Yet more from CNN

[Jonathan Lighter]

I probably should have mentioned that these appeared to be unscripted
comments.

Newspeople need scripts.

JL

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:12 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
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> > a parasite acts as a host to another parasite
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> Mosquitoes carry malaria and ferry bot-fly eggs to their victims.
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> Doesn't mean that CNN has the least idea that this kind of thing is
> commonplace. If they do know, they don't care.
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