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发帖数: 897 | 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — Having to buy a squiggly fluorescent light bulb is an
affront to personal freedom, some lawmakers are saying as the House decides
whether to overturn a law setting new energy-efficiency standards for the
bulbs.
House Republicans are pushing legislation that would overturn measures in a
2007 energy act requiring efficiency upgrades in the old-fashioned
incandescent light bulb, little changed since it was invented by Thomas
Edison in 1879.
Republicans say the new standards, signe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 作者：曹咏
2011-11-11
21世纪经济报道
A股新股发行制度市场化改革受市场诟病，到底什么才是适合中国市场的IPO市场化制度
？本报采访了香港和美国市场相关资本人士，作为“他山之石”。
11月9日，鉴于最近爆出的多宗包括中概股在内的上市公司财务丑闻，美国证券监管机
构批准了提高反向并购企业在美国上市门槛的新规。这或许会波及到赴美上市的中国企
业。
而除了监管政策的收紧，在美上市的中概股还要面临来自“市场的监管”——投资者的
集体诉讼。
纳斯达克上市公司艾格菲（NASDAQ： FEED）近来的遭遇就是其中一例。刚进入11月份
，该公司就招致了一系列法律纠纷；包括Shuman、Kessler & Check等在内的多家美国
律师事务所宣布，已代表投资者向艾格菲提起集体诉讼。
如果加上该公司自9月股价跌破1美元后收到的诉讼通知，这家总部位于中国江西的农牧
公司至少面临着逾10起集体诉讼。
“指控艾格菲及艾格菲特定高管和董事会董事违反了美国1934年颁布的《证券交易法》
。”Kessler & Check律所在其公告中表示。该律所声称，在集体诉讼期内，艾格菲发
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发帖数: 2273 | 3 Atlanta (CNN) -- About 2.5 million young people have received health
insurance coverage as a result of health care reform measures that President
Barack Obama signed into law last year, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reported Wednesday.
The Obama administration trumpeted the figure as a sign that the
controversial legislation is succeeding.
About 2.5 million more people, aged 19 to 25, have health insurance than had
it before the law took effect because of a provision that lets y... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 by Sarah Palin on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 6:41pm ·
The far Left continues to believe American voters are not smart enough to
grasp the diversionary tactics it employs to distract us from the issues our
President just doesn’t want to talk about – issues that affect us all
every day and must be addressed.
Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President
Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for
any office, but I’m more than happy to acc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 Published March 24, 2012 | FoxNews.com
Tea Party supporters rallied Saturday in Washington to oppose President
Obama's government health care law, two days before the Supreme Court
considers the constitutionality of the legislation.
"We want our freedom back," former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain
told hundreds of ralliers standing in the rain in Upper Senate Park, a few
hundred yards from the steps of the Supreme Court. "That's what this is
about, the freedom to choose our own doctors …... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 By Victor Davis Hanson
Sometimes societies find themselves in pernicious cycles in which the
perceived medicine seems worse than the known disease. The Roman satirist
Juvenal lamented the ill effects of free food and free entertainment for the
masses (“bread and circuses”) in part because he knew there was no remedy
for the pathology in sight — and thus only a slow decline toward fiscal
insolvency or riots were on the horizon. Any Roman emperor bold enough to
rein in the Praetorian Guard, charge... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 Christians frightened for America’s future face a conundrum this electoral
season. Biblical precepts must steer our politics; loving God with all our
hearts, souls and minds obviously includes discernment at the polls. “When
you enter the voting booth,” says R.C. Sproul, “don’t leave your
Christianity in the parking lot.”
How should Christians vote their beliefs?
Only God knows either candidate’s heart, but Mitt Romney professes
Mormonism. Culturally, Mormons make for great neighbors and busines... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 523 | 8 选区：Durham, NC
方式：Early voting
党派：Rep
学历：理科bachelor
工作：精算师
总统选择： Romney/Ryan
原因：
One of the most important reasons is that Romney UNDERSTANDS MONEY. Being an
Economics major, I totally agree with this man's financial plan.
The biggest concern comes from Health Care Reform, so I quote Romney's words
from his previous debate:
I'd just as soon not have the government telling me what kind of health care
I get. I’d rather be able to have an insurance company. If I don’t like
them, I can get rid of the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 After his party’s devastating setback in the 2010 midterm elections, Barack
Obama was reelected earlier this month by painting his Republican opponents
as heartless in favoring lower taxes for the rich. They were portrayed as
nativists for opposing the DREAM Act amnesty for illegal immigrants, and as
callous in battling the federal takeover of health care.
Republicans countered with arguments that higher taxes on the employer class
hurt the economy in general. They assumed most voters knew that ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 by wheatington
To the surprise of no rational mind with knowledge of Islam, President
Morsilini has grabbed dictatorial powers. Of course he claims he won’t be a
dictator! Hahaha!
