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    11/23/09

    In reply to Bill of Wrongs
    Hey kids of the 90s, remember when teachers made you write letters to soldiers serving in the Gulf War? I was the only one in my school who got a letter back and he included an Iraqi dinar. That was the one and only day I was considered cool in elementary school.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Bill of Wrongs
    @jms12548: Is not signing any money an option?
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
    It's these damned Internets, if only people couldn't just hop onto Google and check facts then Fox wouldn't have this problem.

    Which is why Rupert wants to hide his newspaper content, he's preparing to take his errors to print!
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Bill of Wrongs
    You can tell she's been practicing that autograph since at least high school.

    When she was writing fan letters to Michael J. Fox about how great Reagan was, and how he should leave those dirty hippie parents on TV and come to Alaska.
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    11/23/09

    @Baroness: Be sure it's Sarah signing and not her stunt.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Bill of Wrongs
    "From my rack
    to Iraq.

    Sincerely, Sarah Palin"
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Bill of Wrongs
    To be fair, she probably has no idea who Saddam Hussein is.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Bill of Wrongs
    An artifact from our dystopian future! Fascinating.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Bill of Wrongs
    So...when can we start calling her a Muslim Marxist Socialist?
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Bill of Wrongs
    Dinar and a Floozie.
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    11/23/09

    @AzureTexan: Hearted. SO hearted.
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    11/23/09

    @AzureTexan: That is hilariously clever.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
    See, here's the thing about mistakes: People don't make them intentionally. That's why they're called "mistakes."

    So threatening to fire people is not an effective mistake-prevention strategy. People will avoid engaging in intentional behavior that would cause them to be fired, of course (assuming they want to keep their jobs).

    But people won't go, "Hey, I was planning to fuck up royally today, but now that I know that I may get fired for that, I've decided to take a different, not-fucking-up approach instead." It doesn't work that way.

    What the "make mistakes and you're fired" threat WILL do is totally stress people the fuck out, and stressed-out people are probably likely to make more mistakes. So expect more mistakes on FNC in the near future.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
    @wadeanderson: I'm not going to reply to your entire, long comment, because I don't feel like getting in a boring argument.

    I'm only going to excerpt this part: "You can make fun of me, and I will be reassured that all of you are cynics and hopeless." and laugh, and laugh, because... well, for obvious reasons.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
    But the actual quality control memo doesn't say it will fire people who screw up. It says there will be a "zero-tolerance" policy but then says the discipline for the errant worker can be whatever FNC wants it to be, including just a letter to a personnel file. Big whoop.

    The whole memo is ultimately all bark and no bite.
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    11/23/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Isn't a "letter in the file" what that ragey writer got for throwing on-set tantrums and whatnot?
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    11/23/09

    @Mediahohoho: You just described most of the talking heads on FN.
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    11/23/09

    @Atilla the Bun: "... up to and including termination."

    " Please know that jobs are on the line here."

    The messages seems clear enough to me.
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    12:04 AM

    @MisterHippity: It's a typical lawyer move of sounding threatening without ultimately being obligated to do anything. Trust--if they really intended to implement a policy of firing people that made the mistakes, they would have said that. And they didn't. "Up to and including termination" means "we can do anything and are required to do nothing." If I as a lawyer was put to task with drafting a "quality control" policy that gave the boss lee-way to do anything they wanted in response to an error--including nothing--this is exactly how I would word it.

    And even dumber, they can already fire anybody they want to without cause except in the rare cases of employees that have for-cause employment contracts (and I guarantee you the people in the editing rooms don't have such contracts). So the memo does nothing but re-state the status quo in language that sounds intimidating but means nothing. Kind of like Fox News itself.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
    But when your sole reason for existence is to act as the propaganda arm for the conservative movement, can you ever actually be wrong?
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    11/23/09

    @Mediahohoho: I think you meant "right". And no, you can't.
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    11/23/09

    @minge: Conservatives have never been wrong about anything ever in the history of everything...in their own minds. Which is exactly what makes them so dangerous.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
    Can Gawker start a count-up clock, like those "Injury-Free for x Hours" clocks at factories? Let's see if then can make it a week.
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    11/23/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: I second this one. Put it below the e-mail newsletter subscription box.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
    But what about the on-purpose "mistakes" like "Foley, D" above? Oh, I know, They'll just stop covering that stuff alltogether to fair and balance it out.
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