[GraniteStateConservative]

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, too.

We heard about this event this morning.

[Dog Gone]

And it wasn't even posted in multiple irrelevant topics.

[ConservativeMan55]

When I first saw the title, I thought it said "Syria Prime Minister Assassinated" Of course Syria doesn't have a Prime Minister they have a dictator.

[archy]

We heard about this event this morning.

Indeed, but now we'll get to watch the process as the spin is placed on the story by various news outlets with an agenda to push. And if the initial postulations don't coincide with the official party line that eventually develops, count on them to drop off the websites of those outlets that spawned them

Accordingly, the archived copies take on new importance both as reminders of the initial direction, and of inconvenient details that may also later be supressed.

That was one of the reasons given for the establishment of Free Republic, and it remains an important one.

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