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Old 04-03-2004, 03:59 AM
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Re: Fact and Foxtion!

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Originally Posted by TexasF355F1
It's the same 'ol stuff. They're just trying to bring down Fox news. A lot of that can be interpreted in many different meanings.

I just reviewed it again and caught the Bill O'Reilly appology thing. Pretty funny that it doesn't say FACT: He did appologize for his assurtion of WMD existance was wrong.
The apology is too late after the fact. The damage was already done with regard to media influence on public opinion.

It's kinda like a false headline on the front page of a newspaper, followed by a retraction 3 days later buried deep in the classifieds.

The only just outcome would be if his apology had an equal and opposite effect/impact to that of his original assertion.

Then again, they say a man can never put his feet in the same river twice. The original river has since moved on. So it is with life.
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