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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Let My People Go

It's Sunday, 3:30 am eastern. Something is going on with the captured Fox News guys. I'll liveblog the wire reports.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A senior Palestinian official said Sunday he expects two Fox News journalists to be released "within hours." The official, Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal, said the two hostages are unharmed.

3:40 am

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Kidnappers release new tape of two Fox News journalists. FOX NEWS SAYS KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS "CONVERT TO ISLAM" ON VIDEOTAPE
The kidnappers, meanwhile, released new video of Wiig and Centanni. In one segment, Wiig was seen sitting cross-legged on the floor, dressed in a beige robe and reading from notes. "It is Apache helicopters firing hellfire missiles made in America that kill the residents in Gaza," he said in a halting voice, his face expressionless. kl AP-ES-08-27-06 0340EDT
3:45
GAZA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Two kidnapped Fox journalists appeared on a new videotape released by their captors on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, in which the reporters said they had converted to Islam, the Fox News Channel said. Both Fox correspondent Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American, and New Zealand-born cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, appeared to be in good health. They were seized on Aug. 14.
5:30
FOX NEWS SAYS TWO KIDNAPPED REPORTERS RELEASED IN GAZA REUTERS
JERUSALEM (AP) -- New Zealand diplomat says Fox journalists have been released in Gaza.

And there's Shep Smith, live in the Fox News New York studio, confirming it with video. Looks like party time at Fox News!

I just heard someone behind me in the newsroom say, "Praise Allah." I get the feeling that the brotherhood of journalists would not have been too upset to see two Fox News reporters beheaded.

4 comments:

DAKOTARANGER said...: Shoot with where you work can't your co-worker that said 'Praise Allah' be tried for treason?

Glad there free, but if the terrorists were going to release them, why the heck didn't they do it earlier? I wonder what we had to give them for this. Forgive the cynascism.; 5:20 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Allah has not yet been added to the terrorist list.; 6:31 AM
Cathy said...: I just spewed coffee....

I know... real lady like...; 10:39 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Maybe you shouldn't drink beverages while reading blogs. I had to get a new keyboard last week for that very reason. The problem was not finding one reasonably priced, but finding one that wasn't designed to control a media empire.; 2:34 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.