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'Lost' Amazon tribe a publicity stunt
News.com ^ | June 23, 2008 | staff reporter

Posted on 06/23/2008 10:13:51 AM PDT by Daffynition

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To: Daffynition


I suspected it was a hoax. You could tell by the photos.

Just a reality remake of one of the worst films ever.
“Krippendorf’s Tribe”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120725/


21 posted on 06/23/2008 11:14:37 AM PDT by VOA
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the ping. Dan Rather would love it.


22 posted on 06/23/2008 11:19:57 AM PDT by zot
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To: VOA

I was wondering how the one black guy got in the tribe. I thought it suspicious, but hey it was on the internet, so.....


23 posted on 06/23/2008 11:24:33 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
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To: Daffynition

I knew it... I’ve driven through this VERY neighborhood in Detroit. I thought it looked familiar!


24 posted on 06/23/2008 11:26:39 AM PDT by J40000
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To: Daffynition

I thought the polar bears and ice packs were a little out of place in the Amazon rainforest.....


25 posted on 06/23/2008 11:36:05 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Daffynition

Well, I hope that’s a hybrid at least!


26 posted on 06/23/2008 11:41:57 AM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: DannyTN

“I bet their faces are red now.” Great comment! But better watch out or the Barry Hussein campaign will get you.


27 posted on 06/23/2008 11:52:11 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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“Uncontacted” Amazon Tribe Actually Known for Decades
National Geographic News | 6-19-2008 | Kelly Hearn
Posted on 06/21/2008 1:17:49 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034464/posts

Amazon tribe sighting raises dilemma
http://www.eleconomista.es
Posted on 05/30/2008 3:55:58 PM PDT by marthemaria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023750/posts

Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil
BBC News | 5/30/08 | BBC
Posted on 05/30/2008 6:59:01 AM PDT by zeebee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023505/posts
[see mine]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023505/posts?page=49#49

Incredible pictures of one of Earth’s last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows
Daily Mail | 5/29/08 | Michael Hanlon
Posted on 05/29/2008 2:59:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023208/posts


28 posted on 06/23/2008 12:27:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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29 posted on 06/23/2008 12:28:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: ari-freedom
hmmm sounds like Tasaday revisited

That one was a hoot. I remember all the Mother Earth types and envirowackos (who, by the way, were then predicting an Ice Age) were wetting themselves over how "this was the way man was supposed to live - in harmony with nature."

For those not old enough to remember, the Tassadays were a "newly-discovered" tribe in the Phillippines. Then some French reporter checking out the area noticed that the guy with the transistor radio in a nearby village looked just like the fig-leafed chieftan. He asked the guy, who was very open about it. He said that their Congressman told them their village would be famous and that they'd make a lot of money.

All those anthropoligists who waxed lyrical, and printed coffee table books about the tribe went into denial. I remember an incredulous TV reporter showing one author a direct comparison between the naked natives in his book and the townspeople in jeans and the guy just stonewalled. I think that was the first time I heard "Denial is not just a river in Africa."

Interesting article about it HERE

30 posted on 06/23/2008 2:38:30 PM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Oatka

Tassaday = Tasaday
anthropoligist = anthropologist
(cough)


31 posted on 06/23/2008 2:42:12 PM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Daffynition

Wonder if José Carlos Meirelles suffered from a "Brain Cloud" too. ;)

32 posted on 06/23/2008 3:23:32 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: Daffynition; Tennessee Nana; AuntB; sheana; Kimberly GG; Gritty; Condor51; Cobra64; gridlock; ...

Oh, no———lost latino tribe a publicity stunt?

Phooey.........and Juan McCain was counting on these votes, too.

The guy who dreamed up the stunt——José Carlos Meirelles is McC’s campaign organizer for Indigenous Tribes Voting Blocs.

Guess Jose’ll have to move on.

Maybe he could get a job doing map ads for Absolut vodka promos?


33 posted on 06/23/2008 3:29:38 PM PDT by Liz (Taxpayer: one who works for the govt but doesn't have to take a civil service test. R. Reagan.)
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To: Liz

....snicker...


34 posted on 06/23/2008 3:38:03 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because ya can't blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: AuntB

"Go McCain."

35 posted on 06/23/2008 4:07:34 PM PDT by Liz (Taxpayer: one who works for the govt but doesn't have to take a civil service test. R. Reagan.)
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To: Daffynition; All

The Left does this stuff all the time. It will even fake hate crimes such as psychology Professor Kerri Dunn vandalizing her own car. Faking a lost tribe to “raise awareness” is par for the course.


36 posted on 06/23/2008 8:04:46 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Obama will dismantle America and remake it as his marxist paradise.)
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To: Liz

That gentleman has the same body language as Baghdad Bob.

SEPARATED AT BIRTH FROM DIFFERENT MOTHERS?

;^)


37 posted on 06/23/2008 11:24:46 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Daffynition
In retrospect, I guess there were some red flags ....


38 posted on 06/24/2008 5:27:53 AM PDT by The G Man (The NY Times did "great harm to the United States" - President George W. Bush 6/26/06)
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To: Daffynition
I had a feeling it was fake.

The Nike shoes and Bowie Knives were a tip-off. But what really did it was the Chief wearing an Oakland Raiders jersey.

39 posted on 06/24/2008 5:57:27 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: The G Man; Condor51
HAHAHA! Perfect! ;-D


40 posted on 06/24/2008 6:24:30 AM PDT by Daffynition
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