The usurper in the White House was a big Arab Spring booster. He has even
sent the new dictator in Egypt about 500 million American buckaroos as a
gift for establishing a caliphate democracy there.
The usurper has made no comment about the Morsilini situation, yet. Perhaps
he is getting his intel from Jiminy Clapper or... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 BuzzFeed‘s Ben Smith is just one of many journalists ready to canonize
President Obama as one of the greatest presidents today despite the fact
that Obama hasn’t even completed a single week of his second term. Smith
writes:
Now we are in Reagan territory, and in the hall of statues in the
American imagination that includes, this century, probably only FDR and
maybe JFK and Teddy besides. Obama’s best interpreter, Andrew Sullivan,
made that case last fall: “If Obama wins, to put it bluntly, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 By John Fund
January 31, 2013 12:00 P.M.
Some major American cities are dying, and the worst part is that these
grievously ill patients often are refusing to take even the mildest medicine
that would make things better.
Take Detroit, a city that has become a synonym for urban failure. The murder
rate of one per 1,719 people last year was more than eleven times the rate
in New York City. One contributing factor may be that two-thirds of Detroit
’s streetlights are broken.
Once the fourth-largest ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 The Decline of America
By Victor Davis Hanson
February 14, 2013 12:00 A.M.
Why do once-successful societies ossify and decline?
Hundreds of reasons have been adduced for the fall of Rome and the end of
the Old Regime in 18th-century France. Reasons run from inflation and
excessive spending to resource depletion and enemy invasion, when historians
attempt to understand the sudden collapse of the Mycenaeans, the Aztecs,
and, apparently, the modern Greeks. In literature from Catullus to Edward
Gibb... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 “It’s exactly this sort of thing that drives people into the arms of the
NRA.”
by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
This, introduced to the legislature in the state of Washington, is more than
simply alarming:
Forget police drones flying over your house. How about police coming
inside, once a year, to have a look around?
As Orwellian as that sounds, it isn’t hypothetical. The notion of
police home inspections was introduced in a bill last week in Olympia.
That it’s part of one of the majo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12623 | 15 Healthcare insurance is financial product, it's always available for
individuals to purchase for themselves. The liberals want zero financial
responsibility in life. We want everyone to take responsibilities for their
own lives as well as letting free market competition bring down the cost of
those financial products. It's not an one-answer solution, it takes a series
of reform in different areas to tackle the issue, it can be too complicated
for liberals to understand, yes, a government takeove... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12623 | 16 Healthcare insurance is financial product, it's always available for
individuals to purchase for themselves. The liberals want zero financial
responsibility in life. We want everyone to take responsibilities for their
own lives as well as letting free market competition bring down the cost of
those financial products. It's not an one-answer solution, it takes a series
of reform in different areas to tackle the issue, it can be too complicated
for liberals to understand, yes, a government takeove... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12623 | 17 错了，共和党的改革都被民主党的Senate给毙了，这个改革需要一系列的改革，是个
package，但是这个package伤害民主党比政治利益。无论怎样，massive government
takeover, single payer, death panel就是民主党的唯一药方。 |
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发帖数: 1540 | 18 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: oosmart (oosmart), 信区: Military
标 题: 海军军官贪污和招妓被抓
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 19 13:43:20 2013, 美东)
窝里案 - 一名美国海军军官，外加其军方合同商，另外一名海军犯罪调查处一员工这
周一起被抓。
(CNN) -- A U.S. Navy commander, a Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent
and a Singapore-based defense contractor face federal charges in two
bribery schemes involving hundreds of millions of dollars in Navy contracts
with payoffs that included prostitutes and luxury travel, according to the U
.S. attorney's office in San... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 White House Forces Obamacare Insurers To Cover Unpaid Patients At A Loss
by Jammie
Of all of the last-minute delays, website bungles, and Presidential whims
that have marred the roll-out of Obamacare’s subsidized insurance exchanges
, what happened on Thursday, December 12 will stand as one of the most
lawless acts yet committed by this administration. The White House—having
canceled Americans’ old health plans, and having botched the system for
enrolling people in new ones—knows that millions o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 UAW Faces Another Southern Setback
By
Damian Paletta
March 14, 2014 5:21 p.m. ET
CANTON, Miss.—The United Auto Workers union headquarters here—tucked
beside a cow pasture down the road from a sprawling Nissan Motor Co. 7201.
TO -0.35% plant—was supposed to be a springboard for a new wave of
labor activism across the South.
It has become instead a center of discouragement and uncertainty in a state
where many want the union to pack up and leave.
