Like I said, I demand proof. But if somebody just says it, then it has to be true, then when I say "clickwir sucks donkey dicks", then you must agree that it's absolutely true, right?

 

Well if CNN says it.... Yes. h:

CNN is pretty reputable, to me. If I see 4 diffrent networks all telling me that al qaeda and saddam are buddy buddy, sounds real to me.

 

Slow-N-Low is right.. he has a bunch of good points on this.. and yea hes right about the proof thing.. stuff can hit the press and snowball. yea there might be some proof to it, but it might get distorted. Im in MD and one time there was something on the news and one network said 12 dead, the other said 15 and the other said 20+. now there is some truth to that, people died, just how many???

same thing here.. have to watch what keeps going on. and me personally, i think the news should chill out for a while. remember during 9/11 they were trying to track where they were taking the pres and vice pres?? dont you think that the Al Qaeda have TVs too?? dont go broadcasting all this shiat for EVERYONE to see. thats my beef.. but i agree with Slow-N-Low :rockon:

 

CNN is a news channel, it reports the news. When CNN reported that George Bush claimed that there was a tie, they were reporting the news, not corroborating Bush's claim. That claim is still just a claim. A claim that has not been proved.

 

:werd:

Sometimes I think we have a little too much freedom of the press.

 

i agree with a lot of what you guys are saying. especially that we really dont get the whole story with the news. the only people who really know all the ins and outs on this are the president and his staff. he gets all the confidential stuff, plus he gets it in a more factual manner than what we get through the news. plus he has to consider the whole picture, including our economy, and the future. im not a big fan of bush, but hes our president and i believe hes trying to do whats best for america. i also believe that he is capable of doing whats best for us.

what im saying, is that whoever it is who has this power and responsibility, whether its bush, or gore, or any other man, he'll do whats best. its not like hes sitting alone in a room pushing buttons. all the decisions he makes are discussed ad nauseum with all the nations top experts, and after taking into account the way the nation feels about it too. those letters you send to the whitehouse dont come through the mailbox onto a conveyor belt that leads to an incinerator. those get read.

to all you people that just ***** and moan about how all bush only cares about (enter ignorant one-sided point of view here), GROW UP. if you wanna formulate some real opinions about whats going on, then you need to watch the news, read the paper, and you need to find some foriegn source of news like BBC and read that stuff EVERY DAY.

its just really getting on my nerves now that everyone in america is suddenly an armchair quarterback about the whole situation. it seems the only person who DOESNT know what to do is bush. well i just dont think thats a likely situation.

 

Ok... so the media has been known to exagerate to make it more news worthy.... ok so who WOULD you believe?

Does the president himself have to come to your house and tell it to you? Even if they did prove it on the evening news... would you believe it? Or would you rather they work it into the story line of next weeks Smallville episode? What would be more believable?

I'm not disagreeing that the media likes to toot it's own horn.... but what high and mighty source would you believe if you believe nothing from any media network?

 

have you ever seen a billion dollars, in person?


I didn't think so. Does that mean it doesn't exist?

:nono:

 

What you're describing is a dictator. If you want to live under a dictatorship, maybe you should move to Iraq. Here in America, the Constitution puts the power in the hands of the people, not a single dictator. That's what makes our society free. Keeping the people informed is part of the deal.

 

Actually I have seen that kind of money when I took a tour of the Treasury.

Not that it matters, since it's not the topic. :nono: