BREAKING!! Two explosions, casualties at Boston Marathon

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  1. Dr. Krieg

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    Total, utter bullshit. The reasons for our loss in Vietnam are as long as a roll of fucking toilet paper, and I guarantee you Cronkite was not high on that toilet paper list. :lol:
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  2. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Of course you read it in a magazine more than two decades ago. :dayton:
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  3. Dayton Kitchens

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    What do you want me to do? Deny everything in life that happened before the internet?

    You of all people.

    Starting a thread about something that happened ELEVEN YEARS ago without bothering to verify it.
  4. actormike

    actormike Okay, Connery...

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    They were burning shit up.

    And I wish they'd come back and finish Atlanta.
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  6. Dayton Kitchens

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  7. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    So in other words, you deliberately stripped away context to make it seem he was saying something completely different than what he said. Fuck you.
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  8. actormike

    actormike Okay, Connery...

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    Uh, no. You're the one who made the claim, you find the evidence to support it.

    I'm just pointing out that "I don't remember" is not a defense anymore.
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  9. The Original Faceman

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    Probably read it in a magazine you lost in a flood. :shrug:
  10. Dayton Kitchens

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    I think the link actormike helpfully provided showed pretty clearly that Cronkite was pretty soft on the communist.

    So though he didn't find the exact one, he did find one that proves the general concept.

    Thanks AM.
  11. Dayton Kitchens

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    I'm not bothering because I don't give a rats ass whether you or anyone else here believes it.

    You bragged about finding something similar in 10 seconds. If it means that much to you, then spend an extra 60 seconds nailing it down.

    As for me, it is just a throwaway comment that I feel no need to support.
  12. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    No, it's your job to prove he's making it up.

    Here I'll play.

    Dayton masturbates to photos of ponies eating ostrich hearts. Read it in a magazine prior to the internet. Don't blame me if I can't link to it.
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  13. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    How is that unlike everything else you say?
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  14. Dayton Kitchens

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    Your fantasy is of no interest to me.
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    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Did you read Actormike's link? Cronkite completely repudiated the interview, said those were not his statements. And furthermore, it didn't have much to do with your claim that he was comparing corporate media with Soviet media, which clearly is not the same as comparing the merits of the two societies. Your BS is on a par with the Soviet propaganda Cronkite repudiated.
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    They are. The embed program was the compromise between letting the press "run free" in Vietnam and restricting and alienating them during the years between then and 2003. The media got the good access that they had during Vietnam, but the "message" was more controlled.
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    So you don't deny it. Proof positive.
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    I don't blame Cronkite for denying that he was soft on the communists.

    Doesn't mean he didn't say it.
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    Case closed.
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  20. actormike

    actormike Okay, Connery...

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    Ah, so you take the word of a godless communist over an American?
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    Twitter is reporting an arrest in the Ricin mailings. Some dude from Mississippi.
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    I'd have expected it to have been a teacher from AR.
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  24. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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  25. Dayton Kitchens

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    If President Obama is ever to be discredited and reviled he cannot be a martyr.

    I wish President Obama a long life.
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    Stolen from Facebook:

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    Well Garak did blow up his own shop....
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    That the FBI had to call out the press like that is an embarrassment. :jayzus:
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    That's what I'm sayin', yo. You can't trust the bloody Cardies.