Labor organizers at Nissan were shocked when ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Medical Merger Part of 'Tax Inversion' Wave
Medtronic's Deal to Buy Covidien for $42.9 Billion Will Help It Sidestep U.S
. Corporate Taxes
Medtronic Inc. MDT -1.10% 's agreement on Sunday to buy rival medical-
device maker Covidien COV +20.45% PLC for $42.9 billion is the latest
in a wave of recent moves designed—at least in part—to sidestep U.S.
corporate taxes.
Covidien's U.S. headquarters are in Mansfield, Mass., where many of its
executives are based. But officially it is domicile... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 The Collapsing Obama Doctrine
Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so
many.
By
Dick Cheney And
Liz Cheney
Updated June 17, 2014 7:34 p.m. ET
As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten
Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth
recalling a few of President Obama's past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda
. "If a J.V. team puts on Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe
Bryant" (January 2014). "[C]ore a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 U.S. drugmaker AbbVie finally wins Dublin's Shire with $55 billion deal
(Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc bought Dublin-based Shire Plc on
Friday in a 32 billion pound ($54.7 billion) deal that will allow it to
slash its tax bill by relocating to Britain.
The London-listed company, which makes expensive medicines to treat rare
diseases, fought off four earlier bids from AbbVie until the U.S. firm
raised its price to 52.48 pounds per share - made up of 24.44 pounds in cash
and 0.8960 new AbbV... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Democratic Party Favorable Rating Falls to Record Low
by Andrew Dugan
Story Highlights
Democrats' favorable rating at a record-low 36%
Democratic Party lost support among Democrats, independents
Republican Party's favorable rating remains steady at 42%
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After the midterm elections that saw the Democratic
Party suffer significant losses in Congress, a record-low 36% of Americans
say they have a favorable opinion of the party, down six percentage points
from before... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Democrats lost the South through culture war and elitism
By Timothy P. Carney | December 9, 2014 | 6:00 pm
If not for Southern Democrats, Republicans would have nearly had a
filibuster-proof Senate supermajority after the 2002 elections, giving
George W. Bush some real clout. Without Southern senators, Democrats wouldn
’t have taken over the Senate with Jim Jeffords’ party switch in 2001. If
not for Southern Democrats, Obamacare wouldn’t have become law.
For the foreseeable future, though, Democ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 ISIS Now Beheading Members of Hamas in Syria
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
Because these psychopathic Palestinians just aren’t extreme enough for the
ISIS lunatics, perhaps.
Among the Palestinian Arab fighters beheaded by the Islamic State
terrorist group (ISIS) in Damascus’s Yarmouk camp was a senior Hamas figure
in Syria, according to emerging reports.
On Saturday, senior Israel Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toumeh posted a
graphic image which appeared to show the severed head of She... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Poll: Only 40% of Teachers Support Common Core
By Barbara Hollingsworth | August 18, 2015 | 10:34 AM EDT
(CNSNews.com) – Less than half of Americans (49 percent) and only 40
percent of teachers now say they support Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Public support has dropped 16 percent since 2013, when 65 percent of
Americans were in favor of the Common Core standards, according to the ninth
annual Education Next poll released Tuesday.
But the greatest change in opinion has been among teachers... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 【 以下文字转载自 Arizona 讨论区 】
发信人: GoBlue (Wolverines), 信区: Arizona
标 题: 有关穆斯林的总结太震撼完整了 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 23 01:01:42 2015, 美东)
发信人: GoBlue (Wolverines), 信区: Military
标 题: 有关穆斯林的总结太震撼完整了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 23 01:01:31 2015, 美东)
Copy and paste this on ALL muslim stories! Flood them with the truth!
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 MYTH BUSTED: Actually, Yes, Hitler Was a Socialist Liberal
Courtney Kirchoff Thursday January 28 2016
A favorite tactic employed by leftists is to describe the Nazis as “right
wing,” with Adolf Hitler, their leader, as the grand leader of this “right
wing” movement. Rewriting history is pretty common for leftists, as their
history is littered with injustice (the KKK was founded by Democrats, did
you know?). Injustices they claim to fight against today. Awkward.
But thanks to this nifty thing cal... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 30 MARCH
The Hunt for Double Agents
On Saturday morning, while the candidates were scattered across Ohio and
Florida, Illinois and Missouri, Cruz’s campaign was back in Iowa trying to
wring another victory out of the state that gave him the first win of the
primary season. After Iowa Republicans caucused on Feb. 1, diehards who
stuck around their precinct got the chance to elect a local delegate to the
county convention. It was those 1,681 precinct delegates who attended
conventions in each of Iowa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2239 | 31 Here's How The Establishment Will Steal The GOP Nomination From Trump
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By Tyler Durden
The political establishment in America is terrified.
Donald Trump gets closer to securing the GOP nomination with each passing
month and his rivals on both sides of the aisle are in disbelief.
