NBC Finally Agrees to Acknowledge The Obvious: Civil War in Iraq

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As we all know, nothing actually exists or is true or has happened until the corporate mainstream media says it exists or is true or has happened. So it’s nice to know that what American citizens have by-and-large known all by themselves for some time actually exists and is true and has happened: “MSNBC Now Characterizing Situation in Iraq as Civil War“.

To cover their asses, MSNBC is running a poll (results as of now seen below)…

Geez, other than 86% of us, we would have never known. Thank god for the CMSM.

What next? “MSNBC Characterizes Oxygen as Good for Americans”? “Daytime Seen as Brighter than Nighttime”? “American Electoral System Broken”?

(Cynical much today, Brad?)

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NBC Finally Agrees to Acknowledge The Obvious: Civil War in Iraq

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    big dan said on 11/27/2006 @ 4:00pm PT: [Permalink]

    Wanna hear something I am cynical about? That Putin poisoned Letvinenko. He has all the heat and limelight on him for that Russian reporter being assassinated, and he would then go out and have Letvinenko poisoned? I don’t buy it!!! He’s not stupid, he’s very shrewd. And he is taking many actions that are against U.S. interests. And Rush Limboob today was ranting against Putin, which gives Putin even more credibility as far as I’m concerned. And whenever the corporate media is in unison on a story, like they are in unison against Putin, including Rush and the gang, I question it!!!

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    phil said on 11/27/2006 @ 7:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    DEAR MSNBC,

    None of this would have happened, if you didn’t have a MEDIA BLACKOUT on ELECTRONIC VOTING!

    Because then we would have actually had our votes count, instead of a SCOTUS COURT deciding who our president (sic) is.

    Do us a favor, Support the troops, put some fucking gusto into the word-up that electronics, digitized data, and networks do not belong in our elections because they deny your fucking CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE.

    Otherwise, everytime I see you I will shove a sign in your face, everytime you ask me something I will pretend to give an interview, then change the topic. And everytime you broadcast LIVE I will be there.

    All you fuckers been doing lately is sleeping out at the malls and airports. YOU SUCK!

    ~phil

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    Larry Bergan said on 11/28/2006 @ 1:00am PT: [Permalink]

    Read Michael Moore’s great piece on this subject.

    I’m sure the Democrats don’t like Michael putting a picture of Pelosi and Reid on his website made up of dead soldiers, but it’s time they started listening to all of the people who had it right all along!

    Time to get the hell out of hell!

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    big dan said on 11/28/2006 @ 8:08am PT: [Permalink]

    Please watch this Democracy NOW! interview with Nir Rosen. It is one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen on TV news. This man, I don’t even know who he is, is the most well-spoken, straight-forward speaker on the state of the Iraq War that I’ve ever seen.

    http://www.democracynow.org/art.../11/27/1447216

    Democracy NOW! news is on DISH channels 9410 LINK-TV and 9415 Free Speech TV…it absolutely blows away corporate news ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, & FOX. Yesterday was one of the best Democracy NOW! news’s I’ve ever seen, actually.

    They also had this: “Secret talks between U.S. and armed Iraqi resistance”…

    http://www.democracynow.org/art.../11/27/1447210

    …and this…

    “Hundreds in New Orleans face eviction”…

    http://www.democracynow.org/art.../11/27/1447222

    …and this…

    “Uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico continues; tens of thousands protest Mexican governor”…

    http://www.democracynow.org/art.../11/27/1447228

    I stopped watching corporate TV news, this is viewer sponsored news. Watch some of it, and compare the subjects and quality and importance vs. ANBCBSNNXX corporate news.

    Democracy NOW! is as good as watching a movie! You can’t stop watching it! 60 minutes of important, quality, commercial free TV news, that flies by like it was 5 minutes, because it’s so good.

    What was on ANBCBSNNXX yesterday??? Compare it to this + the in depth interviews I listed above:

    Headlines for November 27, 2006

    – Israel-Palestinian Ceasefire Enters Second Day
    – Olmert Calls on Palestinians to Give Up Right of Return
    – Jordan’s King Abdullah: Region Could Face Three Civil Wars
    – 215 Die in Sadr City In Deadliest Attack of War
    – Baghdad Residents: “The Situation is Terrible. No One is Safe”
    – James Baker To Urge Talks w/ Iran & Syria
    – NYPD Shoot Dead Unarmed Man Hours Before His Wedding
    – Leftist Economist Rafael Correa Elected President of Ecuador
    – 160 Protesters Arrested In Mexican State of Oaxaca
    – Report: Robert Gates Advocated for Bombing of Nicaragua in 1984
    – Former Russian Spy Dies From Radioactive Poisoning
    – Colorado Homeowner Fined For Christmas Wreath With Peace Signal
    ——————————————————————————–

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    big dan said on 11/28/2006 @ 8:10am PT: [Permalink]

    Here’s CNN’s headlines right off their website right now:

    Bush denies civil war is engulfing Iraq

    Pilot of crashed U.S. fighter jet missing in Iraq

    Attack reported near Syria-Lebanon border

    Snitch: No crack at dead woman’s home | Video

    Dead spy left trail of radiation, official says

    Washington state snowed under, iced over

    Mom microwaved 3-week-old baby, cops say

    Boston uncommon: Parking spot nets $250,000

    Neighbors decide to give peace wreath a chance

    Lost deer goes buck wild in warehouse

    CNNMoney: Wal-Mart offers movie downloads

    The 100 top TV catchphrases? D’oh!

    CNN Wire: Latest updates on world’s top stories

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