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(Yahoo)   It took a few days, but someone is finally blaming Bush for the media hype over the Jon Benet Ramsey case   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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kingMountain
2006-08-21 10:33:09 AM  
submitter, perhaps next time you should read the article before you submit it. you know, so that you can summarize it correctly in the headline.

you would have been closer to the truth if you had simply said, "I read an article on Yahoo! but I didn't fully understand it due my being LD."
 
kingMountain
2006-08-21 10:34:55 AM  
...due to my being...

//oh i'm on top of things
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 10:37:08 AM  
kingMountain: perhaps next time you should read the article before you submit it

I did:

"The only people happier than the cable "news anchors" must be Bush, Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld."
 
Croooow!
2006-08-21 10:39:39 AM  
The CraneMeister: "The only people happier than the cable "news anchors" must be Bush, Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld."

That's not blaming them any more than its blaming the news anchors. The author is merely saying that it is fortuitous timing.
 
superdolfan1
2006-08-21 10:40:41 AM  
Submitter is spot on with the headline. And get's instant greenlight.

I'm getting the chips. Somebody get the beer.
 
kingMountain
2006-08-21 10:40:43 AM  
The CraneMeister
"The only people happier than the cable "news anchors" must be Bush, Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld."

yeah but that's not "blaming" them for the media hype. they just happened to benefit from it. the article is clearly blaming the media for it, not the administration.
 
Iphtashu Fitz
2006-08-21 10:40:56 AM  
The CraneMeister : I did:

"The only people happier than the cable "news anchors" must be Bush, Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld."

Then perhaps you need to take some lessons in reading comprehension. That statement isn't blaming Bush for the media hype. It's stating that Bush must be happy about all the hype since its distracting the press from Iraq. Huge difference. But then again you got yourself a greenlight so what do you care if your submission is totally inaccurate or not.
 
Calmamity
2006-08-21 10:41:14 AM  
The CraneMeister: I did:

Still not seeing any blame.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-08-21 10:41:49 AM  
The saturation coverage on this is truly disgusting.

But I have to give props to Karl Rove. How he managed to kill that little girl 10 years ago and set up Karr to take the fall precisely when Bush was going to need it is pure Machiavellian genius.
 
the_gospel_of_thomas
2006-08-21 10:42:04 AM  
Arianna Huffington ..... what a slunt.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-08-21 10:44:24 AM  
The CraneMeister: Reactionary much? The article says no such thing. It's an aside, not an accusation.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 10:47:21 AM  
Iphtashu Fitz: But then again you got yourself a greenlight so what do you care if your submission is totally inaccurate or not.

Oh, I care. It's the most important thing in the whole wide world to me.

After all, it's a sacred responsibility to make sure the headline in a satirical site like Fark demonstrate flawless one-to-one correspondence with the stories they link to.

ESPECIALLY when the story in question is written by moonbats like Ariana Huffington who see everything through the lens of Bush hatred. Tomorrow she'll be explaining how the argument over the number of planets was orchestrated by Rove to distract everyone from Iraq.

I'd continue to argue about this with you, but I must go repent in dustcloth and ashes.
 
Old_Chief_Scott [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 10:47:40 AM  
Diogenes-

I have to agree with you here. The evil genius that is Karl Rove simply knows no bounds. I'm starting to think the guy has a time machine stashed somewhere. That will be his downfall eventually, though. The fabric of time can only be farked with just so much...
 
jasonmicron
2006-08-21 10:47:41 AM  
I just came in here to tell submitter that he didn't RTFA correctly but I see that you all already did that.
 
jbeatty
2006-08-21 10:48:26 AM  
-article focuses on how news coverage has become low quality and cheap.
-freeeper headline twists it into a political statement that it isn't.
-submition gets greenlighted.


- W T F ? ? ?
 
Croooow!
2006-08-21 10:49:24 AM  
Old_Chief_Scott: The fabric of time can only be farked with just so much...

Karl Rove needs to watch more sci-fi.
 
newsisgoodfood
2006-08-21 10:49:47 AM  
I'm happy that the sun came up today, therefore I must be Apollo.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 10:49:49 AM  
jbeatty: -freeeper headline twists it into a political statement that it isn't.

