Vietnam

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 21 00:51:04 UTC 2010


Joel, I watched Fox News regularly for ten years.  When the
"birther" controversy took center stage, however, I had to switch. I
couldn't take any more.


JL

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 5/20/2010 04:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >The video and descriptions I've seen on CNN have all implied (by omission)
> >that the "served in VN" remark was straightforward and never qualified in
> >any way.
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> Jon, if CNN is doing this, what have you seen on Fox?  :-)
>
> Joel
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