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lederhosen ([personal profile] lederhosen) wrote2006-10-05 10:51 am

How to salvage a disaster

Via comments on [livejournal.com profile] james_nicoll:



I'm picking sloppyness over malice, but I had to think about it.

[identity profile] mdsteele47.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but it's Faux News... that tips the scales for me towards malice.

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 06:39 am (UTC)(link)

The Democrats should sue for defamation.

[identity profile] drzero.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'd pick sloppiness too. Is this not the news channel that claimed that the last Space Shuttle to explode was travelling 18 times the speed of sound when it did so?

[identity profile] drzero.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
Erf, sorry, for 'sound' in that last sentence, substitute 'light'.

[identity profile] mdsteele47.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"But in fairness to the Republicans, let me just throw this out: who invented the Internet? That's right, Al Gore, a Democrat. If it wasn't for him, none of this would have happened. Run with it, Fox News!"
---Jimmy Kimmel

[identity profile] publius1.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Jon Steward showed the image and merely did a slow, exaggerated clap...

[identity profile] elynne.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a mistake.

.... there aren't goddamned WORDS.

[identity profile] wingedkami.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Once I'd call incompetance, but as John Kovalic said, three times looks suspicious.