Worse - or “better” if you enjoy entertainment - Trump has seemingly given
up any attempt to be anything other than... well... than Donald Trump. He
rec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5728 | 32 GOP Establishment是被Trump硬上了，这等于是hostile takeover，也说明选前GOP的
各大佬是多么严重的低估民意。
双方都需要妥协，如果不妥协，Trump选不上，GOP也会分裂。
民主党那边也类似，所有这些候选人里，Sanders是社会主义者，nothing to lose，这
样的人如果当总统是很不计后果的，目前的情况太微妙了。
今年的大选，未来肯定会青史留名。 |
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发帖数: 1 | 33 川普昨天对Paul Ryan说的意思是,党内团结要以川普为中心.哈哈. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 Huge Legal Victory For The Constitution Over Obamacare (But Will Ruling Lead
To Single-Payer?)
by Jeff Dunetz | May 12, 2016 | U.S. News
In a major victory for the Constitution and for House Republicans, a federal
judge ruled that the Obama administration didn’t fund Obamacare’s
subsidies properly.
A lawsuit by house Republicans claimed that the Obama Administration was
distributing money to health insurance companies that hadn’t allocated by
congress. Today U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 14445 | 35 An open letter to my fellow Republican national delegates
June 24, 2016
Stefani Williams
[Updated June 27, 2016]
When Donald Trump entered the presidential race in June 2015, I decided to
give him a look. After I paid close attention, however, he completely lost
me.
He lost me because his statements were erratic, contradictory, and
untrustworthy, and many of his positions were actually very liberal. What
troubled me the most was his well-known playboy lifestyle – exemplified by
widely circulated... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 36 An aspect of the kudzu-like expansion of Sharia is the takeover by Muslims
of prayer rooms in international airports.
Here in Hong Kong, a prayer room, officially nondenominational, is located
in Terminal 1 of the Hong Kong airport, and another is located in Terminal 2
. Each “non-denominational” prayer room supports Mohammedism, to the
detriment of all other religions.
The Terminal 1 prayer room has an Islam-required washup area. It is a
permanent installation. There is a similar permanent inst... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8906 | 38 家国脑残花瓶总理还担心难民不够多呢 才区区3000万人 地大物博 穆斯林不takeover
这个国家就是傻子了
: 暂时北上加国可以把
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发帖数: 1814 | 39 这个时机实在太奇怪了，如果是老婊子团队干的应该再晚一些搞，这样杀伤力更大，
GOP换人基本不可能，稳赢。这个正好在Pence辩论之后，而且establishment非常high
，甚至Pence takeover阴毛论浮出水面的时候。这个很像是早就计划好的，恰巧另一个
当事人正是Bush家族的，太巧合了。 |
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发帖数: 11198 | 40 希拉里邮件和克林顿基金会的22条问题要点
从这个人的推特上copy来的以下内容：
http://twitter.com/hectormorenco/with_replies
谁都输不起，谁都想赢。
FBI sources say, "If Trump loses this election all secured files in HRC
Weiner case will be sealed and high probability Obama/HRC walk."
Soon the world will discover HRC & Obama are at the center of the Syrian
conflict, profited from the Clinton foundation, & ignored ISIS.
To the men and women in law enforcement, & especially the FBI, thank you for
being our last line of defense against overwhelmin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1275 | 44 On November 8, 2016 Election Day when you’re on your way to vote, take a
moment, enjoy the fall colors, the red, brown, yellow, and orange hues in
the trees and on the ground, the clear sky with wispy clouds high above, the
cool breeze, exhilarating. There’s change in the air, and you can feel it.
When you’re in the car driving, cruising, approaching your designated
voter center, take a moment to remember Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith
, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who all died in Bengh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 45
哪有link说bannon具体在投行干啥，我只看到这个。
Bannon made his bones as a mergers and acquisitions banker with Goldman
Sachs beginning in the 1980’s, at the peak of Wall Street’s hostile
takeover and junk bond booms. Most of his work was defending companies from
such boardroom assaults ― in keeping with Goldman’s general stance on such
things ― but he did later work on supporting some leveraged buyouts before
moving into media and entertainment banking.
In 1990, Bannon and some Goldman colleagues left to launch ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2987 | 46 Someone says she did so to stage a hostile takeover of the dem party. |
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发帖数: 7106 | 48 Is it true that Fox News has a conservative bias and CNN has a liberal bias?
Actually, Fox News continues to play an important role in the devolution of
CNN from a respectable (if often boring) utilitarian news outlet to what it
is today, which is, frankly, a hot mess.
This is what happened. Fox News found that leaning hard to the right (while
promulgating the fiction that it was “fair and balanced”) while employing
a lot of presenters with outsized personalities and controversial “hot
takes”... 阅读全帖 |
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