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RE: John Cantlie
January 4, 2015 at 7:38 pm
(January 4, 2015 at 7:27 pm)lifesagift Wrote: (January 4, 2015 at 7:20 pm)abaris Wrote: Because he's a Westerner and therefore more valuable than the 70.000 having been killed in Syria last year and the 10.000 ISIS has killed in Iraq.
No, because Brian sodding whatever is my own personal troll for reasons I don't understand
Don't flatter yourself, I asked a simple question perfectly in line with the OP. No trolling involved.
Again: Why should we talk about this?
Boru
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RE: John Cantlie
January 4, 2015 at 7:48 pm
(January 4, 2015 at 7:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (January 4, 2015 at 7:27 pm)lifesagift Wrote: No, because Brian sodding whatever is my own personal troll for reasons I don't understand
Don't flatter yourself, I asked a simple question perfectly in line with the OP. No trolling involved.
Again: Why should we talk about this?
Boru
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RE: John Cantlie
January 4, 2015 at 7:58 pm
(January 4, 2015 at 7:48 pm)lifesagift Wrote: (January 4, 2015 at 7:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Don't flatter yourself, I asked a simple question perfectly in line with the OP. No trolling involved.
Again: Why should we talk about this?
Boru
If I said red was red you would contend it might be blue
Not a bit of it.
You seem to have a bit of trouble understanding how message boards work. This is a discussion forum. Discussion involves give and take - you asked a question that (I felt) was incomplete - you wanted to know why we aren't talking about the story you linked. In an attempt to further the discussion, I asked WHY we should be talking about it. I'm not saying we shouldn't be discussing Cantlie - perhaps we should be. I'm just asking why you think we should. It was a simple, civil, pertinent question.
Additionally, you seem to think I'm picking on you, or even stalking you. It may surprise you to learn that I respond to what others post here - I'm not aiming at you.
Further, it appears that you take offense when people question what you post or even ask for clarification. Rather than go all snarky, maybe you could help to clue us in a bit more about what you're driving at.
Boru
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RE: John Cantlie
January 4, 2015 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2015 at 8:28 pm by ManMachine.)
(January 3, 2015 at 8:55 pm)lifesagift Wrote: Why are you guys not talking about this?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/ja...ghth-video
Or did I miss something?
There are three possible likelihoods,
1. It's true and Western Media is totally misleading us.
2. It's false, Western Media has it spot on and he is either being coerced or has become a supporter of Isis (Stockholm syndrome?).
3. It's somewhere in-between as a mixture of truth and falsehood and we will probably never find out.
I plump for 3 and the sooner we become more critical of the media on both sides the sooner media stops being weaponised in this way.
MM
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