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post #1 of 14
8/15/03 at 10:39am
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first foxnews, cspan, and now ted.
what do they have in common? well they all have fallen victim to bob of thankyoufortakingmycall.com and his telephone prank.

check it out

i laughed my ass off.
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post #2 of 14
8/15/03 at 12:03pm


Those are great!
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post #3 of 14
8/15/03 at 1:43pm
I saw the one yesterday where Ted Koppel was talking to the guy. Bob kept saying the web site address over and over again. It's nice that people think it's funny to capitalize on 50 million people being thrown into darkness and a few of them actually dying. Dumbass.
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post #4 of 14
8/15/03 at 1:53pm
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I saw the one yesterday where Ted Koppel was talking to the guy. Bob kept saying the web site address over and over again. It's nice that people think it's funny to capitalize on 50 million people being thrown into darkness and a few of them actually dying. Dumbass.

wow. way to bring the party down, man.
by the way, the hospital called, said you need to take your meds.
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post #5 of 14
8/15/03 at 4:53pm
I've had a hard time both connecting to the site and its humor.

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post #6 of 14
8/15/03 at 10:35pm
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I've had a hard time both connecting to the site and its humor.

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i'm sure you guys are loads of fun at parties.
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post #7 of 14
8/17/03 at 3:06am
good one. i thought it was very funny, kopple had no idea
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post #8 of 14
8/17/03 at 2:16pm
These types of calls help to highlight what passes for "journalism" these days.
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post #9 of 14
8/19/03 at 5:41am
If they want to pull those stunts during call-in talk shows or the like, fine. I'm just saying that during large breaking-news stories where people's safety is involved, it's not appropriate.

I think there was a joker like that shortly after the 9/11 attacks, too. Peter Jennings quickly figured out who the shmuck was and said something like, "Okay, folks. We apologize for that. Unfortunately with live TV you get some people who try to capitalize on a bad situation."
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post #10 of 14
8/19/03 at 8:43am
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i think there's a huge distinction between the events of 9-11 and blackouts. no comparison.
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post #11 of 14
8/19/03 at 8:03pm
If it's such an important news event, public safety and all that, why are major networks getting their information from people they don't know that call them?
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post #12 of 14
8/19/03 at 8:19pm
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Originally posted by Scott
If it's such an important news event, public safety and all that, why are major networks getting their information from people they don't know that call them?

Because the news isn't really news. It's just voyeuristic entertainment.

 

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post #13 of 14
8/19/03 at 8:51pm
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Originally posted by CosmoNut
If they want to pull those stunts during call-in talk shows or the like, fine. I'm just saying that during large breaking-news stories where people's safety is involved, it's not appropriate.

Are we talking about the victims of the blackout... their public safety? Because I'm sure they were all crowded around TVs during the blackout
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post #14 of 14
8/20/03 at 7:04am
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Are we talking about the victims of the blackout... their public safety? Because I'm sure they were all crowded around TVs during the blackout

come on lo, they where getting their information from the wireless telekinetic network.
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