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      <![CDATA[No apology necessary. Here's mine: It should've been a better joke.
        
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      <![CDATA[Alan: My apologies. No call for that.
        
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      <![CDATA[Alan: Excuse the fuck out of me, then, asshole. My point still stands: The media, in general, is hopelessly stupid, about as smart as mutts being dazzled by dangling keys.
        
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      <![CDATA[Uh, Mr. yeah -- that was a joke.
        
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      <![CDATA["Will the media NEVER learn?"<br>
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Uh, no. Because the media, in general, is more interested in sensation and quick fact than anything approaching wisdom.
        
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      <![CDATA[Especially now that he claims he has a dead girlfriend. Will the media NEVER learn?
        
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      <![CDATA[Uh, yeah: You're right. The steroid angle, like everything else in this story, ought to be checked out.
        
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      <![CDATA[The New York Times on Friday corrected McKaiser's statement about a rape every four seconds in South Africa. Said it should have been every four minutes.
        
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      <![CDATA[Pelham: Yeah, maybe.<br>
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But weren't you some reporter or something? If so, I find it odd that you are so ready to believe what the cops say and then make a conclusion--especially given that these cops are thousands of miles away.
        
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      <![CDATA[It's off subject, but what caught my attention skimming one of the Pistorius stories was the fact that police found steroids and needles. I suppose by most estimates, this is no shocker.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Andrew]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If Drew Peterson lived in South Africa he would be a free man and on his eight marriage. Priorities, its all about priorities.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Tom]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I think its a positive argument about having a handgun in the home for self defense. I know if I heard noises in the bathroom I would shoot first and ask questions later.
        
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      <![CDATA[Oscar is out on bail and will soon be acquitted of any wrong doing. After all what did he do that was so wrong?
        
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      <![CDATA[I believe the "a woman is raped every four seconds in South Africa" emphasizes the crimes against women go largely unpunished as in many parts of the world. Women are treated as second or third class citizens or for a better term, subhumans.
        
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      <![CDATA["a woman is raped every four seconds in South Africa,"<br>
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You are so right. What does the incidence of rape in South Africa have to do with the question of whether this man killed his girlfriend on purpose or by accident?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Marcus Twain]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Lots of things going on here in Chicago... why not report on them, instead?
        
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