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To: Gopher Broke

What's this about a tee-shirt being the reason she was removed from the House chambers. Initial reports last night said she had attempted to unfurl some kind of anti-war banner. Since unfurling a banner over the balcony of the House chambers is CLEARLY inappropriate behavior no matter who you are, I guess that act wouldn't allow the MSM to make a "1st Amendment issue" out of it.

Thus, overnight, history is revised so that the tee-shirt is the reason she was removed.

I used to think that "initial" news reports were usually less accurate than the "full" reports which come later, after the dust had settled on an issue or event. I no longer believe that. I now think the intial reports are often the closest to the truth, because they occur before the MSM filtering machine has had a chance to spin the story to match their strongly held beliefs or positions.


11 posted on 02/01/2006 5:52:42 AM PST by WayneS (Follow the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: WayneS
What's this about a tee-shirt being the reason she was removed from the House chambers. Initial reports last night said she had attempted to unfurl some kind of anti-war banner. Since unfurling a banner over the balcony of the House chambers is CLEARLY inappropriate behavior no matter who you are, I guess that act wouldn't allow the MSM to make a "1st Amendment issue" out of it.

I objected to that too. I think there's a whitewash in progress.

Since unfurling a banner over the balcony of the House chambers is CLEARLY inappropriate behavior no matter who you are, I guess that act wouldn't allow the MSM to make a "1st Amendment issue" out of it.

Now that's inappropriate, I don't care who ya are! ;-)

46 posted on 02/01/2006 7:05:04 AM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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