUSLIM! RUN!! I was watching O’Riled up at the gym talking about MUSLIM, MUSLIM, MUSLIM!!!

    But we’re a nation of religious tolerance. Don’t confuse him with the facts.

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    Herbabee said, 10 days ago

    ^ Ha ha. Then ya got Monica Crowley when she takes “that tone of voice” at the McLaughlin Group coffee table.

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    4uk4ata said, 10 days ago

    “You gd Leftists with your “political correctness” and bee ess about “racial profiling” need to go wash your hands now, they’re covered in fresh blood.”

    Yeah, Leftists were to blame here. As if this man, and all the others listed in OLG’s article, enlisted during the time of a left-wing president and Congress. As if the army was the bastion, nay, beating heart of bleeding heart liberalism in the US. As if a war initiated by right-wingers for interests having little to nothing to do with the US’ national security had nothing to do with it.

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    olfart said, 10 days ago

    A good rule of thumb is; when reporters begin interviewing each other, turn it off. Neither has any more information.