Posted on 10/20/2013 3:03:30 PM PDT by BBell
Look, we here at Cracked aren't cockeyed optimists (or cockeyed anything, for that matter). We've lived in this world long enough to understand that some folks just aren't "on the level" and the things they say should be "taken with a grain of salt" because they're "completely full of $%^&." But even jaded, cynical @*#&$@$ like us should expect more from reputable news organizations. Shouldn't we?
Nope! Just take a look at a few of the more blatant lies that once passed for journalism.
(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...
Piers Morgan,CNN, The Associated Press
Boy is this underwhelming:
#5. The New York Sun Reports the First Transatlantic Flight — in 1844
#4. The Daily Mirror Published (Faked) Torture Evidence
#3. CNN Claimed the U.S. Used WMDs on Our Own Defectors
#2. Canada’s National Post Claimed Iran Was Going to Color Code Their Jews
#1. New York Newspapers Fell for the Old “Conscription for Gold” Routine
I can think of a few better ones right off the top of my head:
1. Obama is a US citizen
2. Obama is heterosexual
3. Democrats are geniuses
4. Only whites can be racist
5. Christians are bigots
I nominate the eligibility of the imposter, followed by his bin laden campaign commercial.
How about:
owebama is a brilliant orator (when he is reading from TOTUS).
owebama is a “Constitutional Law Professor” instead of a lecturer for a couple of classes.
Yep. The biggest lie the media has ever passed off as fact is sitting in the white house.
The list at Cracked IS underwhelming.
I would add:
1. The economy is improving.
2. Unemployment is dropping.
3. The dollar is sound.
4. The wars will be over and we’ll be out of the Middle East by this time next year.
5. Don’t buy gold, it’s a junk investment that doesn’t hold its value.
(meant to add that you wrote a great list, BTW).
Summer of Jobs I, II, and III.....
“Premiums will drop by 3000%”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019102/posts
“Obama:‘If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor’”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272308/posts
This morning I have been listening to Los Angeles radio station AM 1070, CBS, “all news, all the time”. They keep mentioning Zero’s upcoming speech regarding Obamacare and all the computer glitches. They also keep mentioning (in the same breath) how Facebook is down this morning with numerous computer glitches. What a fortuitous coincidence that all of a sudden Facebook has glitches, that I have never heard of any mentioned previously, at the same time Zero is about to speak. Looks like another ‘all computer programs have glitches’ moment coming up. I wonder how long it takes Facebook to ‘fix’ its’ glitches - if they are even real. Zuckerberg will probably get a special pass to an upcoming Whitehouse party for giving Zero something to compare his Obamacare glitches to and take some cover.
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