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Fox News Suffers 24-hour Attention Deficit Disorder

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[News Media]
[So-They-Say]
In the wake of a government employee's resignation over supposed racist comments appearing in the media, and the subsequent discovery of the video being doctored and apologies offered all around, one "Fair and Balanced" news network, who was responsible for the witch hunt, refuses to acknowledge their role. MSNBC's Rachael Maddow digs deeper...

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Anatomy Of The Not News Report

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[News Media]
[So-They-Say]
BBC Analyst Charlie Booker shows us how the news media turns non-news into news, and creates epic tales of nothingness while getting an entire nation to stare, slack-jawed at a picture of a closed door for six hours.

This report leaves little doubt that news reporters are the 21st century version of roaches.

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Palin Gets Crank Call From French President

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[So-They-Say]
A Canadian comedy duo called The Masked Avengers from CKOI 96.9 FM in Montreal, Quebec pranked Sarah Palin, convincing her (and her team) they were receiving a call from French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

In the interview, which lasts about six minutes, Palin and the pranksters discuss politics, pundits, and the dangers of hunting with current vice-president Dick Cheney.

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Bush Changes Thomas Jefferson's Speech At July 4 Celebration

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[So-They-Say]
[Liars]
President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote. Here's the way Bush put it:

Thomas Jefferson understood that these rights do not belong to Americans alone. They belong to all mankind. And he looked to the day when all people could secure them. On the 50th anniversary of America's independence, Thomas Jefferson passed away. But before leaving this world, he explained that the principles of the Declaration of Independence were universal. In one of the final letters of his life, he wrote, "May it be to the world, what I believe it will be -- to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all -- the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."

Now let's look at the full quote, including the part that was cut out...

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Surprise! Psychic Mercinary Was Wrong

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[Psychic Dorks]
[So-They-Say]
Montel Williams' psychic pal Sylvia Browne told the family of missing Shawn Hornbeck he was dead shortly after the Missouri boy vanished - and later allegedly offered to help locate his body for $700 per half hour.

The popular TV clairvoyant appeared on the "Montel Williams Show" in February 2003, four months after Shawn disappeared, and told Pam and Craig Akers she believed their son was "no longer with us."

She also advised that his body could be found in a wooded area 20 miles from their Richwoods, Mo., home, near two large jagged boulders.

Shawn, now 15, was found alive and well last Friday, living just miles away with a man now charged with snatching the boy when he was 11.

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A Truth About Thanksgiving

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[So-They-Say]
Have you ever wondered where the origin of Thanksgiving came from? Do you think maybe what is taught in schools isn't completely accurate? You're not alone. Read one person's account based on in-depth research into the history of thanksgiving.

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GOP Claims Democrats Started the Ku Klux Klan

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[So-They-Say]
A national black Republican group is running a radio ads accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan.

The ad also claims the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior was a Republican.

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Virgin Mary Spotted In Tree Trunk!

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[So-They-Say]
A New York woman claimed on Wednesday that she heard the voice of the Virgin Mary and has seen visions of the Mother of God in the trimmed branches of a maple tree in front of her house.

Antonia Filipertis, 84, a devout Catholic, comes to tears when she relates the story which began about 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Her family firmly believes her.

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A Tale of Desert Survival?

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[Humor]
[So-They-Say]
So, there's a man crawling through the desert.

He'd decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had
great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a
big rock, and then he couldn't get it started again. There were no cell
phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family,
his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few
friends had no idea he was out here....

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UK Hacker Claims Discovery of UFO Technology

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[So-They-Say]
In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit, after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks.

He says he spent two years looking for photographic evidence of alien spacecraft and advanced power technology. He says he found that and more, and evidence of the U.S. supression of advanced alien technology.

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Your Tax Dollars At Work: Fake Articles In Iraqi Newspapers

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[Newspapers]
[So-They-Say]
The U.S. military plans to continue paying Iraqi newspapers to publish articles favorable to the United States after an inquiry found no fault with the controversial practice, the top U.S. general in Iraq said Friday.

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MENSA Members Invent New Words

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[Humor]
[So-They-Say]
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's {2005} winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

See the rest...

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Engineer Claims Alphabetical Keyboard More Efficient

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[So-They-Say]
[Faulty Products]
John Parkinson, 62-year-old electrical engineer is showing off a new, rival keyboard design next month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. After years of hunt-and-peck typing, he's convinced that his new alphabetically-arranged keyboard is an improvement over the traditional QWERTY design.

Imagine the possibilities: now you can type as smoothly on your desktop as you do on your cell phone!

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Here Comes The Science: How Lightsabers Work

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[So-They-Say]
[Viral Marketing]
The web site Howstuffworks.com used to be a pretty neat site, until like traditional media they decided to completely eradicate the line between editorial and advertising. In the wake of the next Star Wars movie, they've taken to publishing articles such as How Stuff Works: a Lightsaber. Ok, I can appreciate the humor of the article, but I still think there's something wrong about a science-oriented site tainting their content with viral marketing propaganda.

Is there anything left that hasn't been branded by the team of Star Wars marketing whores?

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Destroying the Earth Isn't As Easy As You Think.. Or Is It?

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[Environment]
[So-They-Say]
If you were an evil scientific genius, what would be the best way to destroy the earth? Time travel? A microscopic black hole? Matter-antimatter reaction?

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Scientists Use HIV Virus to Attack Cancer

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[Eureka!]
[So-They-Say]
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have tweaked HIV to create a gene therapy that attacks cancer tumors in mice. How can they tell? Well they also attached Fire-fly proteins and then watched the glowing virus do its work. What's that sound you say? It's a thousand hollywood writers folding this into upcoming plots of CSI, JAG, ER and Third Watch episodes.

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Western Journalists in Iraq: "Hotel Reporters"

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If you're an average person around the world who seeks out various sources for your news and information, in all likelihood, you may know more about Iraq than the western journalists who are there trying to cover the war. It's so dangerous in the area, that most reporters are confined to their hotel, relaying x-hand accounts of events, or even if they manage to get outside, the typical way is via military escort, at which point they're taken to scenes set up specifically for them. Don't expect much from these "Hotel Reporters" unless you're looking for details on the amenities at the Fallujah Hilton.

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British Surfer Claims that He Rode the Tsunami

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[So-They-Say]
You say horrific tragedy that kills vast numbers of people...he says "Hang ten!"

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Uri Geller claims John Lennon saw aliens

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[So-They-Say]
[Psychic Dorks]
John Lennon once had an encounter with aliens, according to phychic Uri Geller.

The legendary Beatle, who was murdered in 1980, told Uri he was visited by extra-terrestrials when he was in bed with wife Yoko Ono in 1975.

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Scientist says soon people may live to be 1,000 years old

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[So-They-Say]
Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. He believes that the person who may live to 1,000 may be 60 years old right now. Great. Now all those "In my day.." jokes won't seem so exaggerated.

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