Originally Posted by Bl@ck
This, which is your opening post in this thread, is sensationalism, even by your definition. This is an inconsequential event that you were attempting to tout as something huge. To find out that the whole thing is fiction is just the icing on the cake.
Wrong again. I started the thread in order to discuss the implications of the government spying on citizens and harassing them for reading anything that might disagree with the administration. I didn't try to cite it as a pattern of anything, or as an example of how we're all screwed, or anything that could be considered sensationalism, even by the most liberal definition.
Originally Posted by Bl@ck
You may think so, but that's only because you want to believe it so. This is called the Pygmalion effect. In fact, all of the "facts" that have come from the media to date about the Plame CIA leak and other various proclaimed follies of the administration have been nothing more than speculation and hearsay. The news is America's newest soap opera. if there were evidence above speculation and/or hearsay to the degree that you tout as fact the president would've been indicted several times over by now. However, the sensationalists, such as you, don't have any hard evidence so they find obscure stories to church up, thus grasping at straws in a sensationalist manner.
The Pygmalion effect pertains to expected results, not desired results. You're wrong again.
I don't know why you brought up the Plame case. That didn't make any sense. And you're wrong about the Plame case being built upon speculation and hearsay.
Originally Posted by Bl@ck
Oh, and so i don't break my streak of pointing out the obvious in threads that you start, You're an idiot.
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Wrong... again. Also: fuck you, asshole.
DVPGSR: You enjoyed that? Fuck you too, asshole.
Wow Civic: I'm Jewish, but thanks anyway for sarcastically wishing me a merry christmas. That was super grown-up of you. Be proud of yourself for that.
I agree that the kid should be expelled from school. He used the good name of the school to perpetrate a fraud, and he falsely accused the government of spying on him. He is a liar and should be held responsible.