Sssh. You might out Rove. Don't you realize he's behind all this?
 
jbeatty
2006-08-21 10:49:58 AM  
*submission
 
Calmamity
2006-08-21 10:50:03 AM  
The CraneMeister: ESPECIALLY when the story in question is written by moonbats like Ariana Huffington who see everything through the lens of Bush hatred.


Dude, look at what your personal filter did to this article.

If anyone's seeing things through a warped lens it's you.
 
newsisgoodfood
2006-08-21 10:52:27 AM  
The CraneMeister: Sssh. You might out Rove. Don't you realize he's behind all this?

Ok, point is made. Congratulations on finding an evil deed with no Karl Rove involvement.

/don't get it
 
sigdiamond2000
2006-08-21 10:53:28 AM  
The CraneMeister

kingMountain: perhaps next time you should read the article before you submit it

-----------

I did:

"The only people happier than the cable "news anchors" must be Bush, Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld."

So you're essentially admitting you're a partisan idiot? Interesting tactic. It's different. It's honest. I like it!
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 10:54:05 AM  
jbeatty: -article focuses briefly mentions on how news coverage has become low quality and cheap, then surgically attaches an extremely tenuous connection with the Bush administration.
-freeeper headline twists it into a political statement that it isn't. -Amused Farker turns Huffington's tactics back on her
-submition gets greenlighted.
-Farkers in general immediately waste an entire morning arguing about it
Profit!

Fixed that for ya.
 
friendinpa
2006-08-21 10:54:54 AM  
Leave it to that teutonic twat to attempt to make a connection between Bush and the JonBenet murder.

While it is not blaiming Bush & Co. it is a cheap attempt to make a connection in order to get the reader to associate one horrific act to a person the writer does not care for.

While some of you see "freepers" hiding in the woodwork, I would say that this is a transparent attempt by a Liberal Pundit to associate Bush with any negative story that comes down the pike by whatever means necessary. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
OlafTheBent
2006-08-21 10:54:57 AM  
Well... it's about time.

/I was cursing Dubya just this morning because I couldn't find my other sock...
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 10:56:12 AM  
OlafTheBent: /I was cursing Dubya just this morning because I couldn't find my other sock...

You lost only one sock? Bush's evilness is slipping a bit...
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 10:59:01 AM  
friendinpa: While some of you see "freepers" hiding in the woodwork

No, we're here all right. It's all part of the conspiracy. While everyone's distracted with arguing about this headline, Bush and Rove can commit even more atrocities.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-08-21 10:59:17 AM  
The neocons are so sensitive today!

It's a truism that any administration having bad times would be appreciative of a distraction. Get over yourselves.
 
Kanyon
2006-08-21 10:59:21 AM  
Submitter is a bit off the mark on the headline but this much is certain: mentioning Jon Benet and the problems of the Bush Administration in the same article is enough to make me sit back and say...WTF kind of journalism is this (granted, it's an opinion piece).

The wall to wall coverage of the Jon Benet case may be a bit over the top but biatching that we don't have the 728th story about how many people died in Iraq today doesn't sound very compelling. Don't get me wrong, it's horrible. But I don't get a dailiy report about how many people die in traffic accidents each day or cancer, or by coconuts landing on people head's and I don't need to know how many died in Iraq every day either. I get it. The situation is bad.

/doesn't support Iraq war
 
the_gospel_of_thomas
2006-08-21 10:59:32 AM  
friendinpa: "I would say that this is a transparent attempt by a Liberal Pundit to associate Bush with any negative story that comes down the pike by whatever means necessary."


Absolutely. Welcome to Arianna Huffington's "modus operandii."
 
Croooow!
2006-08-21 11:01:10 AM  
friendinpa: this is a transparent attempt by a Liberal Pundit to associate Bush with any negative story that comes down the pike

Catching a murderer is negative?
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 11:02:18 AM  
Croooow!: Catching a murderer is negative?

Well, of course -- when the news coverage about it distracts people from Huffington Post's endless reiteration of their gripes against the Bush administration.
 
Kanyon
2006-08-21 11:02:33 AM  
daily*
heads*

/need coffee
 
pontechango
2006-08-21 11:02:35 AM  
The CraneMeister: I did:

Looks like we found the idiot submitter.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 11:03:18 AM  
pontechango: Looks like we found the idiot submitter.

