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MarkyX
21st May 2007, 07:14 AM
Sure, could've been executed a little better, but still..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmFcdie-Orw
WildCat
21st May 2007, 07:19 AM
qmFcdie-Orw

So you don't have to go to youtube.
JAStewart
21st May 2007, 08:21 AM
haha - brilliant!!
boloboffin
21st May 2007, 10:05 AM
Well, color me less than impressed. As comedy, it was predictable and banal. I really like the way the "host" got touchy-feely on Lorenzo Lamas after he admits the truth. If this was from last night's episode, it was in the context of a gay character who just can't take his eyes off of John Edwards. Homophobia is always so funny.

Plus, it plays into CT hands. It equates the truth with a simple "conspiracy theory," something they always do. It repeats debunkable attacks against the conspiracy theories - like the jet fuel melting the steel. Everyone here knows that's not what happened. Talking about "melting steel" is simply conceding a point to the CTers that isn't theirs by the facts.

Numbskulls at FOX taking on the numbskulls in the "truth" movement. Feh.
Civilized Worm
21st May 2007, 10:52 AM
Why does the desk at the start say "American Civil Liberties Union"?
MarkyX
21st May 2007, 11:00 AM
Plus, it plays into CT hands. It equates the truth with a simple "conspiracy theory," something they always do. It repeats debunkable attacks against the conspiracy theories - like the jet fuel melting the steel. Everyone here knows that's not what happened. Talking about "melting steel" is simply conceding a point to the CTers that isn't theirs by the facts.


It'll be even more funny if they get serious about that bit. Great job twoofers, arguing against a comedy skit.
Arus808
21st May 2007, 11:05 AM
Haha, very good. Actually, yes it could be better, but the message of the segment got through. Nicely done.
Hourglassmemory
21st May 2007, 11:08 AM
I know that Lorenzo is talking about what really happened, but....the guy says that the temperature provoked by the fuel fire was enough to melt steel.
If I recall correctly, it didn't have to melt, per se, for the tower to collapse.
Is it me or they they just make a mistake, clearly vulnerable to attacks by maniacal Ct'ists.
sivazh
21st May 2007, 01:09 PM
Um, the material could have been funny, and the bit good, if the actors were good and Lorenzo Lamas was someone else. As it was, it was almost cringe inducing.

Good material, BAD delivery. Which is my whole problem with that show.