Freudian slip from Fox News

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   same old stuff from the same collection of creeps masquerading as civilised people.
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   The same mistake was also made by BBC and Al Jazeera English, at least, in the hour or so following the announcement. I blame panicked studio juniors being drafted into write slugs and ticker items rather than subliminal conspiracy, as pleasing as that hypothesis is.

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      How does a “subliminal conspiracy” work?
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         If I told you it wouldn’t be subliminal any more, would it?

         L
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            And if you don’t, it won’t be a conspiracy…
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            Its a three pronged attack: subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal
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         Not very well, I usually find.
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            The comment is ok, just requires some punctuation to read correctly Obama “Bin Laden dead”. Perhaps in this time of txt speak some refinements in grammar are not taught !! ;-).
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      Yeah, lots of people are making this mistake – it’s very easy to do.

      It would be interesting if someone were to analyse the incidents of it though. See if right-leaning media were more or less likely to make the slip than left-leaning. Could be chalked up to any number of things, including the intelligence/capability of the presenters, to the script writers, to simply inherent propaganda/bias.
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      I heard a presenter on National radio make this slip, when talking with a former CIA analyst. Yesterday I think it was.
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   That’s not actually ‘Fox News’, but rather a local Fox affiliate station, which are not the same thing….
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      Eh? What’s Fox40?
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         Normally when people talk about Fox News they are talking about the news on the (nationwide) Fox News Network. However these affiliate stations get a lot of stuff (including graphics) direct from Fox News Network
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            So where did the ticker come from?
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   Fox News, fux news on demand.

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