Nice detective work there, Clouseau. What was your first clue?
 
sigdiamond2000
2006-08-21 11:06:48 AM  
the_gospel_of_thomas

Absolutely. Welcome to Arianna Huffington's "modus operandii."

And her MO when she was a conservative pundit was, of course, pure as the driven snow, right t_g_o_t?.

Kinda like how Bill Maher was a brilliant, trenchant political humorist when he was making fun of Bill Clinton, and now he's an America-hating terrorist-sympathizer because he makes fun of Bush.

She's a narcissistic opportunist. Just like every other pundit in America.
 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-08-21 11:06:53 AM  
Well let's see here.

The administration releases bad news on Friday afternoon to minimize anyone talking about the "bad things".

Huffington mentions the "bad things" at any chance to maximize the talking.

Sounds like they are both still playing their roles.
 
pontechango
2006-08-21 11:08:13 AM  
The CraneMeister: What was your first clue?

The fact that there is no regard for logical causation in your defense of this headline.

Blame Bush for everything = Republican strawman propaganda
 
jarrett
2006-08-21 11:11:03 AM  
A lefty blog mentioned the word "Bush". Therefore Bush is yet again being blamed for something that's not his fault.

That's all you need to know.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 11:12:46 AM  
pontechango: The fact that there is no regard for logical causation in your defense of this headline.

I guess you're right. After all, Huffington's Bush hatred is totally logical; so is the media obsession with JonBenet Ramsey, as is Huffington's attempt to connect the two.

Why, the whole situation is just bursting at the seams with logic. Logic, logic everywhere.

I suppose I just wanted to be different.
 
sigdiamond2000
2006-08-21 11:12:47 AM  
Looks like I underestimated The CraneMeister. Turns out he's just playing dumb. How attractive.

If you're going to submit a trolling, inaccurate headline, at least own it, dude. Don't be ashamed. Don't try to weasel out of it.

I submit trolling HeadLies sometimes. The mistake I don't make is posting in them and trying to justify my idiocy. It's a no-win situation.
 
friendinpa
2006-08-21 11:12:52 AM  
Croooow!
No, but murdering and raping a small girl is. No matter what happens there is no happy ending and this is not a positive story.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 11:15:05 AM  
sigdiamond2000: The mistake I don't make is posting in them and trying to justify my idiocy. It's a no-win situation.

Hey, we're all here to keep the beer running onto the servers, right? Just being a good patriotic Farker.

What's to "justify," by the way? It's an idiotic story; I submitted it with an equally idiotic headline. Simple as that.
 
Three Crooked Squirrels [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 11:16:32 AM  
Huffington is such a partisan hack. As Rush says, it's like the history of the world started in January 2001 when Bush took office. Doesn't Huffington realize that the murder took place in 1996? It's obviously Clinton's fault.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 11:17:07 AM  
Three Crooked Squirrels: Doesn't Huffington realize that the murder took place in 1996? It's obviously Clinton's fault.

You missed the part about Rove's time machine.
 
Three Crooked Squirrels [TotalFark]
2006-08-21 11:17:55 AM  
My bad.
 
mialynneb
2006-08-21 11:18:17 AM  
Arianna Huffington?

*eye roll*

/not fundie, republitard, libtard, LIEberal or any other affiliate of a party
 
bigpete53
2006-08-21 11:18:31 AM  
If you listen very carefully, you can hear Rove, Bush, Cheney, and Rice all sneaking off to go kill some babies. Not white ones, of course, but babies all the same.
 
pontechango
2006-08-21 11:18:39 AM  
The CraneMeister: ESPECIALLY when the story in question is written by moonbats like Ariana Huffington who see everything through the lens of Bush hatred. Tomorrow she'll be explaining how the argument over the number of planets was orchestrated by Rove to distract everyone from Iraq.

Pure psychological projection. You wrote this headline through the lens of a Republican talking point. It has no bearing on the content of the actual article. Ariana Huffington will NOT be explaining how the argument over the number of planets was orchestrated by Rove. Nowhere in that article does it blame the Bush Administration for the wildly disproportionate amount of coverage that the JonBenet story has gotten. This headline is false, idiotic, Republican propaganda.
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-08-21 11:19:04 AM  
Would someone please remind me why I'm supposed to care about the JonBenet Ramsey case?
 
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