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Hooray for sensationalist news, tomorrow night the local television station is once again going to run a special on the KKK, because apparently the KKK is making a "come back". I was just simply dumbfounded by this because, comon, the Klan hasn't made a come back since the 70's. The only people who are even in the Klan now are the same people who sleep with their own family members. What I loved most about this advertisement for the news story that's supposed to run tomorrow night is how scary they made the Klan guy look. He had on a Klan robe, and he had his hand clenched, and hard, and everything was red and black. Anyways I'm going to watch this tomorrow night and see how silly this gets.

What is the most sensationalist news story you guy have heard?

Always a classic:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UxWgRY1I_SI

Always a classic:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UxWgRY1I_SI

The local news station who does the sensationalist news story is a Fox station too. A pattern is forming!

What is the most sensationalist news story you guy have heard?
The "mushroom cloud" of Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction.

The Klan is all but defunct these days, with only a few thousand members...which is, of course, a few thousand too many. I wish they would crawl off into a hole (preferrably a bottomless one) and never be seen again.

The local news station who does the sensationalist news story is a Fox station too. A pattern is forming!

COINCIDENCE???

The "mushroom cloud" of Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction.

You win the thread.

*hands you a cookie*

COINCIDENCE???

To the NSG-mobile my young ward!

To the NSG-mobile my young ward!

I wish I had a Batman sound clip.

You win the thread.

*hands you a cookie*

*bows*
*gracefully breaks cookie into pieces, shares ... unusual for the fact that The Brevious isn't usually particularly graceful*

I wish I had a Batman sound clip.

Will this work?

Click! (http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2007-11-07_31871597432649/tv/batman/batmobile_x.wav)

Will this work?

Click! (http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2007-11-07_31871597432649/tv/batman/batmobile_x.wav)

No, I just got re-directed to amazon.com

No, I just got re-directed to amazon.com

Same here.

well,

the Klan is and always has been a really real "terrorist" group.
for real

well,

the Klan is and always has been a really real "terrorist" group.
for realYup, and mutations don't happen fast enough, independent of their procreative attempts, to cause their own intestines from strangling them before they reach puberty. Yet.

Yup, and mutations don't happen fast enough, independent of their procreative attempts, to cause their own intestines from strangling them before they reach puberty. Yet.

short of all their children running away to other lives,
sadly this might be the best thing that could happen to them.

short of all their children running away to other lives,
sadly this might be the best thing that could happen to them.
You mean to run away to other lives? Absolutely.

well,

the Klan is and always has been a really real "terrorist" group.
for real

Thank you, Captain Obvious. :)

I don't think KKK ever really went away. It's just called Aryan Brotherhood these days and they've given up on those silly cloaks. :p

Klan is making a comeback....really, no, really?

I thought that said Khan was making a comeback and I was like "no way! he died in the Mutari Nebulae!" and then I was like "Wait! The genesis device could have brought him back - just like Spock!" - Then I was like "Oh! the Klan not Khan!" Which is just as well because I think Ricardo Montebaln is dead.

Which is just as well because I think Ricardo Montebaln is dead.

Wikipedia: Birth name: Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino, Born: November 25, 1920 (1920-11-25) (age 86)

Not yet. :p

But Khan couldn't have been revived by the genesis device since the matter he was made of was used up by the genesis device - if you remember, Spock's remains ended up on the planet after its revival. ;)

I thought that said Khan was making a comeback and I was like "no way! he died in the Mutari Nebulae!" and then I was like "Wait! The genesis device could have brought him back - just like Spock!" - Then I was like "Oh! the Klan not Khan!" Which is just as well because I think Ricardo Montebaln is dead.

Holy shit that as soon as i saw you replying, i thought the *exact* same thing. Even though i've already befouled this thread somewhat previously.
http://daddyforever.com/postimages/2007/purple-hand.jpg
just like Spock!
http://www.areyougoingtoeatthat.com/images/Spock.jpg

Ricardo Lives! I guess this answers the question about whether "Humanity should never advance beyond a certain point in genetic research".

He is the superior!

He is the superior!

I'm laughing at his "superior" intellect.

I'm laughing at his "superior" intellect.

Yeah, well, superior genious can't compete with sneaky stupidity á la Captain Kirk. :p

The local news station who does the sensationalist news story is a Fox station too. A pattern is forming!If Michael Moore ever had a purpose, it was to show us how sensationalist American news broadcasts are. "Stairway to Danger" :rolleyes:
Good God, there isn't a network that isn't caught up in the sensationalist spinweb.

Always a classic:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UxWgRY1I_SI
OMG, I can't believe they actually spoiled the Harry Potter ending! :eek:
Those monsters :(

I always imagined the fun started to go out of setting fire to crosses in peoples gardens round about the time black gun ownership started to rise...

There was a "news story" a few weeks ago about a local church "trying to reach out to second lifers" and so they have church services on second life.......and the whole tone of the report was that people go on second life for group sex and to cheat on their spouses and such....so now, every three or four days, some idiot who knows that I am "on the interwebs" thinks I am having group sex and cheating on my husband in some ungodly electronic way.

I tried to explain to one once that I used to know someone who would go to work and have sex and cheat on his spouse there (like literally at work) so now I think they do that too, you know since probably cheating with someone you know IRL is a lot easier and more common than you know......people I talk to on this forum.

(I don't even play second life btw, it sounds idiotic)

So I watched this, and apparently the Klan is now targetting illegal immigrants (well let's be honest immigrants in general) and apparently the Grand Dragon or whatever they call themselves claims that black people are starting to walk up to him and saying that they are bothered by it too. (This claim should be taken with a grain of salt), and the KKK and the Skinheads (Neo-Nazis) are now joining forces to find a 'solution' to the illegal immigrant problem. The Grand Dragon also said that he no longer promote hate violence (grain of salt again).

Always a classic:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UxWgRY1I_SIA corruption of L O L.

So I watched this, and apparently the Klan is now targetting illegal immigrants (well let's be honest immigrants in general) and apparently the Grand Dragon or whatever they call themselves claims that black people are starting to walk up to him and saying that they are bothered by it too. (This claim should be taken with a grain of salt), and the KKK and the Skinheads (Neo-Nazis) are now joining forces to find a 'solution' to the illegal immigrant problem. The Grand Dragon also said that he no longer promote hate violence (grain of salt again).

That... that was an Onion article, I think.

That... that was an Onion article, I think.

No....it was on the program tonight. Interviews and everything.

No, no. I mean that The Onion has written an article just like that if I'm remembering correctly. In other words, I'm implying that they took an Onion article as a source.

They actually talked to a Grand Dragon, he said all of this on Television and I watched it.

No....it was on the program tonight. Interviews and everything.

No, no. I mean that The Onion has written an article just like that if I'm remembering correctly. In other words, I'm implying that they took an Onion article as a source.

What is the most sensationalist news story you guy have heard?

Dick Cheney growing horns.

...what, that hasn't happened? Give it time, it's bound to occur.

Oh, and no Dragon -- grand or otherwise -- would support the KKK. Therefore, I am forcibly renaming their title to "Grand Republican" under threat of deportation to Zimbabwe. >_>

No, no. I mean that The Onion has written an article just like that if I'm remembering correctly. In other words, I'm implying that they took an Onion article as a source.
Which would be amusing enough itself.

What is the most sensationalist news story you guy have heard?
Pretty much anything shown on this (http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/) or this (http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/)...

They actually talked to a Grand Dragon, he said all of this on Television and I watched it.

You're operating on the assumption that it wasn't fabricated, which I have a hard time believing.

The Grand Dragon also said that he no longer promote hate violence (grain of salt again).
Being so superior and all, it's unbecoming for him to rub our pathetic noses in it, of course. We're just supposed to accept it gracefully, and not hate them which in turn makes them hate us for being so insolent.

That... that was an Onion article, I think.

No, the Klan actually says these things. They use gentler, more moderate rhetoric now; of course, behind the sugar-coated words, they are still the same despicable bastards they always were.