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Old 05-01-2011, 10:49 PM
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Default Osama Bin Laden is Dead

Presidential comments about to follow - death has been confirmed by all major news organizations.

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Are we safe now?
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I'm interested to hear the details. And the response from citizens in the Middle East...
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Smart missile predator drone type thing a week ago.
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Smart missile predator drone type thing a week ago.
FAIL.

Stop watching Fox News.
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FAIL.

Stop watching Fox News.
CNN reported the same thing. Somehow for 10 minutes or so everyone thought he had been dead a week, there had been a publicized drone strike killing 23 in Pakistan a week ago and apparently CNN (to which I switched the channel from Fox because Geraldo was melting down) and FOX put two and two together.
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CNN reported the same thing. Somehow for 10 minutes or so everyone thought he had been dead a week, there had been a publicized drone strike killing 23 in Pakistan a week ago and apparently CNN (to which I switched the channel from Fox because Geraldo was melting down) and FOX put two and two together.
Did you see when Geraldo said he was happy Obama Bin Laden was dead?
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Did you see when Geraldo said he was happy Obama Bin Laden was dead?
I was a little surprised that CNN, MSNBC, etc all brought in their "A" teams to cover it, but Fox kept with that jacka$$ for a long time.
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Did you see when Geraldo said he was happy Obama Bin Laden was dead?
Yes, although I'm not sure it is inappropriate to be happy, it seems like lots of people are.

As for me coming back..

What did I not post in the political subforum for like 3 days?
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