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Offline Holden McGroin

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« on: December 05, 2005, 04:28:26 PM »
The news out of Texas, DeLay's conspriacy charges were thrown out, but AP reported it like this:

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 DeLay's Money Laundering Charges Upheld
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AUSTIN, Texas - A judge dismissed the conspiracy charges Monday against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the money-laundering counts, dashing the Texas congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader.


Intresting slant on the headline....
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2005, 04:35:30 PM »
I'm not surprised by the slant...
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2005, 04:40:43 PM »
It's just one of the more obvious examples I've seen recently.
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2005, 04:41:28 PM »
Wishful thinking reporting?  I think Dan Rather is a ghost writer....
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2005, 04:51:47 PM »
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The conspiracy charges have been dropped. Remember, these were the charges based on a law enacted after the alleged incident. Judge Pat Priest has ruled that a trial will go forward on the Money Laundering charges... the very charges that were absent in the first, flawed indictment handed up by a grand jury that reviewed the case for 6 months, and were later obtained by another grand jury after just hours of presentation.
Looks like another case crumbling at Ronnie Earle's feet.
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2005, 05:36:01 PM »
Here's the latest Yahoo! headline-

        DeLay's Money Laundering Charges Upheld

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051205/ap_on_go_co/delay_7;_ylt=Ane6e5mJ1SlZhFfvc2ByuXCGbToC;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2005, 06:08:31 PM »
Another crooked politician is getting off
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2005, 09:57:36 PM »
Yah, yer right Six. I doubt Ronnie Earle will ever be prosecuted for running this partisan witch hunt.
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« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2005, 10:07:11 PM »
Delay is a good man.
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2005, 01:21:17 PM »
This is funny, great troll mate.



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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2005, 04:47:25 PM »
I wonder...

Is "Money Laundering" worse than..say... "conspiracy" ?


Why yes.. yes it is!  I wonder why the headline would read like that?  Because it's the FREAKIN TRUTH.

Lets say a guy is charged with murder and Jaywalking. then the jaywalking charge is dropped. Would your headline be....

JAYWALKING CHARGE DROPPED

or

MURDER CHARGE UPHELD.
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« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2005, 06:05:32 PM »
I can gar-un-tee the Lay man and his team are focusing on the money laundering charge right now.  Why shouldn't the media do the same?
« Last Edit: December 06, 2005, 06:08:43 PM by ChickenHawk »
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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2005, 06:08:17 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target


Lets say a guy is charged with murder and Jaywalking. then the jaywalking charge is dropped. Would your headline be....

JAYWALKING CHARGE DROPPED

or

MURDER CHARGE UPHELD.



The first one if he was a republican, the second if a democrat.

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« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2005, 06:15:21 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I wonder...

Is "Money Laundering" worse than..say... "conspiracy" ?


Why yes.. yes it is!  I wonder why the headline would read like that?  Because it's the FREAKIN TRUTH.

Lets say a guy is charged with murder and Jaywalking. then the jaywalking charge is dropped. Would your headline be....

JAYWALKING CHARGE DROPPED

or

MURDER CHARGE UPHELD.


Too simple.  

It would be like if they Jaywalking charge was made AFTER a jaywalking law was enacted and the occurance happened BEFORE said law was in fact law.

And to get an indictmen on Murder the prosecution would have had a grand jury investigation for 6 months....then after not liking what the grand jury had to say and after intimidating them didn't work....throw them out and getting a new grand jury to spend more time trying your best to get an indictment.  Also keeping in mind the aleged murderer still has not had his day in court to defend himself and the prosecuter having had a bone to pick with him from the begining.
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« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2005, 07:28:17 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I wonder...

Is "Money Laundering" worse than..say... "conspiracy" ?


Why yes.. yes it is!  I wonder why the headline would read like that?  Because it's the FREAKIN TRUTH.

Lets say a guy is charged with murder and Jaywalking. then the jaywalking charge is dropped. Would your headline be....

JAYWALKING CHARGE DROPPED

or

MURDER CHARGE UPHELD.


MT:

DeLay was charged with (at least) 2 crimes and the judge ruled that one should be dropped.  Dropping the charge is action: Headline: Something Happened.  

What happened with the other charge? ... No change in status with the other charge.  Nada, zilch, nix, nothing happened, no action. Headline   Nothing Happened

I find it interesting that the news writer thought nothing was more important than something.
« Last Edit: December 06, 2005, 07:30:18 PM by Holden McGroin »
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