Author Topic: Fox news "homicide bombings"? (Read 1034 times)

X2Lee · « **Reply #30 on:** March 30, 2003, 11:19:59 AM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
lol Pathetic.

Man I saw these words and thought of

YOU!

AKIron · « **Reply #31 on:** March 30, 2003, 11:26:09 AM »

Killing civilians trying to leave their own cities, waving white flags then attacking, terrorist style bombings, these are the acts of a people the world will be better off without. I had doubts about the justness of this war, no longer.

Dowding · « **Reply #32 on:** March 30, 2003, 11:59:28 AM »

X2lee - Easy tiger. You'll be bowling me over with your rapier wit - spare me, please.

Funked - this is just the same stupid, inane political correctness which changes the wording of perfectly accurate terms for the sake of it, at best, or some agenda, at worst. Rationalize it all you want.

AKIron - this discussion isn't about the act itself, it's about how we describe it.

N1kPaz · « **Reply #33 on:** March 30, 2003, 12:05:38 PM »

i call them sick bastards, but fox can call them whatever it likes.

AKIron · « **Reply #34 on:** March 30, 2003, 01:26:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
AKIron - this discussion isn't about the act itself, it's about how we describe it.

Well, they aren't the same type of attackers as the Kamakazi pilots of WWII. Those guys were in uniform and not hiding among women and children and they attacked uniformed combatants. Theirs was an honorable act.

To simply call these others suicide bombers does not address the sneakiness nor the indiscriminateness of thier act. Terrorist suicide bombers would be more descriptive.

Dowding · « **Reply #35 on:** March 30, 2003, 03:28:39 PM »

Terrorist suicide bombers is not what they are calling them on Fox News - that's the issue here.

How do you feel about the 'homicide' bomber' term?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #36 on:** March 30, 2003, 04:15:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Erlkonig
I'm not so stupid as to think that "suicide bombers" aren't trying to kill anyone but themselves. But given the Faux sNews demographic, I can understand why they have to make the distinction.

Its not just Fox news, its most of the free (democratic) world Govt's that now refers to them as Homocide bombings. US Gov't officially has changed the designation(And did so along with Israel way back over a year ago during the string of homocide bombings in Israel)

Dowding · « **Reply #37 on:** March 30, 2003, 04:57:39 PM »

Oh come on. The free press has NOT changed its terminology. The BBC hasn't, neither has SKY as far as I know. None of the terristrial British stations have and not one British newspaper has ever mentioned 'homicide' bombings.

Let's not spin this so far away from the truth. I've never heard this term before it was mentioned in this thread.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #38 on:** March 30, 2003, 05:04:19 PM »

Press and Gov't designations are separate issues...thankfully.

Dowding · « **Reply #39 on:** March 30, 2003, 05:09:51 PM »

You said "Its not just Fox news, its most of the free (democratic) world that now refers to them as Homocide bombings..." That's not true as far as I can see.

CNN refers to them as 'suicide bombers'. So does MSNBC, BBC, CBS.

To me, it just looks like FOX News and US government if what you say is true.

Nashwan · « **Reply #40 on:** March 30, 2003, 05:21:55 PM »

Ha'aretz still calls them suicide bombers.

But then they've held out against instructions on Newspeak from the Israeli government in other areas too.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #41 on:** March 30, 2003, 05:27:04 PM »

Editted initial post Dowding, my clarity was lacking in delivery I guess.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #42 on:** March 30, 2003, 05:30:57 PM »

Like it really matters, this isn't the same thing as Freedom/French... this is actually labelling something for what it is.

Big deal.
-SW

Frogm4n · « **Reply #43 on:** March 30, 2003, 06:13:02 PM »

newspeak